148 Skyward Testimonials

"Our parents are thrilled with the Family Access portal for keeping track of student assignments, attendance and discipline. After they realized the power of knowing their grades on real-time basis, the students were equally hooked."

"We’re not going to have the errors on timesheets – before a person could put down ‘8 a.m. to 4 p.m.’ and say that was 10 hours, There are not those kinds of addition errors or calculating errors on both the employees’ part and the people who process payroll. When you’ve got that many manual timesheets to go through to check and approve, and only a certain amount of time to do it in, there’s a chance for errors."

"A Combination Of Good Technology, A Flexible System, And A Partner That’s Invested In Your Own Interest Is Absolutely Vital To Ongoing Success. And That Is What We Have With Skyward."

"We are able to operate with fewer administrative employees than other districts. Most require approximately five to six systems to accomplish what we do with just one."

"What I Didn’t Expect Was For The Students To Embrace It So Much. It Can Be Three O’clock In The Morning, And There Are Kids Who Are Checking Their Grades. It’s Crazy."

"True Time is part of the culture here. It’s like using email now. It’s just something they do, and it’s easy for them to do. It’s so convenient."

"Skyward has truly been one of our best public relations tools."

"Tardy students were a constant issue, Staff lost a lot of instructional time checking students in.”

"Teachers and parents are communicating much more thanks to Family Access and tardy kiosks. Having that type of relationship is important to student success."

"Importing data into Payroll within Qmlativ has shaved two days off our payroll process. Everyone is getting better and better with Skyward and are seeing the benefits quickly."

“Our old system was archaic. For example, when doing reports, it showed all the job code language. Having to weed through all of that was difficult and confusing.”

“My advice to other districts is to give your staff, especially your office staff, plenty of time to learn and experiment with the system while implementing. The more comfortable they are once school starts, the better."

"I think the biggest challenge that we faced had to do with interfacing and getting different systems to play nicely with each other, And the amount of time and energy it took to get things together – to work as efficiently as we wanted them to – was a huge thing. It affected the efficiency of the office for sure, and we got to a point where I think it was affecting our performance here."

“When we first came to Skyward, I don’t think that we ever thought of any other ways of hosting our data other than through ISCorp. We figured that since Skyward offers hosting through ISCorp, why wouldn’t we do it."

"I've had other school districts call to ask about our experiences with Skyward as they look to make the same switch. I can easily run through the advantages we've realized in our 2 ½ years in the system."