How schools manage boarding students today

Managing the activities of a large number of boarding students has never been easy. In the past, teachers and the staff in charge usually managed everything the traditional way, with paper records. Today, however, Education 4.0 has produced more effective solutions for managing boarding and semi-boarding schools. In the article below, let's look at MONA Media explore the boarding student management methods that should be applied most today.

What is boarding student management?

Boarding student management means the work of controlling students' meals, housing, sleep, rest and play, and their schedules, according to set rules and a timetable. The rules for this school residential management are spelled out clearly and communicated to students before they join the boarding house.

Boarding management is usually applied to primary, middle and high school students. Some universities, international school, research centers and so on also use management rules for their students and researchers to set what activities are and are not allowed.

Boarding can be semi-boarding or full boarding. In semi-boarding management, the management team is responsible for students only during a set part of the day, usually from morning to early evening. In full boarding management, the management team is responsible for students 24 hours a day.

The current state of boarding student management in schools

Boarding student management in schools today falls into two approaches: Traditional management and and management with modern software. With the traditional approach, the management team uses paper records, Excel or other note-taking methods to record student information and activities.

Although traditional management has been around for a long time and kept in use for years, some of its limits showed from the start, such as:

• Student information is managed in scattered pieces
• The process for assigning work to the management team lacks consistency
• There is no single communication channel.

To overcome these limits, boarding student management with software was created. Semi-boarding and boarding student management software stores all information about students, parents, the management team, school rules and announcements, and any violations students commit during their time in the school's semi-boarding or boarding program.

Boarding student management methods in schools today

To help boarding and semi-boarding schools get the best results from residential management, MONA has gathered the effective measures below:

Build a boarding student management plan

This step is meant to set up the framework of tasks to be done so you can check and control all students' activities and activity times. The management team also needs to keep on top of the situation so it can report back to parents when needed.

The management plan should follow the boarding rules already set. Each person on the management team needs specific assigned tasks so there is no overlap during implementation.

Organize health care for students

Student health care is a regular community activity that should be carried out when a school runs a boarding program. Its goal is for the management team, the school, students and parents to know students' current health. It is also an effective way to promote personal and community health practices.

Build students' soft skills

Besides learning academic knowledge, students also need to practice training. For full-boarding students who spend a lot of time at school and in the dormitory, the management team can hold soft-skills sessions for them.

These activities both build practical skills and bring students closer together. They also make study time more productive and reduce rule violations during the boarding period.

Use software to manage boarding students

Advances in technology have produced smart, convenient applications in many fields, education included. For managing boarding students, schools and management teams now have convenient applications to use. One of the most popular pieces of software today is center management software – MONA LMS.

MONA LMS software which has been working alongside over 1,000 education organizations, centers and schools to build flexible management systems and improve teaching effectiveness.

Specifically, the MONA LMS software system has the following standout features:

• The software can manage information and announcements: MONA LMS stores large amounts of information such as management rules, boarding-area maps, illustrative images and more. It also sends automatic announcements and quick responses to the center's management team.
• Account permission feature: The system makes management more effective and keeps information secure for the school or center.
• Manage center students: The feature from student management software can store personal details, test history, scores and more.
• Tuition management software: Parents and students can track tuition payments directly during the course of study through the software system.
• Online contact book: A feature that connects parents, students and the center through electronic contact book software.

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EduGo Group

EduGo Group: an international education and workforce organization in Vietnam with a mission to help young people study, work and build careers around the world. With as many as 50+ campuses and training centers, managing students and running the centers led EduGo Group to the MONA team.

The partnership between MONA x EduGo Group developed a system center management software that meets the following main business requirements:

• Full features to support the teaching process
• Manage a large number of students, teachers and staff across all EduGo branches
• Manage study-abroad student records and automatically send reminders to add documents along the timeline
• A system interface that meets UX/UI standards and works across devices and platforms

And many more features are built into the software! If you are looking for a solution to manage an education center, contact the MONA team through HOTLINE 1900 636 648 or get advice directly here.

Using MONA LMS software is the boarding student management method that is the most effective and simplest today. Applying software to student management not only helps schools and management teams run things efficiently, but also creates real value for students and parents.

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