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Everything about FAMNET Schools: registration, students, staff, results, fees, messaging, timetable, parents and settings.
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Getting started
What FAMNET is, registering your school, logging in, user roles, the setup checklist and the system fee.
7 articlesSchool settings
Admin Settings: school info, classes & streams, subjects, grades, divisions, points, result calculation, evaluation, fees, banks, access levels.
12 articlesStudents
Registering students (form or Excel), students list, profiles, dismissing/restoring, graduates, photos.
3 articlesStaff & teachers
Registering employees, staff logins, positions, class & subject teachers, HR, payroll, staff app.
5 articlesResults processing
Uploading marks, marks completeness, viewing, recalculating, publishing, reports, consolidated results, result SMS.
7 articlesEvaluation & attendance
Class-teacher evaluations, report instructions, daily and monthly attendance, attendance reports and SMS.
2 articlesFees, payments & accounting
Entering payments, receipts, payment reports, postponed payments, online fee payments, income, expenditure and financial statements.
6 articlesSMS & WhatsApp
Custom, parent, result and debt messages; buying SMS; delivery reports; free WhatsApp and your own number.
3 articlesTimetable & teaching
Periods, manual and automatic timetables, staff timetables, lesson reports, syllabus upload and topic coverage.
4 articlesE-learning & events
Materials, assignments, online examinations and the events manager.
2 articlesParents
Logging in as a parent, seeing results and payments, paying fees from your phone, the system contribution, news.
4 articlesProblems & FAQ
Forgotten passwords, login problems, results not showing, Excel errors, suspended service, contacting support.
5 articlesMost read
- 01Parents: paying school fees from your phone (Lipa Ada)See the fee breakdown and balance, then pay by USSD push, by a control number on any wallet or bank, or by bank/card checkout. The receipt comes by WhatsApp/SMS.
- 02Setup checklist for a new school (do these in order)The ten settings that must exist before results, reports and fees work — with the menu path of each.
- 03Syllabus upload and topic coverage trackingUpload the topics of each subject/class in order; after every period the teacher is asked on WhatsApp what was taught, and the dashboard shows coverage per class.
- 04Contacting FAMNET supportWhatsApp 0722 279 412, calls 0753 464 603, email [email protected]. What to include so the problem is solved on the first message.
- 05Creating the timetable: periods and manual entryFirst define the period frame (name, day, start and end time), then fill subjects and teachers per class, or let the automatic generator do it.
- 06Forgotten passwordSchool admin: use Forgot password on the login page. Staff: the admin resets it to “default”. Parents: the password is the student's name.
- 07WhatsApp messaging: free plan and your own numberResults, receipts, debts and announcements go to parents on WhatsApp free — up to 500/day from the FAMNET number, or 2,000/day from your own number for TZS 10,000/month.
- 08The system fee and the parents' contributionHow FAMNET is paid for: either the school pays a term/annual system fee, or each parent pays a yearly contribution (TZS 3,500 per student) when viewing results.
Did not find an answer? WhatsApp FAMNET support: 0722 279 412 (messages only), call 0753 464 603 (calls only), or email [email protected].