Built for African universities
A complete university management platform deployable per faculty, not just per institution. One lecturer can start using it tomorrow — the rest of the university joins when ready.
How it works
Students register with their matric number and pick their department and courses. Institutions can also bulk-provision accounts from their existing student records.
Lecturers upload lesson notes, recorded videos and schedule live classes. Students join the live class from inside the app — no pasted Zoom links, no WhatsApp groups, no link-sharing.
Computer-based tests and continuous assessments auto-grade. Students see every component — Test 1, Test 2, Test 3 and the Exam — not just a final letter grade.
What's different
Most systems require full institutional buy-in before anyone sees value. Studymate UMS runs for a single department. A lecturer can onboard their course on a Monday and run live classes the same week. The rest of the university joins when they're ready.
Test 1, Test 2, Test 3 and Exam are broken out per course. Semester GPA and cumulative CGPA update the moment a lecturer publishes results. No more "your result is ready, come to the office to check."
Stop switching between WhatsApp for notes, Zoom for classes and a portal for results. Lessons, recorded videos, live sessions, CAs and CBTs all live in one place — and students only see the content they've paid for.
5-point grading scale. Naira payments through Paystack. Matric numbers as identifiers. Session / semester structure. VAT and bank-reconciliation flows. Not adapted from a Western SIS — designed for this context.
Built for everyone on campus
Pricing
Institutions with a licence pay once. Students on self-serve faculties pay per semester. Pick whichever fits — you can switch later.
Self-service · per semester
Full licence · bespoke
All prices exclude 7.5% VAT where applicable.
FAQ
Yes — that's the point. You don't need institution-wide adoption. A single faculty (or even a single lecturer) can run Studymate UMS with subscription-mode pricing, and the rest of the university joins when they're ready.
Through Paystack — cards, bank transfer or USSD. Payments are confirmed by webhook, so access unlocks the moment the transaction clears. We also support Flutterwave as a fallback gateway.
Sensitive fields like bank account numbers are encrypted at rest with AES-256. Every mutation is audit-logged with user, IP, timestamp and change diff. Authentication uses session-based cookies with bcrypt password hashing and per-IP lockout.
Yes. Deployment mode is a configuration setting, not a rewrite. Move from student-pays to institution-pays (or vice versa) without migrating data — enrolments, grades, attendance records all carry across.
Currently in a London Fly.io region for low latency to West Africa, with managed Postgres backups. Self-hosted options inside a university's own data centre are available for institutional customers — ask us for details.
Short call, real screen-share, your course data by the end of the week. No sales funnel, no 30-minute discovery.