PowerSchool eSchoolPLUS vs. Read&Write

It is well suited for Charter Schools. I say charter schools because most charts are built from the ground up, and using a specific set of tools from PowerSchool will help all departments to work seamlessly together. The hardest part of the education process is being able to track your own payroll, PD, overtime hours, emails and messages, grades and documentation for students. Schools in perpetual existence have a hard time converting all their documents and processes to a brand new portal. However, new schools, private schools, charter schools, even new online universities would have an easier and much more effective time purchasing and using every single tool that comes from PowerSchool. I believe that it is bigger than just using eSchoolPLUS for education, but using efinance, and atrieve are important also. In terms of eSchoolPLUS it is useful in all schools because it does make the teacher's jobs easier. Managing curriculum, lesson and grade data is quick and easy and engagement is relatively simple on the website and on my mobile iPhone.

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Read&Write works beautifully as a universally designed support tool for all of our students to access the curriculum. It supports student productivity, allowing for them to complete their work quicker and easier (i.e. fewer keystrokes with word prediction, voice typing and ability to listen to text read back. It provides embedded support for students who need some assistance with reading and writing.

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• One-stop resource for student data, from test scores to medical alerts.
• Parent information, including contact and custody details, are readily accessible.
• Clean and easy-to-use format makes finding what you need very easy.

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• Read&Write works well with Word in Office 365 (we are a Microsoft board)
• Read&Write is excellent in the speech to text and text to speech areas.
• We love the prediction tool, especially for users whop are apprehensive to dictate yet still require spelling support.
• We love the collect highlights feature, especially when we are researching a webpage in order to write a research paper.
• We love the summarize tool!

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• It can be difficult to find information when first beginning with it.
• It can take many steps to perform one task.
• Can run slowly on certain networks.

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• The tool is a bit tough to learn in the beginning.
• Tips and tricks can be sprinkled throughout the process, and Apple has tips on learning about the iPhone.
• If a representative could be available to help onboard you onto the tool.

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I think it is an amazing, comprehensive tool that is easy for students to understand and use to improve their school performance

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Extremely user friendly and easy to use

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This would be the same reasoning as in the previous question. It is all about having enough bandwidth to run it across your district and buildings.

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Highly available

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Reports do run in a reasonable amount of time based upon the number of entries you are working with. You are also able to continue working on other areas while the report is being created so your device is not tied up during this process.

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Integrates well and quickly

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The support team at Texthelp is excellent. They're all super helpful and open to feedback and new ideas. Still, more importantly, they are ultimately fully committed to aligning with us and ensuring they help us provide the best education possible. Furthermore, they're open to new features and always communicate this incredibly well.

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Still trying to get all schools and teachers to buy in that students need this access

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PowerSchool eSchoolPLUS effectively allowed for access to all data, while enabling links to other critical PowerSchool platforms like Kickboard, Enrollment, and other software platforms.

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Read&Write is better because all the tools are in one place vs Kami which is mostly just a PDF reader and annotation tool. Orbitnote is comparable to Kami so I wish that were included within Read&Write. We also have had our IT team thoroughly review Read&Write and it meets our software governance standards

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There are days when PowerSchool can be very slow when loading. You definitely have to make sure you have the bandwidth in your district to run the platform appropriately.

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Easy to use

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• Our Return on Investment is high, as it makes our jobs easier, allowing us more time to troubleshoot and train staff instead of digging for student information.
• Overall our business objective is to store and access student information quickly, efficiently, and securely. eSchoolPLUS allows us to do that.
• eSchoolPLUS has no negative impact on our ROI. Sometimes, after an update, there is a learning curve and bug fixes that need to be worked around, but in general, it is a great product and there is little downtime for our organization.

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• It helps boost student engagement and confidence. Using the text reader allows students to complete the assignment with confidence.
• The highlighter and collector support claims, evidence, and reasoning when writing evidence-based essays.
• Teachers can prerecord directions for absent students so they don't fall behind.

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