# Which academic advising solutions let advisors add comments visible to all partner schools automatically?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">Hey G2 community, I'm working on a piece about <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/academic-advising">academic advising software</a> and this particular feature is one that came up in a consortium context: the ability for an advisor at one institution to leave a comment on a student record that other partner schools can see without any manual forwarding or export. Shared notes infrastructure, basically. Turns out this is harder to find than you'd expect.</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/e2e-advising-achieve/reviews"><strong>Achieve</strong></a> has shared notes as a core function. Reviewers consistently describe the ability for all advisors to see a student's full history, with notes attached to the student record and visible across the team. Whether that extends to partner institutions depends on configuration, but the shared visibility architecture is there.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/jenzabar-one/reviews"><strong>Jenzabar One</strong></a> addresses this through its campus-wide data sharing model, where information is accessible to anyone with the right permissions. Reviewers describe it as solving the fragmentation problem specifically because "everyone can access whatever they need." For multi-school setups, the permissioning framework would be the thing to dig into.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/agentforce-education-formerly-salesforce-education-cloud/reviews"><strong>Agentforce Education</strong></a> is built for exactly this kind of shared constituent data model, and serves as a "single source of truth throughout the student journey" according to one reviewer. Cross-institution visibility would require configuration, but the platform supports it.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/ellucian-student/reviews"><strong>Ellucian Student</strong></a> handles shared record access at scale. With 263 reviews, it's the most reviewed platform in this category and tends to come up for enterprise-level institutional data sharing.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For those running multi-school programs: do you currently have a shared notes setup that actually works, or is it still mostly email and spreadsheets?</p>

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&lt;p&gt;The honest answer to the final question in this thread is that for most multi-school programs it&#39;s still largely email and spreadsheets, not because shared notes platforms don&#39;t exist but because cross-institution permissioning tends to require more configuration than a single school&#39;s IT team wants to take on. Achieve&#39;s shared notes architecture working within an institution is well-documented; how it extends to partner schools is the configuration question worth pressing the vendor on directly.&lt;/p&gt;

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