Sibme Reviews

Sibme is an easy to use platform that helps teachers and administrators work together to reflect on lessons and improve practice. I love that teachers and admin are able to upload videos and that you can create collaboration groups and a video library of best practices aligned to whatever teacher effectiveness framework you use.

The usage reports on the admin end can be a little misleading as there is no catch for videos that are uploaded multiple times, so sometimes at first glance it may look like usage is high when in fact it was one video counted 2 or 3 times. That being said, it is pretty easy to go in and run a report to see where there are repeats.

The ease of use is our top reason to love Sibme. We appreciate all the features that coaches can access like rubrics, goal setting, time-stamped comments on video and more! This has been one of our best purchases for coaching ever. It is also ideal in the time of COVID- allowing coaches and teachers the ability to share what is happening in their classrooms and still get feedback on their instructional practices even when we are unable to be physically in the classroom.

No concerns at this time. We have found that all the features we would want are already part of the package.

Sibme allows me to tag exact moments in a video to provide teacher and leader feedback. It is easy to upload from whether I access it directly through the platform or from a camera on my computer or phone. The tabs help with keep our video types sorted for ease of access.

When recording and uploading mobile it takes a little while for the upload to complete.

It is easy to put all things in one place.

Until recently we could not screen capture and this made it very difficult to put items in that we needed to coach and view. Also, the tab to write tasks on does not order them correctly. Each time you go in you have to reorder them. That is a time waster.

As a teacher, I am pulled in so many directions. It is hard to see everything that is going on. By looking at my lessons, I can see what students are doing. I can notice who may be struggling, who is on the ball, and what may be distracting students. I can also notice things I do or don't do so that I can improve myself for future lessons.

Sometimes it has trouble loading and I have to wait or miss a recording of a lesson.

Super fast at uploading (faster than uploading to Drive for example) - makes it easy to quickly create an archive of watchable videos

I wish this program could be integrated more with Google versus being completely in-house. It would be easier if we could also sync it and link it without someone needing an account as a lot of the issues are a result of login issues.

Sibme has made it easy to record, review, reflect, tag, and collaborate on videos of classroom instruction. The app makes uploading, sharing, and getting feedback on videos quick and easy while being FERPA compliant. The customer support and service has been amazing with questions being addressed within minutes. Additionally, the support team takes suggestions and ideas from customers to the development team for improvements to their product.

Sibme has an option to connect other resources into huddles and goals - but the process is not super user-friendly for connecting resources held within Google apps. They have made some changes to increase ease of use, so hoping more changes in this area are coming.

Sibme is very easy to use, take a video and upload. The features are well suited for the educational setting. The ability to tag comments directly on the video makes it very easy to locate specific examples for glows, grows, and questions. It has been especially beneficial to have the Sibme program while we are teaching remotely, full time. It enables teachers to take a video of their Zoom lesson, upload it into the program and share it with me for feedback.

None! It's easy to use and you can get started right away.

I like being able to observe my student teaching in their classrooms or online. I like that I can rewind and review plus comment on the teaching I am observing.

I would like to be able to type my comments while the video is running.

When supervisors were restricted from visiting schools due to COVID concerns we needed software that we could use for remote supervision. We had very little time for training and to shift from face to face supervision to remote. SIBME's 101 training was easy to use, the customer service support is amazing, and overall the product does exactly what we needed.

I wish we had started using this sooner.

For the price, I feel that the tool has the major elements I am looking for. It has the flexibility to assess students both on an individual and a group basis. The video commenting/tagging feature is exactly what we were looking for.

Hoping for SSO to MS Office and an improved integration with Canvas, right now, it's just a pass through.

The ability for educators to upload classroom video to receive time stamped feedback. The asynchronous abilities in this platform are tremendous.

Uploading documents in the discussion section is not as easy to use. Dropbox, Google Drive, and other platform synchronization still have links to be worked out.

I most like the video recording and annotating ability.

I least like the difficulty logging in sometimes. It may take up to 5 attempts.

The ease of use and the flexibility allowing it to be used for multiple purposes

I did not find anything that was difficult or needed improvement

Sibme is very user-friendly. Anybody can learn how to get started in about 30 minutes. It is a powerful tool for teachers to use to analyze videos and have discussions with a coach to improve their teaching. I think for advanced teachers it is a great process.

I wish the software provided some videos of good teaching. We of course are uploading our own, but it would be nice to have a generic good library to start with that show best practices in teaching.

Our admin team was introduced to Sibme at a summer conference, and we thought it would be a great software for our teachers to collaborate and share ideas virtually. They've used it to demonstrate strategies from book studies, and in the place of "Learning Walks" because class coverage can be difficult. It's even more valuable now during the pandemic! Sibme has been a great tool for teachers to invite others into their classrooms and "show" rather than tell.

There are some pieces of the software that could be more user friendly. The mobile app doesn't have the same capabilities as the website. Always looking for ways to make the process easier on teachers.

Sibme was easy to set up and run with. Teachers have been able to submit a video with just a couple of clicks.

Setting up custom indicators has been a struggle. The buttons are not standard and hard to understand.

Love the ability to be able to roster on my own. The user interface is super easy. The app is easy to use and also easy to explain to others.

Before we had the ability to roster for ourselves this was very cumbersome going through many people and processes

I like the ability to review my lesson and see what is going on around my classroom when I am not able to see everything that goes on. Such as engagement. I may think that students are engaged or not engaged but their body language tells me otherwise. Then, when reviewing the video I can actually take time to notice how different learners are engaged and processing information differently. I also like the ability to pause and make notes in the videos for self reflection.

I have not had any problems or dislikes with the software.

I love that this software is extremely user-friendly. Uploading videos and sharing across huddles is an easy process. Both coachees and coaches can add comments to videos, tag performance levels, and view comments from multiple users in a logical way.

The rubric framework tool is very clunky and hard to create. Impossible to edit later if you want to update or change the performance levels.

It's great to be able to have a visual when coaching new teachers. Teachers are able to see exactly what I am referring to in my feedback.

The platform is very busy. As the district admin sometimes it's hard to find something specific.

I love the training we received to deploy Sibme initially. I also like the reports we receive on a regular basis.

We have had a bit of trouble with huddles; I receive the highest number of "issues" from faculty regarding huddles.

I really like the ease of reviewing and annotating videos - my comments are tagged to the section of the video, so the teacher participant can easily review the section I was highlighting to understand my comments. We can reply to each other's comments as well. Other documents such as lesson plans can be attached.

I wish that I was able to make comments directly on attached documents - it would be helpful to be able to give feedback on the lesson plan directly in SIBME rather than having to make notes in an email to the teacher.

The ease to transition to virtual professional development

The software does take time to effectively review it in order to apply it.

The interface was relatively accessible and the quality of the videos was good. I was able to see what I needed to see.

It felt like there were many steps to get to what I wanted when I wanted it.