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SchoolBrains product overview
What is SchoolBrains?
SchoolBrains is a student information system that allows schools to maintain student data through a web based portal. It is an integrated solution for all key members of a school including students, teachers, faculty, and parents. The solution manages entire student life cycle, from lead generation to placement. The software is suited for the needs of small and medium sized institutes across the US.
Key benefits of using SchoolBrains
• The role based security options ensures that administrator have clear control over various roles and operations for different user base including students, staff, faculty and alumni.
• SchoolBrains automates and facilitates the academic planning by connecting development, production, analysis, storage and printing of education plans.
• Student portal gives a snapshot of historic performance in the district that includes enrollment, demographic and scores, all in one location.
• The solution allows teachers to measure and track the student performance and publish grades to report cards in a few steps.
• The in-built nursing and health module allows health professionals to manage all aspects of student and staff health needs. Nurses have complete access to patient’s history 24/7.
• The solution is highly customizable and can be personalized by adding/removing features or options, setting labels and managing drop down list values.
• Institutes can manage funds and scholarships and attach funds to a specific student or group of students and track how funds are being used.
• Single sign-on alert message system offers multi-channel messaging option through emails, voice and text messages.
• In-built finance module helps to manage billing, inventory, purchasing, point of sale and profitability reporting.
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- Likelihood to recommend7.88/10
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Francis S.
Primary/Secondary Education, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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If you need help, ask. They will help. Any new software can be challenging to use at first. That's probably where neg reviews start. We've been with them for more than three years and have not had issues that weren't quickly resolved. I went from a district with 900 students to one with more than 10,000 students and both use Schoolbrains. They provide new technology upgrades free of charge, too. Initial presentation was transparent and honest; what was promised, was delivered. I'm also a parent of a student in my district and can speak positively from that perspective as well. Please call if you have questions.
We vetted this product for almost two years and found that the districts were happiest with SchoolBrains. Their support is the best in the business. Twenty years as teacher, dept head and principal and I'm not sure where negative feedback originates. We had surveys for admin staff, teachers, parents, and administrators and all believe support and ease of use has been great. Implementation was a lot smoother than previous. Very communicative and helpful during the transition process. Total cost of ownership is much lower when you figure how much our other service was charging us for support and reports. SchoolBrains has custom reports, solid state reporting that saved us a lot of time. Functionality, service, price...all A+.
My business manager wishes they would offer a financial/ budget/ payroll module. Although it has a bus route piece, our transportation head hoped for a geo mapping module, too.
Thomas L.
Primary/Secondary Education, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
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The three presentations were excellent. They covered everything we needed and we were well prepared with questions and he showed how the system functions, not just the benefits. If you've never been through a data systems change, you'll be surprised how much there is to it. My staff and I changed four years ago and we knew basically what to expect. It went smoother than we thought with SchoolBrains and the implementation team was accommodating and helpful. They also had an option to do more of the heavy lifting on their end. If you do not know what you're doing, spend the extra money it will be worth it. Fortunately, we have a capable staff and they had no issues. After training teachers embraced the ease of use and that intuitive behavior was critical for the union.
A system as presented. Fast access to the data we need. Easy report creation. Meets state reporting requisites that other systems have a hard time providing. Teachers and administrators said it was intuitive. Implementation was easier than previous. Critical support was responsive. Access to vice president with one call.
Support was decent but not great. Noncritical support by way of general questions or functionality was not good and at times we needed to follow up more than twice to receive answers. They manage full control of their data. It would be easier for districts, certainly ours, if we were able to create or modify certain Nontraditional or customized reports instead of calling support. Needs better integration options to third party systems.
Julie K.
Education Management, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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The ability to have so much information at my digital fingertips is very helpful. Everything from students' IEPs to parent emails to past report cards along with addresses is all in one place.
SchoolBrains is NOT user-friendly. There are so many things that SchoolBrains should be able to do easily but that is not the case. I constantly have things showing up double on report cards with no easy solution to fix. But my absolut least favorite feature in SchoolBrains is the fact that on the daily attendance there is a mark next to students who are on 504, IEPs, or ELL students. Given privacy issues, this makes it so students can not see or complete the attendance themselves.
Willis V.
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schoolBrains saves my district money, saves my teachers and staff time and completely unifies all of our data so we have one place to quickly and easily see all critical student information. Very responsive support team. As a thirty-year educator, my teachers union, superintendent and schoolboard highly endorse schoolBrains.
Our entire management team bought in to using the system after review of four well-know larger national brands. SchoolBrains saved us money up front and continues to be a smart long-term investment for our district. Teachers learned it quickly, the software is robust and the benefits are enormous... it is totally configurable and completely unifies all of our district data so all student information can be viewed quickly. When we need help, the service has been the best I've ever exeperinced from a vendor in thirty years in education.
I wish more people knew about schoolBrains. It was at first difficult to get all parties together to agree to have them present but once it happened, we became instant fans.
Justin H.
501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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As a teacher i love that i can easily manage my grades and assignments. The ability to communicate as well with my parents is a wonderful value-added. I also appreciate the cloud-based nature, knowing that my information is safe from a computer crash.
Compared to other products i've used (including learning management systems), the gradebook took a bit too long to set up with assignments and grades. In this respect, the product falls short of the spreadsheet i was using before.
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