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Synergy Education Platform Reviews & Insights

Score6.4 out of 10

11 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Synergy Education Platform are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Convenience: Many users appreciate the convenience of having everything in one place with Synergy Education Platform, saving time and effort. Some reviewers specifically mentioned that they found it helpful to have a centralized platform for grades, communication, assignments, and student information.

Integration: The seamless integration between different features of Synergy SE was highly praised by users. They liked how easily their grade book integrated with student-teacher and teacher-parent communication. Additionally, the interconnected nature of Synergy SE made it extremely easy to monitor, create, and manage Individualized Education Programs - IEPs when used with Synergy SIS.

User-friendly interface: Users consistently mentioned that they find the user interface of Synergy SE to be intuitive and user-friendly. They appreciated its excellent and easy-to-use interface, which provides multiple ways to accomplish tasks and includes a shortcut bar for administrators.

Synergy Education Platform Reviews

4 Reviews

Seamless Integration of Features

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Synergy Education Platform to manage all aspects of Student Information, including enrollment, parent communication, student records, English Language Learner status, and student notifications. It is also used to track historical student records, school year to school year, and staff records, which can include staff licensing.

Pros

  • Student Test Scores
  • Parent Contact Information
  • Parent Contact Platform

Cons

  • Searches
  • Queries
  • Ease of onboarding new staff

Likelihood to Recommend

Synergy is well-suited for seamlessly bridging enrollment and student information. Other organizations I have worked at used two separate platforms for this purpose. Synergy also merges, seamlessly, parent contact functions, using one platform.
Vetted Review
Synergy Education Platform
1 year of experience

Synergy is a great place to store all student data; but it is a horrible gradebook.

Rating: 5 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is very, very, very slow.
Our district created a system that is supposed to synch our classroom on canvas to synergy....this happens incompletely at best.
We have a help desk that I keep sending messages to letting them know the grade book on canvas is not synching to synergy.
It takes 3-6 steps to enter grades and make assignments excused.
This platform is rudimentary at best and you have to click save, it does not autosave anything.

It needs drastic improvements.
It takes 3 to 5 seconds to move from one page to another.
Very, very, slow.

Pros

  • IEP and 504 are accessible
  • student information is easily found in one place for teachers and administration
  • Please update this process it is very slow

Cons

  • very slow
  • no autosave
  • to make a student assignment excused you have to open 2 different screens and then make 2 clicks and if you do not save, everything you have done is lost
  • memory needs to be improved so windows move faster
  • a click for excusing assignments should be added instead of 3 steps to get to a new screen to only click one button that says excused. If you are excusing 3 assignments this can take over 5 minutes per student.

Likelihood to Recommend

Very slow, you literally have to click save for every transaction or it is lost. It should have an autosave feature.
It should have automatic commands:
E for excused
or a one-click solution for excusing student work

Synergy in a K-12 Setting

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Synergy for educational management (IEPs, grades, attendance, discipline). It is very useful and very user friendly. I love how I can log in to it even when I am not at school.

Pros

  • Attendance Tracking
  • IEP management
  • Gradebook Management
  • Disciplinary Infractions
  • Parent Communication

Cons

  • Less downtime during the day.
  • Not logging out after a certain time of inactivity.
  • Online user-manuals for each school district.

Likelihood to Recommend

K-12 Education

We Love Synergy Education Platform

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This is used across my entire organization. It creates one fully utilized solution for all K-12 education platforms, and it is incredibly helpful in order to have all data that is needed in one place. In addition, the software is extremely streamlined and user friendly. It has everything from RTI Management to Analytics to Parent and Student Engagement. It is really helpful to have all of this information in one centralized location.

Pros

  • Analytics
  • Engagement Data
  • Streamlined Information

Cons

  • More education tools
  • Improve and cleaner design

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for all K-12 education systems that are looking for effective ways to improve and streamline their information. It would not be as useful for a college or a university system as it does not have the complexity needed in order to carry out all of the specific functions that a university system would need.