Enrollment lives on paper
Application packets, enrollment agreements, and disclosures printed, signed, scanned, and filed — then hunted down when someone asks for them.
ATLAS · Student Information & Operations Platform
The school platform built around the way your school actually runs.
ATLAS brings admissions, enrollment, student records, clock-hour attendance, grades, transcripts, payments, documents, and a student portal into one calm system — for licensed, regulated, and clock-hour schools that generic software never quite fits.
Born inside a state-licensed clock-hour school — in daily use by administrators, instructors, and students.
Sound familiar?
Running a licensed school on tools that weren't built for one.
Most school management software was built for someone else's school — a university, a K-12 district, a credit-hour college. Clock-hour and vocational programs end up bending their operation around the software, then patching the gaps by hand.
Clock hours live in spreadsheets
Sign-in sheets keyed into spreadsheets, totals reconciled by hand, and no single trustworthy answer to “how many hours does this student have?”
Everything is disconnected
Records in one tool, grades in another, payments in a third, announcements by text — and the front office holding it together from memory.
Audits are stressful
When the state board, an accreditor, or an auditor asks for records, assembling them takes days — because the records were never designed to be assembled.
One platform
Everything your front office touches, in one system.
ATLAS covers the full life of a student — from first application to final transcript — and the daily operations that surround it.
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Admissions & Enrollment
Online applications, paperless enrollment agreements with e-signature, and structured student onboarding — no more paper packets.
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Attendance & Clock Hours
QR clock-in and clock-out, hour tracking by category, and clock-hour totals you can trust — computed, not reconciled.
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Grades & Transcripts
A weighted gradebook instructors actually use, feeding a living transcript of official grades and hours, export-ready at any moment.
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Student Finance
Charges, payments, payment plans, and balances in a single ledger — with print-ready, accounting-grade account statements.
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Records, Documents & Communication
Student records, document storage, announcements, and communications kept with the student — organized and retrievable.
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Student Success Portal
Students see their hours, grades, schedule, balance, documents, and progress toward graduation — fewer front-desk questions, more accountability.
Beyond the browser: four companion apps carry ATLAS onto the floor — for students, faculty, administration, and the door itself. See the companion apps →
See it in action
Real screens from the working platform — not mockups.
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Administrative command center — enrollment, attendance, and operations at a glance. -
Paperless enrollment — agreements completed with e-signature. -
Tap-free attendance — each student gets a QR code for clock-in and clock-out. -
Course progress — clock-hour completion broken down by category. -
Weighted gradebook — instructors enter scores and grades compute instantly. -
Living transcript — official grades and clock hours, export-ready. -
Student finance — charges, payments, and balance in a single ledger. -
A print-ready, accounting-grade account statement. -
The student's home — clock hours, GPA, today's schedule, and course progress. -
One branded home for the whole school — students, faculty, and administration.
Actual ATLAS screens shown with fictional demo data — no real student information is displayed.
Companion apps
ATLAS in your pocket — and at the door.
The web platform is where the school is run. The companion apps carry the parts people need while they’re moving — a student between classes, an instructor in front of a room, an administrator between meetings — and a kiosk at the entrance that turns arriving into an attendance record. Each app is read-only by design: your school’s record changes on the web, where it is audited.
Several of these apps are distributed privately to the schools we work with, so they do not appear in store search. The links below install them directly.
ATLAS ApprenticeStudents
ATLAS NavigatorFaculty
ATLAS BeaconAdministration
ATLAS Scan KioskAt the door
For students
ATLAS Apprentice
One promise to a student: always know where you stand, and what to do next. Apprentice shows clock-hour progress against the program requirement, coursework grades, the class schedule, account balance, school documents, and the personal QR code used to clock in and out — every figure exactly as ATLAS recorded it. The front desk stops fielding “how many hours do I have?”
- Clock hours toward the program requirement, computed by ATLAS — never on the phone
- Coursework grades as recorded by instructors
- Upcoming class sessions and today’s focus
- Account balance, school documents, and announcements
- A personal QR code for clocking in and out
For faculty
ATLAS Navigator
Navigator answers the questions an instructor has while standing in a classroom: who is here, who is behind, and what still needs grading. The session roster shows each student’s clock-in and clock-out with late and left-early flags. The at-risk list ranks the cohort by the largest shortfall in hours — so the conversation happens while there is still time to fix it, not at graduation.
- Today’s sessions and a live count of who is in the building
- Per-session roster with late and left-early flags
- Student quick-look: hours to date against expected, grades, tap to call
- The cohort’s at-risk list, largest shortfall first
- Grading queue — what is ungraded, and how much
For administration
ATLAS Beacon
Beacon is the view from the front office between meetings: is anyone here, is anything flagged, what are we owed, who is stuck in admissions. Because it reads school-wide finance and the admissions pipeline it is the most carefully bounded of the three — the shortest-lived credential, and no balance ever written to the device. Posting a payment or moving a student’s status stays on the web, where those records carry their audit trail.
- Pulse — who is in the building, what needs review, what is owed
- School-wide balances, filterable to overdue or credit
- One student’s charges, payments and running balance
- Admissions pipeline, with deposit and questionnaire blockers
- Cohorts, scheduled days, and student search
At the door
ATLAS Scan Kiosk
A phone or tablet mounted at the entrance, running all day untouched. A student holds up the QR code from Apprentice — or a printed card — and ATLAS decides from what it already knows about their day whether this is a clock-in or a clock-out, then credits the hours to the right course. Nobody taps the wrong button, because there is no button. If the internet drops, scans are saved on the device and sync themselves when it returns, so attendance survives an outage nobody noticed.
- The server decides in or out — no wrong button to press
- Hours credited to the right course on clock-out
- Works offline; queued scans sync automatically when the network returns
- Locks to one app with Guided Access or MDM single-app mode
- The code carries an opaque token — no name, no personal information
Read-only, structurally
None of these apps writes to a student record. Money, grades and status changes are financial and academic records with audit obligations — they stay on the web, where those obligations are met.
Access scoped to the role
Each app holds its own credential, scoped to what that role may read and revocable for a single device. A lost faculty phone is handled without disturbing anyone else’s access.
Fitted, like the platform
The apps read your school’s branding and settings from ATLAS at runtime — the same platform we fit to your programs, your hour rules, and your paperwork.
Actual app screens, captured from the built apps running on invented demo data — every student, balance, cohort and instructor shown here is fictional, and no real student information appears. The kiosk is shown with a sample code and sample scan results.
Who it’s for
Built for licensed, regulated, and clock-hour schools.
If your state board cares about hours, records, and documentation, ATLAS was built for your world.
Massage Therapy Schools
Clock-hour tracking by category, board-conscious recordkeeping, enrollment agreements, transcripts, and a student portal — ATLAS was born inside a state-licensed massage therapy school.
Beauty, Cosmetology & Barber Schools
Admissions, hour tracking across programs, attendance, grades, payments, and completion reporting for cosmetology, esthetics, nail, and barbering programs.
Trade & Vocational Academies
Welding, HVAC, CDL, and other skilled-trade academies: applications, student profiles, class schedules, attendance and hours, payments, and graduation tracking.
EMS & Public-Safety Training
Compliance-heavy training records, enrollment paperwork, attendance, student documents, and portal access for EMS, fire, security, and public-safety academies.
Also a strong fit for allied-health programs, ESL and language schools, and other licensed career schools with hour- and record-driven operations.
Not off-the-shelf
Software that fits, because it’s fitted.
ATLAS isn’t a template you conform to. It’s a proven platform we shape around your programs, your rules, and your paperwork — then run for you. You get the speed of starting from a working system with the fit of custom software.
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Walk through your school
We learn how your school actually operates — programs, hour rules, enrollment paperwork, reporting, and the workarounds your staff have invented.
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Fit ATLAS to it
We configure and extend the platform around your operation — your programs, categories, forms, policies, and branding.
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Migrate your records
Students, hour histories, balances, and documents come across from your current system, spreadsheets, or files — structured and verified before you switch.
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Launch & operate
We host, monitor, maintain, and keep improving the system. When you call, you reach the people who built it.
Born in a real school
Built by people who run a school — not just software.
ATLAS wasn’t designed in a pitch deck. It was built inside NC Massage School, a state-licensed North Carolina massage therapy school, to run its actual daily operation — and it’s in use there every day by administrators, instructors, and students. The Horizon Works Group is part of an operating company with firsthand experience running licensed education. That’s the perspective behind every screen.
We build for the people who have to run the school after the demo is over.
- Platform
- ATLAS · student information & operations
- Proven in
- A state-licensed clock-hour school
- Model
- Fitted to your school, not templated
- Operated by
- The Horizon Works Group
- Case study
- Read the ATLAS story →
Questions schools ask
Straight answers.
Is ATLAS off-the-shelf software?
No — and that’s the point. ATLAS is a working platform born inside a real state-licensed school, and we fit it to each school we work with: your programs, your clock-hour rules, your enrollment paperwork, your reporting. You get the speed of starting from a proven system with the fit of custom software.
What kinds of schools is ATLAS built for?
Licensed, regulated, and clock-hour schools: massage therapy schools, beauty and cosmetology schools, barber schools, welding and other trade or vocational academies, EMS and public-safety training programs, and similar career schools. If your state board cares about hours, records, and documentation, ATLAS was built for your world.
Can we move from our current system or spreadsheets?
Yes. Migration is planned as part of every launch. We map your existing student records, attendance and hour histories, balances, and documents — whether they live in another school management system, spreadsheets, or paper files — and bring them across in a structured, verifiable way before you switch.
Who hosts and supports ATLAS?
We do. The Horizon Works Group deploys, hosts, monitors, maintains, and keeps improving the platform after launch. When you call, you reach the people who built your system — not a ticket queue.
Does ATLAS handle compliance for us?
ATLAS gives you a strong foundation for the records, hours, statuses, and documentation your school is responsible for — organized, consistent, and ready when you need them. It supports compliance-oriented recordkeeping; it does not replace your regulatory judgment or your board’s review.
Do students and staff get mobile apps?
Yes. Four companion apps sit around the platform: ATLAS Apprentice for students, ATLAS Navigator for faculty, ATLAS Beacon for administration, and the ATLAS Scan Kiosk that runs at the entrance and turns a QR scan into an attendance record. All of them are read-only — they show what ATLAS holds and never change a student record. Posting payments, entering grades, and moving a student’s status stay on the web, where those records carry their audit trail.
How do we get started?
Request a walkthrough below. We’ll show you ATLAS with your school’s day-to-day in mind — enrollment, attendance, hours, grades, payments, and the student portal — and talk honestly about fit, migration, and timeline.
Request a walkthrough
See ATLAS with your school in mind.
Tell us a little about your school and what you’re managing today — spreadsheets, paper files, or a system that no longer fits. We’ll walk you through ATLAS and give you an honest read on fit, migration, and timeline.
A private conversation with the people who built it — no sales team, no pressure.