Setting up your school: a checklist
Use this checklist when your school starts using Academium SMS. The order matters: later steps depend on earlier ones. For example, you cannot allocate fees until classes and terms exist.
1. School details
Add your logo, contact details, currency and admission number prefix.
2. Sessions and terms
Check that the current session and its three terms have the right dates. Attendance, fees and exams all belong to a term.
3. Classes and sections
Review the classes the wizard created, put them in order, and add sections (arms) such as A, B and C. Assign class teachers.
4. Subjects
Add your subjects (Academium can fill in a standard Nigerian list for you) and assign them to each class.
→ Subjects
5. Staff and their permissions
Add your staff, give each one a role, and check what each role is allowed to see and do. Then get each person signed in.
→ Adding and managing staff · Staff roles and permissions · Devices and access
6. Fees
Create your fee types, build fee templates for each class, and allocate them for the term.
7. Students and families
Admit your students one by one or import them from a spreadsheet. Each student's guardian becomes a parent record, and siblings are linked through it.
→ Admitting a student · Importing and exporting students
8. Exams and grading
Set up the term's exam and its mark components, and check your grading ranges.
→ Setting up an exam · Grading ranges
9. Report cards and ID cards
Upload your fonts, backgrounds and signatures, then design your report card and ID card templates.
10. Optional modules
Set up whichever of these your school uses: transport, hostel, school accounting, payroll, inventory, extracurricular activities, the school gallery and the front desk. Each has its own section in this help centre.