Gradelink makes contacting parents and posting grades easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There have been a couple of occasions where the site was down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of setup and access to help desk. . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are too many features that have to be paid for as extras compared to other systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is a very complex school management system that can accommodate almost any requirement you might have. It allows for setting terms the way you need them and it has excellent mass and individual communication tools. It also comes with an app for students and parents, and can generate various reports, report cards, transcripts etc. It has a discipline system and attendance taking, all of these (including grades) with real time alerts for parents that they can customize (e.g. you get a notification any time a discipline mark is entered, or a tardy is recorded, or when the average for a subjects either drops bellow or goes above some preset customizable levels). the service and support is great and the price is not back breaking.It has some optional but very attractive features, like mass/individual sms, and on-line enrollment/re-enrollment. You can open several instances of gradelink, even under different user names in the same browser, and that is a plus for me as an admin.The system provides a lot of visual helps and mini-videos to explain the features, and if you call in the service is fast and knowledgeable. You can send messages in any kind of type of group you want, very flexible, and you can allow people to respond or not. You can post a newsletter on the opening page. You can easily conclude old term/create new terms in bulk, and promote/graduate students. All profiles allow you to post if you want a picture, for easy facial recognition of the student/faculty. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has a few minuses that, once addressed, could make this product even more attractive. The app is very rudimentary and has almost no customization available. Also, it lacks some essential functionalities that have parents always complain about it, e.g. it CAN"T access the calendar, the MAIN place where teachers post homework assignments and upcoming events! This is a glaring omission, and forces parents to log via a browser, which seems to defeat the purpose of having the app. Another frequent complaint I have from teachers is that on the web version (main version) you cannot customize colors of backgrounds and/or fonts, columns, etc. Some teachers are having color sensing impairments and the overall look of the product is dull, grayish and low contrast, making it harder for some of the teachers to properly see the details on page.

Also, some of the settings in various places of the software are buggy and counter-intuitive. The settings on terms and periods is very confusing and not well explained in the instructionals. The calculations used for the subject averages are confusing and not straightforward. Also, we would like to give some teachers limited access (view only) to some classes, but that is not possible. In the text messaging tool for communications, the amount of words allowed is way too small (150 characters). Also, the system keeps you logged in or not as the computer goes in standby or screen saver in a mysterious way (sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't). For security reasons it should log you out by default any time one of these events happens. There is no way to give access to a teachers to the discipline system for all students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Top three reasons to work with Gradelink: Easy to work with, adaptable technology, local based company in the US. They have been extremely easy to work with in adapting their platform for a rather unique use. Virtually everything we needed the technology to due was "one-off." During the course of the pilot programs, we received NO complaints from any of the users about their ability to access our content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Turnaround time for service requests or login creation can be delayed. That being said, we request several hundred uploads of accounts at a time. Overall their customer support is far better than other services we've used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gradelink is easy to use. The spreadsheet style gradebook is easily navigated, and parents and students have easy access. As a teacher and administrator, I can access information from anywhere, just need wifi. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some reports/fields can't be customized, but generally we can end up with everything we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gradelink has completely changed the way our school operates - for the better! It is user friendly for:

teachers - attendance, grades, communication

registration - folks can enroll or re-enroll 24/7. Returning students information is pre-populated in the documents!

schoolwide communication - text, email, and voice messaging. Extremely easy in emergency situations!

school management - attendance, report cards, long term record keeping

parents - 24/7 access for student information and grades Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Electronic communication excels, but there is an inability to create field-based hardcopy letters as other programs do. For example, Dear <Parent name> your child <student name> in our <student grade> class..... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gradelink provides a complete student information system that facilitates parent communication and student record management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like to see parents have clear control over what notifications they want to receive and their contact numbers. They should be able to easily turn off some contact numbers for non-emergency communications so that messages are not going to every number connected to a student. I would like to see the Apple School Manager (ASM) integration improved so that student records and class automatically sync with ASM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The flexibility to customize the grading system and the report cards. I also like the user friendly way that Gradelink works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am in the Eastern Time Zone and Gradelink is in the Pacific Time Zone. If I need support, I have to wait a couple of hours in the morning to get help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the gradebook and report cards. It is fast and easy.

I also like the video and step by step tutorials. They make Gradelink user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would like the option of printing SAT/ACT scores on the transcripts. And I haven't found a way to put both Pass/Fail grades and percentage grades on a transcript. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ease of use, multi-purpose functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the not-very-user-friendly way to to enter assignments across separate quarters in the school year Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.