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Was ist SmarterSelect?
Mit einer Kundenbindungsrate von über 95 % und einer Kundenzufriedenheitsrate über 98 % bietet SmarterSelect eine umfassende, aber einfach zu bedienende Online-Application-Management-Lösung für Stipendien, Zuschüsse, Auszeichnungen, Fördermittel, Datenerfassung usw. Erstelle, sammle, analysiere und bewerte Anwendungen mithilfe der mobilen Nutzeroberfläche, SMS-Benachrichtigungen, Inline-Berechnungen, dynamischen Anwendungsregeln, Online-Empfehlungen, Datei-Uploads und vielem mehr.
Wer verwendet SmarterSelect?
Gemeinschaftsstiftungen, private Stiftungen, Bildungsstiftungen, Verbände, Hochschulen, Unternehmen usw.
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Bewertungen über SmarterSelect

From scholarship application to chapter evaluation
Kommentare: As our chapter success plan process relies heavily on administrator access, multi-end user access, and evaluator access, SmarterSelect has been a perfect solution for use for this project.
Vorteile:
We have used the system for years as part of our scholarship and fellowship application process. This past year, we introduced a new chapter planning and evaluation tool for our organization. We decided to put this tool in SmarterSelect because of the ease of use by both the administrator and the end-user. The ability to have the end-user save work and come back has been invaluable. Since this is an evaluation tool, the ability to give multiple individuals evaluator access was a key factor in our decision to put this process in SmarterSelect.
Nachteile:
The form builder fuction can be confusing at times.

Switched from emailed applications to SmarterSelect - saved us a ton of time!
Vorteile:
Soooo streamlined! I love that I can customize the application to meet my needs. Students say it's a much better process on their end, and I get better results because the parameters of the app require them to upload certain file types, require answers to some questions, and flag if they miss any questions. A huge time saver on the administrative time for me - and there are reports I can pull throughout the application period to keep my finger on the pulse of things. Plus, my evaluators can quickly review the apps and rank them without needing to open and download lots of files - and again, easy to pull reports. Huge timesaver and brings us into the 21st century!
Nachteile:
The learning curve is there - it takes a while to get the knack of things. And setting up the application and revising it to be exactly what you want can be cumbersome. There's not a great way to test the application other than creating "fake" applications to ensure everything works smoothly. That said - it works very well for our needs and allows me to process more apps in less time with much less frustration for both me and our candidates!
Feedback
Vorteile:
Software is intuitive to use. Easy for applicants to use without significant training.
Nachteile:
Needs a more robust ability to build selection criteria.

Beyond excellent, especially for a beginner!
Vorteile:
SmarterSelect is so easy to use. If I can't figure something out by simply trying different things, I can quickly and easily find helpful tutorials in the library. If something is so hard that I still can't figure it out-- which I don't recall ever happening-- customer support is super fast and responsive when i put a ticket it.
Nachteile:
I wish I could archive deleted programs so that I don't have to sort through them, without losing the applications completely. I would just like to move the ones I know I will probably never need again out of the "disabled" section and only keep the ones from the past year or two in that section.
My daily go to
Kommentare: We use SmarterSelect for our grants and scholarships. It is easy to pull analytics, create applications, approve and share with evaluators.
Vorteile:
How easy it is to pull up reports and customize data
Nachteile:
Unable to search a single person across multiple grant applications.

SmarterSelect
Kommentare: Having applicants that can apply online and have all of their information readily available makes our lives so much easier.
Vorteile:
It is very easy to learn even if you are not the most tech savvy individual. Being given the option of customizing applications is a great way to be able to get straight to the information that you are looking for in applicants. No more worries about manually inputting data for hours!
Nachteile:
When switching from one application to another, I sometimes find that it takes longer than it should. Other than this, I am completely satisfied with SmarterSelect.

User friendly platform that streamlines application management
Kommentare: It's a much easier to manage our EMERGE application process. It's easy for students to use and for staff to use.
Vorteile:
It's a professional, more streamlined way of managing applications, especially the review of applications.
Nachteile:
It can be difficult to know about all of the features. For example, on Google Forms, I can easily customize questions to take people to a different page based on a response. I don't know how to do that in Smarterselect, but I'm sure there's a way.
Antwort von SmarterSelect
vor 7 Jahren
Hi Sara, Thanks for your review! I'll have our Support reach out to you with info on how to use App Rules. Thanks, Robert

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen:
Very easy to customize and great customer support!
Kommentare: I am very pleased with SmarterSelect. It saves us time by having the matching questionnaire that allows for scholarship matching.
Vorteile:
I liked the free trial to set up unique programs with the help of customer support. All free set up work was saved and usable after purchasing the product. It is very easy to customize the unique programs and link to a common application. It allows for scholarship matching.
Nachteile:
I'd like it if unique program dates such as deadline dates could be synced with common application deadline dates so I would not have to edit all of the uniques annually.

Grants and Scholarships
Kommentare: We track, review/evalutate and export all of our grants and scholarship applications.
Vorteile:
The exporting feature, and being able to compile all evaluator feedback.
Nachteile:
I wish there were some different features for viewing each application and being able to see each evaluator comment. It takes a lot of work after the export to compile all responses and would be nice to bring up each application and see the review from each evaluator on one screen without having to do the export.
Antwort von SmarterSelect
vor 6 Jahren
Hi Katie, Many thanks for your feedback! We like your suggestions regarding viewing application and evaluation data. We'll incorporate that in future releases. Regards, Robert
One of the best decisions our Scholarship Program ever made!
Vorteile:
Efficient, can be accessed from anywhere. The SmarterSelect online platform has made the work of scholarships far less cumbersome. I am able to streamline the process and app rules and matching has enhanced our ability to assist applicants and make their process easier.
Nachteile:
I honestly cannot think of anything I don't like other than as features have been added I need more time to catch up. However, they offer frequent online training and that helps a great deal. I hear from IPAD users that on occasion scoring doesn't show up later.
Great software with some room for minor improvements
Kommentare: Overall the experience has been a positive one. Customer Service is always helpful and responsive. I wish that it were possible to speak with CS over the phone sometimes though, because instant messaging or email isn't always the fastest. I enjoy the software and it's capabilities. We also use the software for purposes outside of scholarship and it's been a great asset there as well.
Vorteile:
There are a lot of great things about this software. I enjoy the ability to customize the site easily, even for those without any sort of web-design knowledge. Being able to send reminders from within the platform is a great time-saver and helpful. The applicants who've used it seem to be able to operate it without much trouble, including from mobile devices. The reports feature is critical for us to track and make notes outside of the platform via Excel. Being able to amend the applicants records and attachments is also simple and helpful when they're running into issues or user errors.
Nachteile:
The reminder feature for scholarship applicants could be clearer. In my experience, in order to send reminders to those on "incomplete" statuses and "pending" statues you have to go to two separate parts of the site. It's not the most clear. There's almost too many features. I wish there was a bit more simplicity. It can be very time-consuming. When our reviewers (independent scholarship committee) go into do their part, we've found that the software sometimes will not hold their ratings even though they are saving as they go. This results in a 0 being given in certain categories which was really mess up the metrics. This also requires additional time being spent reviewing the scores to catch any software errors.
DCF Review of Smarter Select
Kommentare: Smarter Select has streamlined our grant and scholarship work which is very important with a small staff.
Vorteile:
The application creation and design is very easy. The autoscoring, bulk e-mail messaging, data export, copying of existing programs for the next year, application review are all great features that make the grant and scholarship application very smooth. We use the common application for our scholarships which eliminates duplicate data entry for the same questions on the part of applicants.
Nachteile:
It would be nice to be able to import applications into other software. It looks like in the last question in the survey askes about integrating with other products. I would like more information on that. Also while the e-mail support works sometimes it would be nice to be able to speak to someone in person.
In Betracht gezogene Alternativen:
Great product for the price
Vorteile:
It's incredibly user friendly and easy for applicants to use. Our evaluators are also happy with product's ability to be so user friendly. Their customer service is phenomenal, fast, friendly and useful.
Nachteile:
I would love to be notified, per program, of evaluators completing their evaluations. The logic of some questions could also use some improvements. I also wish there was a way to copy a question so I didn't have to repeat the work multiple times.
DCF review
Kommentare: Generally, it's very good. Support is helpful and the application is easy to use.
Vorteile:
We love that the forms are customizable and are easy to set auto-calculation and autoscoring features. That is by far the best thing about SS! It is also easy for most of our evaluators to use, even first timers.
Nachteile:
Okay, sorry, a few things. Firstly, although the evaluation is easy, having to scroll through the evaluations is inconvenient for our reviewers. I think drop-downs or a side-by-side review interface might be more practical. Secondly, the delete feature should be able to be canceled within a few seconds/minutes to avoid any permanent issues. Also, it would be great for us to be able to customize the css somewhat to adhere to our branding.
Smarter Select Review by NCHSAA
Kommentare: We have used the Smarter Select platform for over 6 years and find it to work well for our various programs. There are numerous capabilities within the platform which we are still learning as staff turns over or duties shift but we are quite pleased with the Smarter Select platform.
Vorteile:
This software is very customizable and allows us to create applications for a number of programs including recognition programs, scholarships, grants, weekly submissions for performance recognition. The simple sign in process is great, too, for new users. The filters are great and allow you to segment the data according to your needs. Customer service has always responded promptly to any questions I have and the online support information is fairly comprehensive.
Nachteile:
Learning how to set up applications, how to filter data, and getting a basic feel for how to use the platform is essential and requires some time to navigate through all of the features.
The Initiative
Kommentare: The Initiative was able to experience its first round-Request for Proposal to grant awards with no major flaws, customizatiobs
Vorteile:
The product was easy to use by the applicants to our initiative, by the evaluators who reviewed the proposals submitted and by Initiative staff who managed the process and who had to extract data for our management review and decision making. This was our maiden experience and we had no system breakdown.
Nachteile:
Grant management team would need to supply this answer.
Two years and going strong!
Kommentare: It was rather simple process. At times though do to the change over in my office my partners have trouble watching the videos and learning how to utilize the program.
Vorteile:
We really like that we can open and close the scholarship process just by setting up the dates ahead of time. We like that with our common application students can fill out one application but be eligible for multiple scholarships. It is easy to set up an additional requirement if scholarship committees choose to do so.
Nachteile:
I don't like the tiers you need to buy just to add the Spanish language. When everything in our education system is setup to support Spanish speakers it seems lame a program that cost so much cannot support Spanish speakers unless we upgrade. Our reviewers have said it would be nice if the scholarships were separated into two files completed and incomplete rather than having to go through and separate them one at a time. I think there may be a setting to send completed ones to the reviewers but they like getting them all but would prefer the program separate them rather than lump them all together.
SmarterSelect Review
Kommentare: Overall, we have been very happy with the product and the customer service has always been prompt and helpful. Thank you!
Vorteile:
I like the ability to customize the questions to what I need and I like being able to manage all the applicants in one place.
Nachteile:
I export my data and then manipulate it in Excel but reporting may be a better way to do this. I need to look into that more. Also, we ask so many questions in our scholarship application that our calculations are sometimes slow that they don't always calculate without refreshing the calculations.
SmarterSelect Helpful Tool
Kommentare: Juggling multiple grants, I am glad we had a software that could help us collect the data we needed, while remaining current on compliance requirements. I can't wait to learn more about its other capabilities.
Vorteile:
I started with my organization and jumped into using SmarterSelect by the second day. My supervisor explained the software, which turned out to be extremely easy to understand and use. I was able to pick it up relatively quickly. SmarterSelect provides you many tools for best practices that have helped me throughout my time with my organization.
Nachteile:
SmarterSelect sometimes glitches in terms of permissions. Occasionally, since I am a user and administrator, I get an error indicating I am not allowed to access certain things. This can be remedied by logging out and back into the system.
We will keeping on using Smarter Select
Kommentare: Smarter Select has helped us expedite our goals with the OSV Challenge and that has been wildly beneficial.
Vorteile:
We were able to design and customize each of our applications. The onboarding for the program was easy. We also liked the features that we would use with the evaluators as well.
Nachteile:
There are a few components of the exporting system that aren't as intuitive as the rest of the system.
It works
Kommentare: It works for what we do.
Vorteile:
It was available in the time line we wanted to deploy it. The cost was not out of range for us.
Nachteile:
It's kind of clunky and feels like one step above a green screen. Menus and navigation inside the programs feels confusing.
Great Price to Quality
Kommentare: I've used this for 5 years and the experience has been excellent. Unlike other programs, the price is terrific for the quality of the program and ease of use. They have only expanded their features. While lacking a bit in the matching side, they have so much that can be implemented behind the scenes.
Vorteile:
Easy to Use, Great price to quality for the program. Unlike others, they don't raise prices dramatically every year and have kept the prices down, which is great for smaller budgets. Also While keeping prices down they've added more and more features. All problems I've ever had have been user error and not with their program. With the mid-level package there's SO MUCH you can do behind the scene to evaluate and rank (although matching still remains elusive). Any service to the site they've given plenty of notice so we can let students know the site will be down. Site stability and speed has been great.
Nachteile:
No number to call right when you're having a problem-you have to send an email. To be fair, this is responded to promptly, but still... Once you know how to use the program it's very easy but there's no manual. Videos/support site and the topics are ok and expanding. Webinars help but can sometimes lose focus.
Amazing platform for what we need
Kommentare: Our overall experience has been a success. Applications are easy to set up and export to our website or whatever platform we need them to export to. Students have an easy way to apply for the different scholarships and grants we offer and we are able to track very easily who has applied, and been awarded for our reporting.
Vorteile:
This platform is easy and manageable for both staff and students
Nachteile:
We do not really have anything we do not like about this software/platform
It works for scholarships, grants and more
Kommentare: We use SmarterSelect in conjunction with our parent organization who uses it for scholarships. We use it to track conference submissions. While it is more designed for scholarship and grant use, it serves well for what we do.
Vorteile:
The best part is the ability to download PDFs of all submissions to work with offline.
Nachteile:
Menu system is clunky until you get very comfortable navigating it.
Great option for smaller organizations
Kommentare: Smarter Select is flexible enough to meet all of our needs and the technical support is always so helpful.
Vorteile:
I love that it is online and that users can have multiple roles, which is key in our small town and organization
Nachteile:
The reporting after someone receives a grant is not integrated into one grant application. It would be nice to be a one, stop application.