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Choose your journey

Parents, pupils with accounts and tutors use Marketplace. Institute owners follow Business, without Django school access. Developers use their integration workspace. The school steps below apply only to OHADA schools; they are not an Austrian school journey.

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For the school’s founder

1

Registration

Create your account at saas.ardoiseeduc.com. This creates your school’s profile on the Platform and generates your activation code - see Activation codes.
2

Server installation

Follow the installation guide to deploy your school’s server (on a single computer, a dedicated server, or a cloud server).
3

Setup wizard

On first launch, your server shows a welcome screen asking for your activation code. Once it is validated, restart the server - your installation is ready.
4

Connect your server to the portal

In API Integrations, check the permanent address and connection probe. The provisioned address is read-only; a reserved hostname does not prove the server is running. Start the installation and its connector before checking staff access.
5

Invite staff

From the Departments (Staff) tab, add each member of staff by e-mail address and assign them a role. See the next section.

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For school staff (secretary, censeur, accountant, supervisor and others)

An Ardoise account on its own is not enough to reach your school’s dashboard - the founder or the director must assign you a role from the Departments tab.
1

Create an account

Go to saas.ardoiseeduc.com and sign up with your e-mail address.
2

Ask to be added

Give your e-mail address to your school’s founder, who will assign you a role (Director, Censeur, Supervisor, Secretariat, Accounting, Cashier, HR, Teacher, Canteen, Library, Audit).
3

Sign in

Once the role is assigned, sign in at saas.ardoiseeduc.com/login - you will be taken automatically to the dashboard matching your role.
If the founder tries to add you before you have created your account, the addition fails with a clear message: create your free account first, then try again.

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Install the application (PWA)

Whether you are a founder, school staff, a parent or a teacher, the site (both the marketplace and the SaaS portal) is a Progressive Web App (PWA) - installable like a real application, without going through a store.
1

Open the site in your browser

ardoiseeduc.com for the marketplace, or saas.ardoiseeduc.com for your school’s portal.
2

Install it

Desktop (Chrome/Edge): click the install icon in the address bar (or the Install Ardoise button offered in the application). Android: browser menu > Install app or Add to Home screen. iOS (Safari): share button > Add to Home Screen.
Once installed, the application opens in its own window (no address bar), with an icon on your desktop or home screen like a native application. The interface (HTML/CSS/JS) stays available offline once it has loaded the first time - the data itself (grades, payments, messages) always needs a connection in order to synchronise.

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Available roles

Two kinds of access are not assigned from the Departments tab, because they follow from schooling itself: parents and pupils, who reach their own space once the pupil is enrolled.

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Delete my account

This action exists for every role, including parents, pupils, tutors, institute owners, school staff, developers and OPS staff. It applies to your own account, not somebody else’s.
  1. Sign in, open My account, then Delete my account.
  2. Read the consequences and enter exactly DELETE in the confirmation field.
  3. Confirm your identity with the password or Google sign-in offered for your account. A linked school account must use the matching linked Google identity.
  4. Confirm deletion. On success, Ardoise signs you out and removes sign-in access; the profile is removed or deactivated according to the journey.
Account deletion does not necessarily erase all school history, contracts, lessons or financial records. Records necessary for integrity and retention remain under the product’s rules. This is not a promise of total physical erasure or a legal guarantee. If the action fails, read the message and confirm your identity before retrying.