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Finding the right data partner can be difficult. There are so many questions to answer, and getting a good idea of just what a platform can truly offer is challenging. Demos can be insufficient in giving a full picture of a tool's strengths and weaknesses. Below, you can find more details on what makes Schoolytics unique, and what value-adds the platform provides compared to alternatives on the market.
Some districts opt to build their own in-house data system. This approach can maintain autonomy and control but misses out on some key advantages to outsourcing some data engineering and analytics processes and functions. If you've already started down this pathway, take a moment to consider whether you should make a change, even if there's been a significant investment so far. It can be helpful to think of your past investment in your current strategy as a sunk cost. Here are some pain points that come up for districts that build their own system, and how Schoolytics can help solve each one.
Given the data warehouse offering, combined with a visualization tool, Schoolytics has some overlaps with BI tools like Tableau, Looker, or Domo. But there are a lot of reasons why these tools don't work well for K12 schools and districts.
Every school and district has different needs, but we do have recommendations on how to run a thorough, unbiased process to choose a data analytics vendor.
To help you evaluate more deeply, we have created a rubric that you can use to give every vendor a score, based on what's important in your specific context.
Explore how Solon City Schools, seeking innovation and customization, chose Schoolytics as their new data partner.
Administrators and teachers can complete a range of analysis with Schoolytics dashboards. Principals and central office staff can answer big strategic questions at an aggregate level, inspect subgroup trends, or take a look at a single student view. Teachers use Schoolytics to make data-drive instructional decisions and track student progress.
Schoolytics focuses on student outcomes data. This includes data from the student information system (grades, attendance, flags, behavior), assessments (formative and summative), learning management system, and ad hoc spreadsheets (e.g., surveys, accommodations).
Certain types of data, such as attendance and assessment scores, should be entered as normal into the SIS and assessment platforms. Schoolytics does have a very flexible logging system that lets you document interventions, goals, milestones, notes, and more.
Yes! One of Schoolytics' biggest value-adds is the ability to customize nearly everything you see on the platform. Every district has a unique set of dashboards with specific requirements, metrics, thresholds, etc.
Yes! Group creation can be automatic, e.g., created from student tags from spreadsheets or the SIS, or manually created by the user. Users can filter reports and views by their group of interest.
Because the systems that we pull data from are districtwide, Schoolytics contracts are only signed at the district/CMO level. We cannot sell to individual schools within a district. The exception is private/independent schools that operate like a "district".
Yes! For high priority, frequently updated data, we will work with you to determine if a new integration is necessary. New integrations take about 4-6 weeks to implement, with SIS integrations taking closer to 6 weeks due to the volume of data.
School-based users log in with Google or Clever single sign-on. (Parents/guardians use Google SSO or magic links).
Schoolytics is available in the following languages: English, Spanish, French, and Japanese.
Yes! Schoolytics has experiences for students to see their own data and parents to see their children's data.
Individual teachers using Google Classroom can sign up for a free account.
Our team is committed to giving you a full picture of what our tools can do. Contact us with any questions you may have.
