Before you begin
Setting up ALMS is a guided process, not a self-service form. The team does the technical work; what your institution brings is the information that makes the system yours.
You do not need servers, IT staff or software licences. ALMS runs in the browser, so anything your faculty and students already use — a laptop, a tablet, an Android or iOS phone — is enough. Having the following ready simply makes the first conversation shorter:
- Your institution's full legal name, address and contact details.
- Your crest or logo, and the colours you use on official material.
- A list of your departments and the programmes each one offers.
- The courses running this term, with the faculty member responsible for each.
- Names and email addresses for the administrators who will manage the system.
- Your current student roll, in whatever form you keep it.
The seven steps
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Talk to the team
Write to iriswebxsupport@gmail.com or call 8921951044. Tell us the size of your college, the programmes you run, and what you are using today.
This first conversation settles the shape of your setup and the subscription that fits your institution. If it helps to see the platform in use first, visit a live college running ALMS.
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Your institution's space is created
The team provisions a space that belongs to your college alone. Your records are held there and are not shared with other institutions on the platform.
You receive your own address and sign-in page, carrying your crest, name and colours, so students and faculty arrive at your college rather than a generic portal.
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Set up your academic structure
With an administrator account in hand, you build out the framework the rest of the system hangs from: departments, programmes, curriculum and the courses running this term, each with its credits, schedule and assigned faculty.
Start with the current term rather than your full catalogue. It is the fastest route to something your staff can use, and more can be added at any time.
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Add your people and assign roles
Add faculty, staff and students, then give each person a role. Every role gets its own view of ALMS, so people see the records their role allows and nothing more.
Administrators decide who holds which role and can change it at any time — the policy framework sets out what each role is responsible for.
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Bring faculty and students on board
There is nothing to install from an app store. Everyone signs in through the browser on a computer, tablet or phone, which means students can check courses, assignments and grades from wherever they are.
Most institutions introduce the system department by department, letting faculty settle in with attendance and assignments before the wider roll-out.
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Run your first term
From here the day-to-day work moves into one place: attendance, assignments, examinations, grading, finance, communication, library integration and live classes through IRISWEBX Live. Most colleges are running their first term within a few days of setup.
A platform overview is in the documentation, and the full list of what ALMS covers is on the features page.
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Put the AI tools to work
Once your data is in the system, the AI features have something to work with: question papers, answer keys, academic analytics, plagiarism checks, assignment analysis and everyday questions about your institution's own records.
These tools produce drafts for your staff to review. A human always has the final say — that is a rule of the platform, not a setting.
Roles to assign
Every person in ALMS holds a role, and the role decides what they see and what they can change. You do not need to fill all of them on day one — an administrator and your faculty are enough to begin.
- Administrator
- Academic Dean
- Registrar
- Mission Director
- Chaplain
- Dean of Students
- Finance Officer
- Faculty
- Student
Where to go next
If a question comes up during setup, the help centre answers the common ones, and the assistant in the corner of every page searches the same topics. For anything it cannot answer, a person will.