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.

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