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

The font are good. Not too many random information appear on the screen.

Inconvénients

It could be more visually attractive to users if developer could add more colorful design because we use it for tracking kid's activities.

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

I love that everything is in one single app. Communicating with parents via email is hard since families get so much email that mine would sometimes get lost. The same with text messages. This just streamlines it so that families know they can go look in the BW app to find anything related to our preschool.
Also, I have NEVER had a problem in regards to a response to a questions or problem I've had. You all are very quick to respond and always have a well explained answer that is easy to understand.

Inconvénients

I can't really think of anything right now. I'm looking to see if there's a way to sort out income sources for our benefit. For example, I'd like to be able to calculate how much of our income is "tuition" or "field trip fees" or "registration fees" or "early drop off fees" etc. There may be a feature for this but I haven't even had time to dig to find out. :-)

Avantages

Bright colors and overall easy to use. It was very appealing to families and provided that connection to their child.

Inconvénients

Didn't like the reports and the format in how they looked. Also had some issues with the time clocking in and out feature and reports from that.

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

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

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

The billing was a fairly seemless process

Inconvénients

customer service was lacking when the company got bigger

Avantages

Our collections have been so much easier with brightwheel.

Inconvénients

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

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

I love the way Brightwheel helps with communication and invoicing. It saves time and effort for families and staff.

Inconvénients

I find setting up forms to be difficult.

Avantages

It significantly enhances parent-teacher communication.

Inconvénients

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

Avantages

Streamlined billing, attendance, records.

Inconvénients

It did take some practice to learn how to use all of the features, but the representatives and online tutorials were helpful.

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

easy to login and easy documentation for parents to keep up with everyday events.

Inconvénients

That a teacher can not remove old students from the list

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

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

It is simple to use and very helpful to the day care providers and teachers.
Also, the services provide are very professional and well managed.
The costume service and technical supports are excellent and very attentive with the clients.

Inconvénients

Some services are no provide in Canada, such as payments method.

Avantages

Its a great way to keep in touch with my child's teachers and all the things related to her school.

Inconvénients

sometimes its hard to tell whether my daughter is checked in or out.