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BigSIS is a cloud-based school management & student information system with modules for admissions, attendance, gradebook and document management, and more

BigSIS

Web-based

Registrar

Online portals improve our school communications and parents like the real-time directory and access to forms and student reports. Teachers love the portals for ease of writing reports online.

Registrar and Database Administrator

Fairly robust for the money, increasing ease of use and functionality, awesome customer service.

Finance Manager

Our reps have been instrumental in helping VWS rolling out BigSis. We have many great feedbacks from teachers, staffs, and parents on the user friendly system.

Very powerful program with fantastic support team that has implemented many of our requests as needed.

Admin and Database Support

They are helpful, prompt, and thorough. I had to learn this software quickly and had lots of questions, which they answered perfectly every time.

Office Manager

BigSIS has a very nice and clean interface. It is self intuitive for the most part.

Another thing, BigSIS does not differentiate well between parents and guardians. This always present itself as a problem with parents who are separated and when one parent has limited rights.

My biggest frustration is the lack of generic training videos and/or detailed user manual.

Administrative Assistant

This is likely the case for any software, but not being able to find something easily is frustrating.

Parent Portal cannot be used on cell phones, which is more and more what end user expects. We received many complaints about parents and teachers not being able to use BigSIS on iPad's.

BigSIS is getting more useful as we learn how to use it.  There is a significant learning curve.

It made my job easier. It simplified student reports process and it is helpful to have the ability to pull different reports. I can get the information that I need from anywhere, I don't have to be at my desk. It gave me the ability to work from home when needed. I wish we had someone to help us make small changes, such as ability to print labels per household correctly and to print labels with just first and last name, without address. I feel that we do not use BigSIS to its full extent and primarily that is due to the fact that we don't have a programmer on site and we are not aware of all the BigSIS features. Maybe a demo once the major updates are up would help.  Another thing, BigSIS does not differentiate well between parents and guardians.  This always present itself as a problem with parents who are separated and when one parent has limited rights.  Parent wit the limited rights still needs to have an access to Parent Portal but we cannot specify that only one parent is a guardian, and the other can see the reports, school directory but nothing else for example. 

Online database that multiple users can access and use.

Once operations are learned the system works well

I'd say we are getting the basics, which is more than can be said for other solutions. We are getting registrar records management, donor records management, most of what we need for mailings, and now we are expanding into alumni records management. I have many ideas for what I would like to see from the product that would make the registrar's job, in particular, easier, and they are open-minded, so we will see what the future brings.

Improved school communications, saved money, improved information tracking for inquiries and student records, enabled online student reports input and dissemination, consolidated multiple functions in areas of admissions, development, enrollment, information management.

Extremely flexible and user-friendly program.  We love it!

Thank you, Lori. We love working with you and our whole BigSIS family at the Waldorf School of San Diego. Your feedback has been invaluable to us and we hope to be able to keep expanding BigSIS to meet your needs and the needs of other schools like yours!

Time savings, all data in one spot, very cost effective.

BigSIS is user-friendly, has powerful options and saves lots of time!

Excellent customer service and all of the features and functions that we would ever need.

Having everything in one place for the first time in my 10 years at my job (from grades/reports/people/students/alum/donations) is awesome!

One of the easiest databases I've ever used in my 30+ years of office work.

Through the initial implementation of the program, BigSis was a smooth transition.  Our reps have been instrumental in helping VWS rolling out BigSis.  We have many great feedbacks from teachers, staffs, and parents on the user friendly system.  

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Thank you, Huy for that raving review! We truly appreciate your time and your feedback on how we can get even better!

Great software for those on a budget. 

Performs all the functions needed for student/family/alum management.

We joined Bigsis in August 2017. The database is able to meet most of our needs!

There is so much that BigSIS can do I feel that we are just at the beginning!

BigSIS customer service is unmatched

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave this kind review, Sarah! We are so glad you felt thoroughly supported during your transition to BigSIS and look forward to working with you further!

BigSIS has been used in some of my projects and I've never had any problems with it and it's quite functional and responsive and that's really all I can ask for, it's a guaranteed recommendation from me.

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Thank you for the review Jo?o! We really appreciate it. 

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