--- title: ThinkWave Reviews meta\_title: 'ThinkWave Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how ThinkWave works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 2.6 review\_count: 6 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2025-12-06' parent\_category: name: Education url: https://www.g2.com/categories/education --- # ThinkWave Reviews & Product Details Cloud based school management & learning system that connects administrators, teachers, students, and parents. 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[Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) SS Sandhya S. ELA teacher Primary/Secondary Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/17/2019 "Solid gradebook with fantastic capability to share with students and parents" 3.5/5 What do you like best about ThinkWave? ThinkWave allows for tinkering with the configuration that you give to each grading component (that is, whether it's graded on completion; check, check plus, check minus; percentages or points). You can allow students and parents to real time access to the student's grade, and periodically send PDFs via email to the student, parent, advisor, administrator, etc. This is FANTASTIC. When having a meeting with a student regarding their performance and productivity, the tenor of a conversation changes drastically when you have a concrete printout of their grade. Everything becomes framed more objectively and less infused with emotion. You can allow a student to turn in missing work (or not), but to see that their grade did not magically appear from the heavens. There is a syllabus with a grading policy and this is how they performed. ThinkWave definitely made me a more effective teacher and boosted my students' discipline and work ethic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ThinkWave? doesn't seem to be possible to share the gradebook (ie, a class you share) with co-teachers which then demands that you just give them your login and password. kind of frustrating because you're then giving access to your entire gradebook; it's not ideal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering ThinkWave: Pilot its use with a cluster of teachers in your department during your first go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ThinkWave solving and how is that benefiting you? my last school was not willing to spend the money on a platform like Skedula or Jupiter, which are fantastic because of their centralized features and capabilities, but the downside is the price. The benefit here is that it is FREE for individual teachers to use and it gets the job done effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Erik D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Erik D.") ED Erik D. High School Science Teacher Education Management Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/8/2018 "useful grading software, quick to set up" 3.5/5 What do you like best about ThinkWave? I like that I can email students and parents a pdf of the grade report, and the system allows for comments to be added for each grade that is input. thinkwave is pragmatic, quick to set up and effective. classroom management is typically easy improved once students understand that there is a transparent and objective system being used to assess their work and progress. I came to first use Thinkwave during the 2018-2018 school year because I was looking for an alternative after engrade became a for-pay service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ThinkWave? cannot add co-teachers to be additional administrators for a class so you have to share login and password. this works but doesn't preserve the integrity of all of your other students' grades and privacy. You also have to be careful to check the weight of assignments if you are assessing a task based on a check, check +, check - system. The first time that I used the software, assignments that scored a check (which is certainly satisfactory), were only being given academic credit at 50% of the weight of the task, which is failing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ThinkWave solving and how is that benefiting you? for a school that does not use an universal system (usually due to the cost of a platform like skedula or jupiter), this is an useful alternative, especially if you can get a whole-staff on board to use the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/thinkwave/pricing) ## Work at ThinkWave? Claim this profile to respond to reviews, update product info, and reach in-market buyers. 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