Getting started

Register your school and activate your plan

What happens from the first sign-up screen to a working school portal.

Registration takes about ten minutes. Go to app.lumbyte.com and choose Register Your School.

1. Create the administrator account with your name, email and a password.
2. Fill in the school profile: name, address, phone, state and city, and the portal name that becomes your school's address (for example app.lumbyte.com/your-school).
3. Say how many students you expect. This sets the first payment, because Lumbyte is billed per student per term.
4. Add your bank account. Fees that parents pay are sent to this account.
5. Review the plan, pay, and your school is activated as soon as the payment is confirmed.

Your school's portal address and who signs in where

Each school gets its own address, and each kind of user has their own sign-in page.

Every school has its own portal address, such as app.lumbyte.com/your-school. Share that single link with your teachers, parents and students.

• Administrators sign in at /your-school/admin/login with their email and password.
• Teachers sign in at /your-school/teacher/login with the email and password the school gave them.
• Parents sign in at /your-school/parent/login with the email the school has on record for them. Both parents of a child can have their own login.
• Students sign in at /your-school/student/login with the student login created when they are enrolled. The login details are sent to the parents, or shown to the school if no parent was added.

Each of those links shows the school's name and only that one kind of sign-in, so people know they are in the right place. The school's main link, app.lumbyte.com/your-school, lets a visitor choose between teacher, parent and student.

Forgot a password? Every sign-in page has a Reset it with your email link. See I forgot my password.

Each person only ever sees their own school. A teacher at one school can never see another school's students, results or fees.

Your first-day setup checklist

The order that gets a school running with the least back-and-forth.

1. Settings → School Profile: check the school name, logo and contact details.
2. Settings → Security: turn on two-step sign-in for your administrator account.
3. Academics → Academic Calendar: check the term dates Lumbyte has set up for your school and correct them to match your own calendar.
4. Academics → Classes & Structure: create your class levels (for example JSS 1) and arms (A, B, C).
5. Academics → Subjects: add the subjects for each level.
6. Teachers → Add Teacher: add your teachers, then assign classes and subjects under Class & Subject Assignment.
7. Billing & Revenue → Fee Structure: set the fees for the term.
8. Students → Add Student or Bulk Import: enrol your students (you pay for their places first, see Plan & billing).
9. Share the portal address with parents, teachers and students.