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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Ellucian Colleague

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AEllucian offers Colleague educational ERP, including a student information system supporting higher education institutions with student admissions and registration, academics, curriculum management, and other aspects of student management.N/A

    Schoolmint Hero

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AHero is student behavior management software for K-12 schools and districts, from Schoolmint. Hero's goal is to enable consistent redirection of negative behavior, reinforcement of positive behavior and communication between educators, students, parents, and administrators across classrooms school and district-wide. Features include positive behavior tracking tools, referral and tardy management, school event management, behavior analytics data, etc.N/A
    Pricing
    Ellucian ColleagueSchoolmint Hero
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    Pricing Offerings
    Ellucian ColleagueSchoolmint Hero
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Ellucian ColleagueSchoolmint Hero
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    Ellucian
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Ellucian ColleagueSchoolmint Hero
    Student and Faculty Administration
    Comparison of Student and Faculty Administration features of Ellucian Colleague and Schoolmint Hero
    Feature
    Ellucian Colleague
    7.8
    3 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Schoolmint Hero
    -
    Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Registration Management8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    District Communications, such as messaging and alerting7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Roster Management8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Customization8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Teacher Self-Service8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Student Data Security8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community Support7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Class Scheduling8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    State and National-level Reporting8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance Support8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Teacher and Parent Mobile Application8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Ellucian ColleagueSchoolmint Hero
    Small Businesses
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Schoolmint Hero
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Jenzabar ONE
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Schoolmint Hero
    Score9.7 out of 10
    PowerSchool SIS
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Ellucian ColleagueSchoolmint Hero
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (12 ratings)
    9.7
    (28 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Ellucian ColleagueSchoolmint Hero
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Ellucian
    Ellucian Colleague is wonderful at streamlining processes and unifying data related to students, finance, human resources, and financial aid. It continues to support and manage administrative needs, enhance student experiences, and improve operational efficiency across the University. Ellucian Colleague is less suited for quick data retrieval and comprehensive financial reporting. These functions could use some improvement to optimize the user experience.
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    Schoolmint (Hero K12)
    Hero is a great time saver for any busy school administrator. Students are able to use technology to earn positive points and also track and manage their own discipline. It is user-friendly and adaptable to the specific needs of the school. I love writing my own tracking codes and setting the action thresholds.
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    Pros
    Ellucian
    • Colleague Student allows us to integrate services across the university for students with staff in various departments able to see the information about a student that they need to serve the student well.
    • Colleague Student makes it easy to see our students current academic record as well as transfer courses (and information) and their past records here at the university. Our old system required a lot of homegrown connection points to be able to see all of this information. It was neither quick nor easy.
    • Colleague Student makes the registration process for our students much easier. Our old system was clunky and would often prevent students from registering for a class but not provide information for them about why. Colleague Student makes it easy for students to see if they are missing a pre-requisite, have a hold, etc., so they can know how to get their registration back on track.
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    Schoolmint (Hero K12)
    • Allows ALL students to earn points at the push of a button.
    • Connects with infinite Campus so student schedules and info are always accurate on the Hero site.
    • Allows teachers to create their own groups for after school programs or even small groups in their classrooms.
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    Cons
    Ellucian
    • Develop API's that are vendor agnostic rather than selecting specific vendors (Clearinghouse, ImageNow).
    • Colleague tends to be to reactionary to the changing needs in higher education rather than developing the future.
    • Hound clients to pay extra for consulting (consultants are usually bad), rather than helping institutions to use the product. Seems to be the first thing help line personnel jump to rather than working with clients to figure out creative solutions.
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    Schoolmint (Hero K12)
    • Hero had the Hero Homeroom where teachers could collaborate and receive rewards but that was discontinued. I think that a similar reward system for those who are supposed to be inputting information would be helpful, where consistency for the required input is rewarded. For example: teachers were to be recording points for all their students every period every day - if they received points for completing their input & could then choose to spend those points on rewards that would help encourage participation to make it more successful overall.
    • Too hands-off in making sure that implementation is as successful as possible.
    • Too techie for non-tech savvy people.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Ellucian
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    Schoolmint (Hero K12)
    It is a great product
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    Usability
    Ellucian
    For decades, Ellucian Colleague has served the University as our primary student record-retention CRM. Its functionality has weathered many recent trends in CRM development and continues to produce the needed results for our constituency and the size of our university. We look forward to continuing to utilize Ellucian Colleague in the future.
    Incentivized
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    Schoolmint (Hero K12)
    again. for the day to day usage, adding points is a bit of a chore but I keep doing it because the students respond
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    Support Rating
    Ellucian
    No answers on this topic
    Schoolmint (Hero K12)
    Someone is always available. I like being able to call, chat, or email as needed. There are also a lot of tutorials and webinars provided. Hero does a good job of providing tools for onboarding new users and customers as well. It is easy to find whatever information you are looking for.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Ellucian
    I did not use Jenzabar as extensively as Colleague, but they perform similar functions for student information tracking. I think Colleague is more appropriate for use across campus, as its student billing and scheduling options exceed Jenzabar. Jenzabar, however, offers better tools for use exclusively in student affairs. If an organization wants to track all student data, they should consider Colleague.
    Incentivized
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    Schoolmint (Hero K12)
    We used a tardy tracking system a couple years ago but it wasn't as efficient as Hero. It did not keep track of any positive behaviors. I don't remember the name of the system but I know it only focused on the negative behaviors and giving out consequences for those negative behaviors.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Ellucian
    • By keeping student's academic work, financial aid, and accounts receivable information in one location we are able to report without the need for data aggregation.
    • Colleague's web applications allow the students themselves to perform tasks such as enrollment without assistance from staff members.
    • Using customized rules that we can set up in Colleague we can trigger events to happen as data is entered. This eliminates the need not only for someone to remember to perform an additional task, but it also saves the time of performing the actual task.
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    Schoolmint (Hero K12)
    • Definitely worth the money. The kids are happy, they're using the program as often as they can, and they appreciate the opportunity to be rewarded for their good behavior.
    • We've been able to sustain a store, and that's super awesome. I know we wouldn't be able to without the help of Hero and the ways in which we keep the hype.
    • I think I need more help with teacher adoption. We have a lot of initiatives at our school, so we're trying to take on a little more than we can chew at this point. We're getting there though!
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