# School Loop Reviews **Vendor:** School Loop **Category:** [School Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/school-management-software) **Average Rating:** 3.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 10 ## About School Loop School Loop is a mission-driven company providing communications, learning management, web site, and mobile app services to K-12 school districts. ## School Loop Reviews ### 1. Used in middle/high school **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2023 **What do you like best about School Loop?** Pretty simple to navigate and access grades/assignments. As a middle and high schooler, I remember being able to easily check grades through this one-stop portal. **What do you dislike about School Loop?** Nothing I can think of. I'm sure it's evolved a lot since I've last used it. **What problems is School Loop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to asynchronously check grads and assigments without directly emailing instructor. Can easily check past and upcoming assignments and streamline the teacher/student communication. ### 2. Not so great for parents **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Il Hyung C. | Computer Resource Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017 **What do you like best about School Loop?** one platform to get communication from teachers as well as the interface **What do you dislike about School Loop?** The GUI needs some work, maybe a bit cleaner and easier to use, maybe direct communication via email vs logging into the website to get information **What problems is School Loop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Communication with teachers is important these days and going through the process it a bit tedious ### 3. Great idea but implementation was faulty. **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2022 **What do you like best about School Loop?** The overall idea of the School loop was great, but implementation needs improvements. It was hard to find things, and the login system was somewhat hit and miss. **What do you dislike about School Loop?** A not intuitive layout to find things easy. **What problems is School Loop solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's nice to see all my children's grades and progress in one place and receive communications from the school. ### 4. School Loop Does the Job **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sam C. | Communications Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2021 **What do you like best about School Loop?** School Loop really shines with modular page-building. School Loop makes it easy to create content that can then be dragged-and-dropped onto a page and rearranged. Any content that we'd add to the website would almost always meet ADA accessibility guidelines because School Loop can choose things like the web page's font size, high-contrast colors, layout, etc. School Loop also offers different pre-made page layouts that can give users more flexibility with adding and arranging content. **What do you dislike about School Loop?** Even though School Loop has an easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface, it definitely lacks practical functionality. School Loop has many quirks and workarounds needed that make it extremely difficult to train staff to use it effectively. For example, when editing a web page, the user needs to complete their content per section, then click the check box to exit the specific section. However, at that point in time, the content is not yet saved. The user is then faced with several options such as "preview," "save draft," and "publish and exit". If the user only previewed and didn't publish the content, then the content would likely be lost. If the user were to hit "publish and exit," then the content would go live without the user seeing the result; the web page would then remove the user from the page on which they were working. School Loop has too much potential for lost website content, especially when taking the product out of the hands of administrators and placing it into the hands of individual teachers. Lastly, many areas of the website have problem scaling well and adjusting between desktop/web viewing and mobile viewing. **Recommendations to others considering School Loop:** School Loop does a good job for the cost, but consider if you want to invest a little more up-front for a more robust product that is easier to implement. **What problems is School Loop solving and how is that benefiting you?** School Loop was the first of its kind in our organization to address website accessibility issues. While it lacked in the ability to fully notify us of all issues, having many ADA compliance guidelines automatically implemented by School Loop's platform made us rest easy knowing we were mostly, if not completely compliant. School Loop is a good first step towards web content management and ADA compliance. ### 5. Love it! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sumita S. | High School Teacher, Biotechnology, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2019 **What do you like best about School Loop?** It is so easy to assign HW for students and enter scores in school loop for various assignments and assessment tasks. The best part is that the parents can see it. I publish scores almost daily so parents can see how their child is performing as we go rather than finding out the final grades at the end of the grading period. **What do you dislike about School Loop?** Students have instant access to their grades. So the minute they are given back the assessment task I graded, rather than looking at their assessment task and trying to learn what they did wrong and how they can improve, they go on school loop right away to see how it affected their overall grade. **What problems is School Loop solving and how is that benefiting you?** After I put my marking criteria and grades weightage on school loop, it calculates the grades based on the weightage I have entered for each type of assigned task. ### 6. Be involved in your kids academic work! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David C. | David, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2020 **What do you like best about School Loop?** I enjoy that School loop is integrated with both the instructor, student, and parent. I am able to check my son's grades but also get feedback on how to help him achieve better results in the future. I am able to assess how much school work he gets and how well he does on exams. I can pinpoint weaknesses where he can work on. **What do you dislike about School Loop?** There is really nothing I dislike about this program. I enjoy that it is easily assessible with an app as well. **Recommendations to others considering School Loop:** Great tool for seeing your student's performance! **What problems is School Loop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to find out which subjects my son is struggling with and therefore help with or find a tutor for who can help him. I am also able to ask him how he feels after exams and gauge his performance on the actual test to see if there is a correlation. ### 7. One stop shop for school districts and teachers! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Morgan M. | Science Reviewer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2020 **What do you like best about School Loop?** School Loop provides a district with everything needed to run a school, communicate with families, educate students, grade student work and look at student records. This platform also tracks attendance - so it truly is a one-stop shop. **What do you dislike about School Loop?** The initial integration with Google Classroom was subpar. It is better now and seems to just keep improving. **Recommendations to others considering School Loop:** This is an easy-to use platform that provides districts with all of the tools needed to support student learning and manage student data. I wish I currently had this tool. **What problems is School Loop solving and how is that benefiting you?** This platform allows families to get to know ONE system to check grades, send/get emails, and look into student work. With distance learning, this tool is invaluable. I have worked in several schools and two major districts. This program simplifies so much of my work as a teacher and administrator. I have had to use three different platforms to organize grades/attendance, student work, and send emails for one of my districts. This platform is much more efficient and way easier for families to manage. ### 8. A pretty good solution for a schools and teachers **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2020 **What do you like best about School Loop?** I like that once you pass the learning curve it's really easy to use and quickly share grades. **What do you dislike about School Loop?** School loop is not as intuitive for people who are less tech savvy. There's a bit of a learning curve. It's not hard to learn but certain tasks can be a more complicated to get the hang of. **Recommendations to others considering School Loop:** Overall school loop is worth it if you're looking for an easy to use education management solution. **What problems is School Loop solving and how is that benefiting you?** Classroom management. Grading assignments, submitting grades to the district, etc. ### 9. Good tool for school **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2018 **What do you like best about School Loop?** First, school loop allows parents, students, and teachers to communicate with each other easily. Next to each student's profile, there is a button for teacher to contact the parent of the student and other teachers that also have the same student. In addition, teacher can also see all the grades a student is earning. This helps teachers and parents to collaborate together to help a student to succeed in school. I also like how teacher can post up assignments for parents and students to view. **What do you dislike about School Loop?** I don't like how there isn't a way to save or transfer the calendar and posting from a previous year. This would save me time from posting the same assignment from year after year. I would also like if there is a way for teacher to personalize their page on school loop, i.e. such as adding background. **What problems is School Loop solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have not experience any problem with school loop yet for the past three years. ### 10. Works, but app version is limited. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2018 **What do you like best about School Loop?** A quick and easy way to send information and updates to students. **What do you dislike about School Loop?** Speaking solely about the app, because I am rarely in front of a computer during my daily use; added functionality within the app would be nice. Currently you cannot include an attachment when sending a loop mail **What problems is School Loop solving and how is that benefiting you?** So far, nothing for me that an email address and a list of emails couldn’t do. 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