Veracross Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.5 out of 10

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8.5 out of 10

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Veracross, a fully integrated school information system used by Teachables, serves as a one-stop shop for managing student, faculty, and parent information. With its intuitive interface and robust features, Veracross has become an essential tool for educational management. By connecting students, tutors, parents, and employees, it facilitates seamless information flow within the organization.

One of the key use cases of Veracross is its role as a learning management system. It enables teachers to take attendance, post assignments, record grades, and make announcements. Students rely on Veracross to check homework assignments and current class grades. Furthermore, Veracross helps with scheduling, class rosters, grade reporting, and budgeting.

Parents also benefit from Veracross through its parent portal. They can log in to access their child's schedules, class information, grades, and the directory. Additionally, flexible online portals allow parents to gather necessary information, pay bills, and manage permissions conveniently.

Beyond the classroom, Veracross proves useful for all departments within the organization. Student billing, accounting, admissions, academic documents - Veracross handles it all. It even offers APIs for home-grown web apps. The software has also found utility in human resources departments by reducing the adaptation time of new workers. It assists in managing training sessions and keeping records systematically.

Overall, Veracross serves as a powerful tool for managing student data and improving operational efficiency in educational institutions. With its wide range of functionalities and user-friendly interface, it has become an indispensable asset for teachers, parents, students, and administrators alike.

Reviews

9 Reviews

Staff intake is a simple task for Veracross.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 19, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently using Veracross for three reasons, the first is our need to organize weekly distance training with professionals in the area, the second is that we had flaws in the admission processes and Veracross is decisive that all stages of this process , but the other reason to stick with Veracross is the integration with a vast number of third party mail tools like Mailchimp, Google, Microsoft and other great tools.

Pros

Good administration of the admission process.
Integration with Mailchimp.

Cons

Normally it has everything I need for my work, today I was able to make a video call and chat from my cell phone and this adds more positive points to Veracross.

Likelihood to Recommend

The admission process of making administration tools company to be able to execute the entire process from the beginning to the end without inconveniences, Veracross can be used for multiple purposes, it has a unique database which allows to have more confidence in this product, it is also the product with an intuitive design from all points of view of the most relevant features such as admissions administration.

Sasha Dawson Weingart

Human Resources Business Partner in Human Resources at Life Time Inc. (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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A great school information management system I've seen so far!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 19, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work in an educational management company called "Teachables" where we offer students crash courses on lengthy syllabuses. We use local tutors and connect them with students who are in need of the service. While we were in business, a major problem we faced was having a proper information flow between all the tutors, students, parents, and company employees. We were looking at many learning management software as well and when we were at it we luckily came across Veracross, which happened to be a fully integrated school information system that connected all the students, tutors, parents, and the company administrative staff.

Pros

Attendance management.
Billing & invoicing.
Communication management.

Cons

Website integration to the software can be done.
A main dashboard can be implemented.
Social media integration can be done.

Likelihood to Recommend

Veracross is software that can be highly recommended to anyone in the education industry. Veracross offers a breadth of services varying from administration to student-parent communication. The unique abilities that Veracross offers such as email reminders, attendance management, billing, and payment processing, and attendance tracking have made my job as an administrative support manager so much easier and more productive here at Teachables.

Sachi Subaran

Administrative Support Manager in Corporate at Teachables (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Good tool for Classroom trainings

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 11, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Veracross is used for classroom training sessions management. It is a good tool to keep the record of trainers, trainees, sessions of training, etc. It helps organize trainings in a systematic manner and keep a record of everything along with the projects/assignments being delegated to trainees . It helps improve the operational efficiency of the overall trainings and learnings of the new colleagues.

Pros

Keeping record of Training sessions
Keeping record of trainers and trainees.
Managing class room trainings to new joiners

Cons

Data import feature and overall reporting

Likelihood to Recommend

Veracross is good for classroom training sessions management and conducting seminars. It keeps the record of trainers, trainees, sessions of training, etc, and helps organize trainings in a systematic manner. It helps improve the operational efficiency of the overall training and learnings of the new colleagues where they can be assigned projects/assignments and keep a track of the same.

Verified User

Employee in Finance and Accounting (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Expensive, but worth it... take the long view of your data

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 23, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Veracross is our new school information system. It's replacing Blackbaud's Education Edge. We're implementing Veracross over a 3-year period... year 1 (now) is the school data (gradebook, attendance, school directories, etc.). Year 2 is our Business Office implementation (replacing Sage50) and Year 3 will be the Advancement Office (replacing Blackbaud's Raiser's Edge). Blackbaud announced that they were sunsetting Education Edge and we found their replacement platform lacking so we went through an RFP process which resulted in the selection of Veracross.

Pros

mobile-friendly portal for staffulty, parents, and students
built-in or easy-to-configure integration with other systems (for example, RankOne and Naviance)
targeted messaging based on data within the system
"where is student now?" is one-click away

Cons

it's easy to get data OUT of Veracross but their data import features could use some improvement
they recently changed their knowledge management and help desk system and are still experiencing some growing pains with that platform (for example, I believe that any error message a system throws should be easily and readily searchable in the KB; that is not currently the case)
it's early but we've identified some inconsistencies in some displays and while many displays offer a field to specify the sort order, some important ones (teacher schedule, for example) do not and it's a lot of cognitive load to decipher some of those (seemingly unsorted) screens. Sorting by an internal ID field that is not controllable, not editable, and not over ridable (with a sort key) is a poor choice.

Likelihood to Recommend

Veracross' only customer base is private, independent, K-12 schools. In other words, they're not spending resources on configuring the next state-mandated report in Alaska. They're only dealing with private, independent, K-12 schools. Towards that end, their management of student/teacher/school data is excellent. I have read, though have no direct experience yet, that their Advancement module is less well-suited to sophisticated fund-raising activities. Similarly, their LMS is somewhat lacking. This doesn't affect us directly, and I hold out hope that their API will continue to evolve and mitigate some of these limitations.

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Veracross

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

August 17, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it in advancement, student and family data, communications, and student report/class management.

Pros

Student and family data is easy to keep up to date. And there is so much data that you can keep track of. It is so helpful to have all data in one place so we don’t have a human error in transfers g to another system.
Recording donations is very easy and you can attach backup documents very easy which is great during our yearly audit. All records are in the system and can be pulled at anytime.
Easy for parents to sign in to view and edit their own information as well as view student reports.

Cons

In the development module, it is often hard to pull reports because there are so many ways to do it. I work around that by saving reports I often pull so I don’t have to constantly rebuild reports.
The communications module, Composer, needs a major upgrade. It is not very user-friendly and there are not ways to edit or design modern and good-looking emails and newsletters. Not a lot of formatting options.

Likelihood to Recommend

Veracross would be a real match for a larger school with a large development staff that can use all the details and has time to manage it properly.

Melissa Ritchie

Director of Institutional Advancement at Brooklyn Heights Montessori School (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Single database--multiple systems for independent schools

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 5, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Veracross is our one-stop shop for managing our student, faculty, and parent information. They enter the database at their first inquiry and travel seamlessly from inquiry to applicant to student to alumnus. Flexible online portals allow us to enable parents to gather needed information as well as pay bills and manage permissions online. Veracross is used by all departments in our organization--student billing, accounting, admissions, learning management system, academic documents and philanthropy. We also utilize their API for a few home-grown web apps.

Pros

We have our own account manager who knows our school and its configuration
Parent, student, and faculty portals (as well as news portals) are designed and configured by us--we can control what content goes where
Infinitely configurable queries, which meet all of our needs for extracting data

Cons

We would like to see more functionality in the learning management system
We would like the ability to order the admissions files for our online reviewers

Likelihood to Recommend

Veracross is well suited for a school that wishes to have one database that serves all departments. I think a smaller school might struggle with the cost of the system--so perhaps would be better suited to a school with an enrollment over 500 students. Of course, if you have the money to spend, then there are no barriers to using it!

Anne Benson

Database Administrator/Systems Specialist in Information Technology at Durham Academy (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Veracross for Teachers

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 17, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our school uses Veracross for faculty, parent, and student portals. Teachers can take attendance, post assignments, record grades, and make announcements. Parents can view the calendar, check students grades and reports, and get important messages from the teachers. Students rely on it as a way to check homework assignments and current class grades. Veracross keeps track of the school calendar and school directory as well as other things.

Pros

Grades-Real time data about grades for students, parents, and teachers.
Directory-Easy to find information about students and faculty in one place.
Calendar-Easy to check on school events and other activities.

Cons

Homework assignments-I wish that you could duplicate assignments for different sections of a class. As it is now, you have to enter it separately.
The library feature is difficult for some teachers to manage.
The class website isn't as easy to use as some other programs.

Likelihood to Recommend

Veracross is great to use for a grade book and a place to post assignments and give feedback. The calendar is informative, but not useful for scheduling appointments. Overall, it is most used for attendance tracking.

Nicole Glover

Technology Coordinator, Junior Kindergarten-Grade 12 in Information Technology at Louisville Collegiate School (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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Verrrry Veracross

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

November 13, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our whole organization uses Veracross. Veracross is a powerful tool that holds our student, family, faculty, and staff data. We can use it for mailings and labels or use it to look up current contact info for a family when needed. We can pull student schedules, grades, comments, and transcript information.

Pros

It seems to have an unlimited amount of storage.
There is almost nothing it won't do.

Cons

My biggest concern is that it is not particularly intuitive so it can be hard to remember how to do things you don't do often.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited to hold large amounts of data.

It may not be helpful if you only need something for small data mining.

Lynelle Ehart

Executive Assistant at Lakeside School (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Veracross does a lot!

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

May 16, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Veracross is used organization-wide by about 300 employees. We use it as a learning management tool across the organization. It helps with scheduling, class rosters, grade reporting, and budgeting. Veracross allows me to access student information through the directory, tells me my class schedule, and tells me the class schedule of any student within the school. Veracross also has a parent portal for parents to log in to see their child's schedules, their class information, grades, and the directory. Veracross is intuitive to learn and to figure out.

Pros

Streamlined and easy to read design
Simple and intuitive ways to contact entire classes and groups
Grade reporting is simple and automatically saves any comments I've written as I write
The main school calendar is synced with Veracross' home page calendar to assist in planning

Cons

Veracross does not allow teachers to see report cards from previous years.
There is no functionality to email multiple classes the same thing. I need to click on each class to send the same parent email.
It is difficult to find how many times a student has been absent or tardy within the trimester or year. A significant amount of digging is required.

Likelihood to Recommend

Veracross does a great job organizing my schedule and giving me information about my students. I easily see the school calendar upon log in to see upcoming conflicts. I am able to add disciplinary reports within the same system I take attendance in, which is vital. No teacher wants to have 3 tabs open to email parents, take attendance, and write comportment forms. Veracross does not have the ability to keep report card data from previous years easily accessible for teachers. In our school's previous learning management system I had access to every report card a child has received at the school.

Michelle Kelly

Lower and Middle School Music Teacher at The Bullis School (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Expensive, but worth it... take the long view of your data

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

August 23, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

mobile-friendly portal for staffulty, parents, and students
built-in or easy-to-configure integration with other systems (for example, RankOne and Naviance)
targeted messaging based on data within the system
"where is student now?" is one-click away

Cons

it's easy to get data OUT of Veracross but their data import features could use some improvement
they recently changed their knowledge management and help desk system and are still experiencing some growing pains with that platform (for example, I believe that any error message a system throws should be easily and readily searchable in the KB; that is not currently the case)
it's early but we've identified some inconsistencies in some displays and while many displays offer a field to specify the sort order, some important ones (teacher schedule, for example) do not and it's a lot of cognitive load to decipher some of those (seemingly unsorted) screens. Sorting by an internal ID field that is not controllable, not editable, and not over ridable (with a sort key) is a poor choice.

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience