Sahel EDU

Running a Franco-Arabic or Arabic-medium school in Chad: two languages, one piece of software

A Chadian Franco-Arabic school teaches in two languages, sometimes prepares students for two exam streams, and must hand out documents that families read in either language. Sahel EDU can already write Arabic from right to left, run two sections in one school and date documents in the Hijri calendar; however, the national Franco-Arabic report card is not built in. This page says what is ready and what is not.

One school, two languages of instruction: the Chadian landscape

Chad has two official languages, French and Arabic. Families choose between French-medium, Arabic-medium and Franco-Arabic schools, and the baccalaureate exists in French-medium series (notably A4, C, D, E, G2, G3) and Arabic-medium series (AA, DA, G2A), according to the Chadian press.

According to that same press, Arabic is tending to be taught with the same weight as French, and recent instructions make Arabic compulsory in the final year of French-medium high schools and French compulsory in the final year of Arabic-medium ones. In practice, Arabic is often taught only once a week and qualified teachers are scarce, especially outside the capital. The head of a Franco-Arabic school must therefore be able to set teaching hours and coefficients without outside help.

Two languages of instruction in the same school, with their teachers.
Students following the French-medium stream or the Arabic-medium stream.
Teaching hours and coefficients specific to each stream.
Documents that parents read in their own language.

What Sahel EDU can already do for a Franco-Arabic school

Sahel EDU handles a Franco-Arabic school as a school with two sections: a French-medium section and an Arabic section within the same school, with the same students, the same parents and the same fees, and one report card for each section.

Screens, report cards and documents from right to left in Arabic, with Arabic numerals.
A fully Arabic report card: school name and student name in Arabic, logo in the centre, Arabic grade labels chosen by the head.
A two-panel report card, with the mark in figures and in words, in French, English or Arabic.
Search that tolerates variant Arabic spellings (hamza, alef, ta marbuta) and sorting that follows the Arabic alphabet.
A parents’ space that displays in the language each person chooses: French, Arabic or English.
A calendar of the school’s own, with its day of rest and its dates.
The basmala and the Hijri date on documents, optional, for an Islamic school.

Quran memorisation and the Hijri calendar

For schools that also teach Quran memorisation, Sahel EDU keeps a Quran follow-up covering 114 surahs and 30 juz. The school can keep its own calendar, with dates in the Hijri calendar; moveable feasts are entered with a date marked “to be confirmed” until the moon is announced, and a day without lessons expects neither the register nor staff clock-in.

Memorisation and revision verse by verse, with a remark.
Progress visible to the student and to the family.
Memorisation badges for each juz.

The national Franco-Arabic report card: what is not built in

The national Franco-Arabic report card is not built into Sahel EDU: the application does not provide a Chadian template in which French and Arabic carry equal coefficients. The same goes for candidate lists in the ONECS format, statistical returns in the census format and the Arabic-medium baccalaureate series.

In practice, coefficients are set by subject and by series, and each section has its own report card; the Chadian set-up is therefore done with our team, before opening, rather than alone from a ready-made template.

No national template for a Franco-Arabic report card.
No Chadian coefficients preloaded, for French or for Arabic.
No Arabic-medium baccalaureate series preloaded.
No candidate lists in the ONECS format: the school prepares them itself.
No state letterhead on documents, which carry the school’s name, logo and colour.

Starting a Franco-Arabic school with our team

Sahel EDU is today designed, validated and usable for schools in Cameroon. For a school in Chad, the application already reads in French, English and Arabic, counts in CFA francs and has the common tools: classes, marks out of 5, 10, 20 or 100, the register, fees and receipts, and documents that can be verified by QR Code. However, the levels, exams, calendars and official report cards of your country are not built in: they are set up with our team, school by school, before opening. The Arabic-stream levels that come preloaded are those of Cameroon, not those of Chad.

Describe your situation to us: we will tell you frankly what is ready and what remains to be adapted. If a start is possible, it begins with a free trial of 30 days, with no commitment.

Describe the school: its sections, levels, languages and classes.
Set up the French-medium and Arabic sections, then their levels.
Set the subjects, teaching hours and coefficients of each section.
Choose the report card style, its languages and, for Arabic, the letterhead and grade labels.
Import the student lists: the guided import checks every row before writing anything.

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Frequently asked questions

Does Sahel EDU handle Chad’s Franco-Arabic report card?

No: the national Franco-Arabic report card is not built in. The school can run a French-medium section and an Arabic section, each with its own report card, and set coefficients with our team.

Can we have a report card entirely in Arabic?

Yes. The letterhead, the school name and the student name are in Arabic, the logo is in the centre, grade labels are Arabic, and the basmala and Hijri date are added if the school wishes.

Can parents who read only Arabic, or only French, follow along?

Yes. Each person chooses their display language, and the school chooses the languages of its documents.

Are the Arabic-medium baccalaureate series preloaded?

No. They are set up with our team, like the other Chadian series and coefficients, and candidate lists are still prepared by the school.

Can we try it before committing?

If a start is possible after talking with our team, it begins with a free trial of 30 days, with no commitment. The price is then negotiated with each school and can be read on the Pricing page.

Try Sahel EDU for free

Try Sahel EDU free for 30 days, no commitment. Afterwards, the price is negotiated with your school and confirmed in writing.

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