Follett Aspen SIS
About Follett Aspen SIS
Aspen is a student information system that unifies all school information needs in one centralized platform. Aspen combines scheduling, student management, and state-level reporting capabilities in one single platform to provide comprehensive student data management. With Aspen, administrators can easily manage and store all student data from class schedules to individual health records.
Aspen provides parent access portal that allows families to gain visibility into the classroom as well as students' grades, homework, calendars. Students can also utilize Aspen mobile capabilities to access learning materials and grades from their homes for greater connection to the classroom.
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- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Aspen is used by dozens of our school districts customers representing over 1,500 schools in...
Reviewed on 2017/11/27
We are working with Follett to provide easier access and seamless integration to 3rd party...
We are working with Follett to provide easier access and seamless integration to 3rd party applications in areas outside SIS such as classroom support and collaboration tools.
Pros
Fully enterprise-grade software, Aspen was the only product that could scale to support the 50+ school districts and hundreds of thousands of students we are running on our managed SIS service. It has a broad and deep range of functionality that covers almost every need at the school and school district level, while also providing the local capabilities required to support individual students, teachers, parents, counselors and administrators. The solution is also very flexible, allowing a high degree of customization and personalization straight out of the box.
From a technology standpoint, Aspen is based on Microsoft SQL Server and .NET technology with a browser-only UI, so Aspen is built for and fully compliant with a multitude of web and cloud environments. The modularity of the design makes Aspen the easiest product to set up and manage while still allowing for localization, integration, reporting, etc. The other key issue for us was security and data privacy, where we used Aspen combined with AD to enable permissions for data access only on a very strict need-to-know basis as required by federal law.
From a company standpoint, with over 600,000 active students to support, stability is very important to us. Follett Software is part of Follett Inc. which is a $4B company with 140 year history dedicated to education, so these guys aren't going anywhere! In the very fragmented education software space, that was very important as we were making a 10+ year commitment.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Aspen for Counselors
Reviewed on 2023/02/13
Overall it's a comprehensive program for student information management, though I believe it could...
Overall it's a comprehensive program for student information management, though I believe it could use some updating for ease of use.
Pros
The software is easy to use and is comprehensive for educators.
Cons
Running reports is a lengthy process and you have to create "filters" to save common run reports. I wish this was an easier process.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Waste of valuable work time.
Reviewed on 2024/05/15
I've been forced to use it because the school board purchased it but I would not ever recommend it....
I've been forced to use it because the school board purchased it but I would not ever recommend it. My quality of writing report cards has gone down because of the product's inability to save automatically and its inability to create comments that are easily stored and retrieved. It's hard to write a thorough and nice report card when our patience is strained with a subpar programme.
Pros
I can set up a class list but so can google.
Cons
Setting up comments doesn't allow for flooding of comments without having to go in to each individual student to change the name and pronoun. Many teachers teach literally hundreds of students a day and this is asinine. Furthermore, the inability to create a better organized comment bank that searches with efficiency should not be complicated but this system is terrible and again wastes valuable time. Having to hit "post" and save as often as possible is also absolutely frustrating. I would never buy this product or use it. Teachers have much more important things to do than to waste time on all its inefficiencies.
- Industry: Primary/Secondary Education
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10
Aspen can be clunky
Reviewed on 2022/12/15
Pros
The only thing I like about using Aspen is that I've just gotten used to it.
Cons
I feel that Aspen for entering student grades is a bit clunky and could be updated to make it easier for the teachers. Maybe have less buttons to press especially when submitting grades!
- Industry: Chemicals
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Review regarding Aspen plus software
Reviewed on 2021/10/11
By using this aspen software generally do simulation and modelling and also use to find various...
By using this aspen software generally do simulation and modelling and also use to find various parameters at given process conditions also it is used for doing optimization of plant and heat integration, detail study of equipment.
Pros
Aspen plus is a very powerful tool for the process industry for making the simulation and modelling it provides a wide variety of equipment and tool for making the proper simulation and also we can find process parameters for binary and single components and also we can do optimization and sensitivity analysis for better process performance.
Cons
Sometimes it takes a long time to run a simulation apart form that everything is fine about this platform
Follett Aspen SIS FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Follett Aspen SIS.Q. Who are the typical users of Follett Aspen SIS?
Follett Aspen SIS has the following typical customers:
1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Follett Aspen SIS support?
Follett Aspen SIS supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Follett Aspen SIS support mobile devices?
Follett Aspen SIS supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Follett Aspen SIS integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Follett Aspen SIS has
Q. What level of support does Follett Aspen SIS offer?
Follett Aspen SIS offers the following support options:
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