TeacherEase Reviews - Pros & Cons, Ratings & more

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TeacherEase is an easy web-based student management software designed for small to medium sized districts & schools. Run your school efficiently & affordably with limited IT resources. Save time & make information available to authorized staff.

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Administrative Assistant

This software is easy to use and is parent/student friendly. I also like the fact that when there is a problem, talking to customer support is amazing.

Admissions Director/Office Manager

I have been extremely happy and grateful for the support staff who help us with the system.

bookkeeper

I love the ease of use and the customer service is outstanding. I love that all updates are done automatically.

District Administrative Assistant

The quality of their support made me feel like I had a partner helping me. I think the logical layout of using the software makes it user friendly.

Technology Director

I have always been able to get ahold of support to help me with any questions or issues in a timely manner. They are always friendly and supportive.

Administrative Assistant for Student Services

It also is great that we can use 1 system for lunch, attendance and schedules. The tech support team is great to work with.

1st grade teacher

In our previous program, we had to do it ourselves. Overall, I feel like the program is user friendly and with a little training easy to navigate.

Elem Principal/HS Guidance Counselor

I like the simplicity of what we have to do in the program for our school.

Technical Services Director

Relatively easy to set up and transition from year to year it not complicated. Support has been good and they typically respond in a timely manner.

principal

Great experience and cost effective for all users.

Principal

The fact that some get locked for an entire school year because they were previously used during that same school year is frustrating.

Director of Technology

I like how easy it is to use, very similar to some larger companies but at a fraction of the cost.

Development Manager

Robust software allowing you to do all the admin and teacher things needed to reach students/parents.

Vice Principal

We're in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic and every private school is struggling to stay afloat. Yet, Teacherease chose this time to basically steal from private schools like mine.

Bookkeeper

Our district likes the seemless integration with student management and teacher gradebook functionality. We have been using this software since 2008 and has meet or exceeded our needs as a district.

The ease of integration with the other school in the district. The tab format in the single student window puts all information at a glance.

It is often difficult to find where to edit or change many pieces of information.

District Bookkeeper

I have trouble getting the reports that I need, but it's probably only because I don't do it a lot and I've never actually been shown (or have never asked to be shown) how to use it to get reports.

PowerSchool SIS

Review from Teacher

As I said above I have used, oversaw the initial set up and training, back in 2009. A number of years ago we switched our school grade levels from K-8 and 9-12 to K-5 and 6-12. We were able to make the change easily and did it fairly quickly with some opening support.


Long time user

TeacherEase 

I will say that after 5 years of using the program, it has become second nature.  I have long forgotten the things that were the most irrational to me when the journey began. For the most part It is now easy for me to navigate in Teacherease/Common Goal, but that ease was aquired over time. 

WMS WEIGHS IN

My overall experience with TeacherEase has been a positive one.  

I am happy that you like the ease of navigating our system. We have opened TeacherEase for data integration with other platforms and have development plans to increase integration in the near future. Feel free to email us at support@common-goal.com to discuss your data integration needs.

My Story & why we'll never return: After paying for the coming school year, we then decided that we would like to cancel our subscription & move onto another SIS. Teacherease refused to refund our check, despite the fact that we requested the refund on July 15, nearly two months before our school year began. As time went on, they did not respond to my calls and emails. I would actually call the technical support department and explain my situation to tech support. That's the only way I managed to get someone on the phone.

They kept saying escalating the issue for over a month until they finally escalated it to the president of the company (whyyy?? It's just a basic refund???), who, surprise surprise, never reached out to me or responded to my calls and emails. 

We're in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic and every private school is struggling to stay afloat. Yet, Teacherease chose this time to basically steal from private schools like mine. Thousands of dollars just gone, and the Teacherease staff are not responding to our calls. It's so disappointing. 


Mediocre at everything, Awful at some things. Financially Shady

It has been a wonderful experience.   The company has gone above and beyond to help us set up different aspects of the software to meet our needs.   

Excellent Customer Service

I am glad to read about your positive experience with our support team. We are adding headcount to improve answer times while providing the same high level you expect of us. Feel free to email us any questions at support@common-goal.com

Customer support is great, even during busy times.  I like it.

Student Management System

They are typically very responsive when we need support and have included many updates we have asked for over the years. 

Excellent Standards-Based Grading System 

Thank you for your feedback on our industry-leading standards-based learning tools. We take great pride in going the extra mile building capabilities based on the research while listening to user input on workflow usability. To that end, we do have the classic tech company challenge of adding new code. It is never-ending to keep up with the latest. Fortunately, as a cloud provider, we provide updates every week to the product based on feedback from our clients. If you haven't yet, feel free to provide feedback from the menu at Help > Feedback for your requests. Alternatively, you can reach out to customer support at support@common-goal.com. Thanks again!!!

If your school uses TeacherEase, no need to implement a new system. But if you have a clean slate to work with, I recommend choosing something comparable in price but excelling far beyond in capability. 

Gets the job done (and that's about all)

Overall, I am very happy with the ease and functionality of TeacherEase. I would recommend it for any school that is looking for a management system. 

Teacherease use in a school

I find it relatively easy to use.  I would love an assignment view.  Currently the only view is from the standpoint of competencies.

TeacherEase User

Thank you for your review. We love your unique use of TeacherEase since you are a CBE school. We strive to be the leader in CBE and standards-based learning. Your calculation methods are not your typical recommended SBL/CBE mathematical models such as Power Law, Decaying Weight, Mode/Median/Average of Recent Scores and more that are out-of-the-box with TeacherEase. To address your complex needs (and others with very specific calculation requirements), we enhanced our standards-based grading with logic-rules and more grade calculation options - https://www.teacherease.com/app/news/article/Logic-Rules-for-Grade-Calculation-in-Competency-based-Education-CBE

As for the assignment view, you can see it by going to Gradebook > Assignments. Feel free to contact support at support@common-goal.com to help you with that feature.

Thanks again!

Using TeacherEase

I am so glad you like the grade book tools in one place. As for time out, you can change the default timeout time of 65 minutes to wait before automatically logging out by go to Account > My Account and edit in the general settings. For any other questions, feel free to contact us at support@common-goal.com

I would say it has mostly been a positive experience.  Support is great!

Thank you for your positive feedback of SchoolInsight. Feel free to email us any questions and training needs at support@common-goal.com.

Excellent!!!!!!! Makes our lives so much easier! Thank you!!!

Best grade book and teaching system 

It was easy for our admin, tech, and teachers to use.  Who can say that?

Teacher Ease great SIS for small schools

Thank you for your positive feedback about TeacherEase and how easy it is to use. Feel free to email any questions to support@common-goal.com.

This is a great program and allows for tracking records as well as easy up uploading information to the state.

Good 

I am glad to read about your positive support and software experiences. Feel free to email your feature requests to support@common-goal.com. Many features we built in TeacherEase come from requests reported by our customers, and we would love to study your feedback.

Good and Bad

The company is always up to date with all the latest expectation and reporting requirements for our state. 

Best Student Software

I am glad you are happy to use TeacherEase as your gradebook and students information system. Feel free to email us any questions or if you would like a demo of SchoolInsight Financials at support@common-goal.com.

 The customer services is fantastic!  I have always gotten a response within 24 hours or less. 

Grading for standard based report cards 

Teacherease

Mary, thank you for the kind words regarding our standards-based learning tools. We are proud to be the leader in SBL. We would be glad to talk to you more about your reporting questions. Our support team can answer your questions to see if the reports you need are available. You can also post your requested features from TeacherEase from the Help Menu. To contact support, you can reach them at support@common-goal.com. Also, you might be looking for reports that are available with Standards-based Score Analysis. I don't know if you have that reporting enabled with our Longitudinal Data Analysis module at your district. Again, support can help you out. Thanks again!

Mixed. It's hard to leave it since we've used it for 9 years but it just takes so much work on our end to make it fit, as opposed to it working for us. 

Good for some things but not for others and could be a lot more user friendly

Thank you for the response. Feel free to contact support at support@common-goal.com regarding the grade book and reporting. There may be new features your team is not aware of. I recommend you check out this webinar on SBG and the IT person goes into detail on reporting - On-Demand Webinar: Kildeer Countryside's SIS for SBG - The Why, What, and How
 https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yNM89XY8SsmKn8j5w7hTaw

TeacherEase, For Easy and Seamless Learning

Thank you for the review. We do try to live up to the name and be easy to use.

The TeacherEase team

Great platform. I'm excited to learn the new upgraded parent communication plan we just subscribed to. 

TeacherEase Review

Thanks for the review. Thank you for sharing the feedback about missing emails for non-user employees. We do include emails for our Financial Management users. The enhanced parent communication (EPC) module does allow you to text and call the non-user employees which we believe will be seen more quickly for the urgent communications and announcements you send with EPC. You hope you love the integrated text and voice-calling tools. Thanks again for being a great client!

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