Skyward Student Management System vs. Tyler SIS

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

When it comes to tracking grades and attendance or even just entering grades and attendance, this has been the best system I have used in fifteen years in education. The administrative side has many features and tools that allow us as a school or district to identify students that would benefit from specific interventions. Overall, it has been a great product for us. I am not aware of any scenarios where Tyler SIS is less appropriate than other products.

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.

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• Keeps information secure, safe, and encrypted.
• Student information is easy to navigate when needed by authorized users.
• Allows for teachers to have their classes organized to take attendance easily.

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• 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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• So many features, many we don't know how to use.
• We have had regular issues with the website not working.
• Comment system for report cards needs sorting (or a search option).

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.

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Yes, I was part of the implementation team.

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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

I am not familiar with another software system as I have only been in the organization when they have used Tyler SIS

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

• There are so many features that we have not had to buy additional products (so it saves us money).
• Tyler SIS also makes things easier for parents by consolidating all information they need.
• There have been many times where the website has been down, and it essentially shuts us down until the issue is resolved.

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