S'gela School OS · In development

Your website tells your story.
The platform runs your school.

Attendance, marks, homework, conduct and parent messaging — in one place, on any phone, whether the network is up or not. Designed with South African principals and class teachers, for classes of fifty.

Included with the Connected package. Full platform rolling out to pilot schools first.

1
Login for the whole school
11
Roles, each scoped
90 sec
Ceiling on any daily task
Offline
Capture first, sync later

Why we built it

Schools don't need more systems. They need one that survives a Monday.

Most school software is designed for a school with a computer lab, reliable fibre and small classes. That describes a fraction of South African schools. We started from the opposite end: a class teacher with fifty learners, a phone, four minutes between periods, and load shedding at 10am.

Capture once

A result posted in the platform appears on your school website and goes out to parents. No re-typing the same notice into three places.

Works without signal

Registers and marks save on the device and sync when the connection returns. A teacher is never blocked by the network.

Everyone sees only their part

A Grade Manager sees their grade. A teacher sees their classes. A parent sees their own child. Nothing more, by design.

What's inside

Eleven modules. Turn on what you need.

Schools start with the daily essentials and add the rest at their own pace. Nothing is forced on a staff room that isn't ready for it.

Connected

School foundation

Terms, grades, classes, subjects, staff and learners. Set your term calendar once, for the whole school.

Connected

Attendance

Daily class register with absence reasons. Parents notified automatically when a learner is marked absent.

Connected

Homework & assignments

Set work, attach resources, track submissions. Parents can see what's due without asking.

Connected

Parent messaging

Announcements, newsletters and urgent notices by SMS and WhatsApp — to a class, a grade, or the whole school.

Connected

Roles & access

Eleven school roles, each scoped to what they actually manage, with every change recorded.

Connected

School dashboard

Attendance trends, communication reach and website activity, in one view for the principal.

Complete

Assessment & reports

Exam calendar, mark capture, moderation and printable report cards at the end of each term.

Complete

Conduct

Merit and demerit records with categories and points, so patterns surface before they become problems.

Complete

Admissions

Applications, documents and placement decisions tracked from first enquiry to enrolment.

Complete

Fees & payments

Fee structures, statements, exemptions and reconciliation for the bursar's office.

Complete

Library & facilities

Book catalogue and loans, linked to the S'gela e-library, plus an asset and maintenance register.

Complete

Early warning

Attendance drops and falling marks flagged to the class teacher and Grade Manager while there's still time to act.

Who sees what

Pick a role. See exactly what they can touch.

This is the part we spent the longest on. Every role in a school has a different reach, and getting it wrong is how learner information ends up where it shouldn't. Tap through to see how it works.

Cover, without over-sharing

When a teacher is away, someone must still mark the register.

Hand a class over to a colleague for a fixed period — two weeks, a term, one afternoon. Access ends automatically on the end date. Every handover is recorded: who gave it, to whom, for what, and why.

It means a school never has to share a login to get through a Tuesday.

Example handover

FromMrs Dlamini · 8A
ToDeputy Principal
ScopeRegister + homework
UntilEnd of week 4

Marks and conduct records stay with the class teacher. Access lapses on its own — nobody has to remember to switch it off.

Built for the conditions

Six decisions we made for South African schools.

01

Phone first, not lab first

Teachers use their own phones. The platform is built for a small screen and a thumb, not a mouse and a desktop.

02

Offline capture

Registers and marks save on the device during load shedding or dead spots, then sync on their own.

03

Low-data mode

Text-first screens that don't burn a teacher's own airtime. Heavy content only loads when asked for.

04

Reaches parents where they are

SMS and WhatsApp, not an app parents have to download and remember the password to.

05

POPIA from the start

Learner information is minimised, consented, retained for a defined period and deleted after. Every access is logged.

06

The 90-second rule

No daily task may take a teacher longer than ninety seconds. If it does, we redesign it — that's the standard we hold ourselves to.

Packages

The platform sits on top of the website you already have.

Same ladder, same R0 setup, same sponsorship route. Schools move up when they're ready — and a CSI partner can cover any tier.

Sponsored

R0 /month

Covered by a corporate CSI partner

  • 10-page school website
  • Hosting & custom domain
  • Monthly content updates
  • Shared e-resource library
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Standard

R250 /month

R3,000/year · R0 setup

  • Everything in Sponsored
  • Parent news & events board
  • Dedicated tech support
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Connected

R550 /month

R6,600/year · R0 setup

  • Everything in Standard, plus:
  • Attendance registers
  • Homework & assignments
  • Parent SMS (500/month)
  • Roles & access control
  • School dashboard
  • 5 school email accounts
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Complete

R950 /month

R11,400/year · pilot schools first

  • Everything in Connected, plus:
  • Marks & report cards
  • Merit & demerit records
  • Admissions tracking
  • Fees & payments
  • Library & facilities
  • Early-warning alerts
Join the pilot

Schools above 1,200 learners are quoted individually. Sponsorship for any tier can be arranged through our CSI network — see how sponsoring works →

Where we are

We're building this with schools, not for them.

Three pilot schools are shaping the platform before it opens to the network. If you'd like your school to be one of them, tell us — pilot schools help set the design and get the platform at no extra cost during the pilot.

Now

Pilot schools

Three schools testing the register, homework and parent messaging in real classrooms.

Next

Marks & reports

Assessment, moderation and end-of-term report cards, built off what the pilots teach us.

Then

Network release

Opens to Connected schools across the S'gela network, with onboarding and training included.

After

Admin & insight

Admissions, fees, library and the sponsor impact dashboard.

Pilot intake open

Put your school's name forward.

Tell us your school, your size and what takes up the most admin time. We'll come back within 24 hours with what the platform would look like for you.