Frontline Professional Growth vs. UpGrad

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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1. Gives you holistic learning with a combination of lectures and assignments
2. Can be accessed via website and mobile application
3. You can download videos and watch them later
4. Overall it is a cost-effective tool
5. Their video player needs a lot of improvement. It keeps on buffering a lot and use a lot of data. Some additional features could be provided like fast-forwarding videos by 5 or 10 seconds

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• 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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• The courses library is too exhaustive
• It has partnerships with few of the most reputed universities in India and Globally
• Its a cost effective tool
• Provides the feature to download courses and watch later

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• Confusing sign-on processes.
• AESOP (absence management) is not integrated with Professional Growth as advertised.

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• The video player needs improvement
• Their mobile application gets stuck and can be made intutive
• Some courses can still be made cheaper

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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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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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1. It is relatively cheaper than Bjyu's which was a major deciding factor for going ahead with upGrad
2. UpGrad has partnerships with better universities in India and Globally as well
3. Their marketing team is better than Bjyu's
4. The mentor support provided during the course helps complete the courses faster and understand them better

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• 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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• The cost per session is good, justifies the ROI
• The progress report and reminders keeps us on your toes

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