Hi everyone,
I’m sharing Ifitwala Ed, an open-source education platform built on the Frappe Framework. This is a standalone app with a desk and 4 different independent portals in Vue (Admission, Students, Parents, Staff). Key focus throughout has been on integration of all the calendars (class events, meeting events, school events), strict data governance as we are working with children, real education roles (counselor, pastoral, instructors, academic admin, curriculum coordinator, admission, etc.), designed from the start for high-concurrency.
This project comes from my experience working in international schools for 25 years. The idea is to unify the disconnected SIS tools, admission SaaS, spreadsheets, forms, shared drives, and manual follow-ups for educators and school leaders.
The goal of ifitwala_ed is to give schools a more coherent operational backbone for admissions, student records, guardians, staff workflows, attendance, policies, documents, reporting, and analytics.
It is still early, and I do not want to keep building it in isolation. I am sharing it now because I’d like feedback from both the Frappe community and real schools.
We would value feedback on both the technical side of the apps and also from other peers educators or peers working with education institutions. :
We are looking for 4–5 design-partner schools willing to trial ifitwala_ed with us.
For selected schools, we would provide setup and close support at no software cost during the design-partner period. In return, we would expect real usage, structured feedback, regular conversations, and a clear internal contact person from the school.
The best fit would likely be small to medium-sized schools that currently manage important workflows through a mix of spreadsheets, forms, emails, shared drives, messaging apps, and disconnected systems.
The first workflows we are especially interested in validating are:
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admissions / enquiry-to-enrolment
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student and guardian records
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policy acknowledgement and signature tracking
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student logs and follow-up
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school analytics and operational visibility
Although not a finished product, it is a working platform that I want to expose early to critique and real school workflows.
Repo is here: https://github.com/fderyckel/ifitwala_ed
We are starting to build the documentation here: https://ifitwala.com/docs/en
A small video (rough) showcasing Ifitwala Ed, here.
Install steps are same as for any other frappe apps. It will also install ifitwala_drive which is our way to have a more governed and strict file management system as again as education institution and during admission process we tend to gather many confidential information of users (copy of id, previous reports, etc.)
If you have technical feedback, product feedback, school contacts, or know an institution that may be interested in becoming a design partner, I would be grateful to hear from you.
Thank you.