
Curriculum First Learning Platform
- All-in-one curriculum planning, assessment, and report cards for multi-curricula international schools
- Supporting all major curricula including Cambridge, Edexcel and American Curriculum with the flexibility for schools to design their own curriculum
- Integrated remote learning and communications to support learning in different settings and Unified Family Experience


Supported Curriculum Programmes and Build-Your-Own
Turnkey Design
Built from the ground up to support multi-curricula international schools, Curriculum-First (C1) extends ManageBac beyond the IB programmes by providing curriculum-agnostic features to support your Curriculum Design, Teaching & Learning, and Assessment & Reporting processes. Over 600 sets of academic & accreditation standards are available in our system for you to craft the programme that reflects your school’s mission and values.

Designed for Multi-Curricula International Schools
ManageBac provides an ideal solution for international schools seeking to:
- Provide systematic support for your curriculum pathway (e.g. Cambridge Primary, Lower Secondary, IGCSEs, and IB Diploma)
- Offer a combination of National and International Curriculum for dual-curricula schools
- Build your school’s unique curriculum, drawing from different standards and based on the foundation of the school’s mission and values
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Consolidate learning platforms across the whole-school in order to provide a Unified Family Experience
- Manage joint-accreditation frameworks including IB Standards & Practices, CIS, WASC, NEASC and/or local requirements
Cambridge Curriculum
American & National Curriculum
Portfolio
Students gradually build a digital portfolio over time as they submit coursework into their classes for individual assessments. Track the progression of a student’s core values and focus area through their learning goals and submitted work. All submitted work is automatically grouped into subjects with learning goals. Portfolios can be exported as PDFs or synced to our partners when taking the next step in your students’ learning journey.
Remote Learning
Bring your curriculum to life with a unified remote learning platform on ManageBac with built-in Zoom, AssessPrep, and KeyChat integrations.

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Mock Exams
Flexibly designed to support a full range of assessment from Mock Exams with Remote Proctoring capability.
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Live Quiz
Live Quizzes in the ManageBac Presentation Mode.
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Flipped Classroom
Flipped Classroom & Blended Learning with automated ManageBac Gradebook Sync.
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Formatives
Easily Embed formatives & Knowledge-check questions directly into your ManageBac Stream and Resources.

Centralise Whole-School Communication
Designed to support school communication with Remote Learning. Channel membership is provisioned and managed automatically based on Class & Year group memberships as well as Teacher & Advisor relationships.

Improve Collaboration for Remote Learning
Teaching & Learning to support Staff communication, Teaching & Advisory relationships (e.g. CAS, EE Advisor or Subject Teachers) and School Office for Administrative contacts.

Provide Social & Emotional Support
Allow students to express themselves to their classmates and advisors by sharing how they are feeling via text or through the use of emojis.

Enhance School-to-Home Communication
Streamline Parent communications to provide a Unified Family Experience.

Three pillars supported by PD & best practices:

Teaching & Learning
Seamless Online Lesson delivery with and

Communication
Whole-school communication with

Engagement
Engagement analytics and automated reminders with weekly digests
Online Lesson & Presentation Mode
Schedule your virtual lesson using your video conferencing tool or take advantage of our built-in Zoom integration. Start the lesson with one click from your calendar or your unit’s Stream.


Curriculum
Collaboratively plan your curriculum with real-time unit planners, integrating assessment and learning experiences with a flexible unit template editor and the world’s largest collection of academic standards & benchmarks.

Collaborative Curriculum Planning
See the Big Picture
Resources
Embed notes, files, photos, videos, and websites with our drag & drop Stream & Resources.
C1 Unit Planner
The C1 unit planner allows you to collaboratively organise and plan your curriculum with resources.


Fonts & Icons
more readable with visual cues

Online Presence
to indicate when colleagues are online

Real-Time Editing
to allow for collaborative planning

In-Line Editing
to improve context and ease-of-use

Reflections
to support meaningful reflection throughout the cycle

Connections
to align and link assessment tasks & learning experiences

Personalisation
customisable background headers to reflect your unit
Academic Standards & Curriculum Updates
ManageBac has over 600 sets of built-in academic & accreditation standards and benchmarks for our schools comprising the world’s largest indexed collection of over 1.5 million fully-licensed academic standards.
Teaching & Learning
ManageBac C1 supports effective implementation of your chosen curricula:
- When you create a class, you choose from pre-built subjects linked to exam paper codes, which allow teachers to collaboratively share curriculum, resources, tasks and assignments effortlessly.
- Differentiation is supported naturally (i.e. Extended and Core classes) allowing units, resources and assessment tasks to be taught separately.
- When a curriculum review occurs, changes are automatic, saving schools countless hours each year and ensuring that curriculum is accurate & up-to-date.
- Transition years, when curriculum reviews go into effect, are managed seamlessly, e.g. Year 12 will teach a new subject guide, while Year 13 remains on the old curriculum.
Classes
Staff can view events, tasks, deadlines, exams, and entire calendars by year group, individual class or activity group (i.e. Basketball Club). Students also have access to their own calendar, which is populated with their associated items and updated in real-time.

Attendance
Teachers record class attendance based on the configured preferences (i.e. weekdays and rotation-based, categories, days off). Admins can manage attendance by student, class, or curriculum and set daily digests, send reminders to teachers, and absences to parents. Parents can also submit attendance excusals through ManageBac.

Messages
Communicate with year groups, teachers, and individual students to provide feedback, suggestions, and add clarity about tasks and assignments. Parents using ManageBac can also receive messages about their student's performance alerting them to potential issues as they happen.

Tasks
Create summative and formative tasks linked to units, custom categories, and resources with support for differentiation (i.e. Phases in Second Languages). Support for task-specific clarification of assessment criteria. Allow for student uploads and plagiarism checking with our Turnitin integration.
Integrated with
Supported file types






- Website or Video
- GDocs
- Files (PDF, PPT, DOC, TXT)
- Photo
- Note

Calendar
As a teacher or administrator, you can view assignment deadlines, exams, and entire class calendars by year, group (such as Basketball or Drama Club), or by individual class. Students also get a real-time view of their term as calendar items are synced as soon as they are added by their instructors.

Assessment & Reporting
Tailored for the unique need of international schools, our systems provide customisable gradebooks, built-in assessment and annotation tools, as well as integrations with Google Docs for coursework submission and Turnitin for plagiarism prevention.
Gradebook
Submit individual task and term assessments by custom assessment criteria, points, or comments. Create term rubrics for all or specific subjects, and automatically convert to local grades. Administrators can track the progress of term grade submissions by subject or student in real-time.


Google Docs
In less than 3 clicks, teachers can link, assign, and distribute a Google Doc template to their entire class. For students, this provides one-click access to their GDocs editor with the coursework template pre-loaded, and automatically saves the submitted GDoc to their portfolio with all marks and annotations preserved for future reference.
Our Turnitin integration allows student coursework to be automatically submitted through Turnitin prior to grading in order to improve student writing, empower original thinking, and prevent plagiarism. Access all Feedback Studio features directly from within ManageBac.
Annotations
Vantage Reader is a built-in tool for all marking and annotation of submitted coursework. Designed to be collaborative, multiple authors can comment and annotate individual assignments in parallel - Just like in Google Docs.
Annotation styles
Sticky Note
Comment
Text Box
Drawing
Highlight
Signature
Image
Line

Report Cards
Customisable report card templates that are seamlessly integrated with homeroom, class gradebooks, and attendance. Include a cover letter with signatures, summary of achievement, class reports, advisor and student reflections, attendance, extra-curricular activities, and grade and rubric descriptions. Generate reports in bulk as print-ready PDFs which can also be distributed securely to parents and students online.
View full sample report cards:

School-to-Home
Provide students & families with a consistent, modern and intuitive user experience from initial inquiry to enrolment and school life & beyond.

Teaching & Learning

Admissions & Enrolment
OpenApply, our School Admissions Management System, is integrated with ManageBac and supports your entire family throughout the admissions and enrolment process. Streamline family information updates, confirm re-enrolment, and complete the application process for siblings all in one place.

Communications
Streamlined communications & notifications support the school-to-home experience as well as increase student and teacher engagement.

Activities & Payments

School Resources
Download these C1-specific resources to support you and your school with the transition to the enhanced C1:
Sample Student Portfolio
Sample IGCSE + AP Report Card
Sample Unit Planner
Preview the experience of Plan, Design & Implement, and Reflect for each unit of inquiry using the ManageBac unit planner.
IB Learner Profile stickers
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