monday.com acts like a very user-friendly CRM tool that helps us keep our users in check. What we do is run the systems for student accounts and student onboarding, which is the data that gets stored onto monday.com. We use monday.com for its better user experience so that we can extend the access to our tutors, which will have access to all the students in their particular classes, and they can take some actions based on what they want.
For example, we can provide a monday.com admin action to mark attendance, and the tutor can use that board to mark the attendance for a particular student, and there could be back-end automations running to do the same for the user. There are a couple of automations that run in monday.com, which is probably Google Sheets on steroids with enhanced features, multiple processes, and even automations baked into it.
As those automations are not fulfilling our purpose, we can have certain values of a column updated or certain parameters of any particular item updated using monday.com automations directly. For example, we can set up automation in monday.com that will mark something that runs every Monday and marks something based on having recurring classes every Monday.
If we have an absent flow, when the tutor marks absent, we can trigger a particular value in a certain board using monday.com automations. For more complex scenarios, we use the webhooks feature for monday.com so that we can better handle our use cases by calling a webhook in Make.com, Zapier.com, or N8N and call them to do complex workflows directly on monday.com.
The main use case for monday.com is that, and apart from that, the other day-to-day workflows would be the seamless integrations between multiple different boards and the mirror column facility, which facilitates data to be on one single board but displaying across multiple different regions. With monday.com, we are able to handle thousands and thousands of students that we intake based on our different education brands, like test prep, med prep, or even school-level mathematics.
Having monday.com makes it more centralized where we can handle student accounts only in one board and then for different classes, we can extend access to different boards and use mirror columns to showcase the students while we still have one central source of truth.