Bhala
School markbook
The class markbook for South African primary schools. Every mark, note and report a teacher writes is kept, never overwritten and never lost between years.
- Web
Who it's for
Teachers and heads at South African primary schools, or a single teacher with one class.
Screenshots
Mark entry. Demo school, every pupil fictional. 
Absent is never a zero. 
It shows the pattern. What to do next is the teacher's. 
Parent evening on one page.
More about Bhala
Bhala (say BAH-la) is isiZulu for “to write”. It shows teachers patterns, never labels a child, and assembles reports from their own marks and notes in the school's own wording.
What Bhala will never do
These are built in and enforced in the database, not policy.
- Store an absence as a zero
- Label a child
- Generate text about a pupil
- Let a sensitive record reach a share
- Delete history
Built for the classroom
Mark entry works offline, a parent evening fits on one printed page, and staff-only notes are kept off it. Retention limits for POPIA are built in.
Two ways in: a school plan at R199 per seat per month, or one class for one teacher at R129 a month, with the first term free. The first school is live in Durban.
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