Overview

Education form the cornerstone of any society – and South Africa is no different.  As it is prescribed in the Constitution of South Africa, “...everyone has the right to a basic education, including adult basic education, and to further education...”.  Today, technology has become an increasingly important component in ensuring that access to education is a right and not a privilege, and it is playing an integral role in connecting South African classrooms with the global classroom.

Educators are under increasing pressure to deliver knowledge and information to their learners, while at the same time, maintaining records and ensuring all administrative tasks are up to date.

In an effort to improve the systems and infrastructure within the education system across the country, Gijima, a leading ICT services company, has partnered with EduXpert, a company supplying customised software for education, to provide a holistic, end-to-end technology solution that simplifies school administration for everyone involved in education in South Africa – from the Minister of Education, Department of Education (DoE) officials and moderators, through to school principals, educators, the learners and their parents or guardians.

The Gijima Education Solution improves the day-to-day running and management of schools by reducing paperwork as all systems are managed electronically, and improving reporting methods.

Gijima Education Solution

Gijima manages the entire end-user lifecycle for its customers, including installation, moves, break-fix, performance optimisation, preventative maintenance and monitoring services.  Through strategic relationships with leading global vendors, Gijima provides its customers with leading-edge technology solutions to support their unique business requirements within the data centre environment. Gijima is also committed to helping customers implement value-added business management solutions and infrastructure realisation projects.

Gijima’s Education Solution supports the EduXpert system with the following products and services:

•    Project management
•    Hosting services
•    Training on-site
•    Desktop and server roll-out and system management
•    Desktop support
•    Data and storage management
•    Thin client solutions
•    Business continuity
•    Enterprise system management
•    Server virtualisation and consolidation
•    High availability and disaster recovery
•    Change Management

Gijima prides itself in maintaining service excellence through its more than 70 points of presence across the country. Its skilled teams are committed to working with customers within the education environment to run efficient schools, and to reduce costs by increasing flexibility and agility within the data centre, and by understanding its customers’ needs before implementing its world-class solutions.

EduXpert

The suite of software solutions developed by EduXpert is designed to simplify school administration across all levels of the education system.

The suite comprises:

StatsXpert
•    Authorised users of StatsXpert can drill down from province to school level, to access real-time information on any subject and grade of any school’s assessment results. The results are instant, with graphics and statistics showing the relative rankings of schools at various levels. The information indispensible to monitor and evaluate schools’ performance throughout the academic year, to identify those schools facing challenges ahead of the final, year-end examinations.
•    Users of StatsXpert include: DoE officials

MarkXpert
•    The assessment component of the software suite monitors educators’ assessment competence and individual learners’ performance at the click of a button. The learner management system, supported by filters, spelling and gender checks, allows an overview of all learners’ marks and comments. This software is customised to the latest DoE curriculum criteria of every grade and subject to support and enhance the curriculum competence of educators, while automatically processing   mark conversions, reports, school-based assessments, schedules and admin. Moderators are able to adjust marks interactively and view adjusted marks with supporting statistics.
•    Users of MarkXpert include: school principals, educators

TimeXpert
•    This is user-friendly timetabling software which integrates with MarkXpert to produce timetables for individual educators and learners quickly and efficiently using four easy steps.
•    Users of TimeXpert include: school principals, educators, admin staff

NetXpert
•    Parents/guardians can receive real-time progress reports on their children by logging into NetXpert. As NetXpert integrates with both MarkXpert and TimeXpert, parents can view their children’s term and NCS  reports, timetables, workloads, upcoming tasks and more, to be updated and informed of school activities and their children’s progress.
•    Users of NetXpert include: parents, guardians

NetXpert mobi
•    Learners can also benefit from the technology and view their marks, timetables and upcoming tasks on their mobile phones by logging onto NetXpert mobi. They can also connect with friends and classmates in their school via a user-friendly and secure mobile platform.
•    Users of NetXpert mobi include: learners

Gijima Education Solution and EduXpert Empowering education through technology!    

Brochure:

• Gijima Educations Solutions