B2B SaaS Product in Ed-Tech

Bhargava
4 min readJul 4, 2022
Digital Diary

Problem statement:

Build a successful SaaS product to replace School Diary for students studying in grades 6 to 10.

Why build a Digital School Diary?

  • Digital Diary acts as a bridge of communication between the school authorities and the parents.
  • It enables the school to send information or notification to the entire school or a selected group of students through the app.
  • The product helps in maintaining a productive and harmonious relationship between the teachers and parents resulting in the development of the students.

What is the core need for this feature?

  • This product is focused to make better communication between students/parents and teachers. With this app, parents can always remain up to date with their Child’s Notices and circulars, Homework, Class Diary, Attendance, Marks Summary, Fee Summary, etc…
  • Digital Diary aims at eliminating instances of false announcements and updates as all information is thoroughly reviewed and scrutinized before approving and making the announcements to ensure the information received is legitimate.

User Persona:

Daniel
  • Daniel is a smart kid of 8th standard and always wants to be in the competitive zone
  • He finds a challenge in updating the tasks of various subjects and sometimes falls behind in the completion of tasks.
  • As he is tech-savvy, he wants to have a checklist of tasks so that he can be more efficient in his process.
Anjali & Deeksha
  • Anjali is a parent of Deeksha who is of 6th Standard.
  • Deeksha is a notorious kid and she is a child who doesn’t like keeping up with the notes and tasks to be done at the home
  • Anjali wants a regular update on her child’s performance and at the same time, she finds it difficult to follow up with homework given by Deeksha’s faculty.
Reqelford School
  • Reqelford International School aspires to be top-notch in terms of giving regular updates about school events, student management, account management, etc.,
  • They are a technology-first organization as they have 15000 students onboarded into their organization
  • They are looking out to contain false rumors by giving out timely updates to the parents about their student activity.

Product Solutions and its Scope:

  • This product is focused to present an application with all the basic requirements required by the school for effective communication between the teachers and parents into a user-friendly app that will be an alternative to the paper-based School Diary.

Key Features:

  • Notice Board: Alerts on any circular issued from the school
  • Home Work: It can be viewed with a click of a button with a due date, description, and attachments
  • Class Events: To keep a track of the topics taught in the class with date, description, and attachments
  • Academic Lesson Plan: Students and Teachers can be on the same page on the academic lesson plan
  • Fee Payments: Parents can have a peek through the fees records and remain updated about the due amount
  • Academic Report: Teachers and Parents can see the term-wise marks statements of their ward.
  • Time Table: Teachers and Students can have a glance at the day-to-day academic
  • Feedback: Parents and Teachers can share their feedback with an attachment about their ward activities
  • Regular Attendance: Detailed view of the Student and Teacher attendance in the academic year.

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