Blackbaud Education Management Solutions is a unified student management system for K–12 private schools. Blackbaud Enrollment Management System™: Gives schools and families the ability to track admissions progress from first impressions all the way through the application process to acceptance, enrollment, and tuition payment. Blackbaud Learning Management System™: Track students' academic performance and progression…
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Verified User
Chose Blackbaud Education Management Solutions
Blackbaud K-12 is very similar. I feel like I would be trading one set of issues for another so it's kind of a wash. We are very much hooked into the Blackbaud website with our Google SSO, SmartTuition, and Schooldoc integrations. It would be difficult for us to transition. …
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Director of Academic Technology in Information Technology at St. Christopher's School (Education Management, 201-500 employees)
Chose Blackbaud Education Management Solutions
11 years ago, Whipplehill was in our opinion the best in class and it continues to be that way. The only other product that I would consider stacking up against it would be Veracross.
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Verified User
Chose Blackbaud Education Management Solutions
We made the decision to go with Blackbaud (WhippleHill at the time) back in 2008, at that time the landscape of available solutions was very different and this provided the best combination of features we wanted and ease of use. Have not seriously reevaluated a new solutions …
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Verified User
Chose Blackbaud Education Management Solutions
We were looking for a new content management system and our priority was having a responsive design. While we looked at other products, ultimately Blackbaud K-12 “ON” Solutions was the right decision for us because the website would be responsive AND we would have the ability …
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Web Development Coordinator in Information Technology at Bishop Sullivan CHS (Primary/Secondary Education, 51-200 employees)
Chose Blackbaud Education Management Solutions
Our decision was made the first year WhippleHill came out with the first of the "ON" products. We compared them to Silverlight, Blackbaud NetClassroom/Campus and Finalsite. At the time, none of the competitors offered a responsive design interface and website, had no LMS at …
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Social Studies Dept. Chair and Dean of Students at Summit Country Day School (Education Management, 201-500 employees)
Chose Blackbaud Education Management Solutions
We originally had Blackboard but it did not bring everything together in one place and frustrated parents, particularly those with more than one child. The high school not as much as the younger divisions. It was not setup in a way that teachers of younger kids could use. It …
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Director of Technology in Information Technology at Fort Worth Country Day School (Education Management, 201-500 employees)
Chose Blackbaud Education Management Solutions
Senior Systems products were evaluated. Blackbaud was not specifically chosen, our school is a legacy Whipplehill school and we decided to continue with Blackbaud. This decision was due to the length of time we were with WH and our investment in the software both economically …
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Director of Studies at The Lexington School (Primary/Secondary Education, 51-200 employees)
Chose Blackbaud Education Management Solutions
We consistently choose to stay with Blackbaud because--very simply--they provide the best path to data consistency and accuracy while giving us access to software focused on the needs of schools.
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Assistant Head of School for Academics in Corporate at Chatham Hall (Education Management, 51-200 employees)
Chose Blackbaud Education Management Solutions
Blackbaud is much cleaner visually and has more integration...much more helpful to the entire school. And..,customer service has been exceptional! When we have questions we either received an answer immediately or, if more complicated, a time line formwhen we can expect and …
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Verified User
Chose Blackbaud Education Management Solutions
While I wasn't a part of the organization when the decision was made between Blackbaud and Finalsite, I know that we went with BB because we were promised a personalized experience where our transition would be fully supported by the team at BB on our external and internal …
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IT in Professional Services at Country Day (Education Management, 51-200 employees)
Chose Blackbaud Education Management Solutions
Blackbaud with its pros and cons is similar to Veracross. Only major negative for Blackbaud is scalability vs Veracross. In terms of LMS, Blackbaud and also Veracross are worse than schoology. They both focus on the Admin/SIS/tution side of it and fall short on the LMS side of …
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A good, and constantly improving solution for private schools. I don't know that a lot of its functionality would be well suited to public schools, but maybe? The integration with other Blackbaud software is a huge plus for us, as we have several of their other products including their flagship Raiser's Edge. Smaller schools may not need the sophistication of Blackbaud solutions, and it is not an inexpensive option.
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Not being able to customize displays, for example, Grading tab - we just finished 1st semester and teachers could only see the current quarter but not the 1st one which is still part of the first semester. Lack of customization in assessments.
Scheduling- even though re-running generating schedules, we're still getting a high number of unscheduled students. Lack of being able to limit the number of scheduled classes in a row for teachers.
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It is a solid product. We have some issues with the capabilities of the website building components and the out dated technology behind its communications software but overall Blackbaud Education Management Software services to combine numerous functions into one product.
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Blackbaud EMS is very usable from my perspective. I am a power user and get lots of valuable functionality. It is, however, a complex system. Sometimes necessarily complex to accommodate flexibility for diverse customer needs. Some complexity seems unnecessary and/or hold-over functionality from earlier versions; nice to see this type being evolved away from over time. It is valuable to receive regular updates to the system along with good release notes of what changed and notices of significant changes in advance.
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Decent support however the chat feature can take a great amount of time out of the workday. If for instance you are waiting for someone to respond in the chat and there is a fire drill, if you are not responding within a few minutes, you are disconnected and have to start all over again. It would be great if you could submit your problem and then whoever has the most experience, can respond. The training in the Blackbaud University is good but also time-consuming - a 3 hr training in the middle of a workday is a lot to ask. I like the 90-minute sessions. It would also be great to offer a shorter webinar to update on any changes implemented. Other than the email I subscribed to, there is no information on how these updates actually work.
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Blackbaud K-12 is very similar. I feel like I would be trading one set of issues for another so it's kind of a wash. We are very much hooked into the Blackbaud website with our Google SSO, SmartTuition, and Schooldoc integrations. It would be difficult for us to transition. That is the main reason I haven't really entertained other web firms.
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Negative - The rollout is brutal. Blackbaud said it could happen in 6 months, but that is definitely not a reality. It will take well over a year, and one complete school cycle to actually integrate everything correctly.
Positive - The amount of time saved in data processing has allowed our office to become more involved in other areas of the school.
Positive - The ease of having everything in [one] place, from inquiry to application to contracts and course registration, has been a HUGE benefit to our applicants and their families.
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