brightwheel

Avantages

Nous l'avons utilisé pour partager des mises à jour quotidiennes avec les parents, qui ont adoré recevoir des photos et des nouvelles en temps réel.

Inconvénients

Le téléchargement des photos pourrait être un peu plus rapide, mais cela fonctionne bien la plupart du temps.

Avantages

Brightwheel nous permet d'être en communication constante et immédiate avec les parents. Il donne à nos enseignants un outil qui leur permet de partager les progrès d'un enfant, d'informer immédiatement les parents!!!

Inconvénients

TOUS sont faciles a manipuler!!! leur permet de partager les progrès d'un enfant, d'informer immédiatement les parents, de partager des vidéos et des anecdotes, et il fournit à l'école une vision complète !!!

Avantages

It significantly enhances parent-teacher communication.

Inconvénients

Initially, the app appeared very user-friendly and it has room to grow.

Avantages

My days are very busy, the app helps me show parents everything their children has done throughout the day and parents LOVE it! Teachers/Childcare Providers can message, send pictures, share education progress and ideas, and SOOOOO much more.
The app has everything you need in one place.

Inconvénients

The app is only an app. I wish I could use Brightwheel on the computer. Typing would be quicker, and sometimes my phone is not accessible (at this very moment my phone is broken....). :(

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à brightwheel

Avantages

Honestly-Nothing! As a parent who uses this app daily I find it to be awful!

Inconvénients

This software does not allow you to see multiple kids at once on a feed without going back and forth. Going back and forth between children is a pain!! Then when I select a child the default is Profile view, I am the parent I don't care about the profile I want to go right to my child's feed. It would be nice if there was a quick view to check in and just see a quick update of all my children on the home screen. There are times when I only have a minute or two to look quick and I just can't with all the back and forth clicking between kids and not being able to see their feeds without some more clicking. I also hate that when a nap is ended it doesn't show the time napped. I only get that at the end of the day when I get a summary after my kids are checked out. I know I can look and see when they started and then when it ended and figured it out, but the starts are not always logged and visible. A summary on their feed would be nice. I also know there are other glitches with this app especially with the pay and checking in and out of kids. My daycare center does not like this app either, but they don't have a choice. The app that was used before this was called Daily Connect and it was absolutely wonderful. You could leave notes, see feeds or multiple kids for quick glances. Yes, there was not payment option on that to keep things simple, but bright wheel doesn't keep things simple now. As a parent & daily user of this app w/ multiple kids , it is TERRIBLE!

Avantages

Our collections have been so much easier with brightwheel.

Inconvénients

It would be easier if siblings were on the same page.

Avantages

The billing feature. Auto pay, Billing plans, Reports, and Library of charges. All these features are built in to keep up with invoices and charges that need applied and change from week to week.

Inconvénients

The schedule feature is difficult to keep up with as we offer drop in, part time and full time care. It just doesnt give the flexibility we need to schedule our students and staff. We need more of a click and drop feature.

Avantages

We love the communication piece with families, billing is easy to do and is paid online, parents can see the daily happenings as they happen. We like the scheduling piece so the [sensitive content hidden] can enter weekly schedules and teachers are able to see the schedules on Brightwheel for each day. We are part of the Expense trial and we are liking it so far - we are able to take each bank transaction and add what they debit or credit was for to seperate each expense or income.

Inconvénients

I don't care for the mulitple screens you need to go through to do billing or scheduling.

Avantages

It offers me a way to keep track of my children and all their information.It gives us a quick way to inform parents about classroom information. It gives me an accurate accurate of tuition.

Inconvénients

There wasn't anything I didn't like about the many options.available for me in order to keep track of my students and my finances.

Avantages

GREAT communication tool! I love being able to send all daily communication through the app straight to parents.

Inconvénients

Can't think of anything. It has been a great resource for me.

Avantages

Easy billing and attendance. Client can pull their own tax statements

Inconvénients

I wish that I could also track my expenses through Brightwheel.

Avantages

I love the ease of Bright wheel's messaging side. I love the simplicity of Billing.

Inconvénients

Brightwheel is perfect ! I love everything about this system!

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à brightwheel

Avantages

I love that I can sign into my account, see statements, pay my bill, look through pictures posted, change my sons profile picture.

Inconvénients

It is a great child care/preschool management system. I would say they could update to be allowed to add files versus paper copies of everything.

Avantages

What I like the most is streamlining communication between the management team and childcare parents. Features like attendance tracking, parent engagement tools, and learning assessments empower educators to focus more on teaching and less on administrative tasks, making it easy for teachers and parents to stay connected. Bright Wheel is a beautiful tool for informing parents and improving the classroom experience. Embrace the opportunity to simplify your workload and strengthen relationships with families today!

Inconvénients

Once you make a mistake in Brightwheel, you can't go back and edit the entire group. This can be frustrating if you want to correct something for everyone at once.

Avantages

Brightwheel has opened the door of communication with my parents without taking the time away from the kids when I need to inform the parent of something that is happening. One click and I can immediately text a parent or send a picture to show a parent what is happening.

Inconvénients

I would really like a document hub that the parents can access so I didn't have to send the same document over and over.

Avantages

I like that users can manage their accounts and balances.

Inconvénients

There is no way to contact my daughter's after-school program through the platform.

Avantages

Keeping parents informed on students activities and progress throughout the day.

Inconvénients

The least thing is the payment plans that are available.

Avantages

Brightwheel is user friendly and easy to use. It allows for information to be shared in a simple, yet thourough way.

Inconvénients

I can not think of any cons at this time.

Avantages

We love the autopay in parent’s control.

Inconvénients

The way a parents billing looks should look more like a charge credit format/ledger. The lesson plans should be more user friendly to format change to fit what our different needs are.

Avantages

Love that I can share moments and learning with families.

Inconvénients

I don't like that They update it at certain times mid-year which makes it very difficult for care providers to try and learn. Although I'm grateful for the updates. Hope there is an option to print portfolio now! It's also a bit difficult to be able to know which features are used from tablet, phone or desktop that can be kind of cumbersome

Avantages

Having the children's and staff information at our fingertips!

Inconvénients

Not being able to use the same email for staff that have signed up through other centers. It's inconvenient!
Not being able to change admin messages to alerts.

Avantages

Ease of use, functionality, ability to view children's day at a glance (when they eat, have diaper changes, go to naps, and incidents that happen), ability to send and receive pictures/documents with daycare staff, ability to send messages to administrators or teachers

Inconvénients

There is a small service fee for paying invoices to daycare using brightwheel. Noone likes paying fees, but I think paying the small fee is worth it to be able to quickly and easily pay invoices from daycare from the comfort of your home

Avantages

Ease of use, User Friendly, Cost effective

Inconvénients

Not as intuitive as we like it to be. We like it to group students by family and to make it easier to find students and Parents together and not have look for them separately

Avantages

the simple features inside the app, when checking on my child during the day.

Inconvénients

I wish there were more photo features inside the app.

Avantages

Very user friendly, messaging app was quick, photos came through wonderfully. Payment system simple. Nice reporting system for taxes end of the year

Inconvénients

I was very satisfied with Brightwheel and found it be a great daycare communication tool