Behavior Manager

Pros

Behavior Manager is aligned with client goals and easy to maintain.

Cons

I wish it was a little easier to set up, but once you learn the ins and outs, it’s an effective tool.

Pros

The software is very user friendly. You are able to navigate from one screen to another with ease. Printing reports and compiling information in very easy. I would recommend this software to other school districts.

Cons

There are very few cons about this software. One thing was the use of the back button. Often times the software will take you back to a previous screen instead of where you left prior to.

Pros

It fills a need that we required at our high school.

Cons

After the latest update this past summer, the program is not as user friendly as it was previously. You have to hunt for things instead of them being right there. The accumulation count of tardies does not correct itself when a incident is mistakenly entered and has to be deleted.

Pros

Easy yo use to track behavioers for ADHD children. For me to keep track of. Behaviors for doctors appointments and school meetings.

Cons

A option to copy chart for email would Be great bit not something I would stop using the software because of

Pros

The most important feature for me is the ability for teachers to leave notes about students that can be viewed by others. I teach in a middle school and it is very helpful to see whether or not a student's behavior is consistent across his/her team of teachers or specific to my classroom. Parent contacts can be logged and this helps keeps my grade level team on top of behavior by providing supports to students whose behavior keeps them from being successful.

Cons

I would like to have a discipline dashboard for my classroom as well as the school wide view.

Pros

Easy to navigate. Records are great and allows easy reporting of activity. Easy to find students and to enter discipline. I like how it integrates with PowerSchool.

Cons

Have to go to multiple screens at times to accomplish tasks like roll keeping for students serving a disciplinary consequence.

Pros

It is easy to access and easy to use. Hyperlinks are what they say they are and just a click will get you what you need.

Cons

There us nothing least I like about this software. It is easy to use as I Stated earlier.

Pros

I like that you can keep up with kids and their behaviors. I also like that I can edit my student lists.

Cons

When we go to login, you have to login twice because the first time comes back as bad.

Pros

We are able to analyze behavior trends by location, time of day, teachers, etc and track increase/decreases by the month and compare years.

Cons

After you submit a referral it stays on the screen, so teachers and I often don't realize it has been submitted and accidentally enter it again.

Pros

It allows for electronic tracking of student behavior so teachers and staff can easily see referrals received, consequences served, etc. Our school uses a structured progressive discipline program, so Behavior Manager makes this more organized and thus more effective.

Cons

The UI is a little jenky. Would be nice if they cleaned it up a little and made it more user friendly.

Pros

Edclick allows teachers and administrators to easily track discipline records and follow trends of behavior within the school. Reports are easy to run and offer an excellent breakdown of information.

Cons

I do not like that the Notes carry over from year to year; this can be very confusing.

Pros

The behavior referrals are paperless. No more having to send the kid to the office with the write - up.

Cons

Nothing. It is all very easy to use. I especially like the tardy station for marking students tardy.

Pros

I love the ability to collect data about our school discipline. It gives us different types of data to help drive our PBIS program.

Cons

I don't have any cons. Everything works pretty well in the software.

Pros

The data tracking function. It is very helpful in conjunction with PBIS implementation.

Cons

Would like to be able to cut and paste when editing letters for my school.

Pros

Easy data tracking, many features to use.

Cons

How to get to the letter for suspensions is hard to get

Pros

It is an easy system to track and monitor behavior. The information can be used for reporting and for improving school culture.

Cons

I wish it would interact with our SIS system .

Pros

-tracking of behavior history
-ease of entering behaviors
-notifications sent to all parties

Cons

-historical data is difficult to access
-program seems to have "bugs" periodically (unsure if this is a software issue or an internet/network issue

Pros

It keeps everything documented, organized and easy to obtain when needed.

Cons

What I like least about this software is nothing.

Pros

It easily links behavior data to student records.

Cons

It times out and deletes all info if not saved regularly.

Pros

the ability to track down behavior reports and assign appropriate consequences

Cons

emailing system (not all the corresponding parties were getting emails) also if there is a way to email parents automatically when their student gets a behavior report, it would be beneficial.

Pros

I like the ability to run reports and send out letters.

Cons

I dislike the drop down boxes and checks.

Pros

What I liked most about this software is that is was easy to access and easy to install for out computers.

Cons

What I liked least about this software just figuring out how to use it.

Pros

EDclick is easy to use and allows us to keep track of behavioral data in an organized manner.

Cons

There is nothing that I dislike about this software.

Pros

The immediate updates: another program we use to track disciplinary referrals take several days sometimes to update. EdClick updates immediately.

Cons

The signing in/login into another program when we use another one.

Pros

I like being able to document and keep track of student behavior, tardies, and notes that all other school staff can see.

Cons

It is not always easy to use. There are a few glitches, such as the fact that you have to click "Behavior Manager" every time to get back to the menu you want to see after entering new information.

Pros

The organization of the system is incredible. Maintaining discipline referrals, teacher notes, and the data break down that it provides is awesome. As a teacher, I enjoy being able to make notes of my students, keeping a log of parent contact, and this system allows me to do that as well as allow other teachers, administrators, and central office staff to see that procedures have taken place and that discipline was needed.

Cons

When searching multiple students, the system doesn't seem to always start over. Instead, I'll search a student (often by last name), and click on their name. Unfortunately, often times this results in getting the results from the student I just previously searched again. This most often occurs when looking at discipline referrals. I generally try to search for another student by clicking the "search for student" link and then search a new student. It will then find the student, but when I click on his/her name, it reverts back to the student I was previously looking at.

Pros

Easy to use and track for students who have referrals. The reminder emails are great so I can see what's happening with my students and keep them accountable.

Cons

There are a lot of parts to the software that aren't useful to me as a teacher, though might be much more beneficial to administrators at our school. I would also like to see an option to email parents directly at the time of the referral, so we can include the important step of parent communication. Finally, it would be helpful to see ALL pending consequences when in the detention list, not just the first of a single kind of consequence (i.e. some students have 3 detentions and we can only see one at a time, which doesn't help for planning purposes to help students track their consequences).

Generally a great program though!

Pros

I've used Behavior Management for all the educational positions I've had. It's a great, basic tool to keep track of student information as well as to keep communication with parents.

Cons

It can use an upgrade. Searching for students becomes a hassle if you don't refresh the software because you end up getting the same results from a previous search. I also wish there was an easier way to add a lot of new students.

Pros

As an administrator in a high school grades 9-12 this program has been a life-saver. We have a high volume of discipline referrals and this allows us to not only manage the work flow more efficiently but it also helps us make more effective decisions related to interventions. We finally have enough time recorded using the program to be able to reflect on our data, which we hope will positively shape our future decision making. Implementation has been fairly straight forward. The majority of training needed is for data clerks and new administrators. I have had no complaints from teachers concerning the functionality or ease of use. Virtually no learning curve what with the single sign on through PowerSchool.

Cons

On the administrator side we would like to see: ability to edit/add to referrals from the Assign Intervention screen. Essentially, if details need to be added to the narrative to be uploaded/included in the PowerSchool log entries, it would be more convenient to be able to edit in the Assign Intervention screen rather than having to go back to the student's discipline history and edit the referral.

Pros

Entering behavior problems (at our school we call them "referrals") is a cinch!
One highlight is when I need to enter multiple referrals for the same behavior problem. The program has a selection that when clicked, auto fills all of the information so all I have to do is select the student I'm looking for and the appropriate consequence. Definitely makes my life easier at the end of the school day!

Cons

Having to check a student's behavior history before entering a referral can be a lot of back-and-forth. It would be helpful if all of that "historical" information would appear on the same page that allows me to enter the behavioral problem.

Pros

I really like that we have a tracking device for detentions, and do not have to input this information into the behavior system that will follow students their entire time within our district. The reports are easy to run and allow us to track the number of detentions, the types of detentions given, and the number of hours of detentions students have.

Cons

When first using Behavior Manager, it can be a little tricky to navigate and there are so many tools embedded that make it easy to use. Those shortcuts are extremely helpful, but I didn't learn those until probably year 2.

Pros

Behavior Manager is a very efficient and simple way to track discipline and consequences for teachers and admin. Working at a school with referrals for behavior, a uniform policy, tardies, etc it can be easy to get swamped by referrals. Behavior manager makes it easy to find out how many a student has earned and it is easy to enter for other teachers to see.

Cons

I would like to see a simpler user interface. 95% of the time, I'm only assigning detentions or checking what step a student is at for discipline. It would be nice to see a customizeable user experience so I can only have the links and buttons I use most frequently.

Pros

Great record keeping and its ability to communicate to other educators.

Cons

Sometimes difficult to navigate through all the options. Maybe delete less used options.

Pros

The ease of keeping records on student behaviors.
Easy to learn steps for the teachers to use program.
Ability to run reports/queries about campus.
Multiple means to communicate with teachers, parents, and administrators.

Cons

Uploading the student data was time consuming each year. The information had to be manipulated for the program. Knowing that there are many different student management programs, working to help the data transfer would be helpful.

Pros

Ease of use, works well with powerschool

Cons

Flow back and forth from one page to another

Pros

User friendly. The data is very useful for my teachers.

Cons

I love it. I have no complaints. The program works fine.

Pros

This software is a wonderful tool that we use at our school to help keep track of childs performance in the classroom. I am able to use it to show the kid and their parents how the child has performed in the classroom. Every aspect of the childs behavior can be tracked from being tardy to class all the way through the child getting in fights if that has occured. Parents are able to track their childs discpline record also.

Cons

To me their is nothing negative i can say about this product. It has made my job a whole lot easier as an educator.

Pros

I like the ease of use. Everything is short, simple, and to the point. It's very easy to locate students, view history, notes, etc.

Cons

The notifications for assigned discipline doesn't include any details.

Pros

I like the fact that Behavior Manager allows for PowerSchool integration and makes data readily accessible.

Cons

The program is confusing for first-time users. It takes a while to learn how to navigate throughout the program.

Pros

can keep track of student behavior events. as well positive student events.

Cons

Many pages to navigate to get to items you need at times.
Could be due to lack of my frequent use of features

Pros

I love the electronic documentation of the system, and the fact that it archives discipline histories for years. I also like the ease of the emailing system. It saves a lot of time because I don't have to retype/redo that referral and information.

Cons

I do NOT like that it doesn't automatically add the parents to the email list, but I have to do that manually each time. I have also had multiple parents tell me they are not receiving the email correspondence. I also WISH there was a pending list for BOTH behavior AND academic referrals, with a QUICK LINK on the homepage to anything pending action.

Pros

I like the ability of teachers and admin to access the program directly through our SIS. Also, the software allows are teachers and staff to record behavior and for admins to track behavior for data around trends.

Cons

The software is limited to the information you can drill down to. I have had a difficult time pulling reports for a group of specific behaviors and receiving the information I am looking for. Also, the ability to automatically run periodic reports is missing, for instance if each Friday I wanted a report of specific behaviors exported to me by 8am.

Pros

It's ability to update the teacher/staff member of the outcome of the consequence, and the ability for teachers to include assignments for students while in ISS.

Cons

Would be nice to have one central holiday schedule entered, instead of at each school.

Pros

It is easy to use and it is very user-friendly.

Cons

I really did not find any issues with this software.

Pros

That you are able to add notes and referrals in addition to reviewing previous behavior incidents for any student located on your campus (or district wide for administrators).

Cons

It's not as user-friendly as it could be

Pros

Somewhat easy to location and enter discipline referrals.

Cons

There were many times this year that administration did not reviece notifications for discpline referrals, which can be challenging when trying to handle them when the incident takes place and not 24-48 hours later.

Pros

The program tracks each student behavior issues and you can quickly assign disciplinary consequences. The program receives the data from our student information system. It prints letters to give to the parents.

Cons

I think it could be easier to navigate through the program.

Pros

The software is easy to use and it links teachers comments to each other. We can see if the same behavior is being displayed in other classes.

Cons

Submission takes a few minutes and not sure it is finished.

Pros

Works consistently--the site always is up and running.

Cons

Although functional, it feels like it needs a major update. Also, the data available is too limiting. Multiple drawdowns of data must take place to put it all together.

Pros

This software allows me to track my students behavior daily, weekly, and monthly. I love that it keeps track of student positive and negative behavior.

Cons

Navigating the website can be cumbersome at times and difficult to traverse.