Alma SIS

As a teacher I can say that Alma is one of the best virtual classrooms that I have tried, it is an all-in-one and something that I love is the management of evaluations and students without having to resort to any other external platform.
The function that I use the most is evaluative management since right there I can check my lists for the student report card system as well as the grade assigned to the same task and document

It is difficult to say that Alma has something bad, rather something not so good and that is first-hand integration, but once learned it is phenomenal

I like Alma because it makes tracking attendance and grades really simple. It’s easy to use, and I can see everything I need in one place. I get real-time updates, so I always know where things stand without having to wait. It just makes everything feel way more organized and less stressful. Plus, having access to everything whenever I need it is a big plus!

One con about Alma is that when I’m working on report cards, I can’t freeze a cell. It makes it super annoying because I have to keep scrolling up and down to check the headers and make sure I’m putting the right information in the right spot. It would be way easier if I could just keep the top row in place while I work.

You can log in quickly. The people who have come in to assist with how horrific this year has been have been mostly humble and at least tried to help.

Absolutely impossible to have what we need at our hands as high school counselors. Everything is laborious or actually impossible to do. It has taken MONTHS to get even tiny bits of advances to make this usable. Transcripts, which are an essential piece for our kids, took 6 months to have functioning, and they're still inaccurate. Scheduling is months behind because the programming is inept for a school this size. It lacks confidentiality and privacy that's important for our students. Household units are not available, access to other buildings makes it impossible to know who has siblings and other people living in their home, which poses a safety issue when filing reports to CPS, report cards are still completely wrong and inaccurate. I could truly go on for an awfully long time, but I digress.

At the end of the day, I think I can vouch for every person in my building when I say that this program was rolled out in a deplorable way, changes and improvements are slow and sometimes non-existent, and it's made me reconsider even working in this corporation due to how terrible this system is. A program in its infancy has been detrimental to every single stakeholder in this corporation, and I've been disappointed since the first day of training in August.

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Alma support is really big help fast reply

clever is not fully integrated into Alma for auto sync

It is great to have everything in one place - attendance, grades, report cards! So easy for anyone to access what they need at their fingertips!

Being in the Central Time Zone, it can be difficult to coordinate times with those that work in the Eastern Time Zone.