Marg Alma

Colorful interface

Can easily search stiudents

Inability to print reports one by one.

No VISUAL individual schedule options

Does not link with google classroom in standards mode

Not as malleable as I’d like it to be

Competency’ based progress reporting in a high school setting

Having the ability to write notes on each student.

1 You cannot print out a year long individual attendance report.

2 It is not user friendly when trying to see which absences are excused, unexcused or suspension. They need to all be color coded differently. Otherwise you have to click on each individual date to see what the attendance was marked as. Each absence should be a different color so you can easily see and count the absences efficiently just by viewing the calendar.

3 There is not tardy report that gives you the amount of time the student was tardy. Again, I have to click on each individual day to get the time they arrived. There is a report with student's name, date they were tardy and the number of tardies they have, but as I need a report with the time the came into school as well.

4 When gathering demographics, I have to flip from two pages (the bio and contact pages instead of all of the information being on one page. Very time consuming when you are making a report.

I don't have recommendations.

None at this time.

It is easy to message my classes. There is very little else to recommend about this product. It has been incredibly frustrating trying to implement this.

Many functions that I consider basic for an SIS had to be specifically requested by our corporation and developed by ALMA post implementation. When we started with the system, there was no mechanism for a final exam, I could not drill down to see my homeroom students' current academic progress in their classes, and it took over a semester to generate a transcript that the state would accept. ALMA still cannot provide class rankings. Entering grades is cumbersome. All reports are pdf with little customization possible. All teachers in a building can see and access every report that is run in the building, raising confidentiality issues.

ALMA is not a fully developed product. They are responding to our needs, but it is a slow and reactive process, not proactive. The product was not ready to deploy.

This system has created far more problems than it has solved.

I don't have a feature I like best. It's fine for writing report cards and narratives.

The fact that Alma accepts tardies and absences but can not keep track of the tardies entered for the report card makes no sense to me. It seems that this would be an easy fix to an annoying problem.

writing report cards.

It keeps track of things better than if I were to compile things by hand.

It's a bit obnoxious to navigate. Features, like the ability to email all students, disappear. Constant pop-up messages from the tech crew. Y'all - make an app for the phone that just lets me do attendance.

If it's the best option, go with it.

Really, we use it to take attendance, and that's about it. A bit for grades.