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Alma SIS
Wat is Alma SIS?
De toekomstbestendige tools van Alma voor leerlinginformatiesystemen optimaliseren de werking van het basis- en middelbaar onderwijs, waardoor leerkrachten de gezinsbetrokkenheid en de resultaten van leerlingen kunnen verbeteren.
Het platform van Alma is gecreëerd door voormalige docenten en kan moeiteloos worden geschaald naar scholen en districten van elke omvang, terwijl gegevensbeveiliging en de privacy van studenten worden gewaarborgd.
De missie van Alma is om een geweldige generatie docenten te helpen creëren, zodat zij een geweldige generatie studenten kunnen creëren.
Maak voorgang mogelijk. Ontsteek potentieel.
Wie gebruikt Alma SIS?
Duizenden scholen en districten in het lagere en middelbaar onderwijs in 34 landen en 43 staten gebruiken Alma om hun leergemeenschappen te transformeren. Ben jij de volgende?
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Reviews over Alma SIS

Glad we're using Alma
Pluspunten:
Unlike other SIS's, Alma actually looks and feels like it was made in the 2010's. The system is solid, and has essentially every feature a smaller school like ours would want (and many more that we don't need to use). The gradebook is excellent, and it's easy to transfer classes and students from year-to-year. Their customer service has been great (we accidentally deleted multiple report cards in different places the other day and they quickly and helpfully solved our issue by restoring to a backup), and they are continually adding features and improving the platform. And the cost has been at least 50% less than quotes we were getting from major competitors. Many reasons to switch to Alma.
Minpunten:
The latest transcripts update was helpful - there are still a couple of features we'd like on the transcripts front, but that's mostly because our school has a unique curriculum. This is totally just a personal preference, but I'd also like to be able to search for classes in the search feature in addition to contacts.
Reactie Alma Technologies
6 jaar geleden
What incredible feedback, James! Thank you so much and we look forward building on all of your school's successes!
One site for all functions, that's every teacher needs
Opmerkingen: Most of the time it's fantastic. I can check the report and study progress not only for this year, but many years ago. And I can see students' progress for other subjects also, it helps me to have an overall vision and understanding to the student's study condition.
Pluspunten:
One site for all functions On alma teachers can take attendance, record study progress, make report card, contact parents and students easily through email automatically, report incident. Parents and students can check the attendance, study progress and contact teacher as well.
Minpunten:
Sometimes it's out of service. It happened many times already. Showed a Bad Gateway.
Reactie Alma Technologies
7 maanden geleden
We are so happy to hear your teachers, parents and students love using Alma! In regards to the Bad Gateway error, we are surprised and sorry to hear you had this issue. Being able to access Alma when you need it is of the utmost importance to our team! Alma has an above 99% uptime standard. We have not had ANY unplanned extended downtime in several years. Typically, when a Bad Gateway error is being seen by a school it is a local network error and not a company wide issue. If you ever see that again, please let our support team know right away so they can help triage the issue!
Great Potential
Opmerkingen: It is a solid experience with great people who know a large amount about data bases and most school systems. We do get a bit frustrated with some of the miscommunications over CALPADS and a few of the reports.
Pluspunten:
Their cost is very competitive and their IT is amazing. They work very hard to try and answer all your questions quickly.
Minpunten:
Sales people tend to oversell the capabilities of Alma, it is a good system but it is not able to deliver the moon. We are currently fighting tooth and nail with CALPAD compliance.
Not for High Schools
Pluspunten:
Honestly tough to answer. It’s nice as a club sponsor to be able to email whole groups of students (not just those in my classes).
Minpunten:
Basically every single function/aspect is worse than Infinite Campus. Entering grades, making/changing seating charts, printing roster spreadsheets are all more difficult and time consuming than IC. This program is not suited for secondary schools.
Reactie Alma Technologies
vorig jaar
Thank you for your feedback on transitioning to Alma. Understanding that changes can be challenging, we're committed to supporting you. Your insights help us improve our platform continually. We're pleased Alma's group emailing feature enhances your club activities, fostering communication and collaboration, essential in education. Concerns about Alma's aspects, particularly versus Infinite Campus, are important to us. Having transitioned thousands from Infinite Campus to Alma, we've received overwhelmingly positive feedback about our platform's intuitiveness and efficiency. Your experience seems to be an exception, and we want to address your concerns thoroughly. We suggest additional training for better navigation in Alma. Our team is ready to guide you, ensuring you fully leverage all features. Thank you for your patience and understanding. We're looking forward to working closely with you to enhance your experience with Alma, making it positive and productive.
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Alma is a modern SIS system with great support
Opmerkingen: Our transition from our previous vendor was a breeze thanks to the assistance from Alma staff, and they are very responsive when it comes to changes in state reporting. The support team is always great to work with. The Spreadsheet Data Editor is a great feature that makes a lot of tasks easier.
Pluspunten:
Extremely user friendly with a modern interface and great support.
Minpunten:
The invoicing system is not very flexible, and isn't set up for waivers and credits.
Alma Joy! Sweet as Chocolate
Opmerkingen: 5 Star! I work with report cards and transcripts. My families love the electronic report cards sent right to their email for their convenience.
Pluspunten:
User friendly. Thinks how I think. Attractive. Love the webinars. Everyone in Customer Engagement and the Techs are so sweet and caring.
Minpunten:
Can't really think of anything at this moment.
Alma SIS review
Opmerkingen: Good, we really like the software and it meets our needs at the elementary level. Their customer support is excellent.
Pluspunten:
Alma is intuitive and easy to navigate. Setup and implementation was smooth, overall, it is very user friendly and easy for teachers and families to navigate. The reporting is excellent and the report cards look professional. Accessing data is easy on a day to day basis.
Minpunten:
There are some simple features missing, like schedule send, more editing options with school announcements which would have a bigger benefit.
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Adopting Alma SIS
Opmerkingen: Although we're still on the learning curve, it's been a very positive experience.
Pluspunten:
Best part of the interface: It's very intuitive, logical, and organized. Best part for the tech crew: The tech help staff are very helpful, professional, and supportive.
Minpunten:
Worst part of the interface: The colors can't be customized to be our school colors. Worst part for the tech crew: The people running the system can't impersonate another user, which makes it hard to see what the user is seeing when you're trying to help someone.
Lesson Learned
Opmerkingen: Great and communicative. The really know their clients.
Pluspunten:
Simple to use, integrates well with other programs, and keeps getting better
Minpunten:
there are glitches, they fix them quickly
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Alma review
Opmerkingen: pleasant, would recommend to colleagues in search of a new SIS
Pluspunten:
Ease of use, colorful UI, plenty of features
Minpunten:
Lack of honor role option on report card, newness to our state has caused some road blocks
Review for Teachers
Opmerkingen: I have had a good overall experience with Alma. They have focused on having good customer service and it has worked out well from my perspective as a teacher.
Pluspunten:
This is a pretty good product, not perfect, but good. The most useful part here is the link to google classroom for grading. This helps me be able to give feedback in one place and have it connected to my students and their parents. The parts that would be nicer for our specific use would be if Alma would be able to be linked to Atlas, Inc. this is what our school uses for different organizational goals.
Minpunten:
There have been a few glitches in the system that our administration has run into. First dealing with the report cards for 6th grade did not work out with the Semester 1 Reports. So we had to give the parents the Nine weeks report cards for our school. The one part that is disappointing is the link does not work with standards based grading. This problem does not stem from Alama, but is from Google not doing standards based grades. Other than that it has worked much better than the Power School System we had in place before.
Power features in an easy to learn platform
Opmerkingen: Responsiveness is just amazing. The weekly Q&A sessions with live support team members is very helpful.
Pluspunten:
Being able to customize information within student records has been very helpful. Standard reports included generally provide needed information, but creating a custom report is also pretty easy.
Minpunten:
Would love to be able to view by grade level rather than having to pick students individually or using the data spreadsheet editor.
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Great product
Pluspunten:
It's a very professional and easy to use platform
Minpunten:
The price is high compared to the features needed for our use
Alma is a lifesaver!
Opmerkingen: If I could, I would use Alama in every educational institution that I am a part of from here on out. I love how user friendly the software is and how all the information I need is in the same place.
Pluspunten:
I love how user friendly Alama is. There is a lot of information that this software contains, but it is easy to navigate and fairly simple to use.
Minpunten:
I think the most difficult thing to navigate is just the linking to Google Classroom. It's not impossible to figure out but I haven't devoted much time to get it set up and working to a level that I like yet.
Review
Pluspunten:
I like that this service is very user friendly, and easy to find the answers to questions that I have.
Minpunten:
I think maybe a feature could be added where teachers could add notes and comments, not just administrators.
Sound working program
Opmerkingen: Overall this has been a fine program to use.
Pluspunten:
The use of use and finding what is needed in a quick and timely fashion.
Minpunten:
The inability to pre label assessments in categories.
Alma Review
Opmerkingen: Positive over all.
Pluspunten:
The option to send mass emails and messages to parents and students.
Minpunten:
Not having incorporation with Ed Plan, and options for specific fields.
Powerful - 21st Century - Highly Recommended
Opmerkingen: When you have been with company for years is it hard to make a switch. From day one Alma made our transition to their software painless. Lets face it, people do not like change, especially a secretary that has been here for 30 years. Alma made it easy with their robust training and support our secretaries were smiling "like the butchers dog" The days of our principals spending all summer creating a master schedule are over. Alma's schedule builder is amazing! Overall I would highly recommend Alma and If they continue to stay on the cutting edge of innovation we will never need to make another switch.
Pluspunten:
There are so many GREAT features about Alma, to list just one is hard to do. I love the feed back that I receive from parents, teachers and administrators stating what they love about Alma. As an technology administrator you only hear when something is not working. Alma provides so many easy to use features everyone loves it. From the administration scheduling, it's seamless integration with Google Classroom, easy custom reports, on-line student registration and the awesome communication link with parents and students.
Minpunten:
Well there really isn't anything I do not like about Alma, they continually update and add new designs and innovation to it's all inclusive student accounting system. Understandably some suggested features take longer to add then others.
Moving in good directions
Opmerkingen: Far better than any other software I’ve used to manage classes, but still approaches the problem from an administrative, quantitative standpoint, rather than a student development standpoint.
Pluspunten:
There are concessions made to narrative evaluation, which is great for an alternative school. Each block, the system gets cleaner and easier to handle as we write our evaluations for the kids, and, since our output is so much more complex than a single letter grade, it’s really important that the cognitive overhead for each evaluation be as small as possible. I’m really gratified that Alma continually improves this aspect.
Minpunten:
Touchscreen integration is clunky but getting less so. It’s often hard to see what I’m doing, as column headers disappear as I scroll. 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. I want to be able to evaluate a student, but it’s easiest to evaluate not only one class at a time, but one skill for the whole class at a time. It discourages thinking holistically about individual students and encourages comparing them in each skill. I think this makes it harder to do evaluations and makes them less accurate. Daily evaluation notes go nowhere. We take attendance each day, which is dutifully reported, but any qualitative expression we have is thrown away. This does a great disservice to students because it means that, in the course of a day, it’s harder to make qualitative assessments of a student, leaving us only with their attendance data — a quantification that’s easy on a database designer but is hostile to learning.
Moving to Alma from another SIS
Opmerkingen: Staff is in the process of learning how to perform their tasks in Alma as opposed to the previous SIS.
Pluspunten:
It is intuitive and easy to manage. Tasks such as scheduling is easy and quick. The Alma Start module allows you to quickly set up processes for registering / approving and enrolling new students.
Minpunten:
The documentation could be better. There is no one Administration guide to get all the answer from. A chat feature from support would be a great help to get an answer quickly for simple questions.
Great value, excellent support
Opmerkingen: Our biggest benefit with Alma in the last two years was when they implemented their online enrollment process. At the time, we were considering moving from Alma to PowerSchool to gain this function as we were still doing paper application and enrollment. PowerSchool was quoting $20,000 to provide this, and that was a discounted price! Alma's online enrollment was brand new, but I spent a month going through their Study Guide to create our first process. The online support was a huge help! At the end of that 30 days, I was able to confidently recommend to our Head of School that we say "no" to PowerSchool and stick with Alma. This feature and many others have only improved since then. We appreciate that Alma charges us less and lets us create this and other processes for ourself.
Pluspunten:
The support for Alma is exceptional! As I am learning to use different features the Help guides & live support answer all my needs in a timely manner. I brag on the Alma support to other companies who are not as helpful. I also appreciate how Alma listens to my suggestions for improvements. In the almost two years I have used the product, I have seen many of the features I have asked for being implemented. I get a regular email (weekly or bi monthly) that updates me on new features and almost every time, there is something there that I have been wanting. You've got to love a company that listens to and responds to its customers.
Minpunten:
Alma has added many features that I didn't even know I wanted - thank you! The only feature they do not yet have is a way to accept and charge for payments. We can track financial info on Alma, but cannot have it accept funds. That would be a huge thing for us because we could eliminate using a separate program for this feature - we actually use two: MySchool and TADS.
Pretty product, unusable in detail
Opmerkingen: We feel lied to and misled by bad products, bad customer service, and no options to personalize anyone. Buyer beware.
Pluspunten:
It looks pretty and professional. The student/parent side looks clean.
Minpunten:
1. They have sold their scheduling I think to some 3rd party so none of the accessible API will allow you to access the times classes are happening. Truly a nightmare for integrations. 2. Customer service is atrocious. No one answers the phone and he text based service takes over an hour to get a copy pasted answer. Then the help person leaves and won't have a conversation with you. 3. Their reports are unusably bad. Truly nothing is in depth or customizable. This is beta software at best. 4. Nothing can be imported, everything from proficiency sets to data must be uploaded by hand one at a time, hope you like to copy and paste. 5. Admin can't do anything to set up classes. Teachers need to redo work a hundred times over.
Switched to Alma, never going back!
Opmerkingen: Before we switched our school to Alma we were using multiple programs to help our teachers with their record keeping responsibilities. We had one program for grading, another one for rosters, and yet another one for communication with parents. We even had an entirely different program to help generate grade reports and student schedules. None of them interfaced with each other, and our staff were often doing double and triple entries for each student. Since switching to Alma we have reduced the administrative burden on our teachers and office staff by over 50%. Alma has enabled our teachers to better utilize their office time, and freed up valuable opportunities for more one on one teaching time. This is a win-win for everyone involved in the education process. Thank you Alma!
Pluspunten:
Alma integrates our administrative processes into one, easy to use program that both parents and teachers love!
Minpunten:
The financial/billing component is not as comprehensive as we need.
Shifting to Alma has positioned us well as we transition our district to competency based learning.
Pluspunten:
Alma has a modern interface that is intuitive for our users with all of the information they need right at their fingertips, or one screen away. The student/parent portal is informative and is enabling us to move toward a more paperless registration process. Our teachers love the communication tools built into their grade book that enable them to immediately reach out to a student and their parents without having to jump out of the work they are doing. The report card and grading systems are flexible enough to support both traditional and proficiency-based philosophies. Alma is also proactive in cultivating relationships with third party vendors to add additional functionality to the environment. Alma has also been proactive in monitoring our state reporting requirements and updating our state report templates which is no small task. And Alma's support team is nothing short of amazing. My teachers have the freedom to reach out and get the support they require and that is priceless.
Minpunten:
There were a few features I would have like that did not come "out of the box" such as robust reporting tools, and built-in scheduling tools. That said, Alma has worked to integrate those into the system and future users will not have that problem. The one other piece that I believe is in process is updating the transcript system so that it employs the same interface as the report card generator.
Excellent Customer Service and Attractive Design
Opmerkingen: Excellent communication with between admin, staff and school families. A plethora of helpful articles and a very responsive tech support make Alma very easy and satisfying to use.
Pluspunten:
Alma has a very clean aesthetic with intuitively easy to use. The customer service is top-notch. Even during the pandemic, the response time has been exceptional. The techs are supportive, humorous, collegial, yet professional. Really happy with this platform.
Minpunten:
I am looking forward to their continued build-out of the transcript function of their platform. They register all suggestions with their engineers, and once they get enough "up votes" they add them to the next roll-out. Can't ask for a more egalitarian system of continuous improvement.