¶ What is the School Management System
The School Management System (SMS) is a set of 11 Odoo 19 Community Edition modules that together cover the complete student lifecycle for a K–12 school: admissions, class scheduling, grading, tuition billing, library, canteen, transport, parent self-service, and outbound notifications.
¶ Module dependency graph
school_homepage ← public landing page at /
│
├── school_portal ← /my/school dashboard
├── school_comms ← mail templates + automation
├── school_transport ← buses, routes, assignments
├── school_shop ← uniforms, books (stock-backed)
├── school_canteen ← menus, wallets, allergy checks
├── school_library ← catalog, copies, loans
├── school_fees ← fee structures, invoicing
├── school_exams ← scales, exams, report cards
└── school_academics ← subjects, courses, attendance
│
└── school_base ← students, guardians,
teachers, classrooms,
academic years, terms
Installing school_homepage transitively installs every other module. You can also install a narrower subset — e.g. school_fees pulls only school_base + account + product + mail.
¶ Who uses it
| Role | Typical tasks | Main touchpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Registrar / Admin | Add students, manage classrooms, generate fee invoices, issue report cards, print PDFs | Odoo backend (/web) |
| Teacher | Mark attendance, enter exam results, add comments to report cards | Odoo backend (/web) |
| Librarian | Add books, create copies, check books in and out | Odoo backend (/web) |
| Canteen / Cashier | Top up student wallets, record purchases | Odoo backend (/web) |
| Driver / Transport Coordinator | Look up route assignments | Odoo backend (/web) |
| Student / Parent | View grades, fees, schedules; download report-card PDFs | Portal (/my/school) |
¶ What the landing page looks like
When you install school_homepage and visit http://<your-host>/, you see a public landing page pulling live stats from the rest of the suite:
The hero pulls from res.company (name + logo), the stats row runs search_count on each model, and the CTAs point to /my (portal) and /web (backend).
¶ Access model
Everything is gated by three groups under a single School Management privilege (Odoo 19's res.groups.privilege):
| Group | Can do |
|---|---|
| Reader | Read everything school-related. No writes. |
| User | Create / edit students, courses, attendance, exam results, fee enrollments, scholarships, library loans, canteen transactions, shop sales, transport assignments. |
| Manager | Everything User can do plus: academic year lifecycle, grading scales, fee structures, library catalog, dietary tags, product flags, automation-rule management. |
Portal users (students + guardians) see only their own data through the dashboard at /my/school, enforced by record rules.