SECTOR

Education

Track enrollment, attendance, and learning, and act before students fall behind.

  Student Enrollment
Attendance Tracking
Teacher Coaching

The Challenge

Education programs track participation and outcomes across many learners, often with little visibility into who is falling behind.

High teacher turnover

New staff need fast, simple onboarding to get started.

Paper-based attendance records

Manual logbooks are slow to collect and easy to lose.

Coaching teachers at scale

Supervisors struggle to support classrooms spread across many sites.

CommCare in action

CommCare for Education Programs

HIGHLIGHT 1 · ENROLL

Build a complete record for every student

  • Register students with grade, school, and guardian details
  • Auto-assign each student to the right class roster
  • Track attendance and performance across every term
HIGHLIGHT 2 · COACH

Turn ad hoc visits into a continuous improvement system

  • Score every classroom visit against an observation checklist
  • Track each teacher’s growth visit over visit
  • Log a next-coaching note and book the follow-up
HIGHLIGHT 3 · REPORT

Monitor school performance and program impact

  • See enrollment, attendance, and coaching on one dashboard
  • Break results down by district, school, and grade
  • Export straight to the national education MIS
HIGHLIGHT 4 · ASSESS

Measure learning outcomes and prove what your program achieves

  • Run literacy and numeracy assessments by grade and cohort
  • Track learning gains from baseline through endline
  • Export the evidence funders and governments need

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ACROSS USE CASES

Classroom to home, across every use case.

Use the power of CommCare to run education programs end to end, across every use case.

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Any use case

One platform, every workflow.

From service delivery and monitoring to research and engagement, the same platform adapts to whatever your education program needs. Pick a use case to see how it tunes.

  • No-code workflows for frontline teams
  • Offline-first, multi-language, multi-country
  • Real-time dashboards and donor-ready reporting
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COMMON QUESTIONS

Education FAQs

Program Fit

Can CommCare track student enrollment and attendance?
Yes. Programs register students with grade, school, and guardian details, auto-assign each student to a class roster, and track attendance and performance across every term.
Can CommCare support teacher coaching?
Yes. Coaches score every classroom visit against an observation checklist, track each teacher’s growth visit over visit, and book follow-ups, turning ad hoc visits into a continuous improvement system.
Can CommCare run learning assessments?
Yes. Programs run literacy and numeracy assessments by grade and cohort and track learning gains from baseline through endline, producing the evidence funders and governments need.

Data & Getting Started

Does CommCare work in schools with poor connectivity?
Yes, CommCare is offline-first. Teams capture enrollment, attendance, and classroom observations without internet, and data syncs automatically when connectivity returns.
How does reporting work?
Dashboards show enrollment, attendance, and coaching by district, school, and grade. You can export straight to the national education MIS and to Excel, Power BI, and Tableau.
How do we get started?
CommCare has a free edition, and paid plans start at $100 per month. Build your first app with the no-code app builder, take free self-paced Dimagi Academy courses, or contact our team to scope your program.
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