History about School Management System (SMS)

Now a days, information technology leads an important role in all organizations where

everything is computerized by reducing the paper based manual work. In this new era,

in education system also some changes have done by developing and designing School

Management System. (Rao, 2016) The number of students, teachers, and staff are

increasing day by day. Information related to all kinds of student details, academic

related reports, teacher details, staff details, course details, curriculum, class details,

book details, subject details, payment details and other resource related details, are

extremely difficult to manage manually. (S.R.Bharamagoudar, 2013) School

Management System can make these tasks easier and quick by allowing to store all

related information in a centralized database, automated report generation, easy access

and manipulation of searching data etc. (Bhatia, 2013)

The first Management Information System (MIS) for schools was ​School Information

Management System (SIMS) which was initially developed from ​1982 to ​1983 by

Philip Neal​, a teacher at Lea Manor High School. Then Bedfordshire Country Council

further developed the product, which began being used by other schools in ​1984​. SISM
Ltd. which is a commercial company, was founded to further develop SIMS in ​1988​.

(Wikipedia, n.d.)

But these types of non-integrated clerical and administrative applications limited the

possibilities for management support as the relationships among data could not be

analyzed. During the initial stages the main purpose of software development and

usage was to improve the efficiency of school office activities (Visscher, 1996). The use

of computers and technologies in educational institutes was mainly to store student and

personnel data (Carnoy, 2004). In the ​1990s​, the emphasis on using ICT to collect

educational data and to improve the administration of educational systems began to

increase in the developing countries. (Shah, 2013) (Shah, 2014)

Student Management System (​SMS​) is now an integrated package that consisted of the

various other systems like- Student Information System (​SIS​), Student Data Systems

(​SDS​), Student Academic Information System (​SAIS​), Student Information Management

System (​SIMS​), Attendance Management System (​AMS​) or Result Management

System (​RMS​) etc. (James, 2014)