Kurasa is a teaching, learning, and assessment management system designed to help schools, teachers, and education stakeholders streamline classroom workflows and improve learning outcomes. It provides an integrated digital environment where teachers plan lessons, record assessments, track learner progress, generate reports, and communicate with parents—all in one place.
Kurasa is built to support Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) implementation end‑to‑end by simplifying daily teaching tasks and enabling data-driven decision-making at classroom, school, county, and national levels.
Key Purposes of Kurasa #
1. Simplify Teachers’ Daily Work #
Kurasa digitizes every major classroom activity, including:
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Lesson planning
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Formative and summative assessment
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Marking and reporting
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Attendance tracking
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Learner performance analytics
This reduces manual paperwork and allows teachers to focus more on facilitating learning.
2. Strengthen School Management and Accountability #
Kurasa gives headteachers and administrators:
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Real-time visibility into teacher activity
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Access to school-wide assessment and performance data
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Tools to monitor compliance with teaching and assessment requirements
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Dashboards for informed decision-making
3. Improve Learning Outcomes #
Kurasa provides:
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Skills-based assessment tracking
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Automated reports and performance insights
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Early identification of struggling learners
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Comparative analytics across classes and subjects
These help teachers tailor instruction and support each learner individually.
4. Enhance Communication With Parents #
Parents receive:
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Assessment and report updates
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SMS notifications
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Attendance information
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Continuous learning feedback
This increases transparency and strengthens parent engagement.
5. Support Government and Institutional Oversight #
For counties, regions, or national-level stakeholders, Kurasa offers:
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Aggregated data dashboards
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Program monitoring tools
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Assessment cycle management
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Quality assurance support
This ensures alignment with curriculum standards and policy goals.
Why Kurasa Exists #
Kurasa was built to address real challenges faced by African schools, including:
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Time-consuming manual processes
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Lack of standardization in assessment
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Missing or unreliable learner records
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Limited data to inform teaching
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Inefficient reporting systems
By solving these problems, Kurasa enables better teaching, better tracking, and better outcomes.
Who Uses Kurasa? #
Kurasa serves multiple user groups:
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Teachers — for planning, assessment, and reporting
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Headteachers & administrators — for oversight and school performance management
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Learners — for structured, well-monitored learning experiences
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Parents — for receiving timely performance updates
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Education officers & inspectors — for monitoring compliance and quality
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Partners/NGOs — for data collection and program evaluation
Kurasa’s Core Philosophy #
At Kurasa, our core values form the foundation of everything we do. Guided by the acronym TRUST, these values—Transparency, Reliability, Utility, Simplicity, and Teamwork—underscore our unwavering commitment to fostering a culture of integrity, innovation, and collaboration.
They are not just words on paper; they are the compass that directs our actions, shapes our decisions, and drives us to
create a transformative impact in the world of education. With TRUST as our guiding principle, we strive to redefine education, one value-driven step at a time.
Kurasa is guided by five principles:
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Transparency Openness and accountability to all stakeholders
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Reliability: Always trustworthy when communicating
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Utility: Informed by the use need hence the need to do
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Simplicity: Always unpacking difficulty to smaller difficulties
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Team Work: combining synergies for collective effectiveness
