Senior Systems, from Community Brands vs. Infinite Campus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Senior Systems, from Community Brands
Score 4.0 out of 10
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Senior Systems, a Community Brands company since 2016, offers their school management system oriented around the needs of K-12 private and independent schools, including the modular Ascendance database for student data and admissions management (among other ancillary features), and the Radius platform to integrate Admissions, Accounting, Academics and Advancement.N/A
Infinite Campus
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Infinite Campus headquartered in Blaine offers their student information system (SIS) to educational institutions, boasting onboarding support, parent and student portal, grade book and academic planner, and access to the platform's inbuilt LMS Campus Learning.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Senior Systems, from Community BrandsInfinite Campus
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Top Pros
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Features
Senior Systems, from Community BrandsInfinite Campus
Student and Faculty Administration
Comparison of Student and Faculty Administration features of Product A and Product B
Senior Systems, from Community Brands
6.4
1 Ratings
28% below category average
Infinite Campus
8.6
5 Ratings
1% above category average
Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology4.01 Ratings8.53 Ratings
Online Registration Management7.01 Ratings9.34 Ratings
District Communications, such as messaging and alerting6.01 Ratings8.44 Ratings
Roster Management8.01 Ratings8.75 Ratings
Platform Customization9.01 Ratings7.65 Ratings
Student Data Security7.01 Ratings9.34 Ratings
Community Support5.01 Ratings8.54 Ratings
Class Scheduling7.01 Ratings9.54 Ratings
Compliance Support5.01 Ratings9.64 Ratings
Teacher Self-Service00 Ratings7.25 Ratings
State and National-level Reporting00 Ratings8.84 Ratings
Teacher and Parent Mobile Application00 Ratings7.65 Ratings
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User Ratings
Senior Systems, from Community BrandsInfinite Campus
Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
(1 ratings)
8.4
(19 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
Senior Systems, from Community BrandsInfinite Campus
Likelihood to Recommend
Community Brands
Senior Systems school software is great for small schools looking for a software package that can be implemented across many departments in the school at a reasonable price. Senior Systems does offer on boarding and training to help learn the system but continuing training is difficult though also necessary. Senior's admissions software modules leave much to be desired though they have purchased Ravenna which offers a top-of-the-line option that blends very well with Senior.
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Infinite Campus
Infinite Campus is very easy to use when it comes to looking up personal student information as well as taking attendance. However, it is less suited for making it easy for users to find specific language testing data, ensuring the viewer feels confident in finding the correct webpage based on what they are looking for as well as being properly set up for the viewer to feel confident in arranging a progress report easily as well as quickly. Lastly, Infinite Campus could better enable the user to copy progress reports in bulk versus the current set up of having to go into each student's progress report individually to print.
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Pros
Community Brands
  • A broad-based, unified platform that can be used in many areas across campus.
  • Robust database that is very customizable.
  • A web-based platform that can be used on any device.
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Infinite Campus
  • It is very clean (not cluttered with information and buttons)
  • It keeps all personal information in one spot
  • The message center is helpful, and it is easy to see when there is a new message
  • The breakdown of attendance is done very well
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Cons
Community Brands
  • Outdated look and feel for internal and external customers.
  • Somewhat complicated and tough to learn; it's not very intuitive.
  • Customer service response times and support leave something to be desired.
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Infinite Campus
  • The Gradebook is just so busy, even though it does contain all the grades/information you need, I find it very hard to find data/information just because of the sheer numbers and drop downs that I have to go through to get to what I want.
  • Not very user-friendly for first time users - takes many tries and searching around to get to where you want. Gets easier as you use it, but they could attempt to make it more user-friendly for the novice/first time users.
  • I'd like to see the drop-down menu for the classes broken up into separate folders/files for each group (ie. ELA, Social Studies, Science, Math). Then it wouldn't be just rows and rows of classes that make my eyes run them all together and hard to find the ONE I am looking for.
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Support Rating
Community Brands
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Infinite Campus
I haven't reached out to Infinite Campus for technical support. We have in-school people who are trained to help us out in the event of a problem. We have had a couple of times where the system has gone down unexpectedly, but our school IT professionals were able to sort it out.
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Alternatives Considered
Community Brands
On the admissions front, SchoolAdmin beats the Senior Admissions module hands down for ease of use, performance, customer service, and reliability. We have had no downtime issues with Senior but regularly experienced downtime issues with Senior. School Admin is also very intuitive and easy to learn and use. Senior has a much steeper learning curve.
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Infinite Campus
Synergy, PowerSchool. Infinite Campus was definitely the "Cadillac" when looking at other systems. Other systems look and felt clunky when stacked against Infinite Campus. Although the company is not local, they FEEL and ACT as though they are right next door.
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Return on Investment
Community Brands
  • A fairly priced system.
  • [The] convenience of having to manage only one system and database.
  • Senior is long overdue for an update and refresh to make it look modern and to make it more easy and intuitive to use.
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Infinite Campus
  • Infinite Campus helped us to successfully meet our goals in the last Strategic Plan of establishing an electronic communication framework for academic progress between the district and parents.
  • Issues with integration, or lack thereof, has resulted in loss of productivity and ultimately revenue since countless hours are dedicated to grading inputs that would have otherwise been spent on fulfilling other institution needs.
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