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FACTS Student Information System

Score7.5 out of 10

30 Reviews and Ratings

What is FACTS Student Information System?

FACTS Student Information System (formerly RenWeb) is a Student Information System that handles admissions, student information, billing, report cards, grading, attendance, and parent access, among others. FACTS is a property of Nelnet Business Solutions.

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

  • Roster Management

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

    Category average: 8.6

  • 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

Areas for Improvement

  • 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: 7.9

  • 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: 8.1

  • Platform Customization

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

    Category average: 7.6

FACTS SIS - great for information collection and retention

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use FACTS SIS to obtain and retain student information such as phone numbers and addresses as well as authorized pick up information. We also use FACTS SIS to collect medical information, to post grades and send report cards to parents.

Pros

  • customer service
  • user experience
  • ease of use

Most Important Features

  • Student data collection
  • student grades
  • report card distribution

Alternatives Considered

Blackbaud Education Management Solutions

Other Software Used

QuickBooks Desktop Premier, FACTS Grant & Aid Assessment

FACTS gives you the Facts on your students!!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are a small independent private K-12 school that uses FACTS for Student Management and Student Billing. We support anywhere from 750 to 800 families in FACTS and it provides all our student Demographics and allows us to use built-in reports as well as customize reports for many aspects of student management.

Pros

  • Allows full student/family information to be placed in student file.
  • Can report from any field of information including custom fields.
  • Creates student schedules and Classroom rosters.
  • Allows parents insight into grades and discipline as well as lesson plans and daily/weekly classroom topics.

Cons

  • Really cannot think of anything it does badly.

Most Important Features

  • The billing side for obvious reasons.
  • The admission piece is also very useful.
  • The reporting ability for many things is very valuable.

Return on Investment

  • Has paid for itself many time over with the abilities it provides.
  • Can be managed by as few or as many as needed so per employee cost is great.
  • Reporting is great for almost any topic needed all the way to How many took the ACT in spring.

FACTS is teacher and admin approved!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use FACTS Student Information System for all organizational purposes at our school. As a teacher, it is how I record attendance, grades, notes, report cards, getting student information, etc. As an administrator, it is how we set gradebook information, send out parent emails, store important information such as allergies, and plan our school year.

Pros

  • Stores gradebook information
  • automatically calculates overall grades
  • Safe space to keep important and private information

Cons

  • Difficult to navigate
  • Would benefit from training courses

Most Important Features

  • attendance taking
  • gradebook
  • student information
  • report cards

Return on Investment

  • ease of communication with parents
  • transparency between entire school

Other Software Used

Kahoot!, Canva

FACTS has been a wonderful solution for our educational institution!

Pros

  • Easy to use grade book
  • Simple way to store and access health information, behavior reports, and family contact information.
  • We use FACTS in the residential aspect of our organization.

Cons

  • FACTS has a strong grade book application, but I wish it were simpler to go back and forth between adding assignments and adding grades.
  • The email (sharing) aspect of reports could be clearer.
  • The last thing that i have found frustrating about FACTS was how often the name changed. The transition from Renweb to Renweb 1 was atrocious, but that seems to be a struggle of the past.

Most Important Features

  • Grade book
  • record keeping (like attendance)
  • storing health information
  • the ability to share behavior reports.

Return on Investment

  • It has enabled us to bring conformity to our grade books
  • It has allowed us to email a set group of people in a simple and organized manner.
  • It has given us a simple and efficient way to access all our records in a variety of formats.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Access, Zoom, Edmodo

FACTS...Best Student Management System

Pros

  • Gradebook
  • Family Accounts
  • Enrollment Management
  • Secure Payment Processing

Cons

  • Balance Carryover Year to Year

Most Important Features

  • Gradebook Integrity
  • Parent Communication
  • Accounting for Student/ Family Balances
  • Consolidated Accounts for all Student Billing

Return on Investment

  • Improved Communication with Parents
  • No longer managing ACH and Credit Card information for 400 families. All managed by parents through their portal access.
  • Ability to communicate with families via text alert. Particularly important in emergency situations. All in 1 database.
  • Software is continually updated

Alternatives Considered

Blackbaud Education Management Solutions

Other Software Used

QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop Premier, Paycom