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About Sycamore School
Sycamore School is a cloud-based solution designed to help schools manage various administrative operations, such as attendance tracking, communication management, event scheduling and more. Students and parents can use the self-service portal to access performance reports and examination or assignment grades.
Sycamore School allows educational institutions to schedule lesson plans on a calendar, maintain discipline logs and create individualized curricula for classes. Schools can accept donations and process online payments via e-checks or credit cards. Additionally, it lets teachers facilitate communication with students via messages, chats or emails.
Sycamore School facilitates integration with various third-party applications such as G Suite, MailChimp, Clever, PayPal, PayJunction and more. Pricing is available on monthly subscriptions and support is extended via phone and an inquiry form.
Sycamore School pricing
Sycamore School does not have a free version but does offer a free trial.
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Not provided by vendor
Free Version:
No
Free trial:
Yes
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Sycamore School Reviews
Feature rating
5 reviews of 55
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- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5
5
Reviewed on 1/2/2018
We've used Sycamore Education for six years. Great product!
Our old SI system was clunky and slow. Sycamore Education revolutionized our daily workload and processes. Highly recommended for private schools.
Pros
Ease of use. Customer support. Frequent updates/upgrades. Meets all IS needs for our private school.
Cons
Graphics, as well as look & feel could use an update. Wish this product would integrate with our online curriculum.
Stephen
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
5
4
Reviewed on 14/4/2022
An SIS Worth Considering
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.
Pros
It has many features and lots of options giving it great customization.
Cons
It can be hard to navigate and find what you need.
Reasons for Choosing Sycamore School
We needed greater customization and more features built into a single platform. Sycamore School has a great admissions tool and gradebook. It keeps great data records and is device friendly. Overall, it could do more than our previously implemented tool.Reasons for Switching to Sycamore School
It offered similar features at a much more affordable price.Response from Sycamore Education
Thank you Stephen! We are happy to have you as part of our family!
We are excited to address your navigation and data search concerns in our new 3.0 interface in the coming months!
Replied 19/4/2022
Joshua
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
2
Features
2
Ease of Use
2
Customer Support
4
1
Reviewed on 16/3/2022
Clunky, Outdated
Pros
I really cannot be positive. It looks like an early 90' s site, where more and more junk accumulated on to it.
Cons
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.
Response from Sycamore Education
We are so sorry that you feel this way Joshua. We understand sometimes frustrations can come from an interface. Listening to your voice as well as many other happy customers, we have decided to make changes to our interface and ease of access to data in Sycamore 3.0. Part of this new interface is already available going to sycamore.school. We are very excited to be releasing more modules to this interface soon.
Replied 19/4/2022
Don
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily 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 1/12/2020
Very Intuitive Software to Use
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!
Pros
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.
Cons
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.
Reasons for Choosing Sycamore School
Frustration with the cumbersome nature of the product we were using.Reasons for Switching to Sycamore School
The quality features and competitive pricing made Sycamore an obvious choice for us.Response from Sycamore Education
Thank you so much Don! We strive to be here for schools that need their data needs met at a reasonable cost.
It's wonderful to see how your school has taken a dive to use our tools to make your transition to remote learning of 2020 more manageable.
Thank you for giving a shout out to our wonderful support. They make such a difference for our Sycamore family.
Replied 3/12/2020
Kenny
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5
5
Reviewed on 3/12/2020
Exceptional School Management System
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.
Pros
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.
Cons
Overall we have been very satisfied with Sycamore and their team of developers. There is nothing that we like least about Sycamore.
Response from Sycamore Education
Thank you so much for your review Kenny. We value your school and your input! We love to help schools out there simplify their system needs.
Replied 8/12/2020
