Glad.ee is a modern, reliable and secure e-diary solution built specifically for the Estonian education system and the requirements of the e-state. The platform has been developed in cooperation with Estonian and Swedish kindergarten and school teachers, ensuring that every feature meets the real needs of kindergarten and school life, not theoretical models.
Why should an kindergarten or school choose us?
Made by teachers, for teachers
Traditional information systems are often monolithic and built from an IT specialist’s point of view. Glad.ee was created with the direct involvement of teachers. The result is a clean, logical and mobile-friendly (Mobile-first UI) user interface that saves teachers time and reduces bureaucracy.
One journey: from kindergarten to gymnasium
Glad.ee is a unique platform that covers the needs of both kindergartens and schools (grades 1–9 and beyond).
For parents: One account and a familiar environment throughout the child’s entire kindergarten and school journey.
For municipalities: Simpler administration, lower training costs and unified data exchange.
Full support for the e-state ecosystem and security
Glad.ee integrates seamlessly into the Estonian e-state ecosystem:
THIS SOAP integration: Automatic synchronisation of students, groups/classes and basic data.
GDPR & Privacy by Design: A permanent (immutable) change audit log, strict data protection and privacy – for example, municipal-level aggregate reports contain no child-level details.
Key platform features
Glad.ee unified platform covers both the kindergarten and school modules – all aspects of teaching, development, communication and administration in one environment:
Grading system and automatic analytics
5-point score and weights: The grading system supports weighted grades and different grading periods (T1, T2, T3, end of year).
Automatic averages: The system automatically calculates student and subject averages when a grade is entered or changed.
Exams and tests: Bulk entry of results (bulk upsert), point-based scoring and percentage-based visual feedback.
Timetable and lesson tracking
Even and odd weeks: Full support for shift-based timetables (
ALL, EVEN, ODD).Lesson operations and attendance: Daily attendance marking (
present, absent, late, excused) and statistics.Homework and submission workflow
Assigning tasks: Setting deadlines and clear instructions.
File upload and grading: Students can upload their work directly to the system, and teachers can grade submissions, add comments and change status (
submitted, graded, rejected).Class teacher and management dashboards
Class teacher view: Whole-class grade matrix, absence trends, student search, subject filters and data export to CSV format (Excel).
Reporting: Automatic assessment, class and school-level reports.
Kindergarten development and wellbeing tools
Development and support plans: IAK plans, development cards, goals and support specialist work to support the child’s development and care.
Portfolios and school readiness: collecting the child’s work and development, summaries, school readiness (maturity) cards and a PDF report.
Narrative and formative assessment: sentence bank, sub-skills and narrative feedback on the child’s development.
Health, sleep, mood and growth: continuous tracking of health, sleep and mood logs and growth results.
Catering and meals: menu management, meal organisation tracking and consideration of dietary restrictions.
Communication and cooperation with parents
Notifications and messages: notifications, messages and group-/class-based communication between parents and staff.
Events and consents: scheduling and displaying events in the calendar, and digital collection of parental consents (grant, decline, withdraw).
Questionnaires and polls: creating questionnaires, selecting respondents, response period, and overview and export of results.
Parent meetings: planning development talks and meetings, participants, notes and agreements.
Risk views and early detection
Risk overview: automatic risk signals and overviews based on absences, lateness, low grades, missing homework and notes.
Staff absences and substitutions: recording staff absences, assigning substitutes and showing substitution info in the diary/calendar.
Administration and data exchange
School years, classes, subjects and timetable: full management of school years, classes, subjects, groups, timetables and grading periods.
Municipal-level aggregate reporting: aggregated reports for municipalities without child-level details (privacy requirement).
Applications and waiting lists: registration, applications, requests, capacity tracking and waiting list management.
Room and resource booking: booking rooms, equipment and resources and viewing occupancy.
Data export and archive: exporting reports to CSV and PDF formats, and archiving data.
Technical readiness and architecture
Modern technology: REST API (Hono.js), Prisma ORM, MySQL database and a fast Redis-based cache.
Speed and reliability: Integrated automated tests (450+ unit/integration tests and Playwright E2E tests) and automated CI/CD deployment pipelines.
Role-based access control (RBAC): The system has separate roles with fine-grained permissions:
admin, principal (director), teacher (teacher), class_teacher (class teacher), support (support staff), student (student) and parent (parent).
