Skyward Student Management System vs. SplashLearn

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

Incentivized

Following the pandemic students are made to sit in their computers all day absorbing learning, we as educators have little time to assess what they have learned, and students are often overloaded with information. The SplashLearn is like the moment in class when everyone zooms out of their auto-mode and gets active in class to compete. The students love playing, learning, and checking their skills along the way.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• SplashLearn makes the learning process easy and simple to follow in a linear fashion.
• SplashLearn makes math more interesting than typical textbooks.
• SplashLearn does a good job at gamifying the learning process.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• A few additional learning materials could be provided along the games
• The gaming kept simpler, because sometimes it gets complicated.
• There sometimes are glitch in showing the grades for students.

Incentivized

Skyward is our core system, we are most likely going to be using it for some time

Incentivized

Used by more than 1500 staff users in my district. Also used by 30000 parents.

Incentivized

Overall great job, issues were taken care of. People in support do care.

Incentivized

Yes, I was part of the implementation team.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

The free usage of SplashLearn, coupled with the extensive coverage of math topics from kindergarten to grade 5 puts it ahead of competitors.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• I think SplashLearn has increased the speed at which my children learn mathematics, and thereby has been a positive ROI.
• I think SplashLearn has improved my kids' desire to learn mathematics and as such has had a positive ROI.
• I think SplashLearn has been a negative ROI at times because it shifts attention from learning the core aspects of mathematics to playing games. My kids love to play games, but sometimes it doesn't work to play them all the time in order to learn the material.

Incentivized