add competitions, awards and student recognition
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.
- Competitions and awards: Every competition a school runs or sends children to — inter-house, district, state, national — now lives in one register with the entrants and what they won. A 20-member choir is recorded as one entry, not twenty. Medals stay with the child for life, so a Class 9 prize still shows on the Class 12 student record.
- Scoring that cannot be rewritten: Schools set their own points ladder — participation against first place, school level against national — and the version used is frozen onto each award. Retuning the weights next year cannot change last year's prize list, and a yearly cap on minor entries stops point-collecting.
- Proof before points: Certificates and photos attach as evidence, and a coordinator verifies an entry before it scores anything. Every verified award carries a permanent QR code, so a college or a scholarship board can confirm years later that it is genuine. Certificate images can be read automatically instead of typed in.
- Recognition, honestly counted: A podium leaderboard with student photos, a lifetime trophy portfolio per child, and a class-by-class view of how many children have never been recognised at all — the figure a principal actually wants before prize day. Existing paper or spreadsheet registers import in one go.
- Everywhere it is needed: Available in English and Hindi, on the web dashboard and on the teacher and student apps, where a child sees their own trophy case. Prize-day and annual reports print for the school's records, and parents can submit a win from outside school for the coordinator to confirm.
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.