Name: Jenzabar SONIS
Rating: 8.6 (6 reviews)
Author: Jenzabar, Inc.

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Trust Management

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Corporate Learning Management

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Stock Option Plan Administration

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A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

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Audience Engagement

Content Management

Cross-Channel Campaign Management

Email Marketing

Email Testing

Employee Advocacy

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Web Analytics

Wholesale Marketplace

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Job Site Management

Project Management

Waste Management

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Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

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Users have provided valuable recommendations based on their experiences with SONISWEB. One important suggestion is to carefully analyze how to adapt the software to fit your specific processes and budget, considering any necessary customizations. Another recommendation is to try out SONISWEB and seek feedback from someone who has used it before making a commitment. Lastly, users advise taking the time to explore all the features of SONISWEB and familiarize yourself with its layout. By following these recommendations, you can make an informed decision about utilizing SONISWEB effectively.

Unintuitive Administration: Users have consistently found the administration of the app to be unintuitive, with difficulties in managing and changing permissions. Some users expressed frustration with the lack of customization options within the system, often having to submit requests to support and pay for customization.

Difficulties in Finding Settings: Many users mentioned that there were too many similar categories of settings, making it hard to find the right setting. They also expressed that some settings required multiple changes instead of being consolidated in one place. This has led to a lack of documentation on how to use the software effectively, causing users to develop processes only to realize that certain steps should have been done in a different order for optimal use.

High Pricing and Cost: The pricing and cost of implementation were considered too high for the needs of some users, particularly for small technical colleges. This has resulted in frustrations as users feel they are not getting enough value for their investment.

Sonis is a cost-effective and customizable online Student Information System, or SIS, that meets the basic needs of small educational institutions. Despite some challenges in managing the app, users have found it valuable for various student data issues like attendance, grades, course registration, billing, and financial aid. One standout feature is the ability to easily search for people and access their information, which has been highly appreciated by users. Switching to Sonis as a web-based SIS has allowed users to automate many manual processes and save time.

By utilizing Sonis, educational institutions have been able to effectively manage their student bodies and improve student retention through automation. The platform has streamlined tasks like attendance tracking, grade entry, and administrative needs, simplifying the overall management process. It has also enhanced receivables tracking and improved organization for college registrars and institutional researchers. While the UI design may be outdated, the degree audit and registration functions work well.

Users have reported successful utilization of Sonis for maintaining contact with prospective students, managing student records, and generating reports. Additionally, they are looking forward to leveraging the application portion of Sonis to allow students easy access to their applications. The company behind Sonis has been responsive to user feedback and helpful in customizing the product to meet specific requirements.

Overall, Sonis is recommended for small to medium-sized colleges due to its wide range of student and course management tools. It offers a useful system once users become familiar with it. However, complete integration with other systems would be ideal for seamless operations. The product has been continuously enhanced by the company and remains a cost-effective solution for student administration needs. Sonis is valuable in managing data, ensuring privacy, storing information, and facilitating communication between faculty, staff, and students.

Jenzabar now offers SONIS, a student information system (SIS) oriented around the needs of smaller higher education institutions. Jenzabar supports the former SONISWEB product since its acquisition of original developer RJM Systems in 2015.

iGradePlus is a web-based gradebook and school management system offering a wide array of features for individual teachers, schools and districts. Features include student, class, and grade management, attendance and behavior tracking, custom report generation, and extensive student and parent communication features. Individual web portal accounts for students and parents are included with certain subscriptions at no additional cost.

Free Online Gradebook for Individual Teachers

Enterprise School Management System

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Jenzabar SONIS

Student management systems are used to help manage day-to-day operations of schools. The software handles a wide range of requirements including core student information and enrollment functions like admissions and on-boarding, attendance tracking, curriculum development, student assessment, reporting and medical information, as well as storing assessment information.

Student Management

Higher Education

Likelihood to Recommend

Usability

Student and Faculty Administration

Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology

Online Registration Management

District Communications, such as messaging and alerting

Roster Management

Platform Customization

Teacher Self-Service

Student Data Security

Community Support

Class Scheduling

State and National-level Reporting

Compliance Support

Teacher and Parent Mobile Application

Student Data

Aspects of student management that pertain to the storing and tracking students' data for easy and safe access.

Student Attendance Tracking

Teachers have the ability to track students' attendance and view historical attendance records.

Student Health Information

Teachers and administrators can see students' health information, such as allergies and other medical conditions.

Grade Book Management

Teachers can input, manage, and track students' grades within the student management system.

Student Background Records

Teachers and administrators are able to access and maintain student non-academic information, such as family, contact information

Student and Parent Portal

Students and parents can access and/or update their information via an online portal.

Transcript Management

The system automatically manages, updates and tracks students' transcripts over time.

Aspects of student management that entail faculty or administration's management of student data and related regulatory requirements.

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

The system supports administrative setup and management of registration processes, and allows students to register for classes online.

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

Faculty and administrators can view, edit, and update their class rosters effectively.

The student management system can be adjusted or customized to fit specific or unique needs of the school.

Teachers can easily navigate and work within the system without requiring IT personnel or specialized skills for recurring activities.

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

There are community resources from other users of the platform to help users troubleshoot and optimize their use of the system.

Administrators can easily set up and manage class schedules for the school prior to course registration windows.

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

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

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

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I use Jenzabar to maintain sessions for room assignments, to add disciplinary fines to accounts, to verify gpas, to check registration status, to check midterm and final grades, and to change rooms when needed.

Allows all offices to serve students better
Really easy to run reports when needed
Provides support and training

I haven't experienced any issues with functionality.

It has streamlined many administrative functions, such as student record management, registration, and reporting, which has improved data accuracy and operational efficiency.
Return on investment has been moderated by challenges such as limited customization.

Our small college uses Jenzabar SONIS daily for student management tasks. Students can see their schedules, required book lists, midterm and semester final grades, as well as fill out course evaluations on the online portal. Since our school is so small we do not utilize the online registration features, but SONIS does have that capability. Faculty can also see rosters, print photos of students, email or text their class or a portion of the class very easily within SONIS. Grades can be exported and imported from most LMS or hand-entered by faculty. SONIS has some LMS features as well, so if you are a very small school it has a lot of fabulous features and can save you the expense of having a separate LMS platform.

Great value
Built in reports are great, but it also has add on reporting that is fantastic.
Hosting they offer is phenomenal nearly no downtime, ever!

I wish they would hire more Customer Support.

The Online Application has helped us gain applicants.

Technical College of the Rockies uses Jenzabar SONIS as the Student Information System for the entire school. We used it for managing all student information including address, phone number, demographics, emergency contacts, and enrollment records. We also used it for all of our course records including course schedules, teachers, enrollment and grades. We did not use it for financial records. We imported all of our electronic records from our previous database and scanned and attached student records that had been in printed formats. This allowed us to have all of our student records in one place so we could more easily find both current and historical data.

Jenzabar SONIS provides tools for working with individuals from their first request for information through submitting an application, being accepted for admission, enrolling in courses, taking and completing courses, and graduating from the school. The available tools not only provide a way to manage the data, but also for ongoing communication between the school and the prospect/student/graduate.
Jenzabar SONIS allows a school the flexibility of enrolling students in individual courses, like you might have in adult education departments, or in programs and courses like you would find for students working on a degree. This flexibility made Jenzabar SONIS a valuable tool for us because we had not only certificate-seeking students but also a large Community Education Department and could use the same software for both.
Jenzabar SONIS has the tools to record attendance and grades directly into a gradebook or to import final grades. This allowed us to continue to use our LMS for those teachers who wanted the resources available in that system while letting teachers who just needed a place to store grades to enter them directly into SONIS.
The ability to attach pdfs to courses and individual records allowed us to scan many of our cumulative files from our archive and attach them to the alumni records in Jenzabar SONIS. This gave us more accessible, secure storage for our historical records and made it much easier to produce transcripts for alumni.

One of the biggest struggles we had with Jenzabar SONIS was trying to figure out the best way to use some of the features. We didn't always understand the table relationships and so wasn't sure how some of our process decisions would affect other areas of data. There weren't any specific guidelines about how the designers expected fields to be used or how data should be entered. We sometimes discovered later that a field we chose to not use in one table made data entry in another table difficult.
We weren't ever able to use any of the financial features of Jenzabar SONIS. When we first tried using them there were a lot of things that the software either didn't do well or that took so many steps that our business office staff was frustrated. I think that part of the software has improved but our business office was still not comfortable using it.
Report writing was difficult for someone without strong SQL knowledge. We purchased the add-on report writer shortly before I left the school I was at and I believe it will help with that issue but a school who chose not to get that add-on would definitely need someone who knows SQL if they want to be able to generate their own reports.

Jenzabar SONIS

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