Illuminate Data & Assessment (DnA) vs. Indeed Assessments

I think it is well suited for K-12 schools, especially for tracking student growth over time. The ability to easily upload state assessment results and produce pre-built reports provides teachers actionable data. The online assessment system is more appropriate for secondary (grades 6-12) students in our district due to the types of assessments our elementary (K-5) students complete. I have some experience with other systems and think that the illuminate software offers more flexibility in the types of data that can be stored.

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I would like it better if we could have the option to customize the questions in Indeed Assessments. It does save us time in screening, but I think it would be much better if we could have the option to customize and better construct the questions for candidates.

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• Easy to use
• Item banks
• Outstanding customer service.
• Reasonable pricing models.
• Integrates well with student info systems.

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• Saves time
• Efficient
• Easy to Use

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• Tech support seemed good but our main issue was never resolved. We received attention and someone was working on our issue, but they could never figure out why our student count was off for 1 grade level even though they said our data looked great.
• The customized reports were powerful, but there was so much to learn for the average administrative user, like a principal, to get the detailed data they need. You would have to have a dedicated person to create customized reports.
• At some point, our representative just stopped calling and there was no further contact. Then our rep left the company and the new rep only sent one email notifying us of the change. That was almost a year ago.

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• Customization
• Limited Options for some positions

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Illuminate DnA is a very usable system. A few items to learn and set up can be a bit time-consuming. However, once set up it is easy to use and powerful for a school that staff can master quickly. It has more features then we actually use but I hope we will over time.

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Our issue was never resolved so that we could use the software to produce accurate reports. Their tech department looked into the issue several times and could never figure out why our student was off and then they just closed the case. They confirmed we were performing the correct steps to load the data and they confirmed our data looked accurate. Great, but again why was our student count off?

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Overall, support is good. It helps our operation to get better candidates, saves time and effort. It provides an extra step to help screen better candidates without putting in too much effort.

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Illuminate DnA offers more flexibility and additional features that our previous Data Director system offered. We were looking for a system that offered an online assessment portal and the ability to create elementary standard-based report cards when we selected the illuminate DnA software. We were impressed with the ability to easily create custom reports and liked the comprehensive student profile page.

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Indeed has more options when it comes to the competition. I have not seen specific questions for each job while using Glassdoor or ZipRecruiter. You can manually create questions on those websites to screen candidates manually but Indeed does the screening for you. It is more robust and easy to use for employers and candidates.

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• Better handle on student achievement.
• Clarity around achievements on specific standards.

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• Saves Time
• More Efficient

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