A school management system for international groups
Classbell was designed for schools that operate across borders rather than for one national system. Curricula are a list you edit rather than a fixed set, campuses keep their own currency, calendar and teaching week, and the interface supports right-to-left layout.
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Can one school run more than one curriculum at once?
Yes. Curricula are data you maintain, not a fixed dropdown. A subject records the curriculum it belongs to and the grade band it is taught in, so one group can run Cambridge IGCSE at one campus and a different framework at another without either being a workaround.
- Curricula are an editable list, not a fixed set
- Subjects carry curriculum, grade band and assessment weighting
- Assessment weights must total 100% before marks entry opens
- Grade scales are versioned and effective-dated
How does a system handle different school weeks and time zones?
A group with campuses in different countries is really several schools that report together. Currency, academic year, grade ladder, teaching week and period structure are all per-campus, and 220 ISO country records with dial codes back the identity fields.
- Per-campus currency, calendar, grade list and teaching week
- 220 ISO-3166 country records with dial codes
- Nationality, ID and expiry, previous school and siblings on the enrolment record
- Group totals state their currency and exchange-rate date
Can the system carry our school’s own branding?
Yes — the product carries the school's identity, not the vendor's. Set one brand colour and the system derives the full palette, with live contrast checks that warn before an unreadable combination is saved. On the largest package each campus can carry its own branding.
- One brand colour, from which the system derives the ramp
- Live contrast checks on brand colour choices
- Your logo on portals, receipts and report cards
- Per-campus branding and custom domains on the Scale package
Need something that is not there yet?
Ask. Classbell is built by a small team, which means a request reaches the person who writes the code rather than a backlog three layers away — and it is the fastest way for the product to end up shaped like the schools that actually use it. Tell us what you need and we will tell you honestly whether we can build it and roughly when.
Does the interface work in right-to-left languages?
The layout does, and it is built rather than promised — the navigation moves to the right, icons trail their labels rather than leading them, and currency stays left-to-right inside a right-to-left page, which is the detail that most implementations get wrong. The interface text itself currently ships in English. If your school needs a particular language, that is exactly the kind of request a small team can act on quickly.
- Right-to-left layout built and proven, not planned
- Currency and numerals stay left-to-right inside a right-to-left page
- Translation plumbing in place; interface text currently English
- Arabic typography supported with a typeface that has the glyphs
How are nationalities, identity documents and guardians recorded?
An international intake makes the identity fields load-bearing rather than decorative. Nationality comes from 220 ISO country records with dial codes rather than a free-text box that ends up holding four spellings of the same country. The enrolment record carries the identity document and its expiry, the previous school, siblings already in the group, and transport. Guardians are their own records linked to the pupil, so a family with three children is one guardian rather than three copies.
- 220 ISO country records with dial codes behind every country field
- Identity document and expiry date on the enrolment record
- Guardians linked to several children rather than duplicated
- Duplicate detection on name and date of birth across the whole group
Common questions
Is the interface available in other languages?
The interface ships in English, and the groundwork for more is already done rather than promised — right-to-left layout is built and proven, and the translation plumbing is in place. If your school needs a particular language, tell us: that is exactly the kind of request we can act on quickly.
Can different campuses follow different curricula?
Yes. Curricula are an editable list, and each subject records the curriculum and grade band it belongs to, so one group can run several frameworks at once.
Can each campus have its own branding?
Every package includes the school's logo and name. Brand-colour theming is included from the Growth package, and per-campus branding with a custom domain is on the Scale package.
Can each campus be in a different time zone?
Yes. Campuses carry their own country and calendar, and the teaching week and period structure are per campus rather than group-wide.
Do you support single sign-on with our identity provider?
Not today. Sign-in is by email and password with two-factor authentication available. We would rather say so than show a disabled button that reads as your own administrator's omission.