Schedule exams, publish the syllabus portion for each one, let subject teachers enter marks from their phone or the web dashboard, and generate report cards and consolidated results using your own grade scales and subject structure. Parents see results in the app as soon as you publish them.
Exam season is when school administration is under the most pressure. Timetables have to be drawn up, portions communicated, marks collected from every subject teacher, totals and grades calculated, and report cards produced for every student, usually against a fixed date for a parent meeting. Exam management software brings all of those steps into one system so the work is shared out properly and the arithmetic is done for you.
In most schools the slow part is not the exam itself. It is everything after it. Teachers write marks on paper mark lists or in their own spreadsheets, an exam coordinator collects them, someone types them into a master sheet, formulas are copied and occasionally broken, and the report card template is filled in by hand or by mail merge. Each copy step is a chance for a mistake, and a single wrong mark discovered after printing means redoing the batch.
No two schools grade exactly alike. Some use percentages, some letter grades, some descriptive grades for younger children, and many use different schemes for different grade levels. Report card software is only useful if it follows your rules rather than forcing you into someone else's. In NovaClassHub, grade scales and subject structures are configurable, so the same system can serve a primary section with descriptive grades and a secondary section with marks and letter grades.
| Task | Spreadsheets and paper | Exam management software |
|---|---|---|
| Collecting marks | Coordinator gathers files or mark lists from each teacher | Teachers enter marks directly into the shared system |
| Calculating grades | Formulas copied between sheets | Calculated from the configured grade scale |
| Finding gaps | Manual checking of every subject | Every teacher's marks are in one place to check |
| Producing report cards | Filled in by hand or mail merge | Generated for the whole class from entered marks |
| Sharing with parents | Printed copy sent home | Results visible in the parent app |
When you compare products, test them with a real term of your own data. Our guide on how to choose school management software has a longer checklist, but for exams these are the points that matter most.
NovaClassHub includes exams and report cards as part of a complete school ERP, so marks sit next to attendance, timetable and lesson tracking for the same student.
Exams connect to day-to-day teaching too. Lesson and syllabus tracking shows how far each section has got through the plan before an exam, and the timetable keeps exam periods and regular classes in one place. Results appear in the parent app alongside attendance, which helps when a parent meeting needs to cover both.
Setting up is straightforward: we import your student lists for free, you configure your grade scales and subjects, and teachers can enter marks for the next exam during your 14-day free trial.
Book a demo and we will set up a sample exam with your grade scale and subjects, enter marks and generate a report card with you.
Book a free demoExam management software handles the full exam cycle in one system: scheduling exams, publishing the syllabus portion, collecting marks from subject teachers, calculating grades, generating report cards and producing consolidated result reports. It replaces mark lists and master spreadsheets that are passed between staff.
Yes. NovaClassHub has configurable grade scales and subject structures, so you can follow your board or curriculum and use different schemes for different grade levels, such as descriptive grades for younger children and marks with letter grades for older ones.
Yes. Subject teachers enter marks from the NovaClassHub teacher app on iOS and Android, or from the staff web dashboard. Role-based access means each teacher works with their own classes and subjects.
Yes. Once results are published, parents can see them in the NovaClassHub parent app, alongside their child's attendance and fees.
Yes. NovaClassHub offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, and we import your existing student data for free so you can test exams and report cards with your own classes.
Tell us about your school, your board or curriculum and how many students you run. We'll get back within one working day to set up a demo of marks entry and report cards for a school like yours.