How it works

A term, start to finish

What running a term in Udooku actually involves: enrolling students, taking attendance, keeping grades, and producing the documents a student leaves with. Every screen described here is in the demo, so you can go and do it yourself.

Step one

Students get in without retyping

An applicant fills in the form and lands in the admissions pipeline. You review it, accept it, and that applicant becomes a student. Same record, carried forward, nothing typed twice.

Moving from another system? The roster comes in by CSV instead. Import CSV sits on the dashboard, and the migration page covers having it done for you.

Every student gets a record holding their program, their cohort and their contact details, plus a status that moves through prospective, active, on leave, withdrawn and graduated as the term goes on.

Step two

Attendance, once per session

A cohort has a schedule, and that schedule generates the sessions. The instructor opens the cohort, sees the roster for that day, and marks it.

Six codes cover what actually happens in a school: present, absent, tardy, make-up, holiday and leave. Make-up and leave are in there because students miss time and come back. A system that can’t express that is one you end up correcting on paper.

Every mark is stamped with who made it and when. The full grid shows the whole term at once, and the attendance percentage updates as you go instead of at the end.

Instructors only see their own cohorts. They can’t open the roster, the billing or the compliance reports. Sign in as [email protected] in the demo and see for yourself.

Step three

Grades, and whether a student is on track

The gradebook holds weighted categories: tests, practical work, participation, whatever your syllabus uses. Each student carries an overall percentage against them.

That figure drives satisfactory academic progress. A student who drops below the passing mark shows up while there’s still term left to do something about it, rather than the week they’re due to graduate.

Step four

The documents a student leaves with

Academic transcript

Built from the enrolments and grades already sitting on the record, in whatever format your programs are set up to report.

Certificate of completion

Issued against a finished program, numbered, and downloadable as a PDF.

Enrollment verification

The letter a student needs for a lender, an employer or a landlord. Produced on the spot.

Everything you’ve ever issued stays in the list for good. A reissue supersedes the old one instead of replacing it, and voiding leaves the voided copy visible. You can always answer what went out, to whom, and when.

Step five

Signatures and the document file

Enrollment agreements and disclosures go out for signature and come back attached to the student record, rather than sitting in somebody’s inbox.

Your own file sits alongside them: catalog, cancellation and refund policy, enrollment agreement master, performance fact sheet. Each one carries a version and an expiry date, so you can see at a glance which is current.

Reading about it is the slow way

All of it is running in the demo right now with a made-up school in it. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.