Schoolbox
About Schoolbox
Designed specifically to support primary and secondary education, Schoolbox is an all-in-one learning management system (LMS), community portal and engagement platform. Encompassing 21st century pedagogy teaching and learning principles, this software for K-12 schools features a streamlined approach to classroom management, student wellbeing, lesson planning and collaborative learning.
Schoolbox offers course planning, assessment and reporting, and comprehensive scheduling tools as part of a virtual learning environment that connects teachers, students, and parents.
With Schoolbox, teachers can use the resource library to map curriculums and build courses across subjects and grade levels. Schoolbox also provides resources to help teachers plan dynamic and engaging lessons. Teachers can utilize the various assessment and reporting features, such as inline graders, markbooks, rubrics, and transparent deadline calendars to streamline the evaluation process.
Schoolbox’s community portal facilitates communication and collaboration between parents, staff, and students. Students can access their personalized calendar and timetables through the portal to view assignments, track deadlines, and manage their schedules. Schoolbox’s resource booking tool ensures resources are allocated efficiently to avoid scheduling conflicts. Schools can host a variety of collective learning channels, including blogs, forums, chats, and social streams to encourage creativity and collaboration. Schoolbox is self or cloud-hosted, integrated, flexible and secure.
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- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A great partnership with a team that actually cares about their customers.
Reviewed on 03/05/2018
We use this software for so many purposes, more than what we originally thought. We can communicate...
We use this software for so many purposes, more than what we originally thought. We can communicate to students and parents regarding news, projects, due work, markings etc.
Pros
The product owners and developers have always been very clear with how they see their product growing and how we can influence and feed in ideas and features. Even through rapid growth they have still remained true to their vision which convinced us to sign up 6 years ago.
Cons
There are quite a few settings in the admin panel that need better explanation, for us who have been using the system for a long time we know them but new users might be overwhelmed. That said, the more granular the settings the more you can customise it for your own environment.
Response from Schoolbox
Hey David. Thanks for spending the time to provide such a great review and great feedback. We've loved working with you and your team thus far.
The superuser's admin area certainly does offer a wide range of configuration. I see that in our community Ideas forums that our community of schools are discussing and voting on how our administration area can be presented in an easier way. Hopefully we can improve this area in the future. Thanks so much for the feedback and support. :)
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Schoolbox has transformed learning, teaching and communication at our school.
Reviewed on 11/11/2019
We are merging dozens of online systems and several communication channels into one place. We are...
We are merging dozens of online systems and several communication channels into one place. We are minimising numerous risks (for example, loss of intellectual property and loss of class time) by using Schoolbox.
My College has nothing but praise for Schoolbox! Now we have it, we cannot imagine life without it.
Pros
There are so many things to love!
Schoolbox has positively changed our entire culture of our College. Our communication has been dramatically streamlined. The thousands of parents in our community receive their messages from one point and are happier than they were when we used a SharePoint instance.
The ability to bring all of the online systems that we use to one place (our Schoolbox instance) is saving us time. Schoolbox allows us to create templates of our pages, and so our community know where on the page the information they are looking for is no matter what page they are viewing. These two factors alone have saved us thousands of hours in our classrooms.
Our staff love the fact that the courses are saved and reused from year to year. They love the drag and drop nature of content creation and the fact that the existing work can be dragged into Schoolbox. It means that they do not have to start everything from scratch. They can still use the content that was existing before we went into Schoolbox. Of course, they are also using the new implementation as a way to audit the existing content and refresh it as they need to.
The ability to offer secure group spaces to our extra-curricular groups such as student clubs and parent groups is a feature we have never been able to provide before.
Finally, I have to offer praise to the Schoolbox Support Staff who work hard to support us in making our Schoolbox instance very successful in our College.
Cons
The administration area can take a little while to learn. It is a very complex area. However, only superusers use this space, so most users never have to deal with it. There is a lot of support available to assist superusers. Schoolbox Support staff and the Professional Services Team are only a phone call away if I ever need help.
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft SharePoint, Google Classroom, CANVAS, Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams and SEQTAReasons for Switching to Schoolbox
Ease of Use. Ability to customise to our College context. Depth of features. The amazing community of schools who share ideas and support each other.- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
MFAC Review of SchoolBox
Reviewed on 01/11/2019
- We have had a number of priority issues with Schoolbox which we have received support for but...
- We have had a number of priority issues with Schoolbox which we have received support for but unfortunately resolution has taken alot longer than we had expected.
- Generally when we call, the support staff have been very responsive.
Pros
- Once you know how to maintain the product, it is highly configurable which enables the pages to be tailored to meet College's requirements.
- The product is rich in functionality but the good news is you can phase the implementation of this in line with College's requirements and timeframes.
Cons
- It currently doesn't integrate with our School Management System - TASS.
- On the UPS, there is internal processing which is not visible to administrators of the systems which has caused us challenges with our data.
Response from Schoolbox
Hi Samantha. Thanks for taking the time to review Schoolbox and provide us feedback.
The TASS School Information System (SIS) has been a close partner of Schoolbox for many years, where we've built a deep integration with TASS. See our TASS Integration documentation here: https://help.schoolbox.com.au/account/anonymous.php?page=/homepage/497
We also have documentation on the TASS UPS Queries which can help calrify some of the processes. See here: https://help.schoolbox.com.au/account/anonymous.php?page=/homepage/2402
I suggest our team reach out to assist with enabling the Schoolbox + TASS integration.
Thanks again for your review and wishing you all the best.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Schoolbox Review
Reviewed on 25/10/2019
Schoolbox is now a critical platform solution for our business and educational needs. Without it we...
Schoolbox is now a critical platform solution for our business and educational needs. Without it we would not be able to operate efficiently. This has been a system that has grown and developed in its sophistication with us and our journey into the digital learning space.
Pros
Our Schoolbox instance is fast, reliable and readily available. Our School has been able to embed Schoolbox as our Learning Management System, Community Portal, Continuous feedback and is now our main communication platform.
The support of the software (both technical and professional learning) is timely with high resolution success. The team is knowledgeable, friendly and responsive.
Cons
We have had extensive requests by our school community to allow for printable reporting functions - specially in the Grades and Feedback modules.
Feature requests on the core components can be time consuming as the process involves a voting system by other Schoolbox customers for buy in. Being a long term customer and user of the system we find ourselves more advanced than other School's who may not be ready for other feature request changes.
Reasons for Choosing Schoolbox
Mediasphere were no longer developing their education platform and were instead moving to HR systems.Reasons for Switching to Schoolbox
Recommendations, Cost and integration with our SIS system.Response from Schoolbox
Cheers John for your helpful feedback & review. We're always listening to our schools and their requirements in reporting on student learning. We have made some significant enhancements in this space over the last year; 1. New views in our database for simplified reporting on rubrics; 2. Creation of a tool to convert reports in Schoolbox to PDFs; 3. Crystal Reports service where we can produce PDF based report variants. So, at this stage schools have 4 different options depending on their needs; Export assessment data to Synergetic or Accelerus to complete reports; Create their own Crystal Reports; Engage our Professional Services team to implement Crystal Reports; Engage a 3rd party to build a report from our data (Octopus, TrackOne).
We're also working on a tool to deliver a super simple option for running a PDF run of the Grades page in Schoolbox. :)
Thanks for taking the time to review us John!
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Whole-School Learning and Engagement Platform
Reviewed on 22/10/2019
I was the project lead required to recommend either a new virtual learning platform, or extensive...
I was the project lead required to recommend either a new virtual learning platform, or extensive upgrade costs to the previous product. After contacting and visiting numerous schools in Queensland, I was convinced of the value Schoolbox offered. Almost two years later, teachers and students are embracing Schoolbox and looking forward to what lays ahead, particularly in whole-school communications.
Pros
There are three standout features of Schoolbox:
1. It is an all-in-one solution for teaching and learning, staff intranet and school communications
2. It is an Australian product, built by Australian educators for the Australian school market
3. The Schoolbox community is highly skilled and generous with their knowledge
Cons
Queensland curriculum compliancy remains an issue
Reasons for Choosing Schoolbox
It made sense to implement a new whole-school platform, rather than make expense upgrades to SharePoint, which was under-utilised anyway.Switched From
Microsoft SharePointReasons for Switching to Schoolbox
Australian product made specifically for the Australian school sectorResponse from Schoolbox
Hi Anita. Thanks so much for your review!
In regards to meeting the QLD curriculum (QCAA) requirements, student rubric result pages in Schoolbox can be printed to PDF for submission.
The QCAA requirements require a teacher to select 3 students, one from the top, bottom, and middle of the class for verification.
Here's the details of what's required:
https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/senior/prep_electronic_submissions_advice.pdf
Here's the checklist of what's required:
https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/downloads/senior/snr_qa_verification_submission_checklist.pdf
To meet this requirement, we recommend schools collate the information into a single folder doing the following steps:
1. Print to PDF the 3 students' rubric results pages (this will include the task details, grade, rubric and and feedback)
2. Download the students' submissions.
Put together in a folio for submission using QCAA's proposed folder structure.
Hope this helps.
Cheers.
Schoolbox FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Schoolbox.Q. What type of pricing plans does Schoolbox offer?
Schoolbox offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: $16.00/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
All pricing is in Australian dollars (AUD). Basic: $21/student/year hosted or $16/student/year on premise + one-time installation fee Premium: $24/student/year hosted or $19/student/year on premise + one-time installation fee Elite: $28/student/year hosted or $23/student/year on premise + one-time installation fee All plans require an additional one-time fee of $1,960 for the Schoolbox Launch Sessions as well as a fee of $2.50 per student for teacher training.
Q. Who are the typical users of Schoolbox?
Schoolbox has the following typical customers:
11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Schoolbox support?
Schoolbox supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Schoolbox support mobile devices?
Schoolbox supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Schoolbox integrate with?
Schoolbox integrates with the following applications:
Digistorm Funnel, Google Docs, Google Drive, Howspace, Microsoft 365, Microsoft OneNote, PlagScan, Prezi, SlideShare, Twitter/X, Zoom Events and Webinars
Q. What level of support does Schoolbox offer?
Schoolbox offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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