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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Frontline Professional Growth

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AFrontline Education offers a learning management system focusing on the development goals of teachers, in Frontline Professional Growth.N/A

    Jive

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AJive Software, part of the Aurea family of customer experience solutions, provides the gateway to an organization's most important assets – its knowledge and people. Jive's interactive intranet solution promises to connect people, information and ideas to help businesses outpace their competitors. The vendor says the product has more than 30 million users worldwide across every industry, and is consistently recognized as a leader by top analyst firms.N/A
    Pricing
    Frontline Professional GrowthJive
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Frontline Professional GrowthJive
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Frontline Professional GrowthJive
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of Frontline Professional Growth and Jive
    Feature
    Frontline Professional Growth
    9.0
    4 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Jive
    -
    Ratings
    Course authoring9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Course catalog or library9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Player/Portal10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning content9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile friendly7.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Assignments9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance management9.74 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning administration9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social learning8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Frontline Professional GrowthJive
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (37 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (17 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.1
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    6.9
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Frontline Professional GrowthJive
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Frontline Education
    This is perfect for the district looking to convert older physical forms to digital copies, and mitigate the tracking of forms from desk to desk. Frontline will do it all digitally. Those in the approval process can approve or deny, or even ask for more information, which sends the form back to the user who submitted it. This is also good for those looking for a way to manage professional development in their district and all that comes with it, including tracking workshops, awarding hours, etc. Most districts use Frontline programs somewhere, so this is another piece to that. However, this is cost-heavy.
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    Aurea
    It's definitely worth considering Jive for the type of application we've developed i.e. a central shared repository for all employees to host and discuss information. I can't say I have ever used a superior tool, but they may exist. I'm just not sure I would want to use it exclusively for file hosting, though. It does integrate with various other tools, so perhaps it would be fine if used in conjunction with another tool for that purpose.
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    Pros
    Frontline Education
    • Frontline Professional Growth is set up to organize and document all aspects of a teacher's evaluation. Artifacts are archived and can be used in multiple areas.
    • SGOs, observations, PDPs, and documentation logs can all be shared between the staff member and the administration.
    • The forms are easy to fill out, can be saved as drafts in progress, and can be referred to from year to year.
    • The Professional Development Workshop section offers a calendar of workshops in catalog format as well as calendar format.
    • As a workshop presenter, enrollment tools are easy to use and offer multiple ways to access your roster.
    • As a workshop participant, workshops are listed as in progress and completed. Hours are tabulated and saved each year.
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    Aurea
    • Individual design
    • Presence of Russian language (localization can be independently established)
    • You can configure several information tapes with different themes. One for work, the second for communication
    • A newly-arrived network user immediately receives a prepared block for beginners. After completing several game tasks, the user will receive the basics of using Jive.
    • There is a template for each scenario. There is even a template for planning R&D, and there are more than twenty of them.
    • Integrates with MS Office, Google Drive, Google Docs
    • There are all platforms (even Winphone and blackberry)
    • You can create forum threads
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    Cons
    Frontline Education
    • Confusing sign-on processes.
    • AESOP (absence management) is not integrated with Professional Growth as advertised.
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    Aurea
    • Search functionality is very weak
    • The information architecture and taxonomy doesnt allow for easy discoverability of content
    • It's hard to navigate the and find spaces/groups that I already know about
    • The main profile/interface does not allow easy access to key tasks or common tasks.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Frontline Education
    No answers on this topic
    Aurea
    There are always external factors that can impact this decision but currently, the Jive platform is maintaining its lead in the market place in this area. If the innovation in this space by Jive continues, then this number will remain high. Integration with other systems and adaptability to changes in the market or in client needs will also make this decision hard to predict more then 6 months into the future
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    Usability
    Frontline Education
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    Aurea
    It was harder to use that expected. The admin needs to be code savvy to truly customize the system. And users need to trained on the system and the setup. Trainings and monitoring need to continue to enforce use.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Frontline Education
    No answers on this topic
    Aurea
    Uptime was OK. But there was one day that the system crashed for a whole day. Our company was unable to operate. And all the plugins to word/excel froze causing those systems to freeze.

    Jive posted a statement to the media saying all customers were up, but we were not.
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    Performance
    Frontline Education
    No answers on this topic
    Aurea
    The product worked as designed. It just didn't work for our needs.
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    Support Rating
    Frontline Education
    Overall, Frontline Professional Growth manages observations, SGOs, documentation logs, and Professional Development Plans. In addition to these evaluation pieces, it allows our district to manage our Professional Development Workshops (in-house), Professional Development requests (for out-of-district), and many online request forms. The only real negative is that some of the menus are a bit cumbersome, and it takes several steps to get around the system.
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    Aurea
    They did an OK job when I needed them. Except for the one day the system went down. Jive pointed the finger at the hosting company, and the hosting company pointed the finger at Jive. No reliable information came to us.
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    Online Training
    Frontline Education
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    Aurea
    Jive online training is there. It is OK/average. I feel some other companies are doing better. It is not a piece that is required to have a successfully implementation, but it could be useful to improve it
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    Implementation Rating
    Frontline Education
    No answers on this topic
    Aurea
    If I did this over, I would hire out the implementation. They know the best practices and could have guided us to make an easier to use setup.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Frontline Education
    I have only used this and GCN trainings. I think it helps having more choices that hold value to your work day.
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    Aurea
    We had a Google phone number set up before and Jive was a lot better option than that. It is more consistent and can be configured much easier and with more advanced settings. Additionally, based on the pricing as well as working with the rep on our account, it was a perfect option for us
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    Return on Investment
    Frontline Education
    • We have used a lot less paper over the past few years which leads to cost savings.
    • The time it takes to submit a form and get approval has sped up since this is all digital.
    • The time it takes to track and award professional development hours has sped up.
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    Aurea
    • reduce email traffic
    • reduce amount of files/documents scattered & lost across shared drives
    • increased discovery, awareness and interaction of historically more separated individuals & team functions across the organisation
    • from an IT perspective, we've benefited from improved IT operations (e.g. troubleshooting info shared and easily searched/found with all team members - such that even junior team members can solve technical problems outside of business hours, lessening the burden for standby/call-in for more senior team members)
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    ScreenShots

    Jive Screenshots

    Screenshot of Jive's Interactive Intranet software provides a single platform for employee collaboration without complication.