147 Skyward Testimonials

"It would be the best decision they ever made, I told Skyward’s CEO Cliff King this is the easiest year I’ve had in the last 19 years. All the information is in the program, it seamlessly transfers to the state, and all of my numbers work out just fine."

“Secretaries were leading other secretaries and so forth, instead of me telling them about my expectations from the backend, We had detailed roll-out plans with expectations for our staff. Tasks were split into ‘required’ and ‘recommended,’ which we still continue today.”

“From the front desk’s perspective, the kiosks are irreplaceable, On a typical school day, the kiosks save us approximately three hours of manual documentation and data entry.”

"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."

“I once worked at a district using multiple databases, each of which didn’t always easily communicate well with the other. That alone makes Skyward stand out, because it interacts and integrates so much easier. From a superintendent perspective, the time savings alone have been key. I am responsible for approving many items and the more I can do with the click of a button, the easier my job is.”

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

"I found [Skyward] to be relatively easy to learn, even after having no training or prior knowledge Now, having attended the training, I am able to access many more services that I can offer to our students and staff."

“A lot of districts are trying to take advantage of 1:1 technology programs but don’t have the proper resources to roll them out. With the help of Skyward, my little department of five people can have a profound impact on these programs.”

"We needed buy-in from our families, That’s why creating opportunities for students and parents to communicate better with the school district was not only an investment financially, but also an investment in the importance of the experience."

"Now that we are crawling out of the other side of the pool, so to speak, Qmlativ has resulted in a great system with all of the features we anticipated – and more – that are very unique to the demands for our school community, Our teachers are now dedicated to Qmlativ’s strength and preservation. All in all, the overall result has been very positive."

“The biggest problem we had at our high school was the delay in timing as far as collecting and ascertaining the data and getting to high-needs students in proper time,”

“I know of other districts that I’ve been in that don’t have an onboarding system or even a paperless system, As a principal back in the day, applicants had to go to the central office, pick up an application. It was quite a process.”

“We have a lot of movement of staff, so oftentimes our candidates are not here but are able to apply, and we can arrange interviews with the electronic application process. If we didn’t have that, our pool would be even more limited, so FastTrack allows us to get to know the candidate ‘on paper’ and reach out to them before they’re necessarily onsite.”

"Before using Skyward we had to create a lot of our own reports to meet the requirements, which on average took us 8-16 hours a day for one to two days. With our new system the reports already exist—we are able to just hit a button and go. And without a doubt we are far more confident that the information is accurate. Skyward has a tremendous amount of experience with those reporting requirements, and they proactively stay on top of any changes. If the requirements change they immediately provide us with an update; that takes an enormous amount of pressure off of us and gives us a lot of confidence."

“A single solution was important versus a separate enrollment software that had to use an export/import or API to get the data into our SIS. We were also looking to get away from a paper enrollment system. Up until that time our district used packets of paper forms that the parents had to fill out. One packet per student.”