Hivebrite vs. Schoolbox

Hivebrite is a great platform if you and your team do not want to manage a custom-built website - which can be both time-consuming and costly.

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Schoolboxn is well suited to being a school portal. You can manage user accounts, access to information and communicate to users individually or as a group. The pages allow for a great range of media types, you can use blog, forum or chat and embed videos and images easily. As an LMS, this system is great. Student accounts link to class information easily by the back end sync tools. Giving students instant access to their information. Assessments are easily submitted and feedback given by teachers can be viewed by students and parents.

A situation where this system is less suitable is if you work in a school that already has a dedicated portal and/or LMS.

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• Fast responding customer service with enthusiastic willingness to solve your tech problems.
• Continual upgrades to platform's UX/UI.
• Comprehensive support resources and articles.

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• Learning management
• Feedback management
• Communications - email/news posting

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• LMS - It would be great if native learning management system functions could be added to the platform.
• 1:1 Conversations - the private messaging feature could definitely be improved upon.
• Language integration - being able to translate comments and conversations on the platform would be helpful to our global audience.

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• User interface
• System search
• Quiz builder

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Mighty Networks is another platform that is insanely cheap but does not have any upgrade options.

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Canvas is purely an LMS. Whilst it is a good system, it didn’t allow us to manage parent communication or use it as a portal. In the end we didn’t want to manage 2 separate systems. Schoolbox is the only all in one system we found that stacked up. Other systems did the portal well, or the LMS well, but not both together.

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• The Hivebrite platform has taken our community from 0 to 2000+.

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• It’s a time saver for teachers as course information can be re-used
• User administration rules allows for automation
• Parent comms are centralised and easily managed

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