About DHIS2 for Education
DHIS2 is a fully customizable platform that can be adapted to meet the needs of a variety of Education use cases. Learn more about DHIS2 for Education tools, functionality, use cases, and more.
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Student, Staff & School Management
Manage student, staff, and school data – all in one app! SEMIS is a free and open-source student-staff-school app developed through collaboration with Ministries of Education in the global south. It was designed with and for countries to fulfill core requirements for enrolling and managing students and staff. With SEMIS, you can:
- Take attendance quickly and intuitively, both on the web and on Android mobile devices in online and offline mode.
- Manage student progress including promotion, repetition, transfer, graduation processes, and learning assessment data.
- Manage staff, including new teacher registration, assigning unique identifiers, and coordinating posting at regional and national levels.
- Add customization to monitor teacher appraisals, identify professional development needs, and more.
- Extend SEMIS to support advanced features like payroll management or timetable scheduling, or integrate other data sources and digital tools.
Monitoring and Reporting Education Programs
DHIS2 supports data capture, visualization, management, analysis, and use, through the pre-configured Education Toolkit, which includes ready-to-use, customizable annual school census forms that can adapt to country-specific needs—all accessible either online or offline via the DHIS2 platform or Android mobile devices. The toolkit provides:
- Comprehensive metadata for standardized data collection and improved data quality at school level, district level, and national level
- Tailored dashboards for user-friendly data visualization and analysis, to identify patterns, trends, and outliers
- Modules for analyzing existing data from early childhood development to the tertiary level, visible to schools, districts, and national-level stakeholders.
School-Based Health Programs
By using DHIS2 for education sector data, schools, districts, and national-level stakeholders can easily exchange data with public health programs, or other sectors that use DHIS2 for data management. From socio-economic profiles and attendance data, to information about performance, school feeding and at-risk learners, DHIS2 supports accurately targeted school-based health programs. Sharing data supports school-based surveillance reporting for better coverage tracking and population health. In Uganda, for example, this module has enabled better tracking of immunization coverage and joint response to health emergencies, such as Covid-19, Ebola, Measles and Malaria outbreaks, through
improved routine surveillance, reporting, and referral at the school level.
Customizable Features
DHIS2 is a fully customizable platform that can be adapted to meet the needs of a variety of Education use cases and programs. Here are just a few of the things your can do with DHIS2 for Education:
School-based health surveillance
Individual attendance & performance
Integration with existing systems and data
Management of master school list
Planning, budgeting and resource allocation
Explore Country Implementations
Visit the Country Implementation page to learn more about how countries are using DHIS2 solutions for education data, and check out our DHIS2 for Education YouTube playlist to learn more about ongoing implementations around the world.
Get Started
The HISP network supports DHIS2 for Education implementation from pilot to national scale, including capacity building for staff at national and district level. Visit our Get Started page to find additional resources to explore our solutions and help plan your project. If you would like to get a personalized demo and discuss your project in detail, contact the DHIS2 for Education team at: emis@dhis2.org