PraxiSchool vs CANVAS: Which is a better fit?

Michael: My name is Michael. I am the CEO of a private school network, and we rate PraxiSchool at a 5. We actually didn't have a product before PraxiSchool. We just opened this year, and so we were seeking out a student information system. We looked at several different models, and Praxi was an all-in one school option for us that allowed us to have income generating, contact tracing, and all of the other student information system pieces that we needed to be able to report to state. And so they were the option that we chose to go with. We chose PraxiSchool because the cost was in the range that we were looking for. It was actually a lot cheaper than what we expected, and it had an all in one platform that also allowed us to have document storage. We did not want to be a school that had documents on hand. So what we did when parents would bring us documentation is that we would scan it immediately and hand it back to the parent and PraxiSchool allowed us that option. It also had all of the things that we were looking for, like the communication tools for tracking attendance, and just the ways in which it made it very easy to communicate with our families. So, Praxi was the all in one that we were seeking. And like I said, the price was great. The startup for Praxi was very easy. We were assigned a startup team who met with us and our team and really walked us through, had several virtual trainings that we attended that were one-on-one trainings. They were really directed to us and for us. They had collected a lot of information about our school at the beginning, and so they built everything around our needs. And so the training was great. And then their resource department, as we implemented PraxiSchool for the first time, you're going to run into difficulties and they were great and fast in their response. Always wonderful to get online one-on-one with you and solve the problem. So, my advice for anybody thinking about PraxiSchool is don't take too long to think about it. It really is an all-in-one platform that's great, cost-effective, and delivers on all of the pieces that a school is looking for. I would just recommend that as you're diving in, get as many people involved, including the teachers, in the implementation and the beginning training and all. It's just great to have them very knowledgeable from the beginning, but again, even if they're not, it's a very user-friendly platform that makes sense to anybody. And so, just don't hesitate. Go for it.

Jose : My name is Jose. I'm an inside sales transferring to outside salesman at an industrial distributor company for all types of industrial parts, mainly conveyor parts for the agriculture industry. And I would rate Canvas a five out of five. So the other software or company I've used before is Blackboard. I used it for when I was at Cal State University. And the reason why we... Actually, [inaudible 00:00:28] we were only using that company for I think for one semester, and then it was always down. It always had technical issues, people [inaudible 00:00:36]. It was hard to onboard students, and that's basically why the university basically decided to ditch Blackboard and start using Canvas. And they've been using it. That's when I was a freshman. I'm already graduated, so they only use it for about one semester and they've been on Canvas for the past five years. I like Canvas because it's really easy the way it's laid out, whether you have your different courses, and then you get the link to your different courses and it shows you basically all the homework that's due or all the assignments that you still need to do. And I really like how everything's in one spot, so you literally just hit your class and then it shows you your grades, your assignments that you still have to do. And then what I really like about it is the fact that you're able to view old assignments. So it basically saves it onto its database. So if you ever want to look at an old assignment, you could just hit that assignment and then hit what you submitted so you could always see what you submitted. And instead of most companies where you submit something, and that's it. It's just like, "Thank you," and you can never really go back to what you submitted. So that's probably the biggest thing that I really like about Canvas. I think it's pretty easy to start using Canvas because like I said, everything's there, so it's not like you have to go looking for anything. It's all laid out. You hit the class link. Well, most [inaudible 00:02:01] professors will send you a link. You use the link and then it automatically signs you up to their course. You don't have to have a sign-up a code or anything like that. You can just hit the link, you're in the class, you've hit your class, and then everything is laid out to my grades, my assignments, to the [inaudible 00:02:21] that shows you what's going to be due within the next... Basically the whole semester, you just hit the week that you're in and it shows you is due that week. And then if you want to see what's going to be doing three weeks, or you can also check that. So I think it's really easy. One recommendation I would have for anybody that's going to be using Canvas is always double check your work because sometimes you might've forgot to attach a link or something and it'll still let you submit an assignment. So you always want to check that you actually submitted something because I know a few students who something would happen with their computer. I know it wasn't Canvas because it never happened to me, but they would submit an assignment and they would find out that they never attached the PDF or the link, so then there would... It still lets you submit an assignment, but you wouldn't have anything there. And I would just say double check your work because the one thing I really like about Canvas, too, is you can always go back and resubmit. So you can always resubmit an assignment. So you're not stuck where it's like most companies, you submit something, and then that's it. There's no... Can't even view what you submitted and you can't resubmit. So Canvas, really like that about Canvas where it's like you messed up, but you still have time where your assignment's due, you can still submit something else. That's what I really like about it.