add house system with inter-house points and standings
New feature shipped to Inkwelly— India's most actively developed school management software. This change is in production at real Indian schools today, not on a roadmap.
- Houses: Schools can now set up their houses — Red, Blue and Green, or named after figures like Tagore and Shivaji — each with its own colour, crest and motto. A student stays in one house for their whole time at school, so it carries across promotion every year without being re-entered. Part of the academics module.
- House points: Teachers award or deduct points for sports day, cultural events, academics and discipline, and the standings update straight away, with houses on equal points sharing a rank. Points are never edited or deleted — a mistake is reversed, and both the original and the correction stay on the record.
- Balanced houses: When adding students, Inkwelly works out which house each one should join — keeping every class evenly split and placing siblings in the same house as their brother or sister. Filter to a class, accept the suggestions in one click, and houses stay even instead of drifting lopsided by Class 8.
- Hindi and regional languages: House names and mottos can be recorded in Hindi or any regional language alongside English, so Hindi-medium and State board schools see their own सदन names on screen rather than English-only labels.
- House staff: Each house gets a house master, house teachers, and captains or prefects appointed fresh each academic year — with a clear split between staff who can award points and the coordinator who can reverse them.
This isn't a roadmap. It's already running in your competitor's school.
Every update on the Inkwelly changelog is in production at real Indian schools today. If you're tired of ERP vendors who promise features for “next quarter”, let's talk. We run a 90-day paid pilot with a pro-rata refund and full data export.