MySchool SIS

Pros: Possibility of having everything needed for enrollment, data, student information, and their parents online makes the job of student admission much easier and more practical. Easy to use. Any person with little experience can operate the tool very well. Practical and simple forms. Possibility of use also on other devices at any time and place. Ease of searching for student information and data.

Cons: There's nothing about the tool that we don't like or that disapproves of its use.

Overall: With the advancement of the pandemic, the tool fit like a glove for us who fear a daycare with children up to 5 years old. We were able to pass on the lessons through the tool where parents follow the whole process and give us feedback. Also, now we no longer have to go through all the trouble of looking up student data in paper. Everything is online and easily accessible. For us, My School Sis was a great revolution in our daily work, helping us to have more time to dedicate ourselves to students, their difficulties and doubts. Really highly recommended to everyone.

Pros: -Excellent, prompt and extremely helpful support team. Always willing to answer questions and provide solutions to problems.
-MySchool grows with your schools' needs from registration, attendance, government documents, assignments, grading, reports, scheduling, room management, locker management, and so much more! We started with a few areas and keep utilizing more areas each year to centralize all our data.
-Most areas are customizable to preferences and needs of the school. Customizable grade reports allow us to develop our own report cards.
-Ability to manage different levels of schools with different attendance, assignments, scheduling and grade report options.
-Place to share ideas for future ideas and modifications on existing pages through AHA portal.
-Ability to customize security levels within your school and determine who can access what pages and information.

Cons: MySchool has so many options that it can be overwhelming to get started but their support team has been an excellent support and it has been so worth the changeover!

Overall: MySchool has grown substantially over the last three years and has consistently provided excellent options to provide management of all school data. While it was overwhelming to use at first, the design of MySchool allows easy management and has consistently allowed more and more flexibility and customizable options. I would highly recommend MySchool to other schools.

Pros: The developers of MySchool have been very good at listening to what their users have to say and implementing new features as needed or requested. For example, our entire methods of assessment have changed here in British Columbia over the past couple of years and MySchool has had to implement some major changes. MySchool is also able to handle many different aspects of school administration from teacher needs like grades, report cards and attendance, to discipline tracking, accounting, alumni database, etc.

Cons: There are a few things that sometimes take a few clicks more to do than I think they should but that's pretty minor.

Overall: Our school has really loved using MySchool and was the first one to onboard in BC (I think). They have been really good at taking input and improving their system over the years.

Pros: We love the personal and fast response to support issues. MySchool staff are helpful with answers and willing to set up video chats to work through more challenging issues. They are proactive at alerting schools to busier times when more issues may arise. We also appreciate the clear access to assignments for both parents and students, the ability to generate spreadsheets for various criteria, the ability to communicate with specific groups within the system, and being able to loop back and generate reports for previous years' assignments.

Cons: Though MySchool is responsive to suggestions, there are a couple of things we wish could change: that parents would be able to upload assignments for younger students who don't have their own email and therefore their own login, and from tutors, that there would be fewer screens to work through when inputting assignments.

Overall: We have been using MySchool since 2017. We are a hybrid academy, meaning parents are responsible for schooling at home and need all assignments and instructions in one place. We utilize the Files feature as a central place for parents and students to locate key documents relating to schedules and scope and sequence for courses.

Pros: We have used the My School for our K-12 Canadian school about 10 years now. Although at times we have had some glitches the My School team has always been there to assist and help us through and set up our system to perform satisfactorily. They are a great team!

Cons: The time lapse between our time zone and Malta (they are 4 hours ahead) when we do have an urgent situation is sometimes hard to manoeuvre around. We have learned to plan ahead.

Overall: Having used this system over the last 10 years has overall been good. Our School continues to grow and the My School Program grows with it.

Pros: The ease of the system and how the responsiveness of the support team when technical support is needed.

Cons: Currently I don't have any cons as the program has met my needs thus far.

Overall: Thus far my experience has been seamless and I've been able to manage the system with ease. However, I would like to know if advancements would be made to teacher progress reports so that all progress reports for subjects can be included on one file rather than separate files.