School's dashboard saves 60 hours of admin work yearly for each teacher

Previously, teachers at Pei Hwa Secondary School would have to navigate multiple systems to gather information about students, as they prepared for parent-teacher meetings.

- Clay Lim

Now, they simply select a class and register number in the school's holistic student development dashboard, which presents consolidated data from the Ministry of Education (MOE), internal school documents and post-secondary admission booklets—all in a single Excel spreadsheet.

The dashboard is estimated to have saved each teacher about 60 hours of administrative work yearly.

The project was one of 11 that received the Minister's Innovation Award on June 3 at the Teachers' Conference and Excel Fest 2025. The event is organised by MOE for educators to share insights and practices.

The award recognises innovations with large-scale impact across the education system.

The online dashboard is the work of Mr Kenneth Yeo Wei Qiang, Pei Hwa Secondary's subject head of personal and aesthetic development, who built the system in-house for his class in 2018 with basic Microsoft Excel skills gained during his time as an auditor.

Later on, Ms Shalini Tashnamurthi, the school's head of department of infocomm technology, was roped in when the school saw the potential of Mr Yeo's creation and decided to make it a tool available to all its teachers.