General settings is available in the Setting modules. We can make the basic configuration of the institution from the General settings as shown in the figure below. The number of fields on the General settings page may vary depending on the number of plugins made available to your institution.
 

                 


Address
The first three column form the complete address of the institute.


Institution type

Specify the institution type when setting up your institution. The institution type can be set to:

  • K-12 – Refers to educational institutions that cover kindergarten all the way to class/grade 12 (primary and secondary education). 


  • Higher Education – Refers to educational institutions such as universities and colleges that offer education beyond secondary education. For example, a two or three-year degree of a chosen subject. 


Start day of the week

Set any weekday as the first day of the week based on your institution’s academic calendar. The change is reflected in the Calendar module, in the Timetable module when settings weekdays for a batch, as well as when creating a timetable.


Date format

Set the date format to determine how dates will be displayed throughout. The available date formats are:

  • DMY – Date/Month/Year 
  • MDY – Month/Date/Year 
  • YMD – Year/Month/Date

 

Dates are displayed in either predefined long formats or short formats.


Date FormatLong Date FormatShort Date Format
DMY10 March 198610/03/1986, 10-03-1986
MDYMarch 10, 198603/10/1986, 03-10-1986
YMD1986 March 101986/03/10, 1986-03-10


Note: Time is also consistently displayed in 12 hour format (HH:MM AM/PM) throughout. For example, 11:30 AM. 


Date separator

Set the date separator to determine how dates will be displayed throughout. The available date separators are:

  • (forward slash) 
  • (hyphen)


Financial start and end date
Here we set financial year start date and end date from the dropdown calendar.


Language

The admin can set the default language of the application here.


Time Zone

The time zone of the area can be set here


Country

The admin can set the default country here

Currency type
This enable user to enter the type of currency on which transactions happens in that institute.

Upload logo
The logo of the institute can be uploaded by this option. The size of the logo must be 500KB max, 150x110px.


Select theme

The admin can set the theme colour. 


Select font

Select the font to be applied to the your interface. Six fonts are currently available.


Enable auto increment

Auto increment of student admission number and employee number can be done by checking this box.

Enable password change at first time login

User can change the password the first time they login, if this option is enabled.


Enable roll number for students

Select the checkbox if you are going to assign roll numbers to students. If you select this checkbox but do not assign student roll numbers, roll number columns throughout will be remain blank. So if you decide not to assign student roll numbers, we recommend not to select the checkbox.


Enable auto-logout
Enabling the auto-logout feature forces the selected group of users to automatically log out from the system. We can set particular time duration after which they will log out, and can also select set of users which include Employee, Parent and students.