PYP
Primary Years Programme
Unit planners built around the transdisciplinary themes, shared by every teacher who plans the unit, with rubrics and checklists kept beside it.
The IB programme and the school that runs it, in one system.
Unit planners, Extended Essay supervision, TOK and CAS, alongside admissions, attendance, fees and reporting. One platform, one login, one record per student.
6,200+ IB World Schools in more than 160 countries, teaching 1.95 million students. IB programmes grew 34.2% between 2020 and 2024.
International Baccalaureate Organization.PYP, MYP and DP, on one student record.
Each programme gets the planning and assessment it requires.
MYP
Middle Years Programme
Unit planners by subject group. Teachers assess against the criteria, and the same achievement levels reach the report card, never typed twice.
DP
Diploma Programme
The coordinator sees every Extended Essay milestone, across every supervisor, in one view, with TOK, CAS and course gradebooks beside it.
- And the whole school around them: admissions, attendance, finance, communication and reporting.
What each coordinator runs, programme by programme.
The parts of the IB that usually live in folders, spreadsheets and a second login.
IB PYPPrimary Years
- A programme of inquiry that stays current as units change
- Coverage of key concepts, approaches to learning and learner profile attributes
- Portfolios of student work, by unit
- Progress reports built from the evidence already in the system
IB MYPMiddle Years
- A gradebook by subject group and criterion
- Personal Project and Community Project, with process journals and supervisor meetings
- Service as Action, recorded and reflected on
- Report cards on MYP criteria, with portfolio evidence and attendance
IB DPDiploma
- Extended Essay, TOK and CAS, with supervisor meetings and reflections recorded against each
- Internal assessment by subject, with SL and HL classes
- Coursework submitted to the IB through eCoursework
- IBIS registration, with each student's subject choices
- Progress reports and transcripts
Across all three: one portfolio that follows the student from PYP to DP.
Ready when the visiting team arrives.
Authorisation and evaluation, from the work you already do.
Unit plans, assessments and student work are tagged to the IB standards and practices as they are added. A candidate school builds its authorisation evidence where it plans and teaches. An authorised school prepares for programme evaluation the same way, with no shared drive of documents to assemble. You can give the visiting team access to review it.
What a programme-only platform leaves you to buy separately.
| Programme-only platform | iScuela | |
|---|---|---|
| IB planning and assessment | Yes | Yes |
| Admissions and enrolment | Separate system | Included |
| Attendance and registers | Separate system | Included |
| Fees and invoicing | Separate system | Included |
| Parent app | Separate system | iOS and Android, with fee payments |
| A second board in the same school | Separate system | Same system, same record |
| Ask questions of live data | Not included | Ask Me Anything |
| Onboarding and migration | Usually quoted separately | Included |
Everything in the iScuela column, shown in one thirty-minute demo.
Ask your school a question. In IB terms.
- Which DP 1 students have not logged a CAS experience this term?
- Show me Extended Essay milestones by supervisor, with the ones behind schedule first.
An answer from live data, as a table, a chart or an export. Every answer shows the data it read and the steps it took, so you can check it before you act on it.
See Ask Me Anything
Where your students' data sits.
We would rather tell you where we are than claim where we are not.
iScuela is hosted on ISO 27001-certified AWS infrastructure with UK data residency. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit. A data processing agreement is available for every school. We hold our own ISO 27001 certification.
Read Trust and securityFrom two systems to one, in weeks.
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We migrate your data
Students, staff, unit plans, historical assessment and finance records, from your current platforms or spreadsheets.
StudentsUnit plansAssessment - 2
We set up your programmes
PYP, MYP and DP as your school runs them: subject groups, course codes, criteria and report formats.
PYPMYPDP - 3
Training for every role
Coordinators, teachers and the office, each on their own screens.
Show families the work,
not just the report card.
The parent app shows each child's portfolio as work is added, with progress reports, attendance and school notices. Families pay fees in the same app.
- of engaged parents say school communicates enough
- 85%
- of disengaged parents say the same
- 34%
Do we still need ManageBac?
No. Unit planners, assessment, portfolios, projects, Extended Essay, TOK and CAS run in iScuela, and so do eCoursework submission and IBIS registration, alongside the rest of the school. The reason to move is to stop paying for, and reconciling, two systems.
Can we run PYP, MYP and DP in one school?
Yes, with the programme structure, subject groups and course codes each requires, in one system.
We are an IB candidate school. Is it too early for us?
No. Plan units in the IB's structure from the first term and tag the work to the standards and practices as you go. The authorisation evidence is collected as you teach, not assembled before the visit.
We run more than one board. Do we need more than one system?
No. IB, CBSE and Cambridge run side by side in one school on iScuela: one login, one record per child, and each part of the school in its own board's words. Most school systems serve one board, so a school with two ends up buying, and reconciling, two.
We are an IB school in India. Does that change anything?
Only in your favour. iScuela also runs CBSE schools, so fee cycles, concessions and receipts already work the way an Indian school office expects.
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