Keep your school moving — from the morning register to the end-of-term report. Give your team the tools to do their work, and yourself a clear view of the decisions that need you.
Built around your school day
Registers, fees, results and people. Bring the moving parts together.
Every school day counts
Finish the daily register, spot gaps in attendance recording, and carry accurate totals into end-of-term reports.
Take everyone’s register. Take student, staff and exam registers. Mark the group, then adjust individual absences and lateness.
Leave holidays to the calendar. School-day totals follow your calendar. Weekends and holidays are excluded; public holidays are added when the app syncs.
Report cards, without recounting. Attendance totals and percentages come straight from marked registers.
See which registers are missing. Attendance Compliance shows completed and missing registers, the responsible teachers, and consecutive unmarked days.
Try it: change a status, then save. Set everyone at once and adjust only the exceptions.
School fees, from charge to receipt
A clear bill for the family. A clear balance for your school.
Your fee structure, carried through. Fee groups bring your charges and due dates together for a class or an individual child, without rebuilding each invoice.
More than tuition. Assigned transport and hostel charges join school fees on the same invoice, with their own payments and outstanding balances.
Part payments. Full clarity. Full and partial payments update what is paid and what remains. Receipts and payment history keep the details within reach.
Room for individual circumstances. Discounts and fee exclusions adjust a child’s bill without losing sight of the original charges or the changes made.
Balances don’t disappear at term-end. Earlier unpaid balances stay visible. Due-fee reports, reminder rules and optional late fines help your school follow up.
See a student’s fee items, discounts, payments and remaining balance.
The accounts behind your school
Student balances, school accounts and the transactions behind them. Keep the financial picture connected.
Every movement has its place. Fuel, supplies, refunds and deposits keep their categories and references. Income, other inflows, expenses and outflows stay distinct, with running balances and account statements.
Less recording the same payment twice. Linked fee collections, transport and hostel payments feed the ledger. Recorded salary payments stay linked to payslips, and reversals keep the original entries traceable.
Adjustments that balance. Journal entries keep debit and credit totals together, with drafts, posting and reversals for your accounting work.
Bring the bank and the books together. Bank reconciliation helps match statement movements to your records and identify differences. Deleted transactions remain available for review.
Tax figures with the detail behind them. PAYE calculations use your tax bands and staff deductions. Exemptions, monthly reports and remittance records keep payroll tax in view; fee-tax reports show tax collected by fee type and payment method.
A recorded fee payment joins the linked account.
Example figures · fee posting uses your school’s accounting links.
Printables & reports
Useful reports, report cards and student ID cards, ready to review, export or print.
Find the answer in your records. Review fees, accounts, attendance, students and staff, using the information your school already holds.
Choose the detail you need. Use each report’s relevant filters, then copy, export to a spreadsheet or print the results.
Give it your school’s identity. Reusable report-card and ID-card layouts bring your logo, artwork and fonts to the records you hand over.
One student or a selected group. Preview report cards and student ID cards before printing or saving a PDF, with the details your school chooses to show.
A sample of the reports in SMS. Report access follows your role and enabled modules.
Families, connected
Keep siblings connected through family records, shared invoices and funds, with pocket money tracked for each child.
See the whole family. A parent or guardian’s record connects their children across classes, with each child’s details and enrolment status still their own.
One family invoice. Every child’s share. Bring siblings’ charges and earlier balances together. Collect across the family while keeping each payment linked to the right child and fee.
Shared funds for school life. Use the family wallet for children’s school, transport and hostel fees, with top-ups, payments and remaining funds recorded.
Pocket money that stays personal. Fund a child’s pocket money from the family wallet or transfer between siblings. Each child keeps a separate balance and transaction history.
Find siblings across classes while keeping each child’s own school record and status.
One child. A growing school history.
From their first day to their next chapter, keep each child’s records, milestones and support connected.
Keep the family connected. Parent details and sibling links stay with the student’s profile.
Find the whole record. Find documents, fees and results together.
Move up. Keep the history. Promote, record repeats or graduate students while retaining earlier enrolments.
Move students. Keep the trail. Transfer between classes, sections or school branches, with dates and reasons recorded.
They leave. Their story stays. Keep departure dates and reasons on file. Restore active enrolment if a student returns.
Scholarships that lighten the fees. Fixed or percentage awards can cover a term, a session or several sessions. Approved scholarships reduce eligible fees automatically.
Exams & assignments
Bring assignment, test and exam marks into your school’s assessment structure, with clear limits, calculated grades and a review before results are released.
Your assessments. Your rules. Choose the assignment, test and exam components your school uses, with a maximum for each.
Plan every paper. Plan papers around school days, halls and class sizes, with timetable clashes brought into view.
Marks that add up. Enter or import marks. SMS calculates totals, averages, grades and positions using your school’s rules.
Review, then release. Review results and remarks, authorise marks to protect them from changes, then publish when your school is ready.
JSS 2 A · Mathematics · First term
| Student | Assign./ 10 | Test/ 20 | Exam/ 70 | Total/ 100 | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ada Okafor | 81 | A | |||
| Musa Bello | 71 | B | |||
| Chidi Eze | 61 | C |
Try a different mark. Totals and grades update.
Progress has more than one measure
Give younger learners a report that reflects their skills, development and classroom progress.
Assess what matters. Choose the skills, categories and rating scales your school uses.
Fit the assessment to the class. Each class can have its own skill categories, so learners are assessed in the areas that suit their stage.
Record what teachers see. Give each learner individual ratings and written remarks.
Spot unfinished assessments. Completion badges show which learners still need skill ratings, without opening every student’s record.
Share the full picture. Use skills-only or combined subject reports, with attendance and class broadsheets.
Record a learner’s progress against your school’s skills and ratings.
Academium SMS + Academium Surepass
Your school is already in SMS. Let Surepass pick up from there.
Leave the second register behind. Reuse SMS students, staff, classes, sections and subjects in Surepass, without entering the same school records again.
Assessments that fit your school. SMS sessions, terms and assessment mark allocations carry through, so tests and exams belong to the right school period.
Marks, without the retyping. Completed exam results can return to the matching SMS exam and mark category, with a preview of student matches and scores before sending.
All the way to the report card. SMS brings those marks together with your grading rules, attendance and remarks to prepare your school’s reports.
Academium SMS
Academium SurepassSchool records move from SMS into Surepass. Assessment marks can come back.
For SMS schools connected to a local Surepass school server.
Get Academium SurepassThe people behind the school day
Staff records, everyday requests and payroll belong together. So do the people serving your school through NYSC.
Keep a record for everyone. Keep staff details, documents and salary records in one profile.
Give leave requests an answer. Staff submit requests; your school reviews and records the decision.
Let salary rules do the maths. Salary structures bring allowances, deductions and overtime into payslips, with adjustments for a single pay period.
Help now. Recover through payroll. Requests keep amounts, reasons and decisions together. Issued salary advances are recovered from the selected month’s pay.
Keep pension contributions in view. PFA accounts, employee and employer contributions, remittances and each employee’s contribution history stay organised.
Look after your NYSC team. Posting details, service dates, status, school allowances and discharge records stay linked to each corps member’s staff profile.
Keep salaries moving. Payslips follow your school’s approval steps. Catch Up highlights waiting decisions, and payment records show who has been paid.
Payslip ready for review
Illustration · approvals follow your school’s rules.
Fits the way your school runs
A shared desk, a personal laptop, a school with unreliable internet. There’s a way to work that fits.
Hosted with Academium. Run your school through the Academium portal, with Individual connecting your employees’ own computers.
Right there at your school. An onsite Windows or Linux server keeps SMS available across your school’s network without relying on the internet. Client and Individual are included.
At school. Away from school. With both enabled, your school server is primary and the Academium portal is secondary. Individual uses the school server when reachable and the portal when you’re away.
One computer. Several colleagues. Client finds your school’s SMS server automatically and supports multiple signed-in employees on a shared computer.
Keep working when the connection doesn’t. Individual works fully offline on a personal computer. Changes sync when your chosen Cloud portal or school server is reachable.
A setup that suits your school.
SMS runs from your school’s Windows or Linux server. School computers connect over your local network.
School serverWindows or Linux
Shared computersClient · school network
Personal computersIndividual · offline work
Delegate with confidence
Give staff the access their work needs, with boundaries set by your school.
Give every role its place. Choose which parts of SMS a role can open, then assign staff to that role.
Allow viewing, limit changes. Set view, add, edit and delete permissions separately.
Access belongs to your school
Know who is using your school system, on which computer, and keep access decisions in your hands.
Recognise every computer. Use a one-use code to enrol staff on a named computer and review who uses it.
Take back access. Bar staff from a computer or request a lock or sign-out when it next connects.
Set boundaries for offline work. Choose how long each role can work offline before reconnecting.
A person. A computer. Your permission.
Access can be taken back.Remote lock and sign-out requests apply when the computer next connects.
Offline has your boundaries.Set how long each role can keep working before reconnecting.
Protection for the everyday school day
Protect employee access, school data and the computer that keeps your school running.
A forgotten password needn’t stop the school day. Recovery questions help eligible employees regain access, while their answers stay protected by a password check.
Backup codes stay within reach. Disabling authenticator settings or replacing backup codes is password-protected, helping keep those decisions with the account holder.
An extra barrier for your records. A quicker return to work. Your PIN keeps access on trusted computers simple without repeating your username and password.
Trust stays in your hands. Your trusted computers and their recent activity remain visible, and a computer you no longer use can lose its trusted status.
Password rules reflect each role’s responsibilities. A password change also clears existing device trust, giving your account a fresh start.
Your sign-in name can change as your details do. Your profile, permissions and existing work stay together in the same account.
Available controls depend on the employee’s role. PIN sign-in and screen unlocking require an enrolled computer.
PIN lock screen
Your PIN adds an extra barrier to your school’s records and gets you back to work faster. On your trusted computer, there’s no need to type your username and password all over again.
Even when you forget, idle lock remembers. Your screen locks automatically after the idle time you choose.
A lock screen that feels like you. Your own photo or a slideshow gives it a personal touch.
Stay in the loop, even while locked. Keep unread notifications in view, or hide them for more privacy. Unlock with your PIN to open a notice.
The locked screen shows the time, the employee and their latest notification. Press any key to unlock.
School data sent to Academium portal uses industry-standard encrypted HTTPS connections.
Encrypted backups cover school records and uploaded files. Scheduled copies and a retained history keep recovery points within reach.
Records and uploaded files come back together from a saved school backup. Damaged or incompatible backups are rejected.
Drive-health checks surface wear, storage faults and failure warnings, helping you act on early signs of trouble.
Temperature and fan readings reveal cooling problems, with warnings when a drive runs hot or a fan reports a fault.
Clock problems, unexpected shutdowns, server errors and missing backups surface in the server manager, ready for your attention.
Backup, restore and machine-health features are part of the server editions. Health readings depend on the computer. Backups require a school linked to Academium portal; cloud copies are optional.
How does it fit into your school day? Here are answers about getting started, choosing an edition and working with Surepass.
Still have a question? Explore all SMS questionsDownload the edition that fits your school’s setup. Server and Individual editions let you create a school, explore a demo or begin in free mode. A Client Edition joins an existing school server on the school network. Our downloads guide explains which edition belongs on each computer.
Yes. Choose a term and class to review present, absent, late and half-day records. Attendance reports account for the school calendar’s weekends and holidays, and staff can follow up on classes whose registers have not been marked. This makes attendance useful for action as well as record keeping.
SMS is the workspace for school employees, with access shaped by their assigned roles. Students use Surepass for assessment and practice rather than signing in to SMS. The separate parent app is still in development and is not yet available.
Yes. Assign employees to roles that reflect their responsibilities. Viewing, adding, editing and deleting are separate permissions, so a teacher can be allowed to view information without receiving the same control as an administrator. The school keeps control over who handles sensitive academic, financial and employee records.
Yes. With a school Server Edition, staff use SMS over the school’s local network without needing internet for day-to-day work. Individual Edition also supports offline work on approved staff computers, with saved changes syncing when the computer reconnects. Internet is needed for services such as cloud updates, online payments and remote access.
Yes. Define skills, categories and a rating scale, then assign the relevant categories to each class. Teachers record ratings and remarks for each learner, with junior reports and class broadsheets built from those records. This gives the school a way to report development beyond subject marks alone.
The request takes effect when that computer next connects to the school. Device policies also let the school limit how long enrolled computers can remain offline before access needs renewal. These controls work alongside local locking and staff permissions; a remote instruction cannot reach a disconnected computer immediately.
Yes. Create the receiving exam and subject score components in SMS, then choose the matching assessment in Surepass. Staff review student matches and completed scores before sending the marks back. SMS uses the recorded marks with the school’s grading rules to prepare results and report cards.
Lite starts at ₦75,000 per term for 200 students. Standard is ₦150,000 per term for 350 students. Premium is ₦200,000 per term with unlimited students. All three paid plans also offer a pay-per-student alternative; the pricing page shows the current allowances, modules and billing options.
Yes. Paid Academium SMS and Surepass plans come with a 14-day refund policy. Contact [email protected] within 14 days of purchase to request a refund. Include the email address used for your account, your payment reference and why you are cancelling. Approved refunds are paid in full within 48 to 72 hours.
Beyond school management
Take your school’s assessments further with Academium Surepass. Run exams and class tests, and prepare students with past-question practice. Connect your school records from SMS and bring completed assessment marks back into your reports.
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