SchoolBridge · Training library

Training

Learn it once, properly.

Short lessons in plain language, grouped by the job you actually do. No lesson is longer than a break between periods, and every one of them ends with something you can go and do.

In production — the first lessons ship with the next pilot cohort
How it is built

Made for the ten minutes you actually have.

School training usually fails for an ordinary reason: it is delivered once, to whoever could attend, in a session too long to remember and too early to be useful. Three weeks later the person who needs it has left, and the person who replaced them was never there.

So the library is short, indexed and permanent. A bursar who needs to raise a fee invoice at 8:40 on a Monday can find that one lesson, watch it, and go and do it — without sitting through anything about attendance.

Every lesson is recorded against the real system, in the conditions our schools actually work in. Where something is slow on a weak network, we say so, and show what to do about it.

For the head teacher & bursar

6 lessons · about 48 minutes

The office track: the whole school on one desk, from enrolment through to the end of term and the money that comes with it.

01
Setting the school upCrest, colours, motto, classes, terms and the fee structure
9 min
In production
02
Enrolling pupilsOne at a time, or a whole class from a list you already have
7 min
In production
03
Reading the dashboardWhat each tile means, and the pupils sitting behind every number
6 min
In production
04
Fees, invoices and receiptsRaising invoices, receipting MoMo, and working an arrears list kindly
11 min
In production
05
Closing a termAssessments in, terminal reports out, on the school's own letterhead
10 min
In production
06
Staff, roles and who can see whatAdding teachers, setting permissions, removing someone who has left
5 min
In production

For teachers

5 lessons · about 27 minutes

The classroom track, built around a teaching day rather than a training day. Every lesson is one you can watch on your own phone.

01
Your day, at a glanceWhat the app shows you when you open it between periods
4 min
In production
02
Marking the registerIn one tap — and correcting yesterday's when you need to
5 min
In production
03
Scores and continuous assessmentEntering marks the day of the test, not the last week of term
6 min
In production
04
Homework and class testsSetting work from the corridor, and seeing what came back
6 min
In production
05
The scheme of work that tracks itselfTicking off topics, and the badges that show what has been tested
6 min
In production

For parents

3 lessons · about 11 minutes

Short enough to send to a parent by WhatsApp, plain enough that nobody needs to be shown twice. Schools are free to share these directly.

01
Getting in for the first timeInstalling the app and linking to your child
4 min
In production
02
Your child's dayAttendance, scores, homework and what the school needs this week
4 min
In production
03
Fees and paying by Mobile MoneyReading an invoice, paying the school's own till, keeping the receipt
3 min
In production

For Akarmis field agents

4 lessons · about 40 minutes · internal

The onboarding track for the people who put SchoolBridge into schools. Paired with lab rehearsal, because fluency in front of a head teacher is practised, not improvised.

01
The thirty-minute demonstrationThe route through the system, and where to slow down
12 min
Lab paired
02
Onboarding a school, properlyCrest, classes, fee structure and the first import — in one visit
14 min
Lab paired
03
The hard questionsWhere the data lives, who can see it, and what happens to the money
9 min
In production
04
When the network is against youRunning a demonstration that survives a bad connection
5 min
In production

Watch it, then go and do it.

A lesson watched is half a lesson. Every track pairs with the simulation lab — a full copy of SchoolBridge running on invented schools, wiped clean every night. Do the thing you have just been shown, get it wrong, and do it again.

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Nobody should be left
working it out alone.

Schools in the pilot get the library and lab access as part of onboarding, along with a live session for the whole staff. New teacher joins in the middle of term? Send them here.

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EVERY CHILD SEEN. EVERY PESEWA EXPLAINED.