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Courtney S.

Photographer and Videographer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/13/2018

"Potential for greatness"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Populi?

Populi is visually appealing to the eye. While it contains a large portion of information, they have designed it in a way that is not overwhelming but still allows students to access things they need to access. Populi is also web-based and allows easy access to it whenever and wherever. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Populi?

Populi has come a long way, but still has a ways to go. They've created a great product but it is definitely unfinished. The complicated algorithms exist, but the simplest of functions do not. When requesting the simpler fixes be added, you simply get ushered to their discussion board to await a rare solution to your (and other institution's) problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Populi:

Its a great product, but know what you are getting into when it comes to user support. They are quick to respond and to help with your problems, but aren't always with you to the end in solving the problem. Your problem may simply be pushed to create a "feature request" that is not likely to get made a priority by their team for many months (and for us, years). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Populi solving and how is that benefiting you?

As an educational institution, we are responsible for lots of information and confidential information at that. Populi allows us a safe and secure home for these things that is cloud-based and thus can be accessed from anywhere at any time. This is helping our students to navigate the information they need in one place instead of multiple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Populi Reviews & Product Details

Populi is a fully hosted, web-based college information management system. Its software-as-a-service business model and monthly per-student pricing make it one of the most affordable solutions on the market.

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Populi

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Adam Sentz (COO at Populi)

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Ankit G.

Assistant Manager - MIS

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/20/2024

"Populi Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Populi?

Helps to store data of Students, Helps in communicate with them.

It keeps record of all admissions

Which student took in his each terms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Populi?

Customer support is not there, Lead nurturing feature is not good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/2/2024

"Professor"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Populi?

The administrators are quick to answer your questions about how to do things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Populi?

Cross-listing of classes creates some challenges for online discussions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/24/2021

"A helpful storage/tracking center"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Populi?

Populi helps me organize and communicate with my students in an efficient manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Populi?

I wish that I could integrate it with other programs my institution uses so that it is not redundant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/28/2020

"Easy to use for students and instructors"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Populi?

Easy to navigate, post feedback to students, take attendance and record grades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Populi?

Could include more options for creating quizzes and exams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Populi:

Great for use in Higher Education when organizing and delivering information to students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Populi solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am learning how to streamline communication with my students through instant feedback on essays and assignments. Students are quickly able to see grades and respond to feedback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Claire T.

Director of Communications

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/21/2019

"Easy to Learn"

4/5

What do you like best about Populi?

Pretty easy to catch on to the interface. It does the job well without over-complicating the user experience. The profile creation is a nice touch as it makes it easier to connect with other students. I like that I can retain a history of courses and notes that were uploaded by instructors and access them after the course is over. The settings for the discussion boards are great. Its nice to be able to keep track of my responses and engage with my other classmates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Populi?

Navigating back to original assignments/lessons can be a little difficult. Items specific to a particular lesson aren't grouped together so you have to bounce around a bit. It can be easy to overlook a task if you dont know what your looking for. The list of all assignments can be overwhelming as it is presented in the current UI.

It would be great if Populi offered integrations so that our instructors could post the recorded lessons within the Populi interface. Perhaps that is a feature not being utilized. But we presently have to access the video through another application. Integrating with a livestream would be super helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Populi:

Would use it again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Populi solving and how is that benefiting you?

Populi affords our continuing education programs all the bells and whistles we need to support structured curriculum with tracked assignments and online classroom engagement. For our non-traditional classroom environment, this does the trick and helps keep attendees accountable to assignments while offering easy ways to monitor course progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/27/2019

"Gets the job done but difficult to navigate "

2.5/5

What do you like best about Populi?

Populi cuts out a lot of the unnecessary additions that many learning systems have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Populi?

I found the testing functions to be quite clumsy. I was unable to test within a lockdown browser so my online tests (for my online class) had no security. Students were able to easily copy and paste from other browser windows.

I was also not a fan of the navigation. The program would benefit from a way to flip between tests for different students that does not involve going back to the grade book. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Doug E.

Director of Technology

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/13/2019

"A decent product among a field of mediocrity"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Populi?

The cost is about right given what it does vs the competition. However that isn't saying much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Populi?

Frankly...a lot. It is definitely older software, or at least looks and works like older software. The UI is VERY dated. It looks like the old frames based websites of the 90s and early 00s (probably because it is). Functionality is limited. We've been able to do what we need, but often have to use some kludgey work arounds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Populi:

It gets the job done, but is not the easiest to use by modern standards. Though not many (any) LMS really excel or meet modern expectations and don't cost a high premium. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Populi solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing students: enrollment, payment, classes, for distance education. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/21/2018

"Indispensable "

5/5

What do you like best about Populi?

The tight integration, every part works together seamlessly. A week after our school went live with Populi, it has already become indispensable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Populi?

I wish we had the ability to import records instead of going through Populi support. The migration guy is great but it is more convenient.

The interface should be a little more consistent, The links are not always visible, you don't intuitively know that you can click on the label to bring up the pop up window to change it. Once you understand the interface, it's not much of an issue.

For LMS, we wish we can download files without opening each file and click download. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Populi:

Highly recommend this product! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Populi solving and how is that benefiting you?

Populi replaced our old registrar system and LMS. Selecting the right software/solution is half the success. Populi delivers without the fuss of customization, they understand higher education, almost all of our requirements are met without much frustrations. I would say usually when someone is frustrated with Populi(not very often), it has more to do with the user! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Danny P.

Director Of Distance Learning

Religious Institutions

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/20/2017

"Great resources for online classes and student database"

5/5

What do you like best about Populi?

The ability to integrate our online classes directly with our student database. It is a one stop shop for everything a student or staff member needs to help a student successfully complete a course. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Populi?

Updates occasionally break classes and other features we were currently using Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Michael K.

Director of Academic Administration

Religious Institutions

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/26/2018

"Great but reports"

4/5

What do you like best about Populi?

The program is great for records. It does a great job at integrating in information and even establishing items for admissions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Populi?

Reporting is clunky at best. If you want to see who took a certain every year, good luck. It just doesn't filter very well that way or you need to understand how it works. At long as you're a small school and need basic reports you're set, but if you're doing longitudinal data it will take a while. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.