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What is Veracross?
Veracross is a student information system and has several modules, including Admission, Academics, Development, etc. all sharing a single database.
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- Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology (5)9.898%
- Roster Management (5)9.898%
- Platform Customization (5)9.898%
- District Communications, such as messaging and alerting (5)9.191%
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What is Veracross?
Veracross is a student information system and has several modules, including Admission, Academics, Development, etc. all sharing a single database.
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Veracross, a fully integrated school information system used by Teachables, serves as a one-stop shop for managing student, faculty, and parent information. With its intuitive interface and robust features, Veracross has become an essential tool for educational management. By connecting students, tutors, parents, and employees, it facilitates seamless information flow within the organization.
One of the key use cases of Veracross is its role as a learning management system. It enables teachers to take attendance, post assignments, record grades, and make announcements. Students rely on Veracross to check homework assignments and current class grades. Furthermore, Veracross helps with scheduling, class rosters, grade reporting, and budgeting.
Parents also benefit from Veracross through its parent portal. They can log in to access their child's schedules, class information, grades, and the directory. Additionally, flexible online portals allow parents to gather necessary information, pay bills, and manage permissions conveniently.
Beyond the classroom, Veracross proves useful for all departments within the organization. Student billing, accounting, admissions, academic documents - Veracross handles it all. It even offers APIs for home-grown web apps. The software has also found utility in human resources departments by reducing the adaptation time of new workers. It assists in managing training sessions and keeping records systematically.
Overall, Veracross serves as a powerful tool for managing student data and improving operational efficiency in educational institutions. With its wide range of functionalities and user-friendly interface, it has become an indispensable asset for teachers, parents, students, and administrators alike.
Users have provided several recommendations for Veracross. They emphasize the importance of conducting thorough research to ensure that Veracross aligns with their specific needs. Additionally, users suggest utilizing Veracross alongside Canvas for school administrative purposes. Another recommendation is to have a dedicated expert user on staff who can effectively manage the query function and address any issues that arise. Users also find Veracross helpful as a database and directory. They believe that with proper training, users will be impressed with the product's capabilities. Overall, users appreciate Veracross fulfilling their needs and express interest in further improvements tailored towards schools.
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August 23, 2021
Expensive, but worth it... take the long view of your data
Veracross is our new school information system. It's replacing Blackbaud's Education Edge. We're implementing Veracross over a 3-year period... year 1 (now) is the school data (gradebook, attendance, school directories, etc.). Year 2 is our Business Office implementation (replacing Sage50) and Year 3 will be the Advancement Office (replacing Blackbaud's Raiser's Edge). Blackbaud announced that they were sunsetting Education Edge and we found their replacement platform lacking so we went through an RFP process which resulted in the selection of Veracross.
- mobile-friendly portal for staffulty, parents, and students
- built-in or easy-to-configure integration with other systems (for example, RankOne and Naviance)
- targeted messaging based on data within the system
- "where is student now?" is one-click away
- it's easy to get data OUT of Veracross but their data import features could use some improvement
- they recently changed their knowledge management and help desk system and are still experiencing some growing pains with that platform (for example, I believe that any error message a system throws should be easily and readily searchable in the KB; that is not currently the case)
- it's early but we've identified some inconsistencies in some displays and while many displays offer a field to specify the sort order, some important ones (teacher schedule, for example) do not and it's a lot of cognitive load to decipher some of those (seemingly unsorted) screens. Sorting by an internal ID field that is not controllable, not editable, and not over ridable (with a sort key) is a poor choice.
- single record for the life of the individual (applicant to student to donor to parent)
- ease of integration with third-party platforms
- well prepared and well executed training modules
90%
9.0
71.66666666666667%
7.2
- tasks that used to take 30 minutes can take as little as 30 seconds (I'm not exaggerating)
- it's a complex platform so there is signficant investment in both training and data preparation (for conversion)
- it's really expensive (but over time will pay for itself with systems we can sunset and attrition that we don't need to replace)
Veracross had superior support, training, and integration with other systems.
August 17, 2021
Veracross
We use it in advancement, student and family data, communications, and student report/class management.
- Student and family data is easy to keep up to date. And there is so much data that you can keep track of. It is so helpful to have all data in one place so we don’t have a human error in transfers g to another system.
- Recording donations is very easy and you can attach backup documents very easy which is great during our yearly audit. All records are in the system and can be pulled at anytime.
- Easy for parents to sign in to view and edit their own information as well as view student reports.
- In the development module, it is often hard to pull reports because there are so many ways to do it. I work around that by saving reports I often pull so I don’t have to constantly rebuild reports.
- The communications module, Composer, needs a major upgrade. It is not very user-friendly and there are not ways to edit or design modern and good-looking emails and newsletters. Not a lot of formatting options.
- Family data management
- Communications
- Development
56%
5.6
50%
5.0
- Since we put all donor records in it makes the audit process with the business office much easier.
I actually prefer NXT, but Veracross is much better in student data and records that I have kept it so we are all using one system.