Getting started

1. Sign in

Who can do thisEveryone with a login

When your school joins SR, the administrator receives a school code (a short code for your school, like HOPE), a username and a password.

1. Open sr.lauriandc.com on a phone, tablet or computer, in Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox.
2. Enter the school code, username and password, then press Sign in.
3. Choose your own password in Settings › Your account.
4. On a phone, add SR to your home screen. In Chrome: ⋮ menu › Add to Home screen. On an iPhone: Share › Add to Home Screen. SR then opens like an app.

If your school turned on sign-in codes, SR emails a code the first time you sign in on a new device. Tick Trust this browser for 30 days so it doesn't ask again.

2. Your school's details and crest

Who can do thisAdmins

The name, motto, contacts and crest go at the top of every report card, receipt and letter.

1. Open Settings › School. On a phone, Settings is under More.
2. Fill in the details (name, motto, address, email, phones) and press Save.
3. Add your crest: press the Colour tile and choose the picture. The other two tiles are for black & white documents (dark on light) and dark mode (light on dark); the colour crest is used until you add them.

We'll redraw your crest for free. Under Get your crest redrawn for free, press Choose picture, pick a clear photo or scan of your crest, and press Send to us. We trace it exactly as it is (same design, colours and words) as a sharp, high-resolution copy in all three versions. We don't redesign or change it.

3. The academic year and the current term

Who can do thisAdmins

Do this before classes, students and fees: they all belong to a year and a term. SR doesn't make the year for you, because only you know which year you start in. More about years and terms.

1. Open Transitions. On a phone: More › Transitions. Stay on Sessions.
2. Press New academic year.
3. In Starts in, type the year your current academic year began (for 2026/2027, type 2026). In Divided into, choose Trimester (three terms) or Semester (two semesters).
4. Press Create. SR makes the terms.
5. Press Start next to the term you're in now. It becomes the current term for everyone.

4. Classes and streams

Who can do thisAdmins

Classes (Nursery 1 to JHS 3) are already there; you add the streams, the groups pupils are actually in. What are classes and streams?

1. Open Classes (More › Classes on a phone) and check the academic year at the top.
2. Rename a class if your school calls it something else: press on its card (for example, Basic 2 to “Grade 2”).
3. Add a stream to every class you teach: press on the class and name it (A, B, Gold…). A class with one group still needs one stream.
4. In a new year, press Copy streams from… to repeat last year's streams.

5. Staff and logins

Who can do thisAdmins

Add your staff, tell SR who teaches what, and give a login to everyone who'll use SR.

1. On Staff, press New Staff and fill in the form. Teachers, and anyone who'll have a login, need an email address.
2. Open a staff member's menu (right-click on a computer; press and hold on a phone).
3. Choose Assign Stream to make them a stream's class master, and Assign Subject for each subject they teach.
4. Choose Give a login and pick their role: Teacher, Head of Department, Bursar or Admin. All logins are also in More › Users.
5. Give each person the school code, their username and their password. They change the password in Settings › Your account.

Which role? See roles.

6. Then: students and fees

Now add your students (one by one, or all at once from Excel) and set up the term's fees.

Questions