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plus the ability to design your own assessments.

There are subject, teacher and global mark-books for recording student results including NCEA/NZQA, PATs, STAR, Curriculum Objectives, Key Competencies, AsTTle, SEA and Burt. KAMAR handles administration, including student and caregiver details, pastoral, attendance, health, ministry returns, staff details, student and class lists. Now over 150 New Zealand Schools, from Kaitaia to Invercargill, use KAMAR to manage rolls of 30 students up to the big colleges of over 2500 students and 150-plus staff. Just a year later, 81 NZ schools were using KAMAR, which due to its reliability and the many small options available throughout the application for customisation, can be rapidly adapted for different schools' needs. MoE accreditation is a laborious process, but once it was achieved, teaching was over for Kent. The system migrated into a few other schools and, in 2005, Kent went for Ministry accreditation, which required a leap of faith as he and his partner (who still does the KAMAR accounts) had just had their first child and it meant going part-time teaching to pay the bills. Then teachers from other schools started asking about it. Skipping back to a decade ago, in a short time all the teachers in his school were using the customised FileMaker database, saving precious time and streamlining workloads. The Ministry provided a subsidy to help schools purchase any accredited student management system, or to help those schools which already have an accredited system purchase additional material for professional development. A boon to busy teachers, KAMAR assists schools in day-to-day recording and reporting of student information. KAMAR is the result, a student management system (SMS) developed specifically for the New Zealand school market and, as a Ministry of Education accredited solution, totally tailored to support the NZ Qualifications Authority and our NCEA educational standards. As other educators started using it, additional features were added. When Kent Lendrum, a Kiwi secondary school computer studies teacher, created a FileMaker database in 1999 to help run his classes at Mt Maunganui College, little did he imagine that a decade later he'd be supplying hundreds of New Zealand schools with his comprehensive FileMaker-based school administration package.Īt first, his database was a just a mark-book with reporting.