1. Register your school VISIT: WWW.KPSA.CO.KE Click on join KPSA SOMANET
CONTINUE TO REGISTER YOUR SCHOOL(S)
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2. KPSAsomanet – Private Schools’ Portal
Candidates can select schools of their choice by applying criteria such as:
Location
County, sub county
Facilities
Boarding or day
Marks Obtained
Joining Term, entry marks, fees per term
Special Preferences
Gender (boys only or girls only, or mixed)
Disability (e.g. physical, hearing, visual or other impairment)
Religion (e.g. Christian, Moslem or other)
Denomination (e.g. Catholic, ACK or other)
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3. Find a school VISIT: WWW.KPSA.CO.KE
Search results will give a range of schools meeting the search criteria, from which candidates can identify a school of their choice
Upon selecting which school(s) they desire, they can obtain information from the KPSA-somanet portal about that school
candidates can apply for admissions to the selected schools and upload scores attained.
Schools can approve instant Acceptance to qualifying candidates through the system and get a daily listing on applicants selected

4. Schools not found
If a school has not provided information, all fields will return the blank message “This school is yet to provide information”
Candidates searching for schools with blank messages will be redirected to the next nearest school for which information is available
Both schools will be alerted of the search but only the school which has provided information will obtain usable feedback
It is very important for every school to register and provide information
Registered schools will enjoy priority listing on the site (top views)

5. Benefits to schools VISIT: WWW.KPSA.CO.KE
Schools get opportunity to be found easily by interested parents
Schools give their own information, thus eliminate biased word-of-mouth reports. Somanet complements school websites
School Administrators get informed on total traffic that searched their school (e.g. hits per day/week/month)
Schools will get contact details of all candidates who obtained information about their schools
Schools can calculate value for money obtained from the system

6. Benefits to schools VISIT: WWW.KPSA.CO.KE
High visibility of school, year round
Quick access of school’s information to new applicants
Very low cost of reaching applicants compared to conventional methods
Reports on applications, instant approvals and admissions
Reports on click-rates on your information page
Reports on click-rate trends to assess impact of advertisement

7. Marketing in the Portal
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Marketing in the Portal
schools can select diverse advertisement options for their content directly on the portal at a minimal fee
Fix on All Pages
Fix on searched pages
Running Strip at bottom of Page
School alerts on site activity
Schools will get data about the number of times their information is viewed
Schools will receive an SMS alert each time a new application is launched
Schools can respond to this traffic instantly via sms or or chat
Schools will receive a daily updated listing of all applicants, by

8. KPSA-Somanet upcoming products
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KPSA-Somanet upcoming products
Find a school. School promotion (Active)
Supply-us (school suppliers & service providers) - Prototype Stage
School Bag (school/ parent/teacher relations) - Pilot stage
Exams and Testing (competency based testing & curriculum) -Development Stage
SIMS
(private and public schools & stakeholders data portal) - Development Stage

9. Supply-us VISIT: WWW.KPSA.CO.KE Buy all your school supplies online
Obtain the best price offers from the producers or manufacturers
Work with Vetted suppliers
Free of charge to the schools

10. School Bag International exposure of school
State of the art Communication between school, teachers and parents
Customize and distribute your documents
Link to your website (or develop a new web-page)
Win loyalty from your parents and other stakeholders

11. Exams and Testing
Adopt the "New-format assessment" that is tailored to find out whether learners have achieved the prescribed competencies - not merely to compare them with their colleagues
Continuous Assessment Tests will offered by schools to enable a competency-based learner transition, rather than a summative memory-based assessment.
Distributed online and:
Uniquely by each school
directly to entire class, with parental loop-in where necessary
by teachers, to assessors, to administrators
Historical analytics maintained and compared at the end of each test