Sycamore School Reviews & Product Details

Sycamore is very interactive! It is easy to use and incorporate in everyday life! From communication with parents, to checking grades, and counting discipline notices, sycamore is great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sycamore is very robust. Meaning, they have so many features. Because of that, there is a large learning curve that must take place for users to understand Sycamore. However, after a short time, users will learn the necessary steps to make their incorporation of Sycamore successful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The seating chart has images of the students and so this is useful. The attendance system works smoothly and can be modified easily. It is easy to input grades and modify them where necessary. The interface is clean and it is not hard to navigate around the site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The messaging feature does not always work and does not always notify you if you have received a message. I often miss messages and then have angry customers because of this. The login via email also does not always work and I often have to login twice. There are several redundant features which have a purpose that is unclear to me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like how the company has thought of MANY of the school functions, especially on the financial side, parental communication side, and grade input side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would really like to see Google Grades automatically update, instead of ME wasting thousands of hours pushing buttons. The missing work, excused work, etc. does not transfer over from Google Classroom. There are not even setting for me to transfer the grades automatically from Google Classroom.

Posting things on Sycamore is VERY difficult and time consuming. If Sycamore does not do something to fix these problems, then as soon as Google Classroom can process money, Sycamore will soon be obsolete.

Google Classroom is compatible with nearly every educational app. I have not once seen Sycamore's brand on an educational app.

Get with it soon Sycamore, or your company will be gone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the in-app messaging services. It makes communicating with co-workers easy. Communication is such a huge part of education, using Sycamore makes communication very easy.

Another portion of Sycamore that I like is the great customer support that they have. Through the program, there is a built in feature for direct messaging with the support staff at Sycamore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not compatible for schools with few students. I understand that it doesn't always benefit to service a small school, but it may help the small school grow if they were able to use Sycamore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Once you get the hang of navigating your way through Sycamore, it can be a useful tool. When I'm grading, it tells me if a student was absent on the day of the assignment and that was really helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Navigation throughout the website is not intuitive. It took me a while to learn how to use the system and I consider myself pretty good with technology. Links bring you to pages that you wouldn't expect, and you have to go through multiple buttons just to take attendance (at least that's how our school's Sycamore was set up). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sycamore is a great tool to keep current on my students grades and assignments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can’t think of anything I dislike about Sycamore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I did like that it was a pretty inexpensive program. It helped us take attendance and keep grades all together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Navigating through Sycamore is a bit difficult. Buttons bring you to pages you wouldn’t expect them to, and sometimes you have to go through multiple layers of clicking around just to find what you need (an example being finding the page that you can take attendance on). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like theayoutof the app. Makes things easy to find. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not really the apps fault but the school doesn't take advantage of all it has to offer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Everything. Lesson plans. Attendance. Grades. Communication. I can do so much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing really. I would like an app. Maybe it has one and I have not fund it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sycamore Education provides a great way to manage information for small to medium size schools. It allows for organization of documents, tracking of attendance, management of schedules, and posting of grades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Though highly useful as a one-stop website for school management, the interface is not terribly intuitive and the initial set-up takes a fair amount of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that there are many different tools available for a variety of purposes. Lunch, grades, attendance, news, links, you name it and Sycamore can do it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It definitely has a learning curve. It took me about a month before I was completely comfortable doing what i needed to do on sycamore. Sycamore is NOT a very user friendly platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Helps give continuous feedback to parents Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Does not automatically reset at the end of the quarter Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sycamore has been very accommodating to us and sought to know where they can make changes so that their product is as functional and supportive as possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The program is not as intuitive as it could be. It feels like you need to do a lot of clicking to get where you want to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is the first management system I have actually liked because it’s website is user friendly. Teachers can use batch email to communicate with parents, while parents can check grades etc all on one site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They have developed an app but it is obvious it is still in the beginning stages. Parents cannot see Homework or grades correctly as opposed to being on website. The app also doesn’t have all the menu options listed as the website does so there’s certain things you can’t do on app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that I can use sycamore from the app or from ,y classroom computer. I like that so don’t have to do any special submit of semester grades. I like that you can add up to 5 assignments at a time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don’t like that you have to save out of pages quite often, auto save would help. When adding assignments, I can only add calendar days for th next Week at a time. This can be worked around, but is not automatic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I enjoy Sycamore's grading features, including grade configuration, grade summaries, and grade reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are some ways in which Sycamore is not user friendly, specifically in the app when parents are viewing their student's classes. It is difficult for them to find their class home pages and work and such. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has everything I need in one software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like how there are so many options for documents/attachments/etc. I get confused of knowing what I need to upload and where. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love how everything is organized specifically. Profile, grades, courses,etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having to login after being idle for 5-10 minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sycamore education has been a very useful program for teachers throughout my school. It provides useful databases for the inputting data and provides a useful grade book. The grade book was vital for teachers as it was online and could be accessed through any internet connection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sycamore education was much easier to start implementing than I expected. I thought transitioning to this software would have been more challenging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.