Seven steps to a working school. Do these in order today — each one unlocks the next, and every other app depends on them. Want the unhurried version with screenshots at every turn? Follow Set up a brand-new school.
Open your school's sign-in page, choose the Admin door, and sign in with your email and password. You land on the Dashboard — counts of students, parents and teachers, a list of operational alerts, recently added users, and quick actions.
Open Settings and set the Current academic year (in the form 2025/26) and the Current term (a free-text field in the form 2025/26 T1, format YYYY/YY T[1-3]), then press Save. This becomes the default everywhere — new classes, CSV imports, the Gradebook. Nearly every "the list is empty" problem traces back to this step being skipped.
In Settings → Subjects, create every subject you teach. In Settings → Grade scales, define how scores map to letters and remarks (e.g. 80–100 → A → "Excellent"). The Gradebook, lesson plans and report cards are all organised around these.
Open Classes → New class. Enter the Label (placeholder JHS 1A; e.g. P.6A), pick the required Level (the form can't be submitted without it), set the Academic year (pre-filled from Settings), optionally choose a Homeroom teacher, and press Create class.
Two ways: one at a time with Add user (Users → top right), or in bulk with Import CSV from the dashboard. The CSV can create classes and link parents in the same pass — the fastest way to load a whole school.
Open Print cards, filter by role and "created within", tick the people (or Select all), and press Print cards. A PDF downloads — wallet-sized cards, ready to cut and hand out.
Open Apps and confirm which apps each role can use. A student who can't open Simu, or a teacher who can't open Gradebook, is almost always an app-access setting.
Email us and a real person on the Simusim team will get back to you. School staff can also reach us through their school's usual support channel.