About Alma SIS
Alma builds critical SIS tooling that significantly improves K-12 school operations and empowers educators to foster better student outcomes, so we can help you create the greatest generation of educators, so that they can create the greatest generation of students.
Impressively designed and easy to use, Alma provides the industry's best SIS, including: mobile, fees, admissions, enrollment and registration, student demographics, attendance, advanced scheduling, discipline, grades, state reporting, custom report cards, parent portal, student portal, standards-based grading, and more.
Pricing starting from:
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- Free Version
- Free Trial
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Key benefits of Alma SIS
Alma is an integrated student information and learning management system that automates school management workflows, helping these institutes to save time and money.
The tool helps school administration in processing student data and workflow management by providing features such as a contact database, data management, medical records management, attendance tracking and fee collection.
The product empowers teachers with tools to support their instructional approach by offering features such as course management, curriculum design, progress reports and assignment management, as well as integrating with Google Classroom.
Schools can design report cards, change bell schedules and identify unique rubrics per class as per their requirements using the extensive customizable options offered by the software.
Alma also offers a district package that supports unlimited schools at no additional fees and provides access to reporting and school details with a single sign-on per user.
From inquiry through enrollment, Alma Start transforms your entire admissions and registration experience.
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premises
Pricing starting from:
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- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of Alma SIS: 116
Alternatives
PraxiSchool
Google Classroom
PowerSchool
Skyward Student Management Suite
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- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Alma was useful for me as a teacher. It helped me stay organized in my plannings and assessment...
Reviewed on 21/06/2018
Pros
What I liked the most about this Software is that it helps teachers to stay organized in their daily plannings, but also in the evaluation process.
This was my first year as a teacher, and I loved using ALMA because I got the chance to put all the information that I needed in that Software. Just by clicking on ALMA I could take attendance, find information about my students, update my plannings, follow the CCSS Standards and upload the grades.
Cons
At the beginning of the school year, it was a little complicated for me to understand how ALMA worked. I had to ask many times to the Principal of my school about how to upload my daily plannings and align the assessments to the Standards. However, after a few weeks of practicing, it became easier for me.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
We are happy with Alma
Reviewed on 14/01/2021
We are very pleased with Alma and the implementation process.
We are very pleased with Alma and the implementation process.
Pros
Its ease of use is perfect, Easily adaptable to our school environment.
Cons
there are a few minor features that are missing
Alternatives Considered
Blackboard CollaborateReasons for Choosing Alma SIS
Rediker was too clunky, too expensive, and way more than we needed.Switched From
Administrator's PlusReasons for Switching to Alma SIS
Its integration with Schoology.- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
The absolute worst year I've had as a professional school counselor.
Reviewed on 23/02/2018
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Pros
You can log in quickly. The people who have come in to assist with how horrific this year has been have been mostly humble and at least tried to help.
Cons
Absolutely impossible to have what we need at our hands as high school counselors. Everything is laborious or actually impossible to do. It has taken MONTHS to get even tiny bits of advances to make this usable. Transcripts, which are an essential piece for our kids, took 6 months to have functioning, and they're still inaccurate. Scheduling is months behind because the programming is inept for a school this size. It lacks confidentiality and privacy that's important for our students. Household units are not available, access to other buildings makes it impossible to know who has siblings and other people living in their home, which poses a safety issue when filing reports to CPS, report cards are still completely wrong and inaccurate. I could truly go on for an awfully long time, but I digress.
At the end of the day, I think I can vouch for every person in my building when I say that this program was rolled out in a deplorable way, changes and improvements are slow and sometimes non-existent, and it's made me reconsider even working in this corporation due to how terrible this system is. A program in its infancy has been detrimental to every single stakeholder in this corporation, and I've been disappointed since the first day of training in August.
Response from Alma
We truly appreciate you taking the time to help us improve the Alma experience. Change can be difficult, and while most Alma users have had positive experiences, we are continuously improving because our mission of serving educators like you is our life work. Along those lines, we have the industry's leading response time to customer inquiries by a factor of 10.
We love working with your corporation because of the positive impact it is having on its students -- and we know its an organization you can be proud to be a part of.
Other similarly-sized districts in the Alma family currently enjoy the flexibility, security and power our platform provides - and we'd love to explore how we can bring you to that same opinion.
Your account manager will reach out to set up a time to go over (and fix) any issues needing attention.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Alma SIS- Big pros and small cons
Reviewed on 30/04/2020
EXCELLENT support. The resources provided are clear and helpful, and support staff are more...
EXCELLENT support. The resources provided are clear and helpful, and support staff are more responsive than any other product or service I have experienced. Absolute top notch support.
Pros
In addition to standard features of other applications, this product provides the ability to generate customized reports on just about any type of student data, and also automates the bulk of our report card procedure.
Cons
This product does not compile data well- eg. Student grades or attendance expressed as an overall average, rather than being listed by course. Additionally, while attendance by class records is supported, this data is of limited reporting functionality compared to attendance by day.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Excellent option for smaller schools
Reviewed on 13/12/2021
Pros
Easy to use and manage, it has multiple layers that allow students, parents, and educators to communicate and document work.
Cons
It took a long time to set up, but once it was active it was easy to navigate
Alma SIS FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Alma SIS.Q. What type of pricing plans does Alma SIS offer?
Alma SIS offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from:
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
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Q. Who are the typical users of Alma SIS?
Alma SIS has the following typical customers:
11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Alma SIS support?
Alma SIS supports the following languages:
Arabic, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, European Portuguese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Q. Does Alma SIS support mobile devices?
Alma SIS supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Alma SIS integrate with?
Alma SIS integrates with the following applications:
Acorn, ActionAlly, Alexandria, Amplify, BSM Illuminate, Blackboard Learn, Branching Minds RTI/MTSS, BusBoss, CANVAS, ClassLink, EDULOG, Edgenuity Courseware, Edval, Enrich, Enriching Students, Finalsite, Follett Destiny Library Manager, Foodservice Suite, GG4L Connect, Google Classroom, Google Docs, Google Drive, HealthOffice, Intercom, Kindful, LINQ, LinkIT, McGraw-Hill Connect, Mosaic, One Call Now, Parchment, ParentLink, ParentSquare, Pivot, ProMed, Remind1, Renaissance, Salesforce Platform, School LunchTime Software, Schoology, Seesaw, Signal Vine, Thrillshare, Versatrans, Xello, eTrition, i-Ready, pivot
Q. What level of support does Alma SIS offer?
Alma SIS offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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