Alma SIS
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Product Overview
Alma is a state-of-the-art School Information System (SIS) designed to centralize and streamline K-12 school operations. Engineered with precision and optimized for performance, Alma offers an all-encompassing solution for educational institutions of varied sizes.Pros
- Easy to navigate
- Integrates administrative processes into SIS
- Responsive customer support
About Alma
Alma is a state-of-the-art School Information System (SIS) designed to centralize and streamline K-12 school operations. Engineered with precision and optimized for performance, Alma offers an all-encompassing solution for educational institutions of varied sizes.
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Key Features
- Student Information Management: Record and access student demographics, attendance records, and academic history with ease.
- Enrollment and Registration: Automate admissions, enrollment, and registration processes, ensuring data accuracy and efficiency.
- Advanced Scheduling: Implement flexible and adaptive scheduling suited to diverse educational requirements.
- Grade Management: Offers both standards-based and traditional gradebooks, allowing educators to record, track, and analyze student performance in real time.
- State Reporting: Facilitate compliance with automated state reporting tools, reducing manual effort and increasing accuracy.
- Custom Report Cards: Personalize report cards to mirror institution-specific branding and academic standards.
- Integrated Learning Management System (LMS): Enhance learning experiences with an LMS that supports course management, content delivery, and collaborative learning.
- Portals for Parents and Students: Ensure consistent communication between educators, students, and guardians. These portals provide access to grades, schedules, and school announcements.
- Dynamic Reporting: Customizable reports and analytics provide critical insights into student performance and institutional metrics.
- Custom Form Builder: Tailor-make forms to suit specific institutional needs, from surveys to application forms.
Beyond these features, Alma stands out due to its commitment to data integrity and security. The platform ensures rigorous adherence to global data protection standards, reinforced with end-to-end encryption and secure cloud storage options.
Alma’s intuitive design ensures a short learning curve, backed by responsive customer support. As educational requirements evolve, Alma remains agile, regularly updating its features to align with modern educational best practices.
In essence, Alma positions itself as a trusted partner for K-12 educational institutions, emphasizing efficient school management while championing academic excellence.
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Before we switched our school to Alma we were using multiple programs to help our teachers with their record keeping responsibilities. We had one program for grading, another one for rosters, and yet another one for communication with parents. We even had an entirely different program to help generate grade reports and student schedules. None of them interfaced with each other, and our staff were often doing double and triple entries for each student. Since switching to Alma we have reduced the administrative burden on our teachers and office staff by over 50%. Alma has enabled our teachers to better utilize their office time, and freed up valuable opportunities for more one on one teaching time. This is a win-win for everyone involved in the education process. Thank you Alma!
Alma integrates our administrative processes into one, easy to use program that both parents and teachers love!
The financial/billing component is not as comprehensive as we need.
Alma is a game changer for this school receptionist! Alma was everything we needed in one!!
I love how easy it is to navigate through Alma. Doing attendance is quick and easy, using the robo attendance phone call to parents saves me so much time. Running reports is easy. Literally everything you need is at your fingertips!! Customer service is also amazing, they are polite, they respond quickly and resolve all issues.
I don’t have one single thing about Alma that I don’t like. It’s just so easy to use and convenient.
Glad we’re using Alma
Unlike other SIS’s, Alma actually looks and feels like it was made in the 2010’s. The system is solid, and has essentially every feature a smaller school like ours would want (and many more that we don’t need to use). The gradebook is excellent, and it’s easy to transfer classes and students from year-to-year. Their customer service has been great (we accidentally deleted multiple report cards in different places the other day and they quickly and helpfully solved our issue by restoring to a backup), and they are continually adding features and improving the platform. And the cost has been at least 50% less than quotes we were getting from major competitors. Many reasons to switch to Alma.
The latest transcripts update was helpful - there are still a couple of features we’d like on the transcripts front, but that’s mostly because our school has a unique curriculum. This is totally just a personal preference, but I’d also like to be able to search for classes in the search feature in addition to contacts.
