Edficiency
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Dan M.
Verified UserPrimary/ Secondary Education · 51-200 employees
Edficiency review
The customer service given by Edficiency is excellent. Whenever there have been issues there is someone available to email, call, or video call. I have been very pleased with their responses and their response time.
- This system made it possible for our school to offer a flex period within the school day
- Students and teachers are both able to request each other on different days to get/give the assistance that is needed
- It is very easy to set up classes, templates, and groups of students for sessions
- There are options for having virtual and in-person students at the same time
- The system notifies students of their class assignments each day via school email
- Students are able to place an order of their teachers for when they are randomly assigned to sessions
- Teachers are able to request students in advance and the program is designed to not allow a teacher to monopolize a student's sessions
- This is both a positive and a negative
- A positive so that staff cannot also "dibs" a student however it is a negative when only one teacher wants to request a student
- In this event, teachers need to make a request each day for the next day
- The administrative side of the program is very easy to use and navigate
- I am able to teach staff how to use the program in about 10 minutes
- I can access reports that tell me student sessions requests, attendance and group memberships
- I can also determine if a teacher has taken attendance, created groups, and how they are making sessions, e
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- they are limiting enrollment, requiring requests to be in the session, and open seats
- A number of teachers have mentioned that they would like the ability to request a student for multiple days in a row, however it can be a problem if a teacher is able to monopolize a student's flex time
- There are work arounds, teachers can create a group that automatically places the student in their section or they can request a student each day for the next day
- As an administrator I would like the ability to select multiple sections at one time when having to delete multiple sections - currently I can only select either one section or delete all sessions
- While I would not use this feature often, it would be nice to have
- I would also like the ability to insert default information for staff for the ease of creating certain sessions
Amber B.
Verified UserPrimary/ Secondary Education · 51-200 employees
Edficiency at Brookfield Central
We were hoping to introduce more flexibility into the school day, where kids could meet with each other or teachers, and we could get things done during the school hours as opposed to before/after school.
- The product is easy to use and has been very impactful as we now have a scheduled block of time where clubs can meet, teachers can request kids for make-up time or help, students can request teachers for things like AP Help Sessions, coaches can meet with students for special communication
- Edficiency has introduced a very flexible school day- as all of the above used to have to be done before or after school
- I would love to be able to delete sessions easier
- To be able to delete by day, by grouping would be handy
Why they chose it
"Unknown."
Ryan P.
Verified UserPrimary/ Secondary Education · 51-200 employees
Simplicity
We have been with efficiency since the beginning. It has always delivered. Any struggles or issues that we have encountered along the way have always been as a result of our users and not the software.
- It removes excuses from both students and their teachers for not being able to meet
- There is no reason why a student should not be able to meet with me promptly when they struggle
- There's also no reason why I, as a teacher, should not be able to spend extra time with students who I know need extra attention
- Most of my sessions are set up in the same exact way
- I wish there was a way for me to easily clone a setup and apply it over a range of days rather than having to set up each day's session individually
Peggy S.
Verified UserEducation Management · 51-200 employees
Edficiency is a Game Changer
Overall, we are very pleased with the Edficiency program and would highly recommend it for schools looking for a way to manage logistics in order to provide student support and session management. After initial startup, the program runs effortlessly behind the scenes and we have to do very little to manage it on a day-to-day basis.
- For our campus of over 2,000 students, Edficiency provides a seamless and labor-free means of ensuring that each student has a place to go during our advisory period that will provide the student with the targeted support he/she needs
- It individualizes each student's experience, so that students get the help and attention they need and gives students some choice
- Clubs and organizations benefit from the program as well, as they can ensure that interested students have an opportunity to attend club meetings
We would love to see Edficiency in an app form, so that students could get more timely notifications and more easily access their daily assignment (currently assignments are provided via email)
Carole C.
Verified UserPrimary/ Secondary Education · 201-500 employees
Edficiency - Flex Time Software to Enrich Your Learning Environment
We solved the building disruptions when groups or classes were called out of learning time for meetings or distribution of information to certain students. With Edficiency, those things happen during our Flex Period without interruption. Staff can connect with students who need the intervention time with ease. I can not imaging our district going back to 'pre-Edficiency'.
- Edficiency turned our disruptive Activity Days into days with a time set aside for intervention and enrichment
- Our daily schedule now includes a Flex Time used for class meetings, extra study time for those who need or want it and Enrichment groups
- Students can request time with selected teachers, or staff can request a student who may need the extra help
- Easy to use, once set, it runs itself with little intervention
One adjustment that could be made is once a single session is created, it is hard to edit without deleting and recreating some portions of it
Cody L.
Verified UserEducation Management · 201-500 employees
Edficiency Will Help You Support All Students
This product will change your culture and provide you the time, space and instruction to move your building forward. I have used other programs similar to this and this is far better than any program out there to help schedule your flexible time.
- One of the most useful pieces of this program is allowing for students to rank teachers and for teachers to create front rows for students
- In other programs similar to this, unless students specifically sign-up, they are left wandering the building with nowhere to be
- Edficiency will take the student rankings and the teachers needs and schedule every single student to a space
- This is not only important for academics but for safety
- There are times in which students will be placed with teachers they don't have
- This is from a user error and rosters not being loaded
- There is a lot of front end work that is needed to be done by teachers in order for this to run well
- With all of the demands our teachers have this can be a challenge
Why they chose it
"We wanted a product that all students were placed but also helped to provide those students with some choice."
Jens T.
Verified UserEducation Management · 11-50 employees
A critical tool for implementing a truly Flexible Flex hour.
Verified reviewer
- Our students love being able to choose where they would like to go for their session
- Our teachers have liked being able to facilitate dynamic classes without the overhead of needing to track where students are going
- Previously this involved us calling the other teacher to let them know a student was coming to their room, or trying to use a Google Spreadsheet to track it
- Edficiency allows us to cut out most of the time-involved logistics and handles the attendance tracking and scheduling of flex for us
- The most difficult piece of Edficiency is training teachers on the concept, and especially administrators (or whoever will be creating the majority of the sessions available to put students in)
- There's a lot of intricacies to be aware of, such as what happens when a student has two "requests" (one from a teacher vs one from the student) and what happens when that student's schedule is created
- It's not challenging, but it is something that administrators will need to read through the instruction manual, and have a firm grasp of how the scheduler works before you integrate it
Bonnie N.
Verified UserEducation Management · 51-200 employees
Edficiency - An efficient and effective tool to manage school RtI needs
I am very satisfied with my overall experience with Edficiency. It is a great technical tool to take our RtI program to the next level in providing academic and social emotional learning support.
- There isn't much that I do not like about Edficiency
- It is very easy to use, tracks all of the data we need, and is flexible for many different situations that could occur on our campus
- I especially appreciate how management and data is within the control of someone on-site - I can add and activate users myself, I can log in as a student and view it from their end, I can manage settings for other staff members, and print out rosters for substitutes
- Multiple people have access to the info on Edficiency, so it also provides a tool for closer collaboration between our staff
- As with any system, it took us a little while to train staff and students on how to use it
- The learning curve was (and can still be) steep even in our 3rd year of using the system for some users
- I'm also confused by how our Aeries system doesn't automatically connect and update with Edficiency at the start of each school year - but I do not think that is an issue on Edficiency's end
Switched From
Plus Time did not track data as well as Edficiency. It was also a lot more expensive and ended up outside of our budget.
Why they chose it
"Edficiency had a cleaner, simpler to use, user interface. We were also able to customize some parts of the overall look so that students can recognize our school logo and colors when they used it."
Chuck H.
Verified UserEducation Management · 51-200 employees
EdFiciency Review
I have nothing but praise for EdFiciency.
- Easy to use
- [SENSITIVE CONTENT] and the rest of the people at EdFiciency are great to work with
- This product is everything I could have wanted in order to make our WIN Time successful
- Due to rostering of students with selected teachers, it’s be nice to just add a student into a spreadsheet within the program so they are assigned to the correct teacher(s)
- Right now I have to upload the spreadsheet each time (unless I’m missing something)
Why they chose it
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Talisa D.
Verified UserEducation Management · 51-200 employees
Best Scheduling System
Verified reviewer
- The ability for teachers to make their own sessions and to have the sessions features for teachers that do not create their own sessions is incredibly helpful
- In addition, when teachers can input request and also mark students “at risk” allows students that will create more of an opportunity for students to be placed with teachers that they need more support from
- It’s difficult for some students with iep/unique learning needs that need consistency to use this product
- It would be helpful to have a feature that allows specific scheduling that is consistent
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