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Salesforce.org Education Cloud

Salesforce.org Education Cloud

Overview

What is Salesforce.org Education Cloud?

Salesforce for Higher Ed combines the Salesforce Lightning Experience with HEDA (Higher Ed Data Architecture), providing a cloud platform supporting student management and engagement, admissions and academics, and other higher ed administrative support functions.

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Popular Features

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  • Student Data Security (5)
    9.2
    92%
  • Online Registration Management (5)
    8.7
    87%
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Features

Student and Faculty Administration

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

8.8
Avg 8.5
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Product Details

What is Salesforce.org Education Cloud?

Education Cloud is a CRM platform that powers connected constituent experiences. It enables users to manage engagements with students, alumni, faculty & staff in one place. With products and solutions for recruitment & admissions, student experience, advancement, and operations, institutions can use Education Cloud across the entire education journey.

Education Cloud is built on top of the Salesforce CRM. Institutions not only have access to purpose-built education products and solutions but also tools like Tableau, Mulesoft, and now Slack to power the digital campus.

The Education Cloud enables institutions to customize the platform, including leveraging integrations from the ecosystem of partner apps available on the AppExchange, the Salesforce enterprise cloud marketplace.

Salesforce.org Education Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of Admissions ConnectScreenshot of AdvancementScreenshot of K-12 Architecture KitScreenshot of Slack Courses ConsoleScreenshot of Student Success Hub

Salesforce.org Education Cloud Competitors

Salesforce.org Education Cloud Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Salesforce for Higher Ed combines the Salesforce Lightning Experience with HEDA (Higher Ed Data Architecture), providing a cloud platform supporting student management and engagement, admissions and academics, and other higher ed administrative support functions.

Ellucian Elevate, Anthology Encompass, and Slate for Admissions are common alternatives for Salesforce.org Education Cloud.

Reviewers rate District Communications, such as messaging and alerting highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Salesforce.org Education Cloud are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

(21)

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

(1-4 of 4)
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January 25, 2022

Wonderfully impactful product!

Verified User
Employee in Other
Events Services Company, 1-10 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Salesforce.org Education Cloud allows more of a connectivity and efficiency in the overall workflow. It allows both administrators and students to connect virtually and provide their users with absolutely every tool they need to succeed. I supported others who actively used the product and saw first hand how beneficial it was for users on both ends of the spectrum.
Pros and Cons
  • Provides students with the resources they need to stay connected virtually if they cannot be at school in-person.
  • Allows administrators to manage reports efficiently.
  • Students can stay on task and organized with the look of the Education Cloud.
  • I think the display of the cloud for students can seem a bit intimidating at first.
  • I do not know the depth in which some features could offer more, but organization is the most important in displaying the information for the user.
  • Other than the visual aspect I think Salesforce does an amazing job! I'd like to see this used more widely.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is most suited for those within the education industry. For students and staff in particular, the Education Cloud allows seamless connectivity between each person and helps students stay on task. It can be very overwhelming as a student to have so many responsibilities in different areas, so Salesforce does a great job of offering many features that ease this process.
Salesforce.org Education Cloud Feature Ratings
Student Data (6)
100%
10.0
Student Attendance Tracking
100%
10.0
Student Health Information
100%
10.0
Grade Book Management
100%
10.0
Student Background Records
100%
10.0
Student and Parent Portal
100%
10.0
Transcript Management
100%
10.0
Student and Faculty Administration (12)
93.33333333333334%
9.3
Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology
90%
9.0
Online Registration Management
80%
8.0
District Communications, such as messaging and alerting
100%
10.0
Roster Management
100%
10.0
Platform Customization
70%
7.0
Teacher Self-Service
100%
10.0
Student Data Security
100%
10.0
Community Support
100%
10.0
Class Scheduling
100%
10.0
State and National-level Reporting
100%
10.0
Compliance Support
100%
10.0
Teacher and Parent Mobile Application
80%
8.0
Return on Investment
  • More efficient communication
  • Higher student/staff engagement and task management
  • Increased student enrollment
Alternatives Considered
  • Canvas
Salesforce.org Education Cloud has many different functionalities that do not revolve around just the assignment and grading aspect of a student's education. They provide ways for staff to communicate with students in real-time and provide additional support, such as mental health resources, which is incredibly important. Not only is the education aspect important, but providing resources to help a student in every aspect of life is possible on Salesforce and is very useful.
Other Software Used
December 08, 2021

Salesforce Education Cloud: A great tool for businesses too.

Verified User
Former Employee in Human Resources
Banking Company, 1-10 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It has been used for managing the internal courses in terms of employees education. It has been a helpful tool hence it has allowed us to keep track of all our employees paces in terms of their mandatory and optional courses and licenses. It has also made [it easy to communicate] with them and [get] feedback.
Pros and Cons
  • Student / Employee management
  • Direct comunication
  • Easy to use
  • It requires a bit of knowledge in order to make it work
  • It is hard to modify the initial presets for customization
  • It does not allow you to work offline
Likelihood to Recommend
We have been working with Salesforce education cloud for about two years and it has been a great tool for us hence we needed a suit that would work for all the educational purposes that we have [for] our employees. It is one of the most complete suits for education and even that we needed a bit of help from IT, we could be independent in our developing courses processes.
Salesforce.org Education Cloud Feature Ratings
Student Data (6)
56.66666666666667%
5.7
Student Attendance Tracking
100%
10.0
Student Health Information
N/A
N/A
Grade Book Management
80%
8.0
Student Background Records
80%
8.0
Student and Parent Portal
N/A
N/A
Transcript Management
80%
8.0
Student and Faculty Administration (12)
59.16666666666667%
5.9
Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology
70%
7.0
Online Registration Management
80%
8.0
District Communications, such as messaging and alerting
100%
10.0
Roster Management
90%
9.0
Platform Customization
60%
6.0
Teacher Self-Service
70%
7.0
Student Data Security
80%
8.0
Community Support
N/A
N/A
Class Scheduling
90%
9.0
State and National-level Reporting
N/A
N/A
Compliance Support
70%
7.0
Teacher and Parent Mobile Application
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • The dropout for optional courses has decreased
  • The enrollment for extra courses has increased
  • The time spent in course management has decreased
Alternatives Considered
It has a better UX and UI than Moodle and it also has a more professional approach in terms of business educational programs than Google Classroom. For us, it has been really important the ability to analyze the courses at a high level and also being able to let the students have the freedom to enroll in the courses they wanted at the time they wanted.
Other Software Used
March 20, 2020

A good foundation for a personalized higher education solution

Verified User
Vice-President in Professional Services
Internet Company, 1-10 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We consult with clients on their CRM needs and implement Salesforce EDA if it is a good fit for their needs. Other options may include the other nonprofit offerings from Salesforce (formerly Salesforce.org).
Pros and Cons
  • Extensibility - Implement your custom needs in the database.
  • Scalability - Your database grows with your student/alumni population.
  • Integration - Integrate with your SIS via many middleware.
  • Reporting - All of Salesforce's reporting capabilities.
  • Reports - Comes with no out of the box reports.
  • OOB functionality may be limited - important to have folks with experience customizing EDA to an organization's needs.
  • Upfront cost - Implementation services (either a hired team or consultants) is imperative to make it work.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for larger or mid-sized institutions willing to invest to have all of their student services needs to be fulfilled by a single platform. It would be less appropriate for non-traditional universities i.e. smaller schools, or nonprofits that have education/curriculum but also have other programs/fundraising, etc. since it may not be positive ROI for them, or the nonprofit solutions might be more valuable for them.
Return on Investment
  • Single view of all student data.
  • Custom reporting.
  • Unusual operational needs implemented in the same tool via Salesforce capabilities.
Alternatives Considered
Support Rating
6
Dealing with Salesforce tech support can be challenging, depending on the agent you get.
October 30, 2019

Great platform for higher education

Verified User
Executive in Sales
Higher Education Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SFDC is a cloud-based platform that helps educational institutions with recruiting, admissions and student engagement. I have used it when managing our portfolio of active and possible accounts. Particularly strong if the university or organization is using it for admissions and recruiting purposes. It is a fantastic platform for this use case and the sales and marketing department overall.
Pros and Cons
  • Completely customize our org the way we need it to function.
  • The amount of flexibility and potential for integration is staggering.
  • The consistent new product is very intriguing and has us considering how we could roll out Salesforce elsewhere.
  • The platform is massive making it hard to make decisions at times.
  • It can be a bit challenging for new staff and team members to learn.
  • Creating reports can be challenging the first time around.
Likelihood to Recommend
The software allows us to have one platform that scales across the organization esp when it comes to recruiting and admissions. This allows us to build a real-time view of the student across all departments. This improves communication across the school which ultimately enables us to provide a better experience to the students both current and future.
Return on Investment
  • More efficient marketing tactics and strategies.
  • Better organization across our internal departments.
  • Optimization we were not able to achieve before.
Alternatives Considered
  • Canvas
Ultimately Canvas was much more focused on the learning environment and not the management of the database to utilize for sales and marketing. Once we realized the differences in the product, features and cost side we decided to roll with SFDC as a much more optimal solution for our org.
Support Rating
7
People will respond on time even though Salesforce is such a large organization. This also includes various methods of getting support beyond just calling - they have dedicated reps, chat, chatter, etc that all make the experience more pleasant.
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