ISI: Illuminate Student Information Reviews & Product Details

I love how user-friendly Illuminate Education is. My favorite aspect is the reports. There are a variety of reports that are a click away that can show individual or class progress. There is also an excellent bank of questions to choose from when creating an assessment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is not anything I dislike about Illuminate. It makes my job as an educator easier having access to Illuminate Education. I do not know what I did before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that illuminate education offers a lot of tools to help you track data and also identify which students are at risk, whether it is social-emotional scales or grades; illuminate has it all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like how complicated illuminate can be. Sometimes I had to click through many things before being able to find what I needed. However, illuminate did have a lot of easy-to-use features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Illuminate allows you to create tests with finite testing windows and it keeps students from being able to access the internet while they are testing. You are able to link it to your online grade book and skip the step or having to grade or run scantrons. I also appreciate that teachers can use what others have made and simply assign it to their class with or without making slight modifications. The students are already familiar in CA with the software because of benchmark testing, so it keeps the technology hurdles low- especially for our tech savy teens. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While it does take a substantial amount of time to create an assessment on Illuminate, you are able to share it with other teachers as well as make adjustments to it in the future by making a duplicate and editing that. It also requires that short response answers have specific terms in order for the software to grade students' writing for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that you can easily share data with co-workers and manage online testing materials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike that you have to change your password every 30 days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can save paper and provide electronic versions of tests and exams on the lockdown browser where students can't go on to another website to cheat. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have nothing I can think of that I dislike about illuminate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Illuminate is great for multiple choice assessments. I’m able to create assessments on the software and print out scantrona as a whole class or by individual student. The best part is scanning the student responses in using the camera on my laptop. It is quick and very efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The down side to illuminate is the newest update. I prefer the old method of searching for assessments created. It is much more challenging than before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like that Illuminate is versatile and allows our school to use the product for a variety of things, such as attendance, grades, discipline, etc. It has a dashboard after login that allows the user to easily access what they need without clicking all over the interface. The administrator can set up different dashboards based on the level of the user, so office staff have different dashboard shortcuts than the teaching staff, for example. I also like that when you need support with the product, you can quickly reach out to the Illuminate phone support team and they can generally correct your issue right then and there. If not, they will open a support ticket and get back to you to help correct the issue at a later time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I often have issues with the grade books, where grades refuse to link, publish, and push over to student report cards. I have to frequently reach out to Illuminate phone support just to help me solve my issues, as my Home Office IT support team usually cannot determine a response. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that I can create my own simple or elaborate quizzes and test and easily use the data to be help each student on their own level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scanning from the computer's camera is not very efficient. It takes some time to figure out the best position for the scantrons, but often it takes a lot of tweaking to get it to scan. Scanning using a PDF file is much easier but not as convenient. I wish the technology improved so that papers could be scanned quickly, without much repositioning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being able to record all of my grades in one place and keep track of my assessments. I also like that there is a parent portal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish that it was more aesthetically pleasing when it comes to data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Illuminate is nice that it has widgets and is a one-stop shop for all data needs. It is nice that you can add and subtract data needs and reports as needed for the school. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The assessment function is underdeveloped and clunky. It is also sometimes a never-ending scrolling page when looking at student data. It seems that some features (like the QR code scanner and bubble sheets) are technologies that are 15 years anchored in the past and outdated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.