SmartClass vs. Top Hat Comparison Chart

Create your own DreamClass! DreamClass is a school management solution designed to cater to educational organizations of all types and sizes—be it a school, an academy, or a studio—enabling you to optimize your processes with robust features like: Program Management—Structure your curriculum, group courses, create classes, and define their characteristics. Create class groups, set teaching hours, and map them with classrooms. Students & Admissions—Register students, distribute them to class groups, and monitor their journey till graduation. Keep parents and students informed through timely notifications, and grant them access to essential information such as timetables, attendance records, and financials. Academic Management—Coordinate and supervise your team, including teachers, secretaries, administrative assistants, etc. Manage your school’s basic processes like assessments, attendance tracking, and grading, ensuring smooth operations.

Help your school save time, increase enrollment, and achieve its mission with Gradelink. An award-winning student information system and school management system, Gradelink school management software system is suitable for Preschool through High school. Gradelink is a great fit for higher education and for small colleges. Gradelink combines school management, teaching, and learning tools to help schools perform their best. Top features include attendance management, report cards, classes and scheduling, standards-grading system, communications, student information, and student/parent access. Lesson plans, grade sheets, parent communication and custom reports all work together in perfect unison. Gradelink is ideal for K8 schools, private schools and Charter schools. Gradelink is easy to use. School who move to Gradelink find the setup so easy because set up is handled by our tech support team.

It’s time we keep school management simple. With the only all-in-one Student Information, School, and Learning Management System on the market, Classter takes the chaos out of your daily operations. Admissions? Done. Attendance? Handled. Communication? Smooth as ever. We know every school is different, which is why Classter adapts to fit your needs—whether you’re running a small K12 school or a bustling university. No more jumping between systems. Everything you need is right here, so you can focus on what really matters: supporting students and building a thriving learning environment.

For more than 30 years, Procare Solutions has been helping early childhood educators simplify operations and create meaningful connections with families, so they can focus on what matters most – the children in their care. From registration, attendance tracking, staff management and lesson planning to family engagement, tuition collection and reporting, we help ease the challenges faced with running a child care business. Our dedicated team of support professionals also make it easy to get up and running quickly and answer questions along the way. That’s why over 37,000 customers choose Procare. We are proud to be number one in child care management software!

Lumio is a web-based learning platform that offers more ways to effortlessly make learning fun and engaging on student devices. Whether educators have PDFs, Google Slides, PowerPoint, or Notebook files, Lumio effortlessly transforms them into dynamic, engaging learning experiences on any device. Take students on an interactive journey filled with activities, games, group workspaces, formative assessments, and more, all from a single place.   Lumio is specifically designed to improve student outcomes – it’s not just fun, it works! For schools and districts looking for instructional consistency and more efficient workflows, Lumio’s Spark plan offers a library to house approved curriculum content, integration with LMS platforms, and the ability for teachers to collaborate on content for increased productivity with minimal effort. Note: Lumio was formerly known as SMART Learning Suite Online (SLSO)

Deliver the best in curriculum management with tech that is easy to learn, simple to use, and built for your future. And making that experience the best you've ever had! That is what drives us. It is our mission! Your courses and programs drive your brand, your impact. Designing, building, and managing your curriculum is mission critical to your success. currIQūnet META is the foremost curriculum-centric, fully integrated platform that allows you to manage your curriculum your way, the best way! We believe our solution should not limit your curriculum needs, today and into the future. Our proven higher education experience and technical know-how combine to create the most feature rich curriculum management offering in the market. currIQūnet META is based on your processes, your data, your way - the technology conforms to you. Technology should not drive, control how you manage your curriculum processes.

Jumbula is an end-to-end Online Registration, Payment & Class/Camp Management system, designed to streamline back office operations. We supply businesses with a powerful administration dashboard and a set of management and marketing tools to promote and sell camps, classes, childcare, and afterschool programs. For end users and parents, we provide a modern and user-friendly registration experience. Our team strives to offer a cutting-edge and intuitive system that is secure, robust, and reliable. Jumbula is constantly developing new functionalities based on the needs shared by our growing community of clients. Some of our users' favorite features are the attendance mobile app, recurring billing, capacity and waitlist management, class reminders, website integration tool, customizable registration forms, and reporting.

PowerVista RollCall is designed for vocational, professional, trade, continuing and adult education organizations. RollCall streamlines management from admissions through alumni with invoicing, certificate/ degree program tracking, finance tracking, customizable data elements/ built-in report writer/ built-in forms writer and instantly available accreditation statistics. Mix and match distance and traditional classroom learning. Install RollCall on your office network server with access via network client/browser or in a remotely hosted implementation with browser access. Integrate RollCall web portals to provide web browser access to students and prospects for on-line application, on-line registration, on-line payments, grading, viewing schedule, memo transcripts and complete reporting. Integrates with Quickbooks and Moodle.

Pikmykid is the leading safety and dismissal platform that empowers schools to simplify dismissal, engage parents, and keep students safe without the need to purchase, install, or support additional hardware. Designed by former educators and parents, Pikmykid has helped more than 2,000 schools in all 50 states eliminate the busy work and vulnerabilities of dismissal so that teachers have more time to teach, admins aren’t bogged down in carpool calls, and principals can account for every student at the end of the day. And with extensive SIS integrations, Pikmykid easily fits into your schools’ existing ecosystems to make the tools you already have that much more powerful.

Linewize combines world leading technology with world leaders in online safety education, IT administration, teaching and student safeguarding. Our aim is to help schools, students and families develop better digital habits and better communities. Utilizing a combination of AI and a team of highly trained human moderators, it’s the most advanced K-12 student threat detection tool available. Providing cyber safety education and tools, including a parent app, to engage your school community. Providing screen and content visibility of all devices in class, including BYOD and personal devices. Linewize Monitor is the most advanced student threat detection tool in K-12, helping Districts spot at-risk students. And it's the only solution to hold all four iKeepSafe student data privacy certifications; COPPA, FERPA, CSPC, and ATLIS.