Populi

Great resources for online classes and student database

What do you like best? The ability to integrate our online classes directly with our student database. It is a one stop shop for everything a student or staff member needs to help a student successfully complete a course. What do you dislike? Updates occasionally break classes and other features we were currently using Recommendations to others considering the product At least set up a meeting with them to see the software in action What business problems are you solving with the ...

Indispensable

What do you like best? The tight integration, every part works together seamlessly. A week after our school went live with Populi, it has already become indispensable. What do you dislike? I wish we had the ability to import records instead of going through Populi support. The migration guy is great but it is more convenient. The interface should be a little more consistent, The links are not always visible, you don't intuitively know that you can click on the label to bring up the ...

Easy to use for students and instructors

What do you like best? Easy to navigate, post feedback to students, take attendance and record grades. What do you dislike? Could include more options for creating quizzes and exams. Recommendations to others considering the product: Great for use in Higher Education when organizing and delivering information to students. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I am learning how to streamline communication with my students ...

Easy to Learn

What do you like best? Pretty easy to catch on to the interface. It does the job well without over-complicating the user experience. The profile creation is a nice touch as it makes it easier to connect with other students. I like that I can retain a history of courses and notes that were uploaded by instructors and access them after the course is over. The settings for the discussion boards are great. Its nice to be able to keep track of my responses and engage with my other classmates. ...

Great but reports

What do you like best? The program is great for records. It does a great job at integrating in information and even establishing items for admissions. What do you dislike? Reporting is clunky at best. If you want to see who took a certain every year, good luck. It just doesn't filter very well that way or you need to understand how it works. At long as you're a small school and need basic reports you're set, but if you're doing longitudinal data it will take a while. Recommendations ...

Essential to teaching a course

What do you like best? As a student and as an instructor, it has been a life saver in keeping things organized and keeping information consistent across multiple class sizes. As hybrid (in-class and online courses become more and more the standard, this allows me not to have multiple buckets of information in multiple places. What do you dislike? There is little to nothing that I dislike about the program. The document reader occasionally makes paper's formatting seem a bit off, but ...

Useful in it's own right

What do you like best? Broad uses, customer service. The fact that it is online and functions the same at home or in the office is a HUGE benefit. What do you dislike? It is very helpful and useful in it's own right. The problem comes when you try comparing it to other online software that can do some of the same things better. But then those softwares don't have all the functionality of Populi. Recommendations to others considering the product Yes, if I felt it would meet their ...

Potential for greatness

What do you like best? Populi is visually appealing to the eye. While it contains a large portion of information, they have designed it in a way that is not overwhelming but still allows students to access things they need to access. Populi is also web-based and allows easy access to it whenever and wherever. What do you dislike? Populi has come a long way, but still has a ways to go. They've created a great product but it is definitely unfinished. The complicated algorithms exist, ...

A good, affordable option for smaller schools

What do you like best? I think the platform is really nice and easy to navigate, reasonable pricing, well designed, and their customer service is always great. Course scheduling is a breeze and overall it's just a nice experience on the front end. I like the design as it's clean and well thought out for navigation. I enjoy the front end a lot, I have surveyed students and they tend to really enjoy their experience with Populi, which is a main concern from an administrator end. I believe ...

Gets the job done but difficult to navigate

What do you like best? Populi cuts out a lot of the unnecessary additions that many learning systems have. What do you dislike? I found the testing functions to be quite clumsy. I was unable to test within a lockdown browser so my online tests (for my online class) had no security. Students were able to easily copy and paste from other browser windows. I was also not a fan of the navigation. The program would benefit from a way to flip between tests for different students that ...