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Jenzabar ONE

Score8.9 out of 10

18 Reviews and Ratings

What is Jenzabar ONE?

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.

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Top Performing Features

  • District Communications, such as messaging and alerting

    The platform supports communications district-wide and/or with between specific individuals. Examples include alerts, announcements, and direct messaging between faculty and parents.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Student Data Security

    The system has security checks and technology in place to prevent unauthorized access to, editing of, or leaking of sensitive student data

    Category average: 9.1

  • Teacher and Parent Mobile Application

    Teachers and parents can use a mobile application to access their students' data and update some information remotely.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Compliance Support

    The effectiveness of resources, tools, and in-platform processes for maintaining and demonstrating regulatory compliance.

    Category average: 8.5

  • State and National-level Reporting

    The system provides prebuilt reports or build-your-own reporting tools for necessary state and national-level reports.

    Category average: 8.8

  • Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology

    The student management system can send and receive data from other educational systems with little to no manual steps required.

    Category average: 7.9

Who Buys & Uses Jenzabar ONE

Powerful and Reliable You Will be Pleased

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Jenzabar ONE as the main system for managing our students' information and daily operations across our campus. We track student records, manage housing assignments, check-ins, and occupancy. Jenzabar ONE allows us to communicate and coordinate between departments. We are also able to monitor student activity and updates in one central place. Problems it helped solve were too many separate systems, lack of communication between departments, and manually tracking student data.

Pros

  • It keeps all student information in one place.
  • It supports housing and Residence Life operations.
  • It connects departments across campus
  • It helps with reporting and tracking
  • It really helps to improve our accountability.

Cons

  • It can be confusing for new staff.
  • A lot of tasks require staff to remember to enter or update information.
  • It doesn't always send alerts or reminders automatically.

Return on Investment

  • It has had a positive return on investment, mainly through time savings, better coordination, and fewer errors.
  • Staffing has less reliance on manual tracking.
  • New staff require onboarding and system training.

Usability

Jenzabar ONE Helps You Get Your Work Done Quickly

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I currently use Jenzabar for assigning rooms, changing room assignments, checking registration status, checking gpas, checking contact information, and putting charges on accounts for disciplinary fines. It has helped me to be more productive because everything is self-explanatory and not difficult to navigate. The modules all work together so if I'm in one and have to go to another, all I have to do is choose "Previous Name" without having to key in the name to look the resident up all over again. This alone saves me lots of time when I have hundreds of residents to work with.

Pros

  • The modules work together to save time.
  • Retrieval of data is very quick.
  • It supports data extraction and reporting for institutional research and assessment purposes.
  • It enables staff to track students and progress.

Cons

  • Many of the canned reports need to be customized to use efficiently, which can be time-consuming.

Return on Investment

  • A positive impact for us was the ability for all departments to work with students at the same time.
  • Jenzabar has provided a unified system that ensures consistent, accurate, and timely information across campus.
  • It has improved communication and coordination between departments.
  • The platform has reduced the amount of manual work required for daily tasks.
  • By connecting student information, housing details, academic records, and administrative workflows in one place, it has strengthened our ability to make informed decisions.
  • Jenzabar has streamlined processes that previously required multiple systems or extensive paperwork.

Usability

User friendly, user approved

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I currently work in the Office of Student Life & Learning, utilizing the Student Life and Housing modules in my work with students and our conduct process. I was previously in the Registrar's Office, using the Registration, Advising, and Retention modules. Jenzabar ONE provides one system by which all administrative departments on campus can access the same basic student data that may be necessary to their processes, but at the same time have a module unique to the functions and processes of their specific department. This allows for independent office efficiency but also smooth collaboration of shared data as necessary, which allows for increased timeliness and effectiveness in joint projects. I have always been pleased by the intuitive functionality within each system that allows for easy user onboarding, as well as navigation and work within them.

Pros

  • Creates products with the end user processes in mind.
  • Provides top tier customer support.
  • Creates pathways for user feedback and engagement in suggestions for future functionality.

Cons

  • Many modules have been moved to web-based systems, but have lingering functionality in desktop installed software. This can create some frustrating when having to work in two places to get work done.

Return on Investment

  • Jenzabar ONE and its system allows for users to have the data needed right at our fingertips.
  • Jenzabar ONE has provided a means to create accountability for student support processes and improved student retention efforts.

J1 Recent Upgrade

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We've been Jenzabar clients for years and are just now upgrading to J1. As our main SIS, we rely on J1 for all of our student needs, reporting, and processing. We utilize this system to ensure our students have access to the information needed through JICS as well as accurate and timely registration processes.

Pros

  • Compiles Student Information
  • Quick Schedule Rollover
  • Multiple Term Options

Cons

  • Quicker functionality
  • Snapshot view of student

Return on Investment

  • Positive in viewing, adding, and delete large groups of data at once

Highly Recommend Jenzabar ONE

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently have partially implemented the Advising in Jenzabar ONE. It is so easy to see the advisees, their history, what is needed to complete degree requirements. As long as the trees are set up correctly, degree audits are much simpler. Highly recommend this product and Jenzabar overall. I've worked with this company since 1998.

Pros

  • Advising
  • Quicker processing
  • Easy to use
  • Great to see student full academic history

Cons

  • I would like to see some additional filters in advising to pull up advisees, but overall - great
  • I would like to know how to see students on LOA

Return on Investment

  • Clears space on server for other applications used by other departments
  • Faculty can see their info which saves them time

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