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Populi is web-based college management software for small colleges with anywhere from 10 to 2500 students.
Education, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, government, higher education, and K-12.
Also, Populi's customer service is very impressive - very responsive and professional. They understand very well and resolve your issue very effectively.
Even though, I had some trouble with pulling data previously with customer support we had overcome most of the obstacles.
The cost of Populi is also a great asset because we are a small online non profit institution and having a reasonably priced product really helps us with our small budget.
It does not support competency based learning, and the features in the mobile app are very limited.
Very satisfied and have experienced a great deal of positive and helpful customer support. Really, no walks through a string of phones tree choices to get to someone who can help.
So I had to enter age, gender, address, email etc manually for the each student in the system to be able to have an accurate data. No help offered for an error caused by their own management system.
I think populi did a great job making their interface super easy to access and basic. It was easy to distinguish where the main pages were located.
Once your grade book has been set up, I find that making adjustments at times to be difficult.
This is a very powerful software that allows educators to communicate with students very well. The ability to customize and create is awesome.
The text box that students use on Blackboard is terrible. The autocorrect of the text box is unable to recognize a lot of words and claims that it is not a real word and gives a red line underneath.
My favorite feature of this software is the ease of use. Not only is the software user friendly, but it is also reliable and allows me to do all my course work from reading to homework in one place.
What I don't like about Blackboard Collaborate is when it would crash and it happens a lot so it makes it frustrating to use this program. They got some bugs to work out.
The capacity to welcome outside visitors (like guests) makes this device a significant asset in furnishing understudies with introduction to an assortment of speakers and points.
We found out that the context varible neded to be setup to avoid this problem.
The overall quality, ease of use, features & functionality of blackboard make it a great software for college students and college campuses to invest in.
I teach at a community college and recently switched to Collaborate for my class. I teach adults who are able to handle most technical issues, but collaborate has been very frustrating to deal with.
Chris: Hi, I'm Chris. I'm an Assistant Director of Marketing. My rating for Blackboard Collaborate would be four out of five stars, and for more reviews like this, please click below. For Blackboard Collaborate, we use it on a daily basis to help communicate with students that are taking classes in virtual format. What I like most about Blackboard Collaborate is it integrates directly into the LMS system, or the learning management system. Instead of having to pull over additional links, I'm able to just quickly launch it and be able to put that in place within the classroom environment. One thing I'd like to change about Blackboard Collaborate is it does take a lot of data and a lot of internet and bandwidth to run at any given time, so I've noticed there's a little bit of delay in the audio and the visual aspect. So I wish that was a little bit more cleaned up, as most of these classes are done live and in a virtual environment at the same time.
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