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About FACTS
FACTS is a school management system that helps administrators streamline processes related to student enrollment, attendance tracking and course management. The student information system (SIS) enables teachers to generate report cards, track medical information, monitor student behavior, maintain family information and distribute transcripts on a centralized platform.
FACTS learning management system (LMS) allows educators to use blended learning and current teaching methodologies to build, distribute and track student progress across courses and critical thinking projects. The FACTS family portal lets parents access student assignments, project due dates, lesson plans and grades. Supervisors can generate year or term based reports to gain insights into transcripts, course listings and class rosters. Additionally, the emergency alert module lets administrators send in-app, SMS, and email alerts to parents, faculty, and students.
FACTS facilitates integration with several third-party solutions, PaymyTution, Gradelink, Moodle and Canvas. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via FAQs, documentation and email.
FACTS pricing
FACTS does not have a free version.
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Free Version:
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FACTS Reviews
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- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5
5
Reviewed on 8/8/2019
Saves a lot of money and easy to use!
Wonderful!
Pros
Working for a small school means trying every way to save money and we were able to do that with this software.
Cons
It doesn't offer as many of the "bells and whistles" as other big-brand names do.
Carrie
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
0
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
0
5
Reviewed on 14/5/2019
Everything A Teacher Needs!
My overall experience has been a positive one. I have used this software in a couple of schools I've taught in. I enjoy using it and would recommend it to any fellow teachers as well as any future schools.
Pros
What I like most about RenWeb is the fact that everything a teacher may need in document management is in one place. The teacher can write their lesson plans, use the software to enter grades and find everything they may need on their students all in one place. I like the fact that the lesson plans are easy for parents to see as well. They have made some good advances in the past year. They are making strides in keeping up with the way they appear and the flexibility they have implemented to allow the teacher to work from work and personal devices. I do know from personal experience that they want to put the best product out there and are not afraid to change to do it.
Cons
The thing I have liked least about this software is that they make some changes to the software in the year. I adjusted to some of their updates with ease only to find it has changed during the year. I can be a bit frustrating especially when those changes happen at the end of a school year. I'm glad they are evolving, the timing could be better.
Leslie
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Review Source
Value for Money
1
Features
2
Ease of Use
1
Customer Support
3
1
Reviewed on 6/10/2016
Buyer's Remorse.
Renweb is a disaster.
1. The default date setting for all documents your teachers and staff go to the trouble to upload and make accessible to students and parents is ONE DAY. You read that right. You didn't know your staff would go to the trouble to upload something for just 24 hours, but that is what Renweb thinks, and refuses to change. Their default should be a one week date range. In what universe would anyone want documents to disappear in 24 hours? In the Renweb universe only. You must remember to change the date when you upload it.
2. Renweb will not set a default for any links you click within Renweb open in a new tab, claiming that is a function of your browser. But many, many websites set their links to be either pop-ups or new tabs. Renweb will not.
3. No flexibility on naming links on the website you pay them for. If you want to use Lesson Plans for Assignments, forget about naming it correctly for YOUR school. Your parents and students will have to use their pre-named tabs, whether or not that applies to your school. Forget about any customization for the big bucks you pay.
4. 'Resources' as a link name is used twice, which is very confusing to parents and students, and unnecessary, given there are many words in the English language. Why not name the Class tab for Resources, 'Documents'? Because that is what it is. Then the other Resources, in the menu column, will be distinct, and for schoolwide resources.
5. Email formatting is abysmal; some kind of primitive html form that yields automatic spacing (not visible to the sender) between paragraphs and an ugly font; there is now a Communications Beta, so perhaps that will address the sheer ugliness of their email formats.
There is much more disappointment awaiting you in the inflexible Renweb, but after spending my morning untangling yet another problem, I need to get to mission-critical tasks.
Yes, they get high marks for customer service from many users, but that customer service is necessary to compensate for all the inherent issues.
I am so sorry we invested in Renweb. Unnecessarily complicated to interface with, while yielding emails that look like they were created ten years ago. An odd combination of behind the scenes 'sophistication' with primitive-looking email communications with parents/ students.
Jamie
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
0
Features
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
5
4
Reviewed on 28/2/2018
Renweb is all you need!
The benefits of this software are too many to list. Renweb has taught me things on the administrative side that I did not even know I needed to learn. My teachers have their classroom information organized and can make their own customized reports if needed which is a huge benefit because not all students are the same.
Pros
Having all the information for our students literally at our fingertips has been a huge advantage in moving into the digital age. We can quickly look up everything we need and it tracks it for all students and families. Having the access to personal information, tracking emails, communications, grade book and calendars all in one spot has been my favorite parts of diving into this software.
Cons
The thing I really hate is when you go to a classroom and it pops up "communication has moved". I did not go there for communication but since it is the first alphabetically on the list, this error pops up every time. I just scroll down and click grade book so it is easy to get out of it. It is just annoying that I feel like it yells at me every day when I go to that section. Small annoyance really but still annoying.
Shannon
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
5
5
Reviewed on 4/10/2018
Integrates well with FACTS/Renweb Software
The best part about this tool is the justification it gives us to parents about why we award what we do. It is a low cost to the parents and gives them peace of mind their sensitive information will be secure. If you are currently using paper forms, I would highly recommend switching to FACTS Grant & Aid!
Pros
This is an all-in-one Grant & Aid tool. It allows families an unbiased 3rd party review software, allows administrators on the review team to see the overall picture compared to the aid budget, then posts the award directly to the student's account.
They are also backed up by the excellent customer service provided by FACTS management. We have never had an issue with FACTS management go unresolved for more than 24 hours and 99% of the time they are able to resolve it right there on the phone with you.
Cons
Parts of the software were a little clunky to use. With as busy as we are as a small school, we need software that can be picked up pretty intuitively. There are quite a few steps to learn to just to finalize the award and post it to the account. Just to do this, I watched 3 separate videos. One of them I had to watch several times to make sure I was posting the award correctly. I know proper training is important when working with software, but it took longer to learn this software than we had planned upon.
