Gradelink

For the most part, we really like GradeLink. It’s generally more friendly for my non-tech-oriented admin to accomplish their tasks. We like the on-line enrollment, parent/student portal and communication features, too. Again, much easier to use than our old program. We also liked the soft-sell approach versus the hard-sell approach of other vendors (webinars/zoom calls by appointment - I’m a teacher, too! Who has time for that?!?). Training and support are fairly robust and are very easy to access. Having said that, it does have a couple of drawbacks that can be a bit frustrating. As a teacher and an admin, I have two separate logins. That’s a bit of a pain. Attendance is a bit tedious to manage - there’s no sign-in, sign-out feature and attendance has to be entered one student at a time, one day at a time rather than all students in a family for several days. And populating classes happens class by class, so when we add students part-way through the year, we have to go to each class to add them rather than adding them through a student window. And I’m not a fan of the financial package - we use Quickbooks for accounting purposes. When I looked at billing in GradeLink, it looked like lots of extra work with little payoff for our families. So we never implemented that piece. Quite honestly, those headaches are only from the admin side and I’m probably the only user at our school who deals with those issues. Overall, we are quite pleased with the program.

Gradelink helps teachers communicate with parents, students and the office

It is an awesome program with great potential, I just do not know how to use most of it. The tutorials are great, but when I need something specific, its hard to watch hours of tutorials to find what I need.

Easy interface good documentation to help navigate

Would like to an option to check that allows contacts information/authorized to pickup be shared with siblings instead of entering information twice.

Everything all in one place, less spreadsheets & notebooks to maintain

It definitely helped with [tuition] delinquency. Before, parents would have to go in and manually pay online. When we switched to automatic payments, it drafts to a bank account or charges to a credit card automatically.

And before, every year we would have to match the payment plan to the student. It was back-and-forth work with imports and exports. Now, it’s a one-step process. It’s a completely hands-off experience.

Your responsiveness to our specific questions and needs. This sets you apart from other online database services.

All the data for a student/family in one place

The ability to email parents and the flexibility of grading by letter, percentage or points.

Grade Link is very user friendly, also we are very pleased with the great customer service! All the people who have answered my questions have had such a sweet disposition. Our lass company we used was the opposite and that is one of the main reasons we changed to Grade Link.

It has made a note to the parents super easy. Sometimes with our minds busy with so many different things at once, I can even wonder did I actually send the message, or not. The email I get from Gradelink is helpful for that, too.

I am completely satisfied with this program. The problems are from my lack of experience with it and the tutorial videos are a great help. I look forward to entering lesson plans before this year is out so I can lesson plan with it all next year. it is an amazing source for both students and parents!!

I love everything about it! Especially the help link. If I have a question or want to try something new, I go to the help link and it is excellent and explains everything beautifully.

It makes our report cards so easy to print out. We can also print out a progress report any time to keep parents informed. No more attendance books and paperwork

Consolidation of all items checked above into one platform. Having the ability to access student records, reports and the ability to communicate with parents and staff via email and text blasts has been extremely helpful and easy. Also, our parent portal has been a positive addition this year.

Our team is all on the same page with Gradelink; less paperwork to shuffle and store; great for communicating with parents and keeping it documented; running of reports; lots to love!

A well organized system in which I as administrator can see and find all school work assignments and grades. I appreciate the many different reports that can be generated through the system

We just started using Enroll Me and it has helped us a great deal in making registration much more convenient for our families. It has also helped make my job easier because all of the data is entered by the families when they enroll so I’m not having to re-enter information each year.

Putting grades, lesson plans, communication, teacher features and administrative features all in one place is the best thing invented since sliced bread!