Ellucian Colleague...Check it out!
January 13, 2025

Ellucian Colleague...Check it out!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Ellucian Colleague

Ellucian Colleague serves as the primary constituent database for NDMU's student and parent record-keeping. Among manifold business problems, the product addresses the need for student and parent information, such as address, major, degree information, advising, student financial aid details, and other critical data points, ensuring that students and parents can adequately connect with the University.

Pros

  • Record-keeping.
  • Student major and degree information.
  • Parent information.

Cons

  • Ease of use for novice CRM users.
  • Integration with Development CRMs.
  • Financial management.
  • Supports daily student needs.
  • Maintains effective record-keeping.
  • Challenging to upgrade systems.
For decades, Ellucian Colleague has served the University as our primary student record-retention CRM. Its functionality has weathered many recent trends in CRM development and continues to produce the needed results for our constituency and the size of our university. We look forward to continuing to utilize Ellucian Colleague in the future.
While Ellucian Colleague does not provide the suite of resources of a Blackbaud model CRM, it still provides excellent value as a student CRM for the university. Ultimately, the university selected Ellucian Colleague as the CRM of choice due to its ease of use with our data and its cost-effectiveness for us, a small, non-profit institution of higher education.

Do you think Ellucian Colleague delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Ellucian Colleague's feature set?

Yes

Did Ellucian Colleague live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Ellucian Colleague go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Ellucian Colleague again?

Yes

Ellucian Colleague is well suited for student academic information recall, such as advisement details, courses, primary choice, GPAs, and demographic information critical to in-time decision-making for faculty and institutional leadership. Less appropriate scenarios would include our financial management needs, such as accounting, ledgers, and financial transactions. These functions are better suited to other CRMs.

Ellucian Colleague Feature Ratings

Student Data
6.8
Grade Book Management
7
Student Background Records
7
Student and Parent Portal
7
Transcript Management
6
Student and Faculty Administration
7.8
Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology
7
Online Registration Management
8
District Communications, such as messaging and alerting
7
Roster Management
8
Platform Customization
8
Teacher Self-Service
8
Student Data Security
8
Community Support
7
Class Scheduling
8
State and National-level Reporting
8
Compliance Support
8
Teacher and Parent Mobile Application
8

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