School Management System in Tunisia

Yes — every user picks Arabic (full RTL layout) or French independently, and parent communications go out in whichever language the famille declared at inscription. Bulletins, SMS and the parent portal all switch language without any export-import dance. This matches the bilingual reality where direction administrative often works in French while sciences humaines and éducation islamique are taught in Arabic.

OpenEduCat is Madrassati-aware rather than directly federated — Madrassati (edunet.tn) does not currently expose a public API for third-party SIS systems. What we provide are one-click exports in the exact column layouts Madrassati's annual returns accept: student rosters, attendance, grade summaries and statistical declarations to the direction régionale. Écoles privées that previously spent weeks re-keying data typically finish the same submission in an afternoon.

Each of the 7 séries is configured with its official coefficient table. The system computes moyennes trimestrielles using the Tunisian rule set — devoirs de contrôle (DC), devoirs de synthèse (DS), and the 25% contrôle-continu weighting that feeds the bac unifié. For terminales, you can project a moyenne générale d'orientation that matches what the conseil de classe will see.

OpenEduCat ships the technical controls INPDP expects from a responsable de traitement: role-based access, full audit log of who viewed or changed any élève record, parental consent capture at inscription, right-to-export and right-to-erasure workflows, and AES-256 encryption at rest. Because you self-host, the registre des traitements stays under your school's control. INPDP registration of the treatment itself remains the school's responsibility.

Both work. Lycées tunisiens and écoles privées preferring local data residency run OpenEduCat on Tunisian providers (Topnet, Tunisie Telecom Cloud) or on an on-premise server in the établissement. AEFE schools often pick Paris or Frankfurt for parity with their réseau. No SaaS lock-in: data, source code and backups stay with you.

The Community Edition is free forever — open-source, no per-student licence. Schools typically spend on three items: hosting (80–250 TND/month), one-time implementation (4 000–12 000 TND for a partenaire local covering Arabic-French bulletin templates, Baccalauréat coefficient setup and D17/e-Dinar configuration), and optional support. For 600 élèves the all-in first-year cost is usually a fraction of one term's fees from a SaaS competitor.