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"The BEST software for K-12 School Based Elections"
Justin A. - Assistant PrincipalJuly 14, 2020
STARTING PRICE
Not provided by software provider
EASE OF USE
4.8/5
Based on Capterra user reviews
Voting 4 Schools is the number 1 school focused online voting and election tool.Used in more than 500 schools across the nation we support all your elections, surveys, homecoming, prom, senior superlatives and you can even use the software with your staff. unlimited elections, voters and live results makes voting 4 schools the top choice when choosing a trustworthy platform that has been ini business since 2008 and designed by educators.
Provider
Software 4 Schools
Located In
United States
Foundation
2008
Open API
No
Deployment
Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Mobile Apps
iOS, Android
Training
Documentation, Webinars, Videos, Live Online
Support
Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
Education (K-12)
Content Source: Voting 4 Schools
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Voting 4 Schools Reviews
Pros
Especially in today's world (with the pandemic), it's nice to have a trusted platform that will allow me to conduct elections, surveys, etc. with confidence.
Can't say enough about how great this program is for school voting. I am so happy that I decided to try technology to make our elections easier and more secure.
This software is user friendly for the students when they log-in to vote which is the most important feature to me as an advisor. The next most important thing is the ease of set-up.
It is amazing and is very easy to use. I have been telling all of my friends who work at other schools about how life changing it can be for their activities.
Cons
I'm not sure that's a software problem, I always feel uncertain when I have to upload the csv file (are those the correct letter?).
At time difficult for teens to log in. Multiple schools with similar names so students get frustrated during log in.
I wish we had a way to choose two and have them be a pair. This was a problem with our planning more than the problem with the software.
The only problem we had was we used it for senior superlatives.
"The BEST software for K-12 School Based Elections"
Overall: Voting4Schools is an excellent solution for school based elections. There are other options out there, but for the price and feature set, V4S is absolutely number 1.
Pros: Voting4Schools has grown a lot over the years. The best features are that it allows for timed elections (with pre scheduled start and end times) and that you can create voting groups to specify who can vote in a given election. Pre-flight mode is also extremely useful for testing your election to be sure it’s set up as intended.
Cons: There may be a slight learning curve with importing student data, but once you learn how to access your school data in an excel format, and get it loaded into the system, the rest of the process is extremely intuitive.
"Simplified School Voting"
Overall: Voting4Schools has made my job as Student Council advisor so much easier! When I took over the group, voting was done with paper ballots that had to be hand counted. While our student population is not big, the whole process was time-consuming and costly; if a student's name was inadvertently left off a ballot, all the forms had to be recopied and the election re-run, wasting paper and taking away valuable class time. Now, I can simply reset the election and students can vote whether they are in school or not. In addition to the time and cost savings of not running copies, I appreciate the level of security with each student having their own login and only being able to vote once. The only downfall has been cost; many schools in my area run elections through Google Forms because they can do that for free. We have continued to squeeze out the money in our budget for Voting4Schools because of the security and overall ease of use.
Pros: - Convenience of voting wherever and whenever - Available app to simplify student voting - Security (individual logins and single-time voting) - Ability to update students in batches - Ease of entry of student information - Ability to copy previous elections to simplify set-up
Cons: - Cost is a challenge for our small, rural school (we have no financial support from our school; all funds are generated by Student Council fundraising)
Vendor Response
"Voting in digital age"
Overall: I will continue to use this software as long as the price stays within the budget of my school organization. We take votes of up to 2000 students at a time and so far it has been a time saver.
Pros: I like the time savings I have gained compared to when I would hold class elections and count votes by hand. This saves me time and money in the long run.
Cons: There are some limitations to the ballot process and I have had some programming error due to getting our school information into the software. How our system sends the student information doesn’t always load error free.
Vendor Response
"Makes School Elections a Breeze"
Overall: It has freed up a lot of time for us. We have one voting mechanism that ALL elections run through, from club officer elections to teacher of the year voting for the staff. We've used it for everything. The simple fact that I don't have to spend time counting ballots is a time saver. In the first year, I had a couple of instances of needing customer support because something wasn't working just right and I appreciated speaking to a real person in real time and having a quick solution.
Pros: Voting4Schools is incredibly easy to set up from the first log in. From loading in our student and staff population to creating, editing, and running elections, the election process is a breeze. The variety of options for setting up the logistics (dates, times, eligible voters, etc) makes it simple to customize each election for a specific group or time period. I can "set it and walk away."
Cons: My only dislike is the way we port in passwords. Ours have an @ symbol and sometimes start with a zero. The import mechanism doesn't like either of those. I do spend some time at the beginning of the year editing our file to avoid that, but it also means having to train our kids that THIS is the only thing we use at school with a completely different password.
Vendor Response
"Makes my life sooo much easier"
Pros: I use this software to hold elections and votes on issues in my extremely large (5000+) suburban high school. Voting4schools provides me with a robust platform that allows me to tailor the vote to picking single candidates (Senior Class President), picking blocks of candidates (homecoming court), ranking of candidates (prom themes). It is simple to use, I have complete vote security, and it even provides me tools to investigate allegations of voter fraud. Because I can set it for a dedicated start/stop time, it frees me to do the 1000 other responsibilities I have to attend to without worrying about compromising the voting process. The price is very affordable, and when I have needed customer support, I've had excellent response. It is one of the few things in teacher's world that works as advertised.
Cons: It is a bit of complicated process to load my voting populations, requiring excel spreadsheets and the use of de-limiting. Building by user IDs takes a bit of math. That is really a function of the steps we use to ensure voter security, but it would be helpful to make building voting population more "cut and paste"
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