Illumine

Avantages

The features available are perfectly catered for the needs of pre-schools as well as parents. It is really user-friendly, be it for the admins, teachers or parents. Even the more elderly teachers that are not familiar with the latest technology can use the application with ease!

Inconvénients

There were some minor glitches or crashes in the app, but after notifying the support team, the problems were solved promptly!

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi choisir Illumine 

Pourquoi passer à Illumine

Avantages

User-friendly - ease of implementation; dynamism of the app- it is ever evolving

Inconvénients

Frequent updation of the software and no intimation of the same

Avantages

It's helpful to parents and teachers to see day to day of child

Inconvénients

Not consistent. Things change on the back end without our knowledge

Avantages

The app is easy to use and implement with a friendly UI, over the past year the system got more usable and numbers of clicks were reduced. It added more value to the nurseries we implemented the application in and saved cost and time. Parents sometimes have difficulties using applications, but we never faced that with any of the nurseries.

Inconvénients

I think the one thing that needs to be enhanced to have all the options available on the mobile application for admins.

Avantages

It has everything I could ask for. I am a working mom and I always felt anxious and guilty for not being there for my boy or not be involved or informed enough. Its like Illumine has crept into a parents mind and collected all the needs and built this app. I can see what activities my toddler son is doing, i get the notifications, I know when he ate, what he ate, when he slept at all times. I immediately get to know if he got hurt or had a quarrel. The UI is pretty good (Sorry for the PM in me speaking). I can drop notes to the teacher. I can very well communicate with the school admin and have all record of conversations. I see the reminders at all times. I see the lovely pictures of my boy with all his friends and it fills my heart with joy.

Inconvénients

One tiny thing could be that if a school does not use a specific feature, may be that can be hidden so the parents don't see it. Although my son's school uses almost all features, they don't have the live streaming thing. So may be if that feature can be completely hidden.

Avantages

I like their billing system as I used to lose a lot of paper invoices before. It used to taxation issues at the end of the year. All the receipts are now available in my mail as well as in the app. The live streaming/CCTV feature is great as it lets me see my kid once in a while when I am at work. Also, I can share medical and food notes in the app and I don't have to follow up with the teachers to see if they have completed it or not. Also since I do not use other social media that much I used to miss out event photos previously which I am now able to see in their app.

Inconvénients

There is no option to mark a photo as favourite. Since the school shares many photos I hope they give an option to mark a photo or a video as a favourite.

Avantages

Illumine helps make the connection between home and the preschool setting stronger. It allows teachers and parents to communicate important information to each other. It allows for photos to be shared with the families, so that they can see the learning taking place in the classroom. It allows me to keep track of the development that my child is going through, in a very structured, easy to understand format. I like this software a lot

Inconvénients

I really do not have any cons for Illumine. My experience has been very positive and I like the product and their user interface . I am being 100% honest when i say that I have never had to contact customer support so I can not speak to that, but I do know that the implementation of the solution was pretty simple .

Avantages

There are more things than I can list about why I like Illumine as a parent. I love being able to check in on my kid any time during the day with there Live streaming feature. My kid's school uploads pictures in afternoon and I eagerly wait for it during my lunch time. It helps them feel a part of my kid's day at daycare . Apart from parent communication, I like how bills are always available in my email and also sending food and medicine notes to the class teachers.! Recently they created a video of my kid's journey in the school and all the family members were absolutely delighted with the video.

Inconvénients

The cons that have come up are very few and mostly relate to the internet services which automatically gets sorted.

Avantages

My kid's school used this, and the whole experience to communicate with her teachers and receiving daily reports about my child would not have been much more straightforward. During the pandemic, extra updates such as online learning and activity sharing with learners are handy, and she felt connected to her teachers even though she is away from school. They have various tools, such as notifications, assessments, fee collection, Lead CRM, etc., all in one place. Still, I hope her school would use all the functionalities as I know it would be so much more helpful for teachers and students.

Inconvénients

As of now, the experience is pretty pleasant, and if there are
any problems, the team will be quick to resolve it for us.

Avantages

User friendly , Consist of all features which preschool would want to make their daily operations easier.

Inconvénients

The application contains all features which I was looking for for my preschool.

Avantages

Ease of use , great UI
Clarity on topics

Inconvénients

I loved it totally , I felt in starting there were issues in uploading my child's homework but it was ok after sometime.

Avantages

Very user friendly. Exhaustive features. Enhances the goodwill of the organisation. Helps parents and educators in tracking the development of the child

Inconvénients

Camera access can be improved. Writing notes and reminders sometimes becomes difficult.

Avantages

CCTV, Photos, Tracking leaves / request, attendance, syllabus

Inconvénients

Help support from Customer Care. Also my invoice is shown as pending, though I have paid it completely

Avantages

Its a single mode of communication between the parents and the school. As a parent i know what are the assignments , Attendance and other announcements. The important part is the fees details , Pickup and drop details provide more safety to the kids. One feedback that i may have is if we can group the photos of ones kid at one place will be better...now school post 100 of photos and i need to drill down to find out which one are for my son...rest is great abt this app

Inconvénients

what i feel missing is if the school cameras can be integrated with this app then this will be one stop shop. My son school provide camera feature to check the live streaming of kids playground and cafeteria

Avantages

school calendary/diary; ability to share assignments and their responses.

Inconvénients

doesn't show the history of comments on assignments; should enable feature to have 1:1 chat with teachers to clarify doubts.

Avantages

School diary; Assignment management, submission and Tracking

Inconvénients

Ease of use is poor.
Comments history and management is lacking.
Chat with Teachers should be included.

Avantages

It’s easy to use. One platform with all features.

Inconvénients

The lesson tab has some probelm.
When we go back to take another printout the lesson tab sets to its default set and shown the result rather then showing what I selected ( like by date or month). It’s not convenient to use to take printout.

Avantages

Also add some animated videos for small childrens for their interest

Inconvénients

Nothing to say about this suppoting tool

Avantages

Communication management and the sharing of pictures.

Inconvénients

I cannot use emogi's and the spacebar and full stop is too close to each other which hinders fast typing.

Avantages

The updates are very easily visible. The media gets uploaded quite fast.

Inconvénients

I can only upload either a photograph or a video, the option to upload both is not available. I feel tbe user interface and design can be improved and more options for text and font can be available.

Avantages

-- UI of the application is good,
-- User-friendly and easy to navigate even though there are a lot of content/windows within the app.

Inconvénients

There is still room for improvement. for Example
- Font size can be increased a little bit.
- It's not a con but at times certain pages look a bit cluttered.
- If we can customize the dashboard or if there could be a better way for dashboard layout that would be good

Avantages

The best feature is that it allows to choose different options while posting pictures for kids. Easy to check updates and backdated information.

Inconvénients

No option of selecting multiple parents to message. Have to individually select which is time consuming.

Avantages

Easy to join meetings as you don’t have to open zoom every time. Access to plans and calendar are are a good feature.

Inconvénients

There is always a delay. The home page shows the meeting from previous day always for few seconds before you can actually see that day meeting link. Also the lesson plans tab don’t work. U click on it and it shows lessons from past week and needs refreshing many times before you see the current.

Avantages

I honestly just use the software for my son to go to school. I find that it's pretty easy to use and simple to navigate.

Inconvénients

Some times I have connection issues, but that's with anything. Other than that I don't really know much else about it to say anything bad.

Avantages

It’s easy to use and has so many features , loved that the feature of adding videos and pictures T the same post was added

Inconvénients

Sometimes it takes so long to download the pictures and the videos for a post then they won’t show to the parents only the comment