# Edficiency Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is Edficiency the right Scheduling solution for you? Explore 45 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/203925/Edficiency/reviews --- Edficiency 4.9 (45) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of Edficiency Ease of use 4.8 Customer Service 5.0 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews KF Kristy F APEducation Management, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “The best strength is the excellent customer service - we scheduled many meetings prior to our official launch and get immediate support with any questions we have as we are learning the system and trying new things.“ October 8, 2021 JM Josh M HLL/BARR Program CoordinatorEducation Management, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “For example, when students make a selection and schedule their sessions, switching between the days of the week and finding the right teacher makes for a "clunky" experience.“ October 8, 2021 BN Bonnie N Teacher/MTSS CoordinatorEducation Management, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “It is very easy to use, tracks all of the data we need, and is flexible for many different situations that could occur on our campus.“ October 25, 2021 TM Thomas M TeacherEducation Management, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “The learning curve can be steep if your students/teachers aren't familiar with an "Intervention/Extension" period. “ October 26, 2021 LH Laura H Media SpecialistPrimary/Secondary Education, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “On the administrator side, it has been user friendly and any questions that we have had, have been answered and attended to in a VERY timely manner. “ October 7, 2021 TD Talisa D Associate principal Education Management, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “It’s difficult for some students with iep/unique learning needs that need consistency to use this product.“ October 26, 2021 MS Mike S PrincipalEducation Management, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “The response from customer service has been quick and effective every time.“ October 8, 2021 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 45 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use DM Dan M. Teacher Primary/Secondary Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Edficiency review" April 28, 2021 5.0 The customer service given by Edficiency is excellent. Whenever there have been issues there is someone available to email, call, or video call. I have been very pleased with their responses and their response time. Pros This system made it possible for our school to offer a flex period within the school day. Students and teachers are both able to request each other on different days to get/give the assistance that is needed. It is very easy to set up classes, templates, and groups of students for sessions. There are options for having virtual and in-person students at the same time. The system notifies students of their class assignments each day via school email. Students are able to place an order of their teachers for when they are randomly assigned to sessions. Teachers are able to request students in advance and the program is designed to not allow a teacher to monopolize a student's sessions. This is both a positive and a negative. A positive so that staff cannot also "dibs" a student however it is a negative when only one teacher wants to request a student. In this event, teachers need to make a request each day for the next day. The administrative side of the program is very easy to use and navigate. I am able to teach staff how to use the program in about 10 minutes. I can access reports that tell me student sessions requests, attendance and group memberships. I can also determine if a teacher has taken attendance, created groups, and how they are making sessions, e.g. they are limiting enrollment, requiring requests to be in the session, and open seats. Cons A number of teachers have mentioned that they would like the ability to request a student for multiple days in a row, however it can be a problem if a teacher is able to monopolize a student's flex time. There are work arounds, teachers can create a group that automatically places the student in their section or they can request a student each day for the next day. As an administrator I would like the ability to select multiple sections at one time when having to delete multiple sections - currently I can only select either one section or delete all sessions. While I would not use this feature often, it would be nice to have. I would also like the ability to insert default information for staff for the ease of creating certain sessions. Review Source Response from Edficiency October 25, 2021 Thanks, Dan, for the feedback! We're glad you're having a good experience overall and feel like the system makes things easy for you. We also appreciate the additional feature requests, as always, and we'll see what we can do about them. We'll let you know when we have some updates on that front. Thanks again for allowing us to support your flex periods! AB Amber B. Office Manager Primary/Secondary Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Edficiency at Brookfield Central" October 15, 2021 5.0 We were hoping to introduce more flexibility into the school day, where kids could meet with each other or teachers, and we could get things done during the school hours as opposed to before/after school. Pros The product is easy to use and has been very impactful as we now have a scheduled block of time where clubs can meet, teachers can request kids for make-up time or help, students can request teachers for things like AP Help Sessions, coaches can meet with students for special communication. Edficiency has introduced a very flexible school day- as all of the above used to have to be done before or after school. Cons I would love to be able to delete sessions easier. To be able to delete by day, by grouping would be handy. Reason for choosing Edficiency Unknown. Review Source Response from Edficiency October 19, 2021 Thanks for sharing, Amber! We're really glad to hear that you are able to get more done with students during the school day and minimize the need teachers and students to stay before- and after-school. And thanks for the suggestion of more easily being able to delete sessions - we try to make it hard to accidentally delete something, but we'll consider your suggestion as we continue to roll out new features. Thanks again! RP Ryan P. Science Teacher Primary/Secondary Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Simplicity" October 8, 2021 4.0 We have been with efficiency since the beginning. It has always delivered. Any struggles or issues that we have encountered along the way have always been as a result of our users and not the software. Pros It removes excuses from both students and their teachers for not being able to meet. There is no reason why a student should not be able to meet with me promptly when they struggle. There's also no reason why I, as a teacher, should not be able to spend extra time with students who I know need extra attention. Cons Most of my sessions are set up in the same exact way. I wish there was a way for me to easily clone a setup and apply it over a range of days rather than having to set up each day's session individually. Review Source Response from Edficiency October 11, 2021 Thanks, Ryan! We appreciate the feedback! If you ever have anything else to share, don't hesitate to reach out, whether about duplicating sessions or anything else! PS Peggy S. MTSS Facilitator Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Edficiency is a Game Changer" October 8, 2021 5.0 Overall, we are very pleased with the Edficiency program and would highly recommend it for schools looking for a way to manage logistics in order to provide student support and session management. After initial startup, the program runs effortlessly behind the scenes and we have to do very little to manage it on a day-to-day basis. Pros For our campus of over 2,000 students, Edficiency provides a seamless and labor-free means of ensuring that each student has a place to go during our advisory period that will provide the student with the targeted support he/she needs. It individualizes each student's experience, so that students get the help and attention they need and gives students some choice. Clubs and organizations benefit from the program as well, as they can ensure that interested students have an opportunity to attend club meetings. Cons We would love to see Edficiency in an app form, so that students could get more timely notifications and more easily access their daily assignment (currently assignments are provided via email). Review Source Response from Edficiency October 11, 2021 Thanks, Peggy! We strive to be as seamless and efficient as possible, and are glad to hear you've found that to be true in your school. We will keep the creation of a student-facing app in mind as we continue to build out features for the software. CC Carole C. Administrative Assistant - Building Secretary Primary/Secondary Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Edficiency - Flex Time Software to Enrich Your Learning Environment" October 7, 2021 5.0 We solved the building disruptions when groups or classes were called out of learning time for meetings or distribution of information to certain students. With Edficiency, those things happen during our Flex Period without interruption. Staff can connect with students who need the intervention time with ease. I can not imaging our district going back to 'pre-Edficiency'. Pros Edficiency turned our disruptive Activity Days into days with a time set aside for intervention and enrichment. Our daily schedule now includes a Flex Time used for class meetings, extra study time for those who need or want it and Enrichment groups. Students can request time with selected teachers, or staff can request a student who may need the extra help. Easy to use, once set, it runs itself with little intervention. Cons One adjustment that could be made is once a single session is created, it is hard to edit without deleting and recreating some portions of it. Review Source Response from Edficiency October 12, 2021 Thanks so much for the feedback, Carole! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you ever have anything else we should consider in supporting you all with your flexible scheduling needs. CL Cody L. High School Principal Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Edficiency Will Help You Support All Students" October 7, 2021 5.0 This product will change your culture and provide you the time, space and instruction to move your building forward. I have used other programs similar to this and this is far better than any program out there to help schedule your flexible time. Pros One of the most useful pieces of this program is allowing for students to rank teachers and for teachers to create front rows for students. In other programs similar to this, unless students specifically sign-up, they are left wandering the building with nowhere to be. Edficiency will take the student rankings and the teachers needs and schedule every single student to a space. This is not only important for academics but for safety. Cons There are times in which students will be placed with teachers they don't have. This is from a user error and rosters not being loaded. There is a lot of front end work that is needed to be done by teachers in order for this to run well. With all of the demands our teachers have this can be a challenge. Reason for choosing Edficiency We wanted a product that all students were placed but also helped to provide those students with some choice. Review Source Response from Edficiency October 12, 2021 Thanks, Cody, for sharing! We're really happy to hear Edficiency has had a positive impact on your culture, providing student choice, and facilitating academic support, ensuring safety in the process. We appreciate your feedback on the process of matching teachers and students that know each other in the system, so if you'd like to revisit the auto-sync option with your SIS to eliminate the need for teachers to play a role with this, please don't hesitate to let us know! JT Jens T. Technology Director Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "A critical tool for implementing a truly Flexible Flex hour." October 27, 2021 5.0 Pros Our students love being able to choose where they would like to go for their session. Our teachers have liked being able to facilitate dynamic classes without the overhead of needing to track where students are going. Previously this involved us calling the other teacher to let them know a student was coming to their room, or trying to use a Google Spreadsheet to track it. Edficiency allows us to cut out most of the time-involved logistics and handles the attendance tracking and scheduling of flex for us. Cons The most difficult piece of Edficiency is training teachers on the concept, and especially administrators (or whoever will be creating the majority of the sessions available to put students in). There's a lot of intricacies to be aware of, such as what happens when a student has two "requests" (one from a teacher vs one from the student) and what happens when that student's schedule is created. It's not challenging, but it is something that administrators will need to read through the instruction manual, and have a firm grasp of how the scheduler works before you integrate it. Review Source Response from Edficiency November 1, 2021 Thanks so much for sharing, Jens! We're glad you've had a great experience overall and are always happy to chat about any of the nuanced ways the system works for you (or present to any of your admin team) if that'd ever be helpful. Don't hesitate to reach out if you need anything. Thanks again! BN Bonnie N. Teacher/MTSS Coordinator Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Edficiency - An efficient and effective tool to manage school RtI needs" October 25, 2021 5.0 I am very satisfied with my overall experience with Edficiency. It is a great technical tool to take our RtI program to the next level in providing academic and social emotional learning support. Pros There isn't much that I do not like about Edficiency. It is very easy to use, tracks all of the data we need, and is flexible for many different situations that could occur on our campus. I especially appreciate how management and data is within the control of someone on-site - I can add and activate users myself, I can log in as a student and view it from their end, I can manage settings for other staff members, and print out rosters for substitutes. Multiple people have access to the info on Edficiency, so it also provides a tool for closer collaboration between our staff. Cons As with any system, it took us a little while to train staff and students on how to use it. The learning curve was (and can still be) steep even in our 3rd year of using the system for some users. I'm also confused by how our Aeries system doesn't automatically connect and update with Edficiency at the start of each school year - but I do not think that is an issue on Edficiency's end. Reason for choosing Edficiency Edficiency had a cleaner, simpler to use, user interface. We were also able to customize some parts of the overall look so that students can recognize our school logo and colors when they used it. Review Source Response from Edficiency October 28, 2021 We appreciate your feedback, Bonnie, and are glad to hear you've been happy with your switch to using Edficiency! We do believe that the automatic switch of the synced data from Aeries is a result of settings on Aeries' end, but please don't hesitate to reach out if you want to explore that with us in more detail to see if anything else can be done. Thanks again! CH Chuck H. Principal Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "EdFiciency Review" October 7, 2021 5.0 I have nothing but praise for EdFiciency. Pros Easy to use. \[SENSITIVE CONTENT\] and the rest of the people at EdFiciency are great to work with. This product is everything I could have wanted in order to make our WIN Time successful. Cons Due to rostering of students with selected teachers, it’s be nice to just add a student into a spreadsheet within the program so they are assigned to the correct teacher(s). Right now I have to upload the spreadsheet each time (unless I’m missing something). Reason for choosing Edficiency — Review Source Response from Edficiency October 12, 2021 Thanks so much for the feedback, Chuck! We do offer an auto-sync option to automatically connect students and teachers based on their schedules in your SIS if you'd like to explore that. Or, we do have another option on the student profiles to update this information if that's easier when it's not needed for the entire school at once. Please don't hesitate to reach out if you'd like to discuss those in more detail! TD Talisa D. Associate principal Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best Scheduling System" October 26, 2021 5.0 Pros The ability for teachers to make their own sessions and to have the sessions features for teachers that do not create their own sessions is incredibly helpful. In addition, when teachers can input request and also mark students “at risk” allows students that will create more of an opportunity for students to be placed with teachers that they need more support from. Cons It’s difficult for some students with iep/unique learning needs that need consistency to use this product. It would be helpful to have a feature that allows specific scheduling that is consistent. Review Source Response from Edficiency October 29, 2021 Thanks so much for the feedback, Talisa! We're really happy to hear that overall things are going great and our software is helping your students get more of what they need. We do have some different strategies to help provide more consistency for students that need it, and we'd be happy to discuss with you - just reach out when you're ready to discuss them in more detail and we'll make sure to find the best option for you all. JW Jason W. Principal Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great for education" October 11, 2021 5.0 Pros We are able to daily create opportunities for students to work with teachers when they are absent, when they need extra help, or give the students an opportunity to meet with clubs and activities. Cons It does not sync with our Student Information System. Therefore we have to use 2 separate platforms to take attendance. Review Source Response from Edficiency October 13, 2021 Thanks, Jason! We are always happy to hear about ways schools can better support their students when using our software. If you'd like to discuss the options for getting attendance into your SIS, including a syncing option, please let us know and we'd be happy to work with you to find the best option. KF Kristy F. AP Education Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great potential" October 8, 2021 4.0 Pros We are using this software to best match teachers with the students who need their support. The teacher/student user interface is straightforward and easy to learn. At the admin level, we are able to easily see where students are placed each day and make any necessary adjustments. The best strength is the excellent customer service - we scheduled many meetings prior to our official launch and get immediate support with any questions we have as we are learning the system and trying new things. Cons We are still learning some of the nuances, so it's still too early to say. One feature that has been a sticking point for staff buy-in is that we have asked them to make their requests by midnight of the day prior. While we know we have the capability of making last minute emergency changes, teachers want to be able to more easily see students the day of. Also, we are still trying to understand the best way to manage attendance since Edficiency does not talk with our data system for attendance/grading. Review Source Response from Edficiency October 11, 2021 Thanks for sharing, Kristy! We're really happy to hear that you've found the system easy to use and our support excellent! We enjoy supporting you and helping you think through everything as you implement new ideas and schedules in your building! Let us know if you'd like to talk through anything related to seeing a student on the day-of for teachers or the attendance side of things and we'd be happy to see if there's anything else we can help with there, too! LH Laura H. Media Specialist Primary/Secondary Education Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great Customer Support!" October 7, 2021 5.0 Edficiency is helping us to organize and implement the time built in to our day for remediation/enrichment. It easily allows us to take attendance, check where students are supposed to be, and teachers can add their own schedules. It helps us ALL to breathe a little easier and feel more confident that our students are getting the support that they need. Pros This software has been GREAT in helping us organize and implement our Blue Comet Time. We are able to make it work exactly as we need for it to, as it is extremely flexible and adaptable to our requirements. The students are easily able to access and understand the site, as well as our teachers. On the administrator side, it has been user friendly and any questions that we have had, have been answered and attended to in a VERY timely manner. Cons I honestly can't think of anything that I dislike about the software. It has taken a little time to get familiar with the administrator side of things, but again, we have had excellent support! Review Source Response from Edficiency October 12, 2021 Thanks, Laura! We really appreciate the feedback and glad to hear it's been adaptable, flexible, and easy to use for you and your team! If you ever have any other questions, don't hesitate to reach out! CQ Caitlin Q. School Counselor Education Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Edficiency Review" October 13, 2021 5.0 Pros The site is very easy to use for students, staff and administrators. It is easy to explain and quickly pick-up on. The students enjoy using it. The support staff is also very friendly and efficient, making problem-solving quick issues or questions a breeze. Cons There are a few additional features and reports we have requested. While not all of these have been a possibility, the team at Edficiency is able to offer solutions to our questions and concerns! Review Source Response from Edficiency October 18, 2021 Thanks, Caitlin! We're really glad to hear everything has been easy in rolling things out and that your students are enjoying it, too! Let us know if you need to problem-solve anything else or have any other feature/report requests, too, and we'll see what we can do! Thanks again! LM Lloyd M. Administrator Education Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Edficiency helped us get kids the help they need!" March 3, 2021 5.0 Knowing where kids are and organizing them to those spaces in a meaningful / appropriate way. Pros It does a lot of the heavy lifting in the background and it's helping us get kids who want to see specific teachers and teachers who want to see specific kids! Cons This seems like a trick question. I really don't dislike anything about it. Reason for choosing Edficiency Cost and the people who are supporting us. Review Source Response from Edficiency March 4, 2021 Thanks for taking the time to share your experience! We appreciate the feedback and enjoy supporting you! NR Nicole R. High School Secretary Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "User friendly, efficient and excellent customer service!" October 27, 2021 5.0 We use Edficiency for a kind of study hall/period to get help/have student meeting etc. Our previous way of doing this was not as organized, the students had to figure out where to go and resulted in a lot of unproductive time for students and it was hard to take attendance to make sure everyone was accounted for. Edficiency provides a great way to make that most out of everyone's time and to make sure everyone is accounted for by being able to request students, set up group meetings, take attendance. And the students get emailed where they should be! One of the other great thing about Edficiency is their customer service. If you ever have questions they are very quick to respond and very helpful! Pros Edficiency was very easy to learn how to use, you can start with the basics and build from there. It is a very user friendly program! From the admin. side set up was very easy along with updating from year to year. It is great that you can set up sessions far in advance if you would like, that you can create different templates to use if needed and pretty much customize it to fit your needs. It is easy to look up student assignments, reassign them, manage users, rooms etc. Overall, all the features are very easy to use!! Cons A couple drawbacks are the fact that I have to take attendance in Edficiency and then transfer it to our SIS and that during the school year I have to manually enter new students and take out ones that are leaving. It is a lot of work on my end to create the teacher rosters so I leave it up to them but I wish there was a way to make them create one otherwise when students are assigned, the teachers without rosters don't end up with many students. I also wish that I did not have to remember to apply the template each day for the next day's session. Review Source Response from Edficiency November 1, 2021 Thanks, Nicole, for sharing your experience! We're glad to hear that the system was easy to learn and user-friendly! We also totally get the appeal of not having to manually keep things up-to-date, so let us know if you'd like to discuss the auto-sync process with you and your tech team so you no longer will need to manually maintain the information in the system or have teachers load their own rosters! We also recommend loading templates a week at a time to get some extra efficiency and have less to remember in case that helps! Please let us know if there is ever anything else we can help with! TM Tim M. Instructional Technology Facilitator Education Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Edficiency - making flex time scheduling a breeze" October 7, 2021 5.0 I can't overstate how perfect Edficiency has been for our school. It's really a combination of the product itself and the support that comes along with it. Some of our support sessions have been less about the how-to of using the product (click here, click here) but more about how it can be molded to support our schools educational vision. Pros From the very first sales call, it was clear that Edficiency was designed with our exact use case in mind: balancing student and teacher needs and priorities in scheduling flexible learning sessions. Every single time we met with \[SENSITIVE CONTENT\], we came away with the assurance that it could handle everything we wanted it to. Each concern we had already had a feature designed to take care of it. Not only is the software great, but the support team is really outstanding as well. They are, by far, the best educational support company I have ever worked with. Not only do they understand the software, but they immediately understood our own vision for its implementation. Cons The software is really great at its core purpose, but the graphic design of it is dated. In high usage times, there have been severe performance issues. Additionally, there are some quirks such as changes not being reflected until users log out and log back in. Alternatives considered [Sched](https://www.capterra.com/p/125306/Sched-org/)[Enriching Students](https://www.capterra.com/p/141259/Enriching-Students/) Reason for choosing Edficiency Edficiency is literally designed for our use case: a flexible academic support period with constantly changing sessions based on the needs of our students. While some other products are designed for flexible sessions as well, we felt like they didn't balance the needs of students and teachers as well. Some of the alternate products were not designed for schools, but instead for conferences. In our conversations with Edficiency, it was very clear that they understood our use case. Review Source Response from Edficiency October 12, 2021 Tim - thanks so much for the feedback. We've enjoyed working with you to ensure our software can support you in your school's vision and specific needs. We also take your points about the design, quirks, and performance during high usage to heart. We believe we've resolved the performance issues at high peak times after growing far more than anticipated right at the start of this school year, but if you ever experience anything like that, or any other quirks, in the future, please don't hesitate to share them and we'll make sure to address them. Thanks again for the feedback and for helping us continually improve. JB Jessica B. Teacher Education Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Malden High School Flex Leader" October 31, 2021 5.0 I really like this program and I am happy with how it is running so far. Right now it really is a trial and error situation and we feel our way through this new endeavor. Students who are engaged are really enjoying it. It is a matter of finding ways for students who aren't engaged (or are not choosing sessions) to buy into this new Flex period we have. Pros I really love the variety of session we can put into the system and it is very user friendly. We have only been using this software for a few months so we are learning new things as we go. We have started using the groups feature and the require request feature which has really helped to limit where students can randomly be placed. The staff and students have integrated into this software pretty well, but I do not feel like we had enough time to really show the staff members how to use edficiency before the year started. I believe if we had the time to do a more engaging training for our staff members before we started the first round of Flex, we would have seen an even easier transition into this new endeavor. Cons A couple of concerns I have so far is that edficiency is not really linking up with Aspen (X2) so the attendance isn't captured as well as we would like. Right now teachers have no way of knowing if a student in their Flex session is supposed to be absent or if they are just skipping. If they have students in their Flex who are not on their actual class roster, they have no way of looking a student up for basic information, such as attendance record, and any medical or special education notifications that would be helpful. I also wish there was a way for students who did not pick to be placed into one room dedicated to students who did not make a choice, instead of getting randomly plopped into different sessions. We would love to have students who are not choosing a session be placed with a couple of staff members who can have conversations with them about choosing sessions. Reason for choosing Edficiency I was not part of the team who chose this actual software. Review Source Response from Edficiency November 3, 2021 Thanks for your input, Jessica. I'm glad to hear that the system is working well for you all as you start your first flex period, despite not having as much time to engage and train your staff on it as you would've liked. While we don't currently offer real-time syncing of attendance with Aspen or pull more information than needed about students into our system for privacy reasons, we will consider those as we continually build out new features. There also is a way already in the system to send students that don't make a request to specific teachers for conversations. Please let us know if you'd like to discuss that and we'll happily show you how to set that up to accomplish what you'd like. Thanks again for sharing your experience! EB Elizabeth B. Academic Lead Teacher Primary/Secondary Education Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Edficiency is a time-saving, user-friendly scheduling program for intervention blocks." October 25, 2021 5.0 If you want to work with a company of people who know what they are doing but also know how to talk to people about what they are doing, Edficiency is the program for you. They can help you dream of ways to use an intervention block that you never imagined were possible. Pros I cannot say enough positive things about Edficiency's customer service. When I send an email (and I have sent plenty!) they respond, often times, within an hour. They have gone above and beyond to help make Edficiency work to its' maximum capacity for our school. If a situation cannot be remedied via email, they will do a Zoom Meeting with me to help figure everything out. The personalities are so excited about the produce and willing to help however they can. Previously, we used a different product. This product does not even begin to compare to the quality of Edficiency. The creators of Edficiency have obviously had classroom experience or input from teachers and educators. The program seems to have every feature we could ever dream of having. It has reduced the time for scheduling students in our intervention block from an hour (every day) using the other program to less than 5 minutes per WEEK using Edficiency. The "log in with google" feature allows students and teachers to easily access the information for the day and for the weeks to come. Students were able to navigate the program independently before we even did the training with them. The priority levels for tagging students are brilliant. With this feature, we are able to allow students the opportunity to attend a club if they choose to do so, but also request help from the teacher if they need it. Students and teachers, both, picked up very quickly how to tag students appropriately. Cons I honestly can't say anything that iI like "least" about this program. It is so far above where the other program was that it seems to have everything! An app for the cell phone would be nice (although you can view the program through the web browser on a phone just fine). Reason for choosing Edficiency Honestly, Edficiency was the first program I stumbled upon in my search and there was no need to look any further. It met all of our needs and then some! Review Source Response from Edficiency October 27, 2021 Thanks so much, Beth - we are so glad to hear that we've exceeded your expectations thus far and enabled you to save a lot of time on a daily basis! We're excited to continue working with you and please don't hesitate to let us know if you have any questions again in the future - you can never ask too many questions! RA Roger A. Assistant Principal Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Edficiency Flex Scheduling Software" October 21, 2021 5.0 We have been using Edficiency in our building for almost 4 full years now. This program is exactly what we were looking for and we haven't had any issues with the implementation and use of the program for all of our flex scheduling needs. This program has changed the culture of learning in our building for both students and staff and I would recommend it to any school district that is looking for flex scheduling software. Pros The ease of use, the customer service, and the continued evolution of the program to meet our student and staff needs has been exceptional. Cons I do not have any concerns with this software. \[SENSITIVE CONTENT\] team has taken all of our suggestions over the years and have found a way to implement them, when it makes sense. Reason for choosing Edficiency Edficiency fit the needs of our building and the vision of our Flex scheduling time perfectly. The customer service was a huge factor and \[SENSITIVE CONTENT\] have been exceptional to work with. Review Source Response from Edficiency October 25, 2021 We're glad to hear that Edficiency has positively impacted your school culture, been a perfect fit for your flex scheduling needs, and been able to adapt with you over the last four years. Thanks for sharing your experience, Roger, and let us know if you ever need anything! TM Thomas M. Teacher Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Solved Many Problems We Were Having (School Intervention/Extension System)" October 26, 2021 5.0 I've been teaching for 10 years now. I have been part of the "Intervention Team" for many of those years. We have gone through so many iterations of how to run interventions, it's not even funny... Some were total fails. Some were partial successes, but no matter what we were doing, we were using paper tickets to manage where everybody went. Not only was that so much work (for the secretaries) but the amount of fighting between teachers as to who-got-which-student-on-which-day was a total nightmare. Usually students hid in the bathroom and no one would know. As mentioned above, pre-Edficiency, we had found a system for intervening with students that most teachers really liked. The main annoyances were all of the paper tickets that were used to help kids get to where they were supposed to go, and there were many flaws with that. Our intervention-system was kind of complicated, but it was really working for us (minus the papers). It took a LOT of work on the back end to set everything up so that we could keep the things we loved about our current system and transition to a paper-less system... but all of that work up-front was absolutely worth it because for me (the one who is running the system on the back end) and for the teachers things are extremely easy during the year. Pros I really like that you can set limits to the number of bodies that come into the room, so you can keep your number of students at a manageable amount. I love the way that priorities keep teachers from monopolizing a student's time. It's also extremely nice to be able to create "groups" and use the session-templates so that creating sessions day-by-day and week-by-week becomes extremely easy. A school who already has a system in place will be able to customize this program to meet their needs. We had a pretty complicated system that the teachers really loved. At first the Edficiency trainers kind of tried to sway us from using our system with this software, but when it was clear that teachers really wanted to use our system but electronically, they showed me how we could make it work, and it has been awesome. Cons We still struggle with kids knowing where they are going... I know that the information is at their finger tips, but the closer the information is, the less they look.... So, training students to know where to go has taken much longer than I would have liked. The process to request a student is pretty easy (it was easier in our old paper-system) but this isn't too bad. But, because teachers (in my school) are so crazy when it comes to who has "Priority", requesting kids within a window of time is a little more complicated than I want it to be. But, again, that could be a problem unique to our school where we try to give each content area their own priority day. The learning curve can be steep if your students/teachers aren't familiar with an "Intervention/Extension" period. We had several teachers hired this year who had never experienced any kind of intervention period, so helping them understand that system (Intervention Periods) AND teach them this software while they were learning all of the other programs from the school/district was pretty tough for them, and it took time. Finally, the days that were hardest for us were days in which we tried to train the students on the system. In those days we had half of the students logging in at a time to learn how to use the program, and that really bogged down the system to where it was unusable until we got student signing out... Review Source Response from Edficiency November 1, 2021 Thanks for the thoughtful feedback, Thomas! We're glad that you've been able to customize it to meet your needs, bringing over what you liked about your paper system while making it easier to manage throughout the year for you and your fellow teachers! If you ever want to discuss strategies to help students know where to go, or any other support, please don't hesitate to reach out. And lastly, we believe we have resolved all the temporary timeout issues that came from so many schools asking their entire student body to log in at once at the start of the year, but feel free to let us know if you plan to do that again and we'll be sure to have someone online monitoring things during that time to intervene in real-time in the even it ever was to become an issue again. Thanks again! JM Josh M. HLL/BARR Program Coordinator Education Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Edficiency in Education at the Secondary Level" October 8, 2021 4.0 Overall, Edficiency has been a cost-effective and effective tool. The customer service is phenomenal, the price is right, and while there are a few minor issues in software design, we have been very satisfied. Pros Edficiency remains a high-quality product for student and staff scheduling. At Cooper High, we use Edficiency to create a flex period during that today that allows students a measure of choice in what teacher they would like to receive help from during the day, and as an intervention tool for teachers looking to provide student assistance. The benefits of this system are numerous. We can easily provide academic support to students during the school day and the system itself is relatively easy to initialize. Cons Although the system itself is effective and provides a cost-effective solution to student scheduling, there are a few elements of Edficiency that could be improved. Edficiency requires some student and staff training, and its design is not always intuitive. For example, when students make a selection and schedule their sessions, switching between the days of the week and finding the right teacher makes for a "clunky" experience. This is not a problem in the coding of software, but rather one in design. Additionally, there is currently no easy tool that allows admin to exclude individual students from select sessions. It would also be helpful to have an attendance system that syncs with Infinite Campus. Reason for choosing Edficiency Again, Edficiency was a cost-effective and effective alternative to other products on the market. Review Source Response from Edficiency October 11, 2021 Thanks for the feedback, Josh! We'll pass your feedback along to our head of technology and reach out directly to follow up on the limiting sessions to specific students and attendance sync with IC, as we'd love to explore the current options with you and see if there could be room to include any others. But thanks again for the feedback and we're glad to hear that our software is helping to make the process of providing academic supports to your students easier (and cost-effective). AM Amy M. Math Specialist Education Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Edficiency has enhanced our I/E scheduling!" October 21, 2021 5.0 Overall, our teachers and students have had a very positive experience implementing Edficiency! Pros We just started using Edficiency at the beginning of this school year, and it has been very easy to introduce to our students and teachers. We love that this program allows our teachers the flexibility to offer sessions that address needs in their classes when it is convenient for them. We also love that students have more choice with who they will see for the I/E period. Cons I wish that Edficiency was able to interact with our SIS so that student who have an early dismissal or have been absent all day would auto-fill in the Edficiency software attendance. Since we follow a 4-day cycle at our school of 1100 students, not every teacher sees all of their students each day. When we have to investigate to figure out why a student is not present in a session, it takes time that could be spent working with students. If the systems interacted, it would take that additional step out of the equation. Review Source Response from Edficiency October 25, 2021 Thanks, Amy, for sharing your experience! We're glad to hear it's been very ease for your staff and students and enabled you to better support your students while giving them more choice. We definitely understand around speaking in real-time with your SIS. Let us know if you'd like to talk about any ways to make that process more efficient! TG Teresa G. high school principal Education Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "We love it" October 25, 2021 5.0 A neighbor recommended the program to us and I am glad she did. We will stick with Edficiency as long as we have a flex period. Pros Edficiency is easy to use for both students and staff. One thing I love is the support we have received. I am not one to read the manual, I will email \[SENSITIVE CONTENT\] and he is quick to respond. I've always wanted a flex period, and I can not imagine I could run one without Edficiency. I really like the ability to track how often students are requesting help from teachers and how often teachers request students. Great information to have at parent teacher conference time. Cons There is nothing I dislike about edficiency. The only suggestion I would have is to make an app because students are accustomed to using an app. When I get to the point where I think "Oh, I wish we could do this . .. " I connect with \[SENSITIVE CONTENT\] and he gives me the reasoning behind why the program was designed the way it was, and his reason is always better than my thought for a change! Review Source Response from Edficiency October 27, 2021 Thanks for sharing, Teresa! We are happy to hear that you've been happy with the system and our support, and are especially happy to hear that you've found our reports to be helpful in parent conversations! A student app is certainly on our radar when we are confident that all users can have a good experience with it, regardless of their phone's operating system. We look forward to supporting you with your flex period as long as you have it, too! TJ Tracy J. Academy Lead Teacher Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Supporting Students during WIN Time with Scheduling " October 26, 2021 5.0 Pros What my team appreciates about Edficiency is that it eliminates the need to paper passes to request students and meet them where they are -- online. It allows teachers to communicate with students and help keep them on track and accountable during our homeroom/WIN (what I need/intervention) time. Teachers are able to request students online, in advance or, if in a pinch, even the day of to see them. The system keeps different data points, from attendance to teacher requests, that can help guide support. Edficiency has capabilities to be automated based on different needs. On grade level does not have to have same functions as another; it can vary from teacher to teacher or academy to academy. Students also can request to meet with teachers online versus finding the teacher and asking for a pass. It allows for ownership from students. In summary, it serves as a communication tool for teachers and students to work together for support in the online world. Cons The attendance doesn't update into our SIS in real time, which can be tricky when trying to hold students accountable. It does sync later in the day, but does not work in real time. Review Source Response from Edficiency October 28, 2021 Thank so much for the feedback, Tracy! We're glad that your and your team's experience has been largely positive! 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