Infinite Campus SIS Erfahrungen

Infinite Campus Gets the Job Done

Kommentare: Overall, my experience with Infinite Campus has been very positive. Like any major system, there are going to be positives and negatives. Fortunately, with Infinite Campus, the things that it does well are the things that you are interacting with the most.

Vorteile:

What I like most about Infinite Campus is the ease of use for the things I use daily. The lunch and attendance is easy to input. Also, the student contact information is very thorough and set up nicely with all of the information in one easy to access spot. The grading features are also simple and easy for even teachers who struggle with technology.

Nachteile:

The grading features in Infinite Campus are easy to use. However, they can be more time consuming than necessary. Each different subject area is on a different page so it can be time consuming as a teacher with many classes to go through all of them. Another area of need, is the help features. The help features are fairly limited and it ends up being easier to ask a colleague, which adds more time to the process.

Simple, Organized SIS

Kommentare: Infinite Campus is one of those "what you see is what you get" kinds of software. Those looking for a simple means of getting the job done without a lot of bells and whistles, this is the product for you. This can be great, but it doesn't really incentivize exploration or further training beyond the basics. Plus, the very-limited customization options can feel really limiting, prohibiting users from setting the product up in a way that is more beneficial for them.

Vorteile:

The best part of Infinite Campus is how clean and easy to navigate it is. The simple "Instruction" view provides a clear means of moving through the common areas that a user needs. While some SISs have complex, busy interfaces, Infinite Campus operates with a "less is more" approach, which is great for users who aren't is tech savvy or don't have the comfort to dig in and explore on their own.

Nachteile:

Infinite Campus's biggest strength can also be its biggest weakness. While it is great for users who aren't strong with technology, it can leave a lot to be desired for those who want a little more in their SIS. There isn't a lot of customization available, nor are there many lesser-known features that self-driven, curious users can discover.

Difficult to use

Vorteile:

Calculates grades and has added ability to link SIS to Google classroom

Nachteile:

Difficult to manage and use. Controls are not intuitive and features are difficult to utilize. Many features are hidden within menus and are not intuitive to locate.

Infinite Campus

Kommentare: Great! However, it times out after several minutes and I have to log in many times during the day.

Vorteile:

Infinite Campus is easy to use and find information.

Nachteile:

I cannot think of any drawbacks to this system.

Infinite campus SIS

Kommentare: Overall great experience. Im happy with real time displays and updates or grades, assignments, and attendance.

Vorteile:

Real time updates to grades, attendance, assignments.

Nachteile:

It is slightly more conplicated to learn to navigate for new users conpared to similar software.

Too expensive; Pop-up fees everywhere - Not for smaller districts

Kommentare: I think their conversion and onbaording team is top-notch-- Extremely helpful and communication is fast and to the point. I just don't know that they're worth all the money. I think we'll be looking to switch to a more modern and cost-effective system like Alma once our contract is up.

Vorteile:

-The onboarding team is excellent. They include technical experts to try to find solutions when the sales team promises the world and then you find out everything is an extra charge. -The product is robust and is well connected to the requirements of various states. -It allows direct access to the db and is fairly easy to use once you get used to the interface.

Nachteile:

-Cost! Everything is a nickel and dime fee for various modules. And of course, to do feature A you need to buy a premium module with A-Z features (B-Z you'll never use). - Their sales process promises all the features you need but then you find out the core features are extremely limited. After signing-on, it feels like a bait and switch. - It ends up being an incredibly expensive product for a smaller school or a school with simpler needs. However they seem only concerned with the needs of big-dollar districts and are unreceptive to small districts. I want my district to get the best value for it's dollar and benefit our students and parents. - The sales team is unhelpful and full of excuses and seems more concerned with closing deals than actually helping customers.

Infinite Campus, and education management system with infinite possibilities!

Kommentare: We have used it for about eight years, and every few weeks I learn about a new function that makes student data easier to manage and access.

Vorteile:

I like the fact that student attendance, behavior, schedules, parent contacts, grade books, communication tools, and final grades are in one place and can be cross-referenced as necessary. I absolutely love the digital behavior referrals, that are instant and digital.

Nachteile:

It was slightly complicated to navigate at first and to access its infinite functions.

Infinite Campus

Kommentare: I have used Infinite Campus as a teacher for six years. While it does a great job of allowing access for parents and students to view their grades, it is clunky and difficult to navigate as a user.

Vorteile:

Can easily enter grades for students for them to be able to see the instant that their score is entered. There is an app for both parents and students to help monitor their grades throughout the year.

Nachteile:

The staff at our school has renamed this program to infinite clicks. It takes a huge amount of clicks with your mouse to get any task done. The interface is not user friendly and many staff members at our school have a difficult time using it.

Great for School Leaders

Kommentare: My overall experience has been great! It takes some time to learn all you can do with it, but once you do it is a real aid to your work load and ability to support teachers.

Vorteile:

The vast number of reports and the ability to build reports allows me to quickly access information and cuts my work in half. I use the WIZARD for scheduling and I love its ease of use. I also use reports to ensure equitable grading practices.

Nachteile:

I can hostely say that there is not much I do not like about Infinite Campus.

Robust but with a learning curve

Kommentare: The reporting is great. Using it for grades was less successful.

Vorteile:

Infinite campus will do everything your school system needs and more.

Nachteile:

There is a steep learning curve to using many of the features.

Infinite Campus is Informative

Kommentare: Overall my experience with Infinite Campus has been long term and positive. I used it as a student myself for my entire academic career, several times a week, and I absolutely loved that every single assignment or exam grade gets inputted and updated as soon as the teacher logs it in. It was an exciting (and nerve wracking!) time as a student but I remember as soon as the teacher would announce that grades were up, that the energy in the room would change and everyone would go home and log into Infinite Campus and then call each other (back before the days of cell phones and texting that is!). I know that Infinite Campus can bring families together and is a platform where students and families can log in together and figure out what is best for the student. I am happy to see that the students I teach now are having similar experiences and that parents are still involved in checking grades even today, because this is what is best for the child so that they can get any help or motivation that they need before the semester keeps moving along.

Vorteile:

I used infinite campus for many years as a student and I always liked the layout and how my classes were lined up like my schedule so I could go through and check my progress in each one. I loved how the grades were already separated into formative and summative sections, reflecting the way the school graded us. As a very involved and "nerdy" student, I was constantly checking infinite campus and my grades. I liked that I could log in and keep track of my progress as a student any time of the day or night, and that it was always available for me even when I was up late studying and remembered I had a new grade in and was able to check it. I also really liked that this software helps families stay connected. My parents would log in at times to check in on me and I think this software really helps to keep parents in the loop because students at times get scared and avoid looking, or lie about their grades to their parents. Parents having the ability to log in allows for them to keep track of their child's grades and progress in every class and this allows them to support them and provide them with help before it is too late in the semester, and this has ample positive ripple affects.

Nachteile:

What I liked least about this software was the layout. I have seen younger students get overwhelmed even though they are eager to check their grades. There are a lot of words on the screen at any time and it can be difficult for a younger student to figure out where to "go" on the page. Older students and perhaps parents/guardians who are not computer savvy may feel overwhelmed by the business of the screen at all times. The software itself is extremely useful but is a bit crowded in terms of user friendliness and the layout. As a tutor I have logged into Infinite Campus with my students and their parents and as a computer savvy person it still takes me a minute to adjust to everything going on the screen. I have had to teach parents and students where to go once I figured it out, and this is what I like least about the software because not everyone is that accustomed to navigating busy and crowded websites.

It’s ok

Vorteile:

I like that I can track how my child is doing in school and grades

Nachteile:

There isn’t anything I don’t like about it

Infinite Campus SIS Review

Kommentare: Infinite Campus is a decent program. I do think that certain features can improve to make it stronger. Looking up a student can be much easier if all data was classified and had a drop-down option.

Vorteile:

Taking student attendance is very easy to do. Teachers are able to input comments that let the operations team see why a student was absent. This allows staff members to know what is happening with students and families.

Nachteile:

Navigating student data is very challenging. I noticed that when I need to look up a student and attempt to view their personal information, I have to navigate different parts of Infinite Campus to get there. Some of the data is limited for me to see; therefore, only the operations team and administration team is able to access it.

Great way to communicate

Kommentare: Overall, Infinite Campus has been a great tool for communicating with students and caregivers. The ease of use for both the teacher updating grades and information as well as the ease of use for the students and caregivers to access is very helpful.

Vorteile:

With Infinite Campus, parents and caregivers have update access to their child/s grades, lunch account balance, schedule, documents that need to be filed, and many other tools that are helpful. Infinite Campus allows teachers to update grades, flag them as late or missing, and make notes if needed.

Nachteile:

At this current time, I do not feel there are any cons to this software, however, I often feel that a section in which parents can comment or mark that they acknowledged a grade of some sort.

I use this as a teacher and a parent. It's truly complete for our needs.

Kommentare: Infinite campus makes my life so much easier, both as a parent and a teacher.

Vorteile:

I love that I am notified as a parent as soon as my children have a grade or an attendance update. As a teacher I love that everything I need is always at my fingertips. My person ID integrates me as both parent and teacher so it's all there. I can use the app on my phone to check on students or my children, as well as using the desktop log-in.

Nachteile:

It can be glitchy with Chrome, and we're a chromebook school. Additionally, it is tedious to look up information on the entire class--addresses and contact information.

Works for my school

Kommentare: Overall, it's getting the job done for my daily needs as a teacher. I think parts of it could be more efficient.

Vorteile:

As a teacher, I use Infinite Campus every day. I use the basic features it provides, such as signing myself in and taking my students' attendance. I also use it to access my special education caseload as well as general student information. I like that all of the student information is in one place and that it shows important information, such as student allergies or health conditions, clearly at the top of their profile.

Nachteile:

Some of the features are not intuitive. For example, when I first log in, I'm under "campus tools," and I see "attendence" in a sidebar. However, that is not where I take attendance -- I have to click through to another area and then click on attendance in the sidebar. This isn't immediately obvious and not very efficient.

Teen Son Using Infinite Campus

Kommentare: I have this app on my phone so I know if there's anything going on with my son's academics, and I do receive alerts. But I can only access the grade book on a desktop computer.

Vorteile:

Infinite Campus sends me alerts whenever my son is late to class or misses an assignment. I can visit grade books for each class and see what homework he's missing and what he still needs to turn in.

Nachteile:

The gradebook is hard to navigate and many teachers don't input the assignments or update the grade book. Sometimes I receive irrelevant push notifications.

Amazing upgrade to our SIS, easy to use and always available

Kommentare: Easy to use, extremely powerful product. Able to combine all of our campus programs into this one piece of software.

Vorteile:

We recently changed from Schoolmaster, which was old and archaic. Infinite campus makes everything extremely easy to find, and combines all aspects of our campus in one easy to use program. This was a familiar product in some aspects as the state uses it already

Nachteile:

This was a huge change from our last SIS, so the training was quite intensive, as was the exporting and importing of data to the new database.

Great but...

Kommentare: We use it as our student management software--attendance, gradebook, parent contact log, etc.

Vorteile:

I like the ease of the gradebook, the seating charts for attendance, and the ability to tie in local needs.

Nachteile:

I wish we could rotate desks in the seating chart. I wish we could have an option to put in class specific nicknames for students. When only people with admin level can enter nicknames, it's frustrating if a kid prefers to be called a nickname not their first name.

Infinite Campus Use

Kommentare: This database is a great tool to track students and their progress. We can also look at grades, transcripts, attendance, gpa's. This database is a one stop shop for a student's overall progress and the parent portal is a great tool for parents.

Vorteile:

What I like about this software is its ability to create great reports. It also gives you the ability to store photos on the records. Software is made specifically for educational institutions.

Nachteile:

Navigating can be a bit confusing at times. There are a lot of windows to click on and if you don't write down directions, you will be stuck trying to remember how to get to a particular window.

Great program

Kommentare: I have had a great experience So far with Infinite Campus. There are a lot of features that our school uses.

Vorteile:

I like being able to use the same program to enter attendance and grades. We are able to use the same program for city and state data as well

Nachteile:

I wish our school had a way to download assignments from Goodle Classroom into Infinite campus so we don’t have to enter grades twice

Infinite Campus Review

Vorteile:

Infinite Campus is extremely user friendly. You can easily search for students in classes and enter grades/absences.

Nachteile:

Things can be categorized a little better in this software but once you learn where everything is, it still works.

Keep Track of your Students

Kommentare: It does what I need it to do, which is give me grade and assignment updates at the tap of my finger.

Vorteile:

I love the alerts that I get to let me know about grade updates for my kids. I can keep track of their schoolwork progress anytime!

Nachteile:

I find it a bit confusing to navigate once I'm in the program. Finding different information for each student is challenging.

Great Grade book and other student organizer

Vorteile:

The grade book has many flexibilities (unfortunately our central office won't let us use most of them). I like the check to see if we have saved feature. The ability to access transcripts and other student information is beneficial.

Nachteile:

The report options are limited and the send email is not intuitive.

Infinite Campus Review

Vorteile:

This program is able to store a lot of information. There are different tabs that house a variety of student documents and necessary pieces of information.

Nachteile:

If the high end version of this program is not purchased, features are limited and become frustrating to the user.