Alma

"Very user friendly!"

What do you like best? The communication tools! Alma allows for group messaging, emergency messaging, etc. What do you dislike? Sometimes it won't save grades in the grade book. Recommendations to others considering the product: Very good. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Emergency Communication, grade book, etc.

"Alma saves the day"

What do you like best? Alma transformed our school from an aging SIS environment with complex UI that nobody understood - to a fresh and efficient platform that reflected our professional and progressive school. What do you dislike? Lack.of APIs for common industry partner programs. Google classroom API is great, but it's time to also work with tools like Clever,. Recommendations to others considering the product: If you value ease of use and transparency of information for everyone in your ...

"A very user-friendly interface. "

What do you like best? I like that you can copy grades and assignments in Alma. I also like the accessible attendance menu on the home page, and how you can access who last went and checked the attendance. Having student safety information handy is good to have around too. What do you dislike? Most times it can be confusing for me to transfer grades from one class to the next. I would like to see some individual markers for each course I have, so I can tell which is which. While the site ...

"User Friendly"

What do you like best? The ease of use, and the regular updates from Alma when changes or updates are made. What do you dislike? Difficulty sometimes transferring data when a student moves from one class to another. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Easy real time communication and information provided to families

"Great School Software System"

What do you like best? Alma is a very easy to use software for managing your school. It has both SIS (Student Information System) and LMS (Learning Management System) functionality. What do you dislike? I with that Alma would allow us to send SMS text messages to parents and staff for notifying them about delays and cancellations without having to add them all to the system as users. Recommendations to others considering the product: Alma is a fantastic solution. It has a lot of ...

"Loved the ease of administration"

What do you like best? very easy to maneuver as a first time teacher What do you dislike? no populated progress report or report card comments What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Alma keeps all assigned work and parent contact information in one easy to use location

"User friendly SIS, needs phone app"

What do you like best? ease of access & maneuverability. easy to find info account manager is available and helpful for making edits to our profile, supporting creation of custom reports, etc. What do you dislike? there's no app. its impossible to look at ALMA on a phone. Recommendations to others considering the product: tell them to build a phone app! What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? tracking incidents , enrollment, student data including ...

"Easy-to-use SIS with Excellent Customer Service"

What do you like best? Alma is an intuitive, easy-to-use platform with an attractive user interface. It's true that it requires virtually no training and can easily be used "out of the box". Report cards are beautiful and easy to customize; we have standards-based report cards with long narratives, and Alma does a wonderful job with these. The mobile site works seamlessly--I often send school-wide announcements from my phone. Customer service is outstanding. We typically get a response to ...

"Year 1 - So far, so good!"

What do you like best? This product is very intuitive in daily use. The study guides and online support provide more in-depth discovery and learning. What do you dislike? I would like the ability to search by a phone number - sometimes our parents don't always leave a name. It's difficult to find the info quickly. Recommendations to others considering the product: Give yourself plenty of time if transitioning from another SIS, have firm deadlines with your staff as far as cut-off for old ...

"Complete package for School Data"

What do you like best? What I like best is that there is one interface, one place that everyone at the school can go to do what they need, find out what they need, or input what they need, from all aspects - administration, teachers, office staff, students, and parents. Everyone has access only the information they need, appreciate the different levels of access. What do you dislike? What I dislike the most is the reports. There are myriad of reports you can select, you can even create your ...