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Thousands of K-12 schools and districts across 54 countries and 45 states are using Alma's groundbreaking student information system to transform their learning communities. Are you next?
Frontline Education serves the K-12 education community with solutions built specifically to meet their unique needs.
They are absolutely fantastic. Quick, reliable, professional, and very proficient at what they do.
The descriptions are confusing. The filtering is confusing or doesn't work right.
I loved that our district made a deal to get a group purchase for ALMA so it made the price just perfect for us. ALMA looks beautiful and is an excellent tool.
You can pay extra to have them developed/added, but there is no way to do that yourself.
Teachers have more at their finger tips for flexibility with report cards and that makes all of us so happy...actually its terrific to see them so pleased.
There are a bunch of interface elements like this that make interactions awkward or repetitive, which induces frustration and boredom, which leads to errors. It feels like evaluations are 90° off.
The best thing abour Alma is its ease of use. In addition, it has one of the most professional and responsive customer support departments I have ever encountered in any product or industry.
When you have been with company for years is it hard to make a switch.
It is very thourough and visually appealing. The log in screen works perfect and I appreciate the reminder that my username is my phone number.
What I dislike is that their are 2 platforms that make it confusing to our subs who are either are on the new or old platform.
What I like most about this software is that it is super easy to use and to view. It is very straight to the point and you are able to move quickly through the software pretty easily.
This can be a problem on optional workday snow days, when staff get sick and have to leave early, etc. When this happens, myself or admin has to enter the absence for them.
Their employees are super helpful and very friendly in which I greatly appreciate.
Too many ways to do the same thing and one or the other may not always work, program is very glitchy with a lot of errors which has put the office in a position of not being able to do work.
I really love this feature, because it helps the day go more smoothly and really sets the sub up for success.
This product is too expensive for small school districts. It really puts us at a disadvantage for finding teachers because so many people do use it.
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.
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