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Platform

OLT SIS — student information system

One student record, with a core every institution has and fifteen optional modules for teaching, assessment, learning and student services. Take the modules you need now and add others when you need them.

Who it serves

Built for the people who run it

  • Vice-chancellors, directors and principals
  • Registrars and programme offices
  • Deans of Academics
  • Controllers of Examinations
  • Finance officers
  • IT heads
  • Faculty and students
The problems it addresses

What usually prompts the call

  • Records, examinations, online learning and fees sit in separate systems, each with its own copy of the student list.
  • A full suite was bought at once, and staff work around menus for functions the institution never used.
  • Adding a function later means another vendor, another sign-in and another import.
  • Nobody can say who changed a record, or when.
Capabilities

The core every institution has

Which of these are included in a deployment is set out in the proposal for that institution.

Student and academic records

Students, programmes, subjects, faculty and sections.

Academic set-up

The academic calendar, class rooms and announcements.

Marks and results

Marks, grades, results, rankings and grade cards.

Reports and users

Reports across the record, user accounts, and single sign-on.

Audit trail

A record of sign-ins, changes, exports and configuration changes: who, what and when.

Privacy

Privacy notices and consent records, personal-data export and erasure, and a retention schedule the institution sets.

Only what you take

A module the institution has not taken does not appear in menus, on the home page, in help or in links from other pages.

Nothing lost when a module is switched off

Switching a module off hides it; nothing recorded is deleted, and switching it back on brings everything back.

Separate data for each institution

Each institution’s records are held in its own database.

Optional modules

Fifteen modules, in five groups

Each module can be taken on its own unless a dependency is noted.

Academic

Running the term

  • Attendance. Marking by faculty, import from biometric devices, attendance-linked grade-drop rules and a date-wise register.
  • Timetable. The weekly timetable and its builder, with each student’s own timetable.
  • Electives. Selection windows, rules, withdrawals and imports, with elective and specialisation reports. For scarce seats, see elective bidding.
Assessment

Examinations and outcomes

  • Examinations. Exam sessions, datesheets, seating, hall tickets, invigilation, script marking (including by outside examiners) and supplementary examinations.
  • Online quizzes. A question bank, quiz structures and schedules, a live monitor and Safe Exam Browser. See online quizzes.
  • Feedback, IQAC and surveys. Faculty feedback forms opened in windows, controlled release of results, and an IQAC and survey builder.
  • Outcomes (CO–PO). Course and programme outcomes, attainment from marks, rubrics or imported scores, and the CO and PO reports. For AACSB, NAAC and CO–PO records, see accreditation.
  • Transcripts and certificates. Transcripts and certificates from the institution’s own templates, with an issue register and public verification.
Learning

Material and online courses

  • Document locker. Study material, assignments and hand-ins, file versions and similarity checking.
  • Courses and e-learning. Course pages and discussions, video, SCORM lessons, external tools through LTI, and learning progress. Needs the document locker. See courses and e-learning.
Administration

Student services and the office

  • Fees and payments. Fee plans and demand, collection and receipts, late fees, reminders, online payments and settlements. See student fees and payments.
  • Grievances and ticketing. Student concerns and service tickets, confidential cases, committees, service levels and reports. See grievances and ticketing.
  • Student leave. Leave requests and approvals, and the leave report.
  • Guest faculty. Requests for guest faculty.
Add-on

AI assistance, billed by use

  • AI assistance. Question drafting, study notes, assignment drafting, marking suggestions and a study tutor. Each feature also needs its own module: question drafting needs online quizzes; study notes, assignment drafting and marking suggestions need the document locker. See AI assistance, the study tutor and AI for faculty.
Bundles

Three starting points

A bundle is a named set of modules. Any bundle can be tailored module by module, and modules can be added or removed after the institution has started.

Essentials

Day-to-day academics

The core, with attendance, timetable, electives and student leave.

Academic

Assessment and learning

Essentials, plus examinations, online quizzes, feedback and IQAC, CO–PO outcomes, transcripts, the document locker and courses.

Complete

Every module

Every optional module except AI assistance, which is added separately and billed by use.

Example workflow

How an institution starts, and grows

An illustration of a typical sequence. Your own process is configured during implementation.

  1. Choose a bundle as a starting point, then add or remove modules.

  2. Programmes, subjects, faculty and students are set up or imported from spreadsheets.

  3. Staff and students sign in, through single sign-on where it is configured.

  4. The term runs: timetable, attendance, assessment and marks.

  5. Results are processed and grade cards issued.

  6. Further modules are switched on as the institution needs them, working from the same student record.

Our record

A & S has built and supported student administration software for higher education institutions for over two decades. The institutions we have worked with, and the letters they have written, are on the clients page.

Questions

Frequently asked

Do we have to take every module?

No. Every institution has the core, and takes the optional modules that address its current problem. A bundle is only a starting point: modules can be added or removed one by one, now or later. Which modules are included is set out in your proposal.

What happens after we request a demonstration?

We reply to arrange a time, and ask which offices and workflows matter most so the demonstration covers those. You do not need to prepare anything. If you have used the requirements builder, you can attach its summary to the request.

What does it cost?

It depends on the number of students, the modules you take and the deployment model. AI assistance is billed by use on top of that. Tell us those and we will give you a figure.

All questions

See the platform with your own modules

Tell us which offices and workflows matter most and the demonstration will follow that.