Skyward Student Management System Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My school uses Skyward Student Management System for grading, attendance, and student/parent communications. In My opinion, the attendance and grading features are worthwhile. I do not use the communications aspect, as we also use Google Classroom and it has easier to use options to communicate with students and parents using its Gmail interface.

Likelihood to Recommend

Appropriate for grade tracking and attendance.

Not sure where it would be inappropriate but there are certainly things it could do better, as I noted in a previous question.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a music teacher, I teach the entire school population. Currently, I teach 10 classes. My grades are in the following categories, class work, tests, research, and couple more. I tend to put my work into subcategories in participation, and application of skills. What I wish I knew to do was transfer grades from Google classroom into Skyward Student Management System. That knowledge is not intuitive for me. That would save me quite a bit of time.

Likelihood to Recommend

Skyward Student Management System is particularly well suited to put in applicable assignments and grades for students in grades K-8. Generally, I find it easy to use. In fact, when I have new students, who are not always able to spell their names correctly, I go straight to Skyward Student Management System and look up the information.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Skyward is the school district's main Learning Management System (LMS). It tracks student grades, discipline, and attendance. As well as many other important pieces of information, including demographic information, IEP/504 information, and any medical alert information. It also serves as a host for communication between teachers/school staff and families, as parents can send a message to all of their student's teachers from one place, and teachers can send messages to students, parents, or both from the messaging center.

Likelihood to Recommend

There is nothing specific that I would say sets it apart from any other LMS, but once you are used to the user interface and various features, it does everything that is needed and integrates well enough with other software to function. Probably isn't necessary in a smaller setting, but for multiple building districts, it is certainly robust enough to handle data collection and storage.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Skyward Student Management System to manage all of our student and employee data. On the student side, the most common usage includes family contact information, student identification and photos, current courses, photo permissions and emergency contacts. On the staff side, the most common usages are for submitting and approving timesheets, sick leave, vacation and managing tax forms.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's a great back-end database system. I would recommend it to a colleague at another education-focused institution as it is very secure and provides you with all of the data management tools that you would need for K-12. It does a good job for employee management, too, and it's never bad to bundle your systems/services together.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Skyward for attendance, grading, and class roster management in our school district. This is used in all campuses K-12. This allows us to have data collection, organization, and ease of communication between our students, teachers, and parents.

Likelihood to Recommend

Skyward, beyond its pro and cons, is overall an easy program to use. Once having a few months to use the program, it becomes very easy to use and habit for how to use.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Skyward district-wide for business, scheduling, grades, food service, health. You name it, Skyward is basically a one-stop shop for most of it. Many districts have to utilize several different applications and work to try to get them to 'talk' amongst themselves. Skyward alleviates this issue by combining most of these types of apps together.

Likelihood to Recommend

Any larger K-12 educational institution would benefit from Skyward. It's a great way to maintain data and reporting, as well as run the business aspects of a district. While it may suit most needs for most districts, Skyward might be too large a system for small school districts, so care should be taken when evaluating it.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Skyward is being used by every staff and our families. Skyward helps save student, and staff information in a convenient database. Staff can look up their own information including pay. Students can look up their grades and lunch money on their account. Counselors are able to set students courses up in their record for the coming year. Tech department is able to use this info to create accounts for software for students.

Likelihood to Recommend

Skyward is well suited for schools that have probably over 1000 students and staff.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Student Information System, across the whole school system. Used by school officials, teachers, students, and parents.

Likelihood to Recommend

Skyward is very well suited to the teacher/parent/student relation. In general, Skyward helps with most areas within a school system. Some with greater detail some with less. Very good support and training for end users. Excellent implementation team. Skyward should do more for Transportation, although huge improvements were made. The software is far away from reaching routing and planning solutions.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Skyward Student Management System (SMS) is the heart of what we do in regards to student records. It is used by departments ranging from attendance to discipline to student services, health services, and administration. Skyward SMS allows us to have a user focused platform that allows us to focus on the job at hand, which is to educate our students and guide our decisions to meet that mission. Our reporting needs are more easily accomplished with the use of Skyward to help us maintain our data integrity.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have been using Skyward for the past 13 years if not more. It is user-friendly and very convenient to use. I am able to successfully put grades in without any issues. I even use the app on my phone when I'm not in front of the computer. Skyward has made my life easier. I take attendance on Skyward and I even use it to write up not only my students but other students who are enrolled in the same school. My entire district uses Skyward for progress reports and report cards.

Likelihood to Recommend

I find student contact information and student risk factors/student allergies [helpful] especially when I receive a new student in my class.

Conduct grades can be more specific/narrow instead of being too generic/wide.