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AcademicsJan 2025 3 min

Automated report cards: from marks to PDF in one click

Generating report cards used to mean exporting marks to Excel, formatting a template, and printing 400 pages. Here's how modern ERPs eliminate the whole process.

The old process

Enter marks in the ERP. Export to Excel. Vlookup to merge with student names. Apply conditional formatting for grades. Copy-paste to the report card template. Print. 4 hours of work for a class of 30.

How automation changes it

When marks are entered directly into the ERP and grading schemes are configured upfront, the report card is a data query away. The system applies grades, calculates totals, adds teacher remarks, and generates a print-ready PDF — for the entire batch at once.

What a good report card contains

Subject-wise marks and grades, attendance summary, teacher remarks, rank in batch (optional), and the school header. A well-designed ERP lets you configure which fields appear per report type.

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