E-Management: A Proposed Practice in Traditional and Electronic Educational Environment

School Management Systems (SMSs) provides a single database design and broad set of functionalities that benefit all education stakeholders: administrators, teachers, students and their parents in a secure and authenticated manner. It automates classroom activities and administrative tasks, and establishes a communication link between school administration on one side and students and their parents on the other side. This paper describes the features of the School e-Management System (SeMS) developed for the benefit of the Al-Ain Model School. The main goal of the system was to provide e-services and communication facilities for all the beneficiaries of the school. It provides access to the system by different users such as administrators, teachers, students and their parents. Access privileges and functionalities differ for each group of users. All day-to-day school business are converted to electronic version and made available online.