Sycamore School Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives

Ease of use. Customer support. Frequent updates/upgrades. Meets all IS needs for our private school.

Graphics, as well as look & feel could use an update. Wish this product would integrate with our online curriculum.

It has many features and lots of options giving it great customization.

It can be hard to navigate and find what you need.

Thank you Stephen! We are happy to have you as part of our family! We are excited to address your navigation and data search concerns in our new 3.0 interface in the coming months!

I really cannot be positive. It looks like an early 90' s site, where more and more junk accumulated on to it.

Menus are redundant and hard to navigate. Day long classes are restricted to grading all subjects with the same exact categories. The system glitches, does not updated posted grades after, say, dropping a lowest grade. Pass a note is obnoxious and nearly useless as a communication tool. If using the website for attendance, and a student comes in late, you have to go through multiple windows just to mark them present. Integration is a joke. There is no organization for uploaded files that can be navigated, and trying to use it with Google Classroom was a tedious, painful joke. The email feature is way out of date and grossly insecure (one must disable security features in gmail for it to work) I could go on, but it is like death by a thousand paper cuts.

We are so sorry that you feel this way Joshua. We understand sometimes frustrations can come from an interface. Listening to your voice as well as many other happy customers, we have decided to make changes to our interface and ease of access to data in Sycamore 3.0. Part of this new interface is already available going to sycamore.school. We are very excited to be releasing more modules to this interface soon.

Our school was able to implement the Sycamore system without a lot of support. The software is laid out in a way that is intuitive and logical. Most questions that we asked ourselves were easily discovered by our own team. Whenever we had questions that we could not find (rare), the tech support quickly resolved the matter for us. The transition for us was much easier than we thought it could be. The Sycamore software has also been simple for our clients (both students and teachers) to navigate. We used the software as our mail tool during our spring of 2020 change to remote learning. Parents had little trouble navigating around Sycamore to find the instruction and information for remote learning. We never anticipated using it that way, but it did a good job for us.

Sycamore has a few idiosyncracies that one has to get used to. Some listings require the user to go back to the beginning of the list after a choice has been made. Little things that I am sure will be refined over time.

Thank you so much Don! We strive to be here for schools that need their data needs met at a reasonable cost. It's wonderful to see how your school has taken a dive to use our tools to make your transition to remote learning of 2020 more manageable. Thank you for giving a shout out to our wonderful support. They make such a difference for our Sycamore family.

We really value the ease of use with Sycamore and the various needs that the system meets. The Sycamore team is always looking for ways to improve. They also are always looking for creative ways to manage the daily demands of running a school.

Overall we have been very satisfied with Sycamore and their team of developers. There is nothing that we like least about Sycamore.

Thank you so much for your review Kenny. We value your school and your input! We love to help schools out there simplify their system needs.