Item: Veracross
Rating: 7
Author: Michelle Kelly

Overall Satisfaction with Veracross

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Veracross is used organization-wide by about 300 employees. We use it as a learning management tool across the organization. It helps with scheduling, class rosters, grade reporting, and budgeting. Veracross allows me to access student information through the directory, tells me my class schedule, and tells me the class schedule of any student within the school. Veracross also has a parent portal for parents to log in to see their child's schedules, their class information, grades, and the directory. Veracross is intuitive to learn and to figure out.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Streamlined and easy to read design
Simple and intuitive ways to contact entire classes and groups
Grade reporting is simple and automatically saves any comments I've written as I write
The main school calendar is synced with Veracross' home page calendar to assist in planning

Cons

Veracross does not allow teachers to see report cards from previous years.
There is no functionality to email multiple classes the same thing. I need to click on each class to send the same parent email.
It is difficult to find how many times a student has been absent or tardy within the trimester or year. A significant amount of digging is required.

Return on Investment

Easily take attendance assuming all students are present
Loss of ability to see past report cards
Easily see a list of student birthdays

Alternatives Considered

PowerSchool Student Information System

We use Veracross for many things within our learning management system, specifically for calculating budget spending. We were able to put together class schedules, directories, budget management, comportment forms, attendance and mass communication abilities. We still need to supplement with haiku (through powerschool) and with the google suite. Veracross is not a catch-all but it certainly catches a lot.

Other Software Used

Apple iCloud

Likelihood to Recommend

Veracross does a great job organizing my schedule and giving me information about my students. I easily see the school calendar upon log in to see upcoming conflicts. I am able to add disciplinary reports within the same system I take attendance in, which is vital. No teacher wants to have 3 tabs open to email parents, take attendance, and write comportment forms. Veracross does not have the ability to keep report card data from previous years easily accessible for teachers. In our school's previous learning management system I had access to every report card a child has received at the school.

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Veracross does a lot!