Why Do Schools Need Digitalization?
New IT products change our lives—and entire industries—every day. To lead in their field or at least stay afloat, organizations must constantly automate routine processes, analyze big data, and look for non-standard solutions — all to offer clients modern, convenient, and high-quality products and services.
Private K–12 education is a complex system that daily presents administrators (owners, principals, and academic directors) with nontrivial administrative, organizational, oversight, and reporting tasks. The most successful leaders increasingly delegate labor-intensive processes to IT technologies to preserve time for what matters most — teaching itself.
Let’s look at how digital technologies simplify the work of a private school and which solutions exist on the market.
Electronic Gradebook / Student Diary
Error-free, flexible timetables; online teacher access to gradebooks for monitoring academic performance and attendance; and homework management are among the most familiar and widespread tools—even in public schools.
Such platforms often offer additional modules: homeroom management, performance analytics, and basic report generation. However, electronic gradebooks are rarely truly flexible and do not always support customized requests for nonstandard cases.
LMS
A Learning Management System is typically a repository of educational content: courses and textbooks, video lectures, online testing, and an extended library. Anything that gives students remote access to learning or knowledge checks belongs to the LMS category.
Communication System
A secure mail server, internal chats with teachers and classmates, notification and alerting systems, a blog, or other school media—all of this not only helps organize and control the educational process but also makes communication familiar and intuitive for modern students, increasing engagement and achievement.
CRM
In private schools, the primary customer is the parent, so Customer Relationship Management systems in education help automate external business processes: admissions, online tuition payments, loyalty programs and marketing, customer support, and mailing campaigns. CRM tools help allocate resources and plan but rarely provide convenient functionality for students or academic process control.
Financial Management
Finance is often handled within CRMs, yet a universal Russian-language solution tailored to private schools is still hard to find. Even so, digital tools can fully automate tuition and boarding/activity payments, generate reports, calculate payroll, and suggest ways to optimize resource use and increase a school’s profitability.
Student Information Systems (SIS)
A Student Information System is a universal digital environment that brings together most of the tools listed above. A classic example of an SIS is the multiplatform web service for school management, Mojo.
5 Key Advantages of SIS
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Multifunctionality
SIS platforms are EdTech ecosystems that simultaneously support students, parents, teachers, and school management. An advanced gradebook enables analytics and the design of an individual learning path for the entire study period; built-in communication tools and LMS knowledge bases streamline teacher–student interactions; and integrations with CRM and financial modules help leadership achieve business results.
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Flexibility
Default settings rarely satisfy the needs of a complex organization like a private school. SIS platforms support individualized approaches—from adding new tools for teachers to defining personalized KPIs for school leadership.
“The most valuable thing about working with Mojo is that it can be adapted to almost any request. Convenience and versatility — that’s what I like about Mojo,” notes Vasily Gorbachev, HR at Adriatic College (Montenegro).
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Integrations
You don’t always need to reinvent the wheel to achieve the best results. Collaboration and integrations with leading third-party services are a core advantage of SIS platforms.
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Values
A strong SIS platform doesn’t just solve practical tasks — it also elevates the school’s value in the eyes of parents and students. A unified online space from admissions to graduation, a convenient mobile app, a digital student profile, and gamification all build trust and engagement.
For example, Mojo’s “House Points” module brings a touch of magic inspired by the Harry Potter universe: it lets schools create Houses and run motivating competitions. Teachers and staff can easily award points for academic and athletic achievements, event participation, and volunteering.
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Affordability
Flexible pricing allows you to choose a plan for specific needs: account for school size, assemble the right combination of modules, select a standard plan, or request a personalized offer.
