SchoolCues

Pros

This software is incredibly easy to customize and is extremely user friendly. The staff at SchoolCues is professional and available to assist in any way needed.

Cons

I have to send text messages from my computer instead of phone because sometimes the word sequencing gets jumbled from the phone.

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Pros

We love that this product offers everything we need and nothing we don't. We appreciate that we can add functionality as our school grows. The software was relatively easy to implement and has been easy to learn and navigate.

Cons

Sometimes class updates are difficult to save or format. Our teachers who are less comfortable with technology struggle a bit, but do so with all technology applications. We wish there was more functionality through the Admin/Teacher app.

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Pros

We're extremely grateful for the all-in-one solution for everything from communications to sign ups to grade books to payments.

Cons

The photo gallery function in the app is very hard to use. We'd hoped that would be a good option for sharing pictures internally, but it's too counter-intuitive and takes too many steps to share photos. We also don't care for the document box as it limits the file size too severely and is inconvenient for our teachers to use.

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Pros

These are the pros of SchoolCues:
1) Extremely easy to deploy. Adding users and families is simple if you follow the instructions provided.
2) Easy to manage payments. Again, using the instructions provided is essential to be successful.
3) Great training available. Take advantage of the training online and live training sessions. You get trained by people that really know the software.
4) Super-responsive customer support. If you see a problem, report it, and the team will usually fix the problem really fast.
5) The system is very comprehensive to do almost everything you need to get done. Even though the system is purposefully built not to be very "customizable", it pretty much does everything you need or can imagine.
6) Best value for the money!!

Cons

These are the cons of SchoolCues:
1) User interface is developed by the software engineering team. The good thing about this is that once you understand how the software is designed, then it makes sense. The bad thing is that you need to think like a software engineer to make sense of it.
2) In many places, lists do not sort correctly. These are a few of the annoying minor bugs that the team is correcting. So, you need to be careful when looking at lists of things, because they are usually not sorted in a sensical way.
3) It is not "customizable" by design. This is a good thing because it helps keep the cost and price down, and you learn to us it quickly without having to make a ton of decisions for everything. The bad part of this is that if you need to do something different from what the software does, you are out of luck.

Pros

We are a small school, a little less than 150 students. SchoolCues has everything we need and more at an affordable cost. The online inquiry and enrollment process has saved us so much time and reduced mountains of paperwork. The parent communication tools are fantastic. The speed at which we were able to implement was incredible.

Cons

Initially, the user-friendliness of some of the modules was lacking. But SchoolCues listens to suggestions and they have done an amazing job of implementing updates to enhance many of their modules greatly improving the ease of use.