1. The School Management System

2. History of Àkura
Àkura is a school management system initially developed for St. Joseph’s College, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
To meet the increasing demand, Àkura was released as a free, open source software, enabling other schools to download and install Àkura at no cost.
Àkura was uploaded to SourceForge.net on 14th February 2012, making it available globally.
Àkura software was developed by Virtusa Inc. and released as an open-source project under GPL license. Aspitio (Pvt.) Ltd. has incorporated and enhanced the base Àkura software and new key features of the Àkura product have been developed by Aspitio. The base product is powered by Virtusa. Aspitio will now be the contributor, implementer and support provider for this software going forward. Aspitio  acquired Àkura from Virtusa on the June 19th 2017.

3. What is Àkura? Features at a glance:
Students
Class Allocations
Attendance Recording
Academic Details
Co-Curricular Activities
Discipline Details
360 ° view of a student’s progress
Teachers
Qualification Details
Class and Subject Allocations
Leave management
General
Access Control
Extensive reporting
Collaboration (Parent Module)
Àkura is an open source school management system that utilizes the latest technologies to effectively and efficiently manage daily activities within a school environment.
This application provides a platform to unite school authorities, teachers, students and parents to enhance the quality of education.

4. Our Unique Value Propositions
Principals can readily access information, view various reports and make management decisions.
ÀKURA enhances the parent–teacher interaction where such interactions are limited due to social and time constraints.
Parents can easily stay up-to-date on their children’s progress, at the academic level and on extra-curricular activities.
ÀKURA replaces the time consuming, manual administrative activities with a user-friendly electronic system. Thus creating more time for teachers and principals to focus on education, the core activity of a school.

5. Àkura Development and Technologies
The Team
Àkura was developed by a 20-member team.
Technologies
The following open source technologies were used to build the ÀKURA Web application:
Programming Language – Java
Presentation Layer implementation - Spring MVC
Reporting - Jasper Reports
Object Relational Mapping - Hibernate
Database - MySQL
Application server - Apache Tomcat

6. Àkura Adoption Statistics
As of June 28th 2017, ÀKURA has been downloaded 37,401 times globally.
India, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, United States, Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Portugal, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, France, Lebanon, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco
Users rating of Àkura

7. Presently Aspitio is providing support and maintenance for :
Àkura has been implemented at 18 leading schools in Sri Lanka, including.
Presently Aspitio is providing support and maintenance for :
St. Joseph's College, Colombo
Ananda College, Colombo
Maliyadeva College, Kurunegala
Isipathana College, Colombo
 Nalanda College, Colombo
Zahira College, Colombo
S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia
C.M.S. Ladies' College, Colombo

8. Key Benefits of Using Àkura Benefits of Using Àkura SMS Module
Àkura helps staff overcome issues with the manual system, making their documentation easier.
Àkura improves the timeliness of the tasks.
Àkura systemizes the entire school management process allowing users to store the majority of their school's information electronically.
Àkura contributes to the improvement of the students’ academic performances.
Àkura maintains student's history which helps the school management to make better decision on students performance.
Àkura helps to develop a better relationship between students, teachers and parents.
Àkura provides fast access to relevant information.(School leaving certificate).
Àkura enables the school management to readily access information, view various reports and make managerial decisions.
Àkura ensures the security of data.
Print leaving certificate easily
Teachers can send instant messages to Parents for the below items:
School updates and events notifications
Attendance notifications of students/teachers
Notifications of classroom activities (specially for the primary section)
Notifications of student disciplinary actions
Notifications of term marks and assignment marks

9. ÀKURA Main Modules
Reference module: The core module that links all other modules in ÀKURA.
School module: Maintains school details.
Student module: Tracks student's profile information, academic life, extracurricular activities and attendance.
Staff module: Enables academic staff to enter marks, manage exams and easily generate various types of reports.
Reporting module: Generates various customized reports related to students and teachers.
Attendance module: Manages attendance of students and staff members.
User Management module: Manages user log-in for parents, staff, administrators and students with customizable role privileges. Assigns privileges for pre-defined roles to carry out relevant operations.
Parent portal module: Allows parents to log-in and view their children's information anytime.
SMS module: Enables the school to send text messages to the entire school community, or to predefined subgroups, regarding student attendance, disciplinary actions and emergencies.

10. Reference Module The Reference Module maintains master data.
A user with privileges can manage/enter master data using the links.

11. Management of User Roles/System Users
Allows the administrator to create and maintain user roles and system users.

12. Student Search
Allows the user to search for students and to edit student details or to delete the student record.

13. Student Details
Allows the users to add/edit student details.

14. Academic Life
Allows the user to add, edit and delete prefect details, scholarship details, academic achievements and attended seminars.

15. Student Attendance
Allows the user to search and view a student’s attendance details.

16. Student Leave
Allows the user to add, edit and delete student absence details.

17. Parent Details
Allows the user to add/edit parent/guardian details and to add/edit/delete donations given by a selected student.

18. Staff Search
Allows the user to search for staff members and to edit staff member details or to delete the staff member record.

19. Class Marks Evaluation Report
The report produces an evaluation of the marks obtained by the students of a selected class.

20. Student Mark Sheet
The report produces the mark sheet of a selected student.

21. Àkura Demo and Resources
Username: admin
Password : admin
Source code
Àkura Site
Àkura Demo