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Synergy Education Platform

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What is Synergy Education Platform?

Edupoint Educational Systems offers the Synergy Education Platform, a K-12 integrated student information management and LMS, featuring grade and attendance management, RTI and special education, mobile app and parent engagement, and other features.

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The Synergy Education Platform offers a range of use cases that have been praised by users. One key benefit is the ease of accessing student information, such as grades, course lists, and contact details, which has been found to be straightforward. The platform also enables effective communication between parents, students, and faculty, enhancing collaboration and fostering a strong school community. In addition to these features, Synergy Education Platform tracks various student data points, including demographics, enrollment, attendance, and parental messaging. This comprehensive approach allows teachers to efficiently manage student attendance, input grades, and generate report cards. Users appreciate the platform's grade calculator and accessibility to attendance and student management options. Furthermore, the software's information database system and the ability to communicate with families without maintaining a separate parent database have received positive feedback.

While many users have had positive experiences with Synergy Education Platform, some challenges have been reported. These include frequent page reloads and cumbersome navigation, impacting the overall user experience. Additionally, there have been complaints about issues with logging in, syncing assignments, and duplicate entries. Despite these difficulties, the platform has the potential to improve student engagement through instant grade sync and motivation. It is also valued for its role in creating seating charts, tracking student progress, and facilitating communication among staff, students, and parents. Overall, users appreciate the one-stop-shop aspect of Synergy Education Platform as it simplifies tasks such as handling attendance, grades, and communication in one place.

Another valuable use case for this software is its ability to aid in data analysis and student performance targeting. Synergy Education Platform streamlines administrative tasks by consolidating functions like attendance management, grading systems, class websites, parent communication reports generation into one software program. This centralized nature of the platform allows for increased efficiency and ease of use when handling student information. Furthermore, Synergy Education Platform has gained recognition as a reliable special education management software for managing Individualized Education Plans, or IEPs. It provides assistance with deadlines and simplifies the entire IEP creation process. Users have found this feature to be stable and trustworthy.

Furthermore, Synergy Education Platform enhances communication with parents by enabling efficient and timely updates without the need for scheduling conferences. Parents can easily check grades and assignments online, ensuring transparency and involvement in their child's education. This transparency is further supported by the software's report writing features, which allow for quick generation of reports and tracking of student progress. The platform also facilitates data entry and retrieval, contributing to efficient record-keeping and analysis.

Additionally, Synergy Education Platform helps resolve grading issues and improves proficiency in using the system for tasks such as entering grades, contacting parents, and tracking attendance. It provides a smooth transition from previous Student Information Systems, offering better management, communication, and self-monitoring opportunities for students. By utilizing Synergy Education Platform, schools can enhance their grade management systems and improve parent-teacher communication. Parents have easy access to their child's progress and the ability to contact teachers within the platform.

Moreover, the platform ensures district-wide compliance by providing robust support for significant growth in this area. With its comprehensive Student Information System, which incorporates an excellent gradebook and online access for parents to check grades and assignments, Synergy Education Platform offers a one-stop solution for educational management needs. Users appreciate the ability to easily access past grades by switching between different quarters, facilitating a holistic view of student progress.

With features that consolidate attendance tracking, grading management, parent contact, and student discipline in one platform despite some performance issues reported by users, Synergy Education Platform streamlines administrative tasks. The user-friendly interface allows for remote access and makes it easy to manage all aspects of student information, including enrollment, parent communication, student records, English Language Learner status, and staff licensing.

In summary, the Synergy Education Platform has proven to be a valuable tool for schools and educators. Its range of use cases includes accessing student information, enabling effective communication between stakeholders, assisting with data analysis and special education management, streamlining administrative tasks, enhancing parent-teacher communication and transparency, facilitating record-keeping and analysis, resolving grading issues, ensuring compliance with district-wide policies. Despite some reported performance issues and challenges faced by users when navigating the platform or syncing assignments, the overall feedback highlights the benefits of this software in improving efficiency and effectiveness in education management.

Convenience: Many users appreciate the convenience of having everything in one place with Synergy Education Platform, saving time and effort. Some reviewers specifically mentioned that they found it helpful to have a centralized platform for grades, communication, assignments, and student information.

Integration: The seamless integration between different features of Synergy SE was highly praised by users. They liked how easily their grade book integrated with student-teacher and teacher-parent communication. Additionally, the interconnected nature of Synergy SE made it extremely easy to monitor, create, and manage Individualized Education Programs - IEPs when used with Synergy SIS.

User-friendly interface: Users consistently mentioned that they find the user interface of Synergy SE to be intuitive and user-friendly. They appreciated its excellent and easy-to-use interface, which provides multiple ways to accomplish tasks and includes a shortcut bar for administrators.

Synchronization Issue: Many users have expressed frustration with the synchronization issue between Google Classroom and Synergy, where grades change back to the original grade after resyncing. This has been a common complaint among reviewers.

Complex and Unintuitive Interface: Users find the functions and dashboard of Synergy to be complex and unintuitive compared to other platforms like PowerSchools. Several reviewers have mentioned this as a major drawback of using Synergy.

Awful Learning Management System LMS and Gradebook User Experience UX: Synergy is universally disliked by students, families, and teachers for its awful learning management system LMS and gradebook user experience UX. Numerous users have expressed their dissatisfaction with these aspects of the software.

Based on user reviews, three common recommendations for this platform are as follows:

  1. Consult with local IT and experts: Users suggest seeking guidance from local IT professionals to ensure the right access and functions. They recommend having experts trained in every department to effectively implement the platform.

  2. Provide training and support: Users advise reading all the help information available and offering training sessions for staff members. They also recommend using the manuals provided online and attending training sessions. It is suggested to have a pilot program of the system concurrent with the old system to facilitate a smooth transition.

  3. Enhance reliability and ease of use: Users highlight the importance of reliability and ease of use, expressing disappointment in this platform's performance in both categories. They recommend not switching to this platform due to numerous issues and suggest doing thorough research before choosing this software.

Overall, users emphasize the need for training, support, consultation with IT professionals, and reliability improvements when considering this platform.

Reviews

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Synergy Education Platform to manage all aspects of Student Information, including enrollment, parent communication, student records, English Language Learner status, and student notifications. It is also used to track historical student records, school year to school year, and staff records, which can include staff licensing.
  • Student Test Scores
  • Parent Contact Information
  • Parent Contact Platform
  • Searches
  • Queries
  • Ease of onboarding new staff
Synergy is well-suited for seamlessly bridging enrollment and student information. Other organizations I have worked at used two separate platforms for this purpose. Synergy also merges, seamlessly, parent contact functions, using one platform.
  • Student Information (Attendance) Data
  • Parent Contact
  • Student Assessment Data Storage
Student Data (6)
88.33333333333334%
8.8
Student Attendance Tracking
80%
8.0
Student Health Information
90%
9.0
Grade Book Management
90%
9.0
Student Background Records
90%
9.0
Student and Parent Portal
90%
9.0
Transcript Management
90%
9.0
Student and Faculty Administration (12)
89.16666666666666%
8.9
Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology
90%
9.0
Online Registration Management
100%
10.0
District Communications, such as messaging and alerting
100%
10.0
Roster Management
90%
9.0
Platform Customization
90%
9.0
Teacher Self-Service
80%
8.0
Student Data Security
90%
9.0
Community Support
80%
8.0
Class Scheduling
90%
9.0
State and National-level Reporting
100%
10.0
Compliance Support
90%
9.0
Teacher and Parent Mobile Application
70%
7.0
  • Ease of access to information
  • Integration of multiple functions into one platform
Synergy is able to seamlessly integrate multiple functionalities, eliminating the need for use of other platforms, such as Time Clock and School Messenger.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It is very, very, very slow.
Our district created a system that is supposed to synch our classroom on canvas to synergy....this happens incompletely at best.
We have a help desk that I keep sending messages to letting them know the grade book on canvas is not synching to synergy.
It takes 3-6 steps to enter grades and make assignments excused.
This platform is rudimentary at best and you have to click save, it does not autosave anything.

It needs drastic improvements.
It takes 3 to 5 seconds to move from one page to another.
Very, very, slow.
  • IEP and 504 are accessible
  • student information is easily found in one place for teachers and administration
  • Please update this process it is very slow
  • very slow
  • no autosave
  • to make a student assignment excused you have to open 2 different screens and then make 2 clicks and if you do not save, everything you have done is lost
  • memory needs to be improved so windows move faster
  • a click for excusing assignments should be added instead of 3 steps to get to a new screen to only click one button that says excused. If you are excusing 3 assignments this can take over 5 minutes per student.
Very slow, you literally have to click save for every transaction or it is lost. It should have an autosave feature.
It should have automatic commands:
E for excused
or a one-click solution for excusing student work
  • administrators and counselors have access to all student information in one place
  • Teachers have a hard time entering grades, it is just too many clicks for simple tasks
Student Data (6)
85%
8.5
Student Attendance Tracking
100%
10.0
Student Health Information
100%
10.0
Grade Book Management
10%
1.0
Student Background Records
100%
10.0
Student and Parent Portal
100%
10.0
Transcript Management
100%
10.0
Student and Faculty Administration (12)
82.5%
8.3
Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology
30%
3.0
Online Registration Management
100%
10.0
District Communications, such as messaging and alerting
100%
10.0
Roster Management
100%
10.0
Platform Customization
100%
10.0
Teacher Self-Service
10%
1.0
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
50%
5.0
Teacher and Parent Mobile Application
100%
10.0
  • it takes longer to do everything because it involves to many clicks to enter data and save it
  • longer time
  • because it does not autosave, you have to start from scratch if you hit the back button or change the screen
Synergy is great at keeping all student data in one place.
It is very inefficient for teachers entering grades.
December 18, 2018

Synergy in a K-12 Setting

Whitney Garnai, M. Ed. | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Synergy for educational management (IEPs, grades, attendance, discipline). It is very useful and very user friendly. I love how I can log in to it even when I am not at school.
  • Attendance Tracking
  • IEP management
  • Gradebook Management
  • Disciplinary Infractions
  • Parent Communication
  • Less downtime during the day.
  • Not logging out after a certain time of inactivity.
  • Online user-manuals for each school district.
K-12 Education
  • Affordable
  • User friendly — parents and teachers enjoy using it
  • Minimal setup
I like how synergy has everything in one place.
Jaclyn Parker, MPA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This is used across my entire organization. It creates one fully utilized solution for all K-12 education platforms, and it is incredibly helpful in order to have all data that is needed in one place. In addition, the software is extremely streamlined and user friendly. It has everything from RTI Management to Analytics to Parent and Student Engagement. It is really helpful to have all of this information in one centralized location.
  • Analytics
  • Engagement Data
  • Streamlined Information
  • More education tools
  • Improve and cleaner design
It is well suited for all K-12 education systems that are looking for effective ways to improve and streamline their information. It would not be as useful for a college or a university system as it does not have the complexity needed in order to carry out all of the specific functions that a university system would need.
  • Saved Time
  • Saved Money
  • Easier to Access Analytics
Synergy Education Platform seemed to be just as affordable as the software options that offer similar solutions but individually. Synergy Education Platform helps bring all of that data that is needed together in the same space for one lower and flat rate which has been incredibly useful for our organization. I would continue to use this product over the products of competitors.
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