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Sycamore School Overview

What is Sycamore School?

Sycamore School is a feature-rich, affordable school management system with top-rated customer support that gives small to mid-sized private schools the power to streamline day-to-day operations, enhance reporting, and transform communication between educators, parents, and students.

Sycamore School Details
Languages Supported
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Product Description

Sycamore School provides educational organizations the tools they need to be organized and efficient; so they are able to spend more time focusing on students. Our complete system, with over 300 integrated features, streamlines processes and enhances communications between faculty and staff, students, and families.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Sycamore School are all inclusive with integration to your favorite companies, such as Google Apps for Education and Clever. Sycamore School evolve with the current of education technology!


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Year Founded
1999
HQ Location
Fremont, NE
Twitter
@SycamoreEdu
1,645 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
25 employees on LinkedIn®

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Barb B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great content management, with excellent tech support--I have recommended it many times!"
The tech support is responsive and helpful, and they make changes and upgrades based on customer suggestions--one of the most important things I lo...
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Aaron H.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Sycamore works great for WCA!"
Sycamore is very interactive! It is easy to use and incorporate in everyday life! From communication with parents, to checking grades, and counting...
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Bruce D.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"We have used Sycamore School for a number of years and have found it to be a quality product."
Flexibility and response to issues that have presented themselves. The reps are flexible and are willing to work through the problem to resolution...
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What do you like best about Sycamore School?

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

What do you dislike about Sycamore School?

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.

What problems is Sycamore School solving and how is that benefiting you?

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What do you like best about Sycamore School?

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.

What do you dislike about Sycamore School?

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.

Recommendations to others considering Sycamore School:

If your school is relatively small (under 500 students), I believe Sycamore Education is a reasonably priced and usable solution. There may be some difficulty with the initial set-up, but once all data is entered and parameters are set, Sycamore is effective at managing school information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sycamore School solving and how is that benefiting you?

Instead of using multiple school information systems, Sycamore Education puts most of the tools necessary for school management in one place. As a new school, we evaluated several options to wrangle our data. Many options proved prohibitively expensive and included features that we had no use for. Sycamore hit the right spot for both price and functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sycamore School?

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.

What do you dislike about Sycamore School?

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.

What problems is Sycamore School solving and how is that benefiting you?

Grading, attendance, lunch, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sycamore School?

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

What do you dislike about Sycamore School?

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

What problems is Sycamore School solving and how is that benefiting you?

Parent communication. Also helps keep track of finances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sycamore School?

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.

What do you dislike about Sycamore School?

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.

Recommendations to others considering Sycamore School:

Good product for the price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sycamore School solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sycamore has helped us communicate with our distant parents via the web. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sycamore School?

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.

What do you dislike about Sycamore School?

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.

Recommendations to others considering Sycamore School:

It is great to use and it’s even greater to know they are still revamping it and making it better. It’s weaknesses right now lie in the app use, but they have already implemented many changes so I’m sure in time it’ll be full functioning:) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sycamore School solving and how is that benefiting you?

Communication with parents and availability of grades for parents to see is crucial in education. Parents are able to be more involved in their student's academic life. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sycamore School?

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.

What do you dislike about Sycamore School?

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.

Recommendations to others considering Sycamore School:

Take your time to practice and you can have success with it. Takes some getting use to th functions, it overall, easier to use than RDS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sycamore School solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can easilu grade and take attendance from the app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sycamore School?

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

What do you dislike about Sycamore School?

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.

Recommendations to others considering Sycamore School:

There are setup videos that Sycamore provides. Since this system is so multi-faceted, I would reccommend watching each video and collecting as many details about the system that you can. While trial and error can be an efective way of learning a system, learning as much as you can prior to use can be helpful, especially with how crazy the beginning of school year can be! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sycamore School solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sycamore allows you to keep records well within the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sycamore School?

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

What do you dislike about Sycamore School?

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.

What problems is Sycamore School solving and how is that benefiting you?

Better communication between faculty/staff and parents; organization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sycamore School?

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

What do you dislike about Sycamore School?

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

What problems is Sycamore School solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ease. Great way to quickly get grades and assignments out Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.