# Setting up printables

> Academium SMS Help › Printables
> For: School Owner, School Admin
> Web page: https://helpcenter.academium.com.ng/academium-sms/article/sms-setting-up-printables
> Last updated: 2026-10-06

**Printables** are the documents Academium prints with your school's look: **report cards** and **student ID cards**. You design them once as **templates**, then reuse them every term. They are under **Printables**.

## 1. Resources: fonts, backgrounds and signatures

Open **Printables → Resources** and upload what your documents will use:

- **fonts**;
- **background** artwork;
- **signatures** and **stamps**.

Resources are shared by all your templates. Archive ones you no longer use. A picture that a template is using cannot be deleted.

## 2. Designing a report card template

Open **Printable Setup** and choose the **report card** tab.

### Layout

Choose what the report card shows:

- **Subjects**: subject marks only;
- **Skills + Subjects**: junior skills ratings and subject marks together;
- **Skills Only**: for learners assessed only on skills.

### What appears on it

Turn each item on or off. Each has a note explaining it:

- attendance percentage
- grading scale
- position
- cumulative average
- exam average
- class average
- subject position
- remark
- result

### Look and feel

- Choose the background and fonts.
- Set the **margins**. The top margin is larger by default, to leave room for printed letterhead paper.
- Add up to **three signatures or stamps**, and set their sizes.

The paper size is chosen when you print.

## 3. Designing a student ID card template

Choose the **ID card** tab.

1. Start from one of four layouts.
2. Arrange the card's **front and back** in rows. Each row can hold two sections. Drag rows, or use the arrows, to reorder them.
3. Choose which blocks appear: school details, the student's identity and photo, enrolment, other details, contact, validity, a signature and a QR code.

A **live, to-scale preview** updates as you work. ID cards print on A5 landscape paper by default, which you can change.

## Who can do what

Each kind of printable has its own setup permission.

## Next

- [Printing report cards](https://helpcenter.academium.com.ng/academium-sms/article/sms-printing-report-cards.md)
- [Printing student ID cards](https://helpcenter.academium.com.ng/academium-sms/article/sms-printing-id-cards.md)

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