Corsizio vs Alma SIS: Which is a better fit?

Speaker 1: Hi, my name is Woody. I am the CEO of Dive Talk, the largest YouTube scuba channel in the world. I would give Corsizio an absolute five. So I was in the need to find a software that would allow us to register participants around the world with our various online scuba classes. I went online, I did a bunch of searches, I did a few demos. I don't remember the other ones, but Corsizio by far was the easiest to use in setup, customer service was great, and I loved the pricing that it was allowing us to do it on a per-student basis and not lock into a certain minimum amount. So ultimately, I chose Corsizio because I'm not super technical, and when I went in, it was so easy to set up the online class, and then it had enormous features. My partner, who is very technical, was saying how complicated this would be. We're never going to be able to get this done. Then I showed him this, and now he's all in on Corsizio as well, and using it for not just a class, but we're doing a big event that we're having as well. So, basically, the ease of use ultimately, which then went further and locked us in even further by seeing all the features that it also has as well. Getting started with them is very easy. You can do it without even going through a tutorial or having a demo. It's super self-explanatory. You do not need to know any programming whatsoever. There's dropdown fields for everything. Very easy. If I can do it, believe me, anybody can do it. My recommendation would be to go ahead and get Corsizio and try it, because you're not locked in. They don't have any long-term contracts, and they give you the ability to have, from what I remember, I think it's up to 50 registrations for free. So why not try it? Give it a try, set up a class, have your participants register through it, and after you do that, I'm pretty sure you're going to not want to use any other software for this purpose.

Tom J.: My name is Tom. I am the elementary principal at Kingsway Christian Schools, and we use Alma SIS, and I would rate it a 4 out of 5. Prior to using Alma, we were using Blackboard in our elementary school. For us, Blackboard was a bit clunky and it was difficult to navigate and didn't really make communication smooth when we're trying to communicate between school and our community. We chose Alma because it was user-friendly, it was really easy for our teachers to learn how to use it, how to communicate with families, everything's been organized really well, and their customer service has been very helpful. We decided to bring Alma in a whole year early so we could get used to the functionality, make sure we were really confident before we rolled it out across our campus. That was really seamless. We always had good communications with implementation specialists, and the rollout went really well. I would just recommend that you do your homework, you look at what's out there. For us as an elementary school, the ease of use and being able to communicate really seamlessly is really what we needed and it met our needs. It could be different depending on your school community as well.