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Feature Set Ratings
Student and Faculty Administration
SchoolSpeak
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
9.2
Veracross
92%
Veracross ranks higher in 12/12 features
Veracross ranks higher in 12/12 features
Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology
N/A
0 Ratings
9.2
92%
5 Ratings
Online Registration Management
N/A
0 Ratings
9.3
93%
4 Ratings
District Communications, such as messaging and alerting
N/A
0 Ratings
8.9
89%
5 Ratings
Roster Management
N/A
0 Ratings
9.2
92%
5 Ratings
Platform Customization
N/A
0 Ratings
8.3
83%
5 Ratings
Teacher Self-Service
N/A
0 Ratings
9.5
95%
4 Ratings
Student Data Security
N/A
0 Ratings
9.6
96%
5 Ratings
Community Support
N/A
0 Ratings
9.4
94%
5 Ratings
Class Scheduling
N/A
0 Ratings
9.5
95%
4 Ratings
State and National-level Reporting
N/A
0 Ratings
9.3
93%
3 Ratings
Compliance Support
N/A
0 Ratings
9.3
93%
4 Ratings
Teacher and Parent Mobile Application
N/A
0 Ratings
9.5
95%
4 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- SchoolSpeak is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
SchoolSpeak
100%
1 Rating
9.2
Veracross
92%
9 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
SchoolSpeak
N/A
0 Ratings
9.1
Veracross
91%
1 Rating
Support Rating
SchoolSpeak
N/A
0 Ratings
9.1
Veracross
91%
1 Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
SchoolSpeak
Specifically speaking, SchoolSpeak is best used and only really utilized in education. From K-12 it serves a great purpose in terms of parent interaction and direct communication with parents about child performance, attendance, and scores in school. At younger ages, I think it will be even more appropriate for it to be used to create strictly parent platforms for helping them enroll in things they can do at home for their kids, teach their own children, and monitor their own children—especially if they are stay-at-home parents, homeschooling, or the children are not enrolled in school yet. I think a great idea would be creating a parent portal for newborns with daily activities to do from birth through age three, when they may go to pre-school. This is the only additional option I think that SchoolSpeak could serve.
Virtual Enterprise Coordinator/Educator
NYC Department of Education / Francis Lewis High SchoolEducation Management, 201-500 employees
Veracross
Veracross is software that can be highly recommended to anyone in the education industry. Veracross offers a breadth of services varying from administration to student-parent communication. The unique abilities that Veracross offers such as email reminders, attendance management, billing, and payment processing, and attendance tracking have made my job as an administrative support manager so much easier and more productive here at Teachables.
Administrative Support Manager
TeachablesEducation Management, 5001-10,000 employees
Pros
SchoolSpeak
- One thing it does well is one of the tools it incorporation, volunteer forms. These forms work for parents, teachers, and students. One of the hardest things to do is to get confirmation sign-ups and support. This streamlines the process of organizing events.
- The gradebook interface is easy to use and understand. In order to take attendance, complete grades and give assignments, SchoolSpeak actually is an easy platform to learn and is smoothly integrated.
- Archiving of past classes is easy to do and important because schools need to retain records for a long time after students have moved on.
- The platform lets you organize students and find them quickly by graduation.
Virtual Enterprise Coordinator/Educator
NYC Department of Education / Francis Lewis High SchoolEducation Management, 201-500 employees
Veracross
- mobile-friendly portal for staffulty, parents, and students
- built-in or easy-to-configure integration with other systems (for example, RankOne and Naviance)
- targeted messaging based on data within the system
- "where is student now?" is one-click away

Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology
Education Management Company, 201-500 employeesCons
SchoolSpeak
- It can definitely have room for improvement in the design and template options. Using a more appealing layout like WIX or WEEBLY offer, but integrating the school speak platform into it would be a wonderful layout and great functionality.
- I would love to see social media integration. For business courses and media courses, there should be the ability to have social platforms connect directly and load within ShcoolSpeak. Social Media is the newest marketing strategy and it is left out of functionality here.
- Custom font downloads would make the design much easier and more attractive. The fonts they allow you to use are basic and overly common.
Virtual Enterprise Coordinator/Educator
NYC Department of Education / Francis Lewis High SchoolEducation Management, 201-500 employees
Veracross
- In the development module, it is often hard to pull reports because there are so many ways to do it. I work around that by saving reports I often pull so I don’t have to constantly rebuild reports.
- The communications module, Composer, needs a major upgrade. It is not very user-friendly and there are not ways to edit or design modern and good-looking emails and newsletters. Not a lot of formatting options.
Director of Institutional Advancement
Brooklyn Heights Montessori SchoolEducation Management, 51-200 employees
Pricing Details
SchoolSpeak
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Veracross
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Likelihood to Renew
SchoolSpeak
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Veracross
Veracross 9.1
Based on 1 answer
We will continue to use Veracross for the simple fact that we have one database across all of the departments in our school. Veracross continues to listen to customer feedback and improve and enhance the system.
Database Administrator/Systems Specialist
Durham AcademyPrimary/Secondary Education, 201-500 employees
Support Rating
SchoolSpeak
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Veracross
Veracross 9.1
Based on 1 answer
LOVE the Technical Response Team - the first line of help at Veracross. I can quickly submit a ticket and receive a response knowing that they have looked in our system and know what we are trying to do! Our account manager is also amazing! So nice to have a person within the company who knows our school and our needs!
Database Administrator/Systems Specialist
Durham AcademyPrimary/Secondary Education, 201-500 employees
Alternatives Considered
SchoolSpeak
Moodle Rooms is a free platform but involves the need to be computer savvy. It is easy to use as well as SchoolSpeak. However, SchoolSpeak does have a direct communication platform with parents something that Moodle does not currently offer. This itself is a huge competitive advantage. The comparison then becomes, would you like to do less work but purchase SchoolSpeak, or do more work using multiple platforms but they are free. The SchoolSpeak platform does offer much more for the investment. Longer term and with full school integration, the investment is worth it. If you were to mandate using a platform, it should be SchoolSpeak because there are fewer risks associated with having to coach and education teachers, and less risk of complaints.
Virtual Enterprise Coordinator/Educator
NYC Department of Education / Francis Lewis High SchoolEducation Management, 201-500 employees
Veracross
Veracross has better built-in integrations with other platforms/systems. IT is much simpler and easy to use. It keeps records in a much simpler way and can be accessed through different modes of reporting. It is very easy to keep track of the progress in any training, project, or assignment with Veracross.

Verified User
Employee in Finance and Accounting
Accounting Company, 1001-5000 employeesReturn on Investment
SchoolSpeak
- Positively speaking, it has a positive ROI. Although expensive, the platform does solve issues that we as educators have in giving parents daily information about their child in school. It is difficult to email all parents or call all parents, but a one-click platform really saves time and is worth the investment.
- Negatively, there is a cost associated, and therefore, sometimes teachers can be given more work instead of buying a platform like this. Using other free tools could be more time consuming but cheaper.
- Using School Speak we have seen parent involvement increase.
Virtual Enterprise Coordinator/Educator
NYC Department of Education / Francis Lewis High SchoolEducation Management, 201-500 employees
Veracross
- Not sure, but our school has been using it for years, so it must be worth it. Veracross is good about updating and adding features.
Technology Coordinator, Junior Kindergarten-Grade 12
Louisville Collegiate SchoolEducation Management, 51-200 employees