Sycamore School

We've used Sycamore Education for six years. Great product!

Opmerkingen: Our old SI system was clunky and slow. Sycamore Education revolutionized our daily workload and processes. Highly recommended for private schools.

Pluspunten:

Ease of use. Customer support. Frequent updates/upgrades. Meets all IS needs for our private school.

Minpunten:

Graphics, as well as look & feel could use an update. Wish this product would integrate with our online curriculum.

An SIS Worth Considering

Opmerkingen: Sycamore School has been a great tool for our school. It has everything we need without the expensive price tag. It can be laborious to navigate and use at times so training is really important when implementing this product.

Pluspunten:

It has many features and lots of options giving it great customization.

Minpunten:

It can be hard to navigate and find what you need.

Clunky, Outdated

Pluspunten:

I really cannot be positive. It looks like an early 90' s site, where more and more junk accumulated on to it.

Minpunten:

Menus are redundant and hard to navigate. Day long classes are restricted to grading all subjects with the same exact categories. The system glitches, does not updated posted grades after, say, dropping a lowest grade. Pass a note is obnoxious and nearly useless as a communication tool. If using the website for attendance, and a student comes in late, you have to go through multiple windows just to mark them present. Integration is a joke. There is no organization for uploaded files that can be navigated, and trying to use it with Google Classroom was a tedious, painful joke. The email feature is way out of date and grossly insecure (one must disable security features in gmail for it to work) I could go on, but it is like death by a thousand paper cuts.

Very Intuitive Software to Use

Opmerkingen: Overall, Sycamore School has been a very positive change for our school. The cost of the product initially drew us in this direction. Had we known the quality of the product and ease of use, we would have changed even sooner than we did. We are so glad we changed 3 years ago!

Pluspunten:

Our school was able to implement the Sycamore system without a lot of support. The software is laid out in a way that is intuitive and logical. Most questions that we asked ourselves were easily discovered by our own team. Whenever we had questions that we could not find (rare), the tech support quickly resolved the matter for us. The transition for us was much easier than we thought it could be. The Sycamore software has also been simple for our clients (both students and teachers) to navigate. We used the software as our mail tool during our spring of 2020 change to remote learning. Parents had little trouble navigating around Sycamore to find the instruction and information for remote learning. We never anticipated using it that way, but it did a good job for us.

Minpunten:

Sycamore has a few idiosyncracies that one has to get used to. Some listings require the user to go back to the beginning of the list after a choice has been made. Little things that I am sure will be refined over time.

Exceptional School Management System

Opmerkingen: We have had a great working relationship with Sycamore. They are always responsive and very knowledgeable in solving our problems. They are a great partner.

Pluspunten:

We really value the ease of use with Sycamore and the various needs that the system meets. The Sycamore team is always looking for ways to improve. They also are always looking for creative ways to manage the daily demands of running a school.

Minpunten:

Overall we have been very satisfied with Sycamore and their team of developers. There is nothing that we like least about Sycamore.