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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?
Seesaw is a cloud-based student information system designed for school districts and individual teachers.
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 makes a wonderful platform to communicate with our school administration. I love the layout and the ability to see the completed activities from my kiddo.
Fearful the kids were falling behind and we were doing school work from the time we woke up til the time we went to bed & still didn't have everything completed & turned in.
I love the ability to communicate with families in real time and share all the wonderful things happening in my classroom.
Each of the kids had multiple sites, apps, etc where they had different passwords, assignments, and assigned time. It was impossible to keep up, I was always missing information and assignments.
I loved how easy it was for students to access Seesaw on their own, especially during remote learning. It’s also a great way to keep families in the loop because of the messaging system.
Lack of direct communication features ie, messaging or email between parents and staff all In one centralized place.
Each day teacher used to send her pictures, what they did and all the announcements. It was great and very useful.
There’s no search option either. The only option is to scroll and look for the tasks and rely on memory on what the teacher uploaded.
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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