Jenzabar ONE vs. Skyward Student Management System

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Jenzabar ONE
Score 9.4 out of 10
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Jenzabar ONE is a complete management platform for higher ed featuring modules for student registration and advising, student life and events, human resources, fundraising and tuition, and also eLearning module with student portal and mobile app.N/A
Skyward Student Management System
Score 7.7 out of 10
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Skyward, headquartered in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, offers the Skyward Student Management System, a k-12 student information system which provides classroom tools (e.g. gradebook, attendance tracking, etc), Family Engagement tools with portal, as well as admin and student services task management.N/A
Pricing
Jenzabar ONESkyward Student Management System
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Jenzabar ONESkyward Student Management System
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
Jenzabar ONESkyward Student Management System
Student and Faculty Administration
Comparison of Student and Faculty Administration features of Product A and Product B
Jenzabar ONE
7.9
7 Ratings
8% below category average
Skyward Student Management System
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Ratings
Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology7.46 Ratings00 Ratings
Online Registration Management8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
District Communications, such as messaging and alerting8.15 Ratings00 Ratings
Roster Management7.65 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Customization7.55 Ratings00 Ratings
Teacher Self-Service6.74 Ratings00 Ratings
Student Data Security9.17 Ratings00 Ratings
Community Support8.76 Ratings00 Ratings
Class Scheduling8.55 Ratings00 Ratings
State and National-level Reporting8.55 Ratings00 Ratings
Compliance Support8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Teacher and Parent Mobile Application6.22 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Jenzabar ONESkyward Student Management System
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(10 ratings)
7.0
(12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
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10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
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9.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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10.0
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User Testimonials
Jenzabar ONESkyward Student Management System
Likelihood to Recommend
Jenzabar, Inc.
Jenzabar ONE is strongly suited for an all-in one solution for higher ed. The modern web-based platform make it efficient for end users. An institution that wants a full communication platform to connect with students, Jenzabar is the right product for your school. As with any product, development with Jenzabar One continues which is a good thing but also may cause some schools to want more features more quickly.
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Skyward
Skyward SMS is well suited as a Student Management System for anyone who wants to drive their organization based on data. The capabilities of using the fields available as well as adding our own custom forms make data collection extremely easy. Reporting abilities take that data and allow us to make sense of what has been collected
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Pros
Jenzabar, Inc.
  • Advising
  • Quicker processing
  • Easy to use
  • Great to see student full academic history
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Skyward
  • It's a helpful way to hold and organize a large database of information. This is helpful when working at a school with a large number of students and when there is a need to pull up one specific student and see all of their information, past and present, in one place.
  • Helpful way to organize and track student and staff meal purchases.
  • Easy to track student grades and post comments about student performance.
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Cons
Jenzabar, Inc.
  • Almost every module requires extensive training and building to have it function for your institution.
  • Some of the automated housing matchings is difficult to set up and must be changed each semester.
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Skyward
  • I would love to see teachers have a more user-friendly dashboard for each student where there were icons/buttons that could be pushed to take you to that student's IEP, grades, etc. It's all on a sidebar now, but some thing you have to do a few click-thru's to get to. Overall I have very few critiques of Skyward.
  • I would like something that communicates more with parents of how to maximize their use of Skyward. For the not-so digitally inclined parents, it can be a bit intimidating to navigate this database system.
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Likelihood to Renew
Jenzabar, Inc.
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Skyward
Skyward is our core system, we are most likely going to be using it for some time
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Usability
Jenzabar, Inc.
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Skyward
Used by more than 1500 staff users in my district. Also used by 30000 parents.
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Support Rating
Jenzabar, Inc.
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Skyward
Overall great job, issues were taken care of. People in support do care.
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Implementation Rating
Jenzabar, Inc.
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Skyward
Yes, I was part of the implementation team.
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Alternatives Considered
Jenzabar, Inc.
While I'm familiar with many other SIS in higher education, J1 is the only one currently in use
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Skyward
I think Skyward does really well compared to Infinite Campus. They both have the capability to see students’ information, behavior history, and academic history from the district. However, Infinite Campus has a slight edge on the grade book in the way that it can customize a grade book to meet our needs.
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Return on Investment
Jenzabar, Inc.
  • We have not taken full advantage of all the modules that Jenzabar One provides yet. However, in news releases and product documents many improvements have been made.
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Skyward
  • Skyward can be confusing for staff if they have never used it before as it is not intuitive therefore someone has to go over how to use it to new staff. Sometimes this can take weeks to a whole year to understand where to go.
  • Skyward has increased issues with rostering for online services due to the fields not updating properly. This has caused weeks of headache for the technology department.
  • Skyward does not have a Google integration so we have to buy a middle software to create users, groups, etc.
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