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Alma SIS
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Alma SIS product overview

What is Alma SIS?

Alma builds critical SIS tooling that significantly improves K-12 school operations and empowers educators to foster better student outcomes, so we can help you create the greatest generation of educators, so that they can create the greatest generation of students.

Key benefits of using Alma SIS

Alma is an integrated student information and learning management system that automates school management workflows, helping these institutes to save time and money.

The tool helps school administration in processing student data and workflow management by providing features such as a contact database, data management, medical records management, attendance tracking and fee collection.

The product empowers teachers with tools to support their instructional approach by offering features such as course management, curriculum design, progress reports and assignment management, as well as integrating with Google Classroom.

Schools can design report cards, change bell schedules and identify unique rubrics per class as per their requirements using the extensive customizable options offered by the software.

Alma also offers a district package that supports unlimited schools at no additional fees and provides access to reporting and school details with a single sign-on per user.

From inquiry through enrollment, Alma Start transforms your entire admissions and registration experience.

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Knowledge Base
Chat
24/7 (Live rep)
FAQs/Forum
Phone Support
Email/Help Desk

Training options

In Person
Webinars
Documentation
Live Online
Videos

Alma SIS pricing information

Value for money

4.3

/5

293

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Pricing options

Free plan
Subscription
Free trial
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Alma SIS features

Functionality

4.1

/5

293

Total features

116

9 categories

Most valued features by users

Activity Dashboard
Reporting & Statistics
Learning Management
Reporting/Analytics
Third Party Integrations
Progress Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API

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Alma SIS users reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

/5

293

Positive reviews

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.53/10
Rating distribution

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4

3

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98

8

8

15

Pros
There are so many GREAT features about Alma, to list just one is hard to do. I love the feed back that I receive from parents, teachers and administrators stating what they love about Alma.
It has a lot of great features that make it flexible for the needs of different schools. Most importantly, the customer service is fantastic.
The customer support team always has a great attitude and truly feels like they love helping you.
Cons
Nothing stands out as a negative. I would be searching to find something that dissatisfied us.
There is no option to batch print report cards all in one job. There is no page break option, so RCs end up getting copied to the backs of one-another if they have an odd number of pages.
I am not on the admin side but have heard a bit of frustration.

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E. John F.

teacher

Education Management, 11-50 employees

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Great Support!

Reviewed 2 years ago

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Edwin: Hello, my name is Edwin. I'm a teacher, and I give Alma five out of five stars. For more reviews...

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Josh E.

Director of Administration

Religious Institutions, 11-50 employees

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All About That Alma

Reviewed 2 years ago

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Josh: My name is Josh. I am a coach teacher, and we give Alma a four rating. For more reviews like this,...

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Maria Elisa V.

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Alma was useful for me as a teacher. It helped me stay organized in my plannings and assessments

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

What I liked the most about this Software is that it helps teachers to stay organized in their daily plannings, but also in the evaluation process. This was my first year as a teacher, and I loved using ALMA because I got the chance to put all the information that I needed in that Software. Just by clicking on ALMA I could take attendance, find information about my students, update my plannings, follow the CCSS Standards and upload the grades.

Cons

At the beginning of the school year, it was a little complicated for me to understand how ALMA worked. I had to ask many times to the Principal of my school about how to upload my daily plannings and align the assessments to the Standards. However, after a few weeks of practicing, it became easier for me.

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Marci K.

Education Management, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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We are happy with Alma

Reviewed 3 years ago

We are very pleased with Alma and the implementation process.

Pros

Its ease of use is perfect, Easily adaptable to our school environment.

Cons

there are a few minor features that are missing

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Katy B.

Used daily for 6-12 months

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The absolute worst year I've had as a professional school counselor.

Reviewed 6 years ago

none.

Pros

You can log in quickly. The people who have come in to assist with how horrific this year has been have been mostly humble and at least tried to help.

Cons

Absolutely impossible to have what we need at our hands as high school counselors. Everything is laborious or actually impossible to do. It has taken MONTHS to get even tiny bits of advances to make this usable. Transcripts, which are an essential piece for our kids, took 6 months to have functioning, and they're still inaccurate. Scheduling is months behind because the programming is inept for...

Vendor response

We truly appreciate you taking the time to help us improve the Alma experience. Change can be difficult, and while most Alma users have had positive experiences, we are continuously improving because our mission of serving educators like you is our life work. Along those lines, we have the industry's leading response time to customer inquiries by a factor of 10. We love working with your corporation...

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Ryan P.

Education Management, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Alma SIS- Big pros and small cons

Reviewed 4 years ago

EXCELLENT support. The resources provided are clear and helpful, and support staff are more responsive than any other product or service I have experienced. Absolute top notch support.

Pros

In addition to standard features of other applications, this product provides the ability to generate customized reports on just about any type of student data, and also automates the bulk of our report card procedure.

Cons

This product does not compile data well- eg. Student grades or attendance expressed as an overall average, rather than being listed by course. Additionally, while attendance by class records is supported, this data is of limited reporting functionality compared to attendance by day.

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Michelle F.

Education Management, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Excellent option for smaller schools

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

Easy to use and manage, it has multiple layers that allow students, parents, and educators to communicate and document work.

Cons

It took a long time to set up, but once it was active it was easy to navigate

Alma SIS FAQs

Q. What type of pricing plans does Alma SIS offer?

Alma SIS has the following pricing plans:
Pricing model: Subscription


Q. Who are the typical users of Alma SIS?

Alma SIS has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Small Business

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Q. What languages does Alma SIS support?

Alma SIS supports the following languages:
Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

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Q. Does Alma SIS support mobile devices?

Alma SIS supports the following devices:
Android, iPad, iPhone

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Q. Does Alma SIS offer an API?

Yes, Alma SIS has an API available for use.

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Q. What other apps does Alma SIS integrate with?

Alma SIS integrates with the following applications:
ClassLink, Xello, Google Classroom, Kindful, CANVAS, Acorn, Signal Vine, Google Docs, Google Drive, Follett Destiny Library Manager, LINQ, School LunchTime Software, Branching Minds RTI/MTSS, One Call Now, ParentSquare, Alexandria, Blackboard Learn, Enriching Students, Schoology, Salesforce Platform, Intercom

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Q. What level of support does Alma SIS offer?

Alma SIS offers the following support options:
Knowledge Base, Chat, 24/7 (Live rep), FAQs/Forum, Phone Support, Email/Help Desk

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