Skolera ULP Review

PROS: Thanks to this amazing platform, I manged to increase the involvement of all parents in my class in their children education. The system was such a wonderful tool to keep parents updated with the children academic progress. The parents native mobile app was such an effective tool to inform the parents about students grades, extra academic resources or material, behavior notes/concerns (negative or positive), and all activities in my class. Since using Skolera I have all parents attending any extra curricula activities that need their participation. For a foundational stage teacher, this platform is really the best.

CONS: Teacher native mobile app.

PROS: The best thing about Skolera was the comfortable user experience and the role-based interface. This was so much appreciated from my side as well as the team of teachers I lead. Moreover, I had my job done so easy due to the preview access to the teachers I lead dashboard to check their compliance with the course I design along with their academic activities with the students. Being able to be updated with any action taken on any of the courses I planned (ex. graded item was added, assignment was created, quiz/test was placed, etc) was such a huge bless if I'm in a situation with any of the parents who wants an explanation or has an inquiry.

CONS: The need for teachers mobile app, but I believe that the support or the development team of Skolera mentioned to me that this app is on their near future road-map.

PROS: The user oriented interface. Amazing grade grade-book that very flexible to match the grading policy for school. Reliable tools for the communication with school's community involving all members in the education process.

CONS: So some of the tiny changes in the attendance records.

PROS: The grade-book is an effective tool and helps me to keep my students and parents up-to-date with the academic progress. I like the idea of being able to feed back and comment on each and every assignment, quiz, or test. Parents receive direct and instant notifications which keep them all the time updated with their children's achievements or progress, so I have most of the parents involved more in the education of their children.

CONS: To add a feature that enables me to make some of my students excused on the assigned activities.

PROS: The real-time reports showed on each user interface was a great help for all actors in the student's education: teachers are aware with all details of students progress through dashboard charts, school super-admin is updated with all logs activities and course activity, and parents are well educated about their children daily achievements and academic progress. The grade book was a superb tool with the feature of adding or assigning extra material to students below ravage.

CONS: Adding some extra filters for admin interface to narrow down on specific actor(s).

PROS: The system is pretty good for teachers to follow up with their students and auto grade all assignments and quizzes. Plus, the platform is providing a module that allows automatic attendance using bio-metric or bar-code scanning.

CONS: The admin interface needs loads of improvement to increase the ease of usability. School site admin has to do a lot to get all reports generated.

PROS: I like the idea of using a unified learning platform instead of 2 different and separate solutions for managing my classes and the administrative tasks an employee.Also, the interactivity in the grade book is really impressive. I can assign extra tasks to an individual student whom I see in a need for improvement. Also, with the most easy and user-friendly modules, I can update all parents with the academic progress of their children whenever I need to. Parents can, vise versa, contact me regarding any concern they have. The native mobile application for the parents made it so great getting parents involved more in the children education. My students love using the gamification interfaces they have. They feel excited about the badges they receive upon achieving any progress. Moreover, the posts I place on my home pages for the classes I teach made my flipped classroom so effective and so perky. I can add any kind of material to these posts such as videos, pdfs, PowerPoint, etc.

CONS: I wasn't that much happy with the integration with Google Apps, but Skolera reliable support team announced that very soon the full integration with Google apps will be launched according to Skolera road-map.

PROS: The course planning is the most effective tool I was using often. Moreover, the role-based interface was superb as it shows at the home screen what exactly the user need to be updated with first. The notifications system was beyond our expectations and increased the parents involvement in the school activities as well as the children education. I do admire the real-time reports and the customized reports Skolera generates. These reports were a big plus helping me while evaluating the effectiveness of the course I planned to my team to share with students. Meanwhile, all these reports helped me as well in evaluating the performance and adherence to course plan of teachers in my team. The grade book was not a kind of normal one: it was an auto-updated progress report that enabled parents to follow the academic progress of their children in the most enjoyable user-friendly experience.

CONS: There is nothing serious to share about this point.

PROS: The real-time reporting is amazing. Also, the grade book is automated which is a big plus for the teachers, students, and parents. The automated attendance with the use of bio-metric or bar-code reader. I'm really impressed with the notification tool that keeps all actors on the system updated with all activities in the classroom and the school in general. The integration between the academic use of the system and the administrative use, I mean the LMS and the SMS.

CONS: The teachers mobile app.

PROS: Skolera is one of few LMS product I've used that generates authentic real-time reports that school's leadership can use to improve the quality of education offered to students. Moreover, the system has the most wonderful communication tool that enables all parents to be updated about their children academic progress, helps all parents to be on a direct professional contact with teachers of their children, increases parents involvement in school community. Plus, the integration with such potent School Management System was another reason for me as a leadership in school to have my job done smoothly running the school business. It helped a lot in all aspects of Students Affairs, HR, Accounting, Transportation, etc.

CONS: In fact, I can't say there is something in the system was problematic. However, if the system can have a kind of full integration with Google Apps, it would be something helpful for teachers.

PROS: Skolera has so flexible and easy to use tools for creating course content and adding extra academic resources. It has a wonderful and intuitive role-based interface and navigation. All navigation tools are clear from teacher and student perspective. I also admire the effective communication the system gives me. I love being in touch with parents and get them involved in their children education.

CONS: I don't think there are too much; however, enhancing the exam and quiz engine would be a huge plus.