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Sycamore: The Best Thing You Can Do For Your K-12 School

Sycamore’s proven school management system is a solid solution for your upcoming school year, and for many years to come. More importantly, Sycamore will make the transition easy and ensure that everyone—teachers, administrators, parents, and students—can do everything they need to do. When you sign up with Sycamore School, we make installation fast and easy and hold your hand every step of the way.

For more than 20 years, Sycamore has provided small to medium private, independent K-12 schools with a school management solution that’s affordable and powerful enough to handle day-to-day classroom management as well as critical school operations and communications.

Administrative Management

School management tools in one place: School Administration, Address Book, Attendance Manager, Reports, Human Resources, Report Cards, Online Help Manual, and much more.

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ADDRESS BOOK: Acts as the school’s online record keeping system for families, alumni, and any other contacts associated with the school.

ATTENDANCE MANAGER: Not only can daily attendance be taken in each classroom, but reports can also be generated to view and export attendance data by day/range.

DYNAMIC REPORTS: Sycamore offers a selection of Dynamic Reports that allow schools to pull data based on selected fields for student and/or families.

FAMILY & STUDENT PORTALS: Families and students have their own portals to log into Sycamore. In doing so, they have access to view grades, report cards, school news, classroom pages, etc.

FAMILY DIRECTORY: The Family Directory is a directory of your school's families and contact information.

FAMILY/STUDENT/STAFF PROFILES: Administrators are able to make changes to each student, family, and staff profile to ensure all data and information is up-to-date. This includes: contact information, student records, medical information, login credentials, etc.

HUMAN RESOURCES: The Human Resources module acts like a Human Resources department. It is a place to process and store information for all current and past employees.

ONLINE HELP MANUAL: With over 400+ features, the help manual has proven to be an invaluable source of knowledge for navigating Sycamore in various areas of the site.

SCHOOL CALENDARS: There is one main school calendar that all staff members, families, and students can view for any and all events happening at the school. The calendar can also be synced with Google Calendar.

SCHOOL NEWS ARTICLES: News articles can be created and set to appear as top stories to be seen on the school homepage and individual classroom pages. All staff, families, and students have access to view news articles to increase the means of information being disseminated and communicated.

SCHOOL PHOTO ALBUMS: On the school homepage and in each classroom, schools can upload photos to a photo album to be made viewable and highlighted for staff, family, and students.

REPORT CARDS: Featuring report card formats of Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle School, High School, etc., schools have options to configure their report cards to the formats that best meet their schools required needs.

TRANSCRIPTS: Schools are able to generate transcripts and academic records after each marking period. Transcripts will then be placed in each student’s profile to monitor their progress throughout their academic careers.

Classroom

Easy classroom management with class pages, calendars, news articles, attendance, discipline tracking, grade book, curriculum manager, lesson plans, online assignment submission, online tests, IEP evaluations, and more.

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CLASS PAGES: Each teacher is designated their own class page for each classroom. In the classroom, teachers are able to take attendance, grade assignments, post grades, communicate with families/students, etc.

CLASS CALENDARS: Each classroom has a calendar for all families/students to view events, lesson plans, etc.

CLASS NEWS ARTICLES: News articles can be created and set to appear as top stories in individual classrooms. The teacher, students, and families associated with each classroom have access to view these articles.

CLASS PHOTO ALBUMS: Teachers can upload class photos to be made viewable and highlighted for families and students in their classroom.

ATTENDANCE: Teachers can take attendance directly from the classroom and document absences, tardies, notes, etc.

LUNCH ORDERS: Teachers can order and/or edit lunches for students from within the classroom.

DISCIPLINE TRACKING: Discipline logs can be tracked throughout the course of a school year. In addition, points can be assigned for violations and detentions that are built-up during a semester or school year.

GRADE BOOK: With three different grading models available, teachers have the option to customize the weight of their grade books and the amount of points for each assignment that best meet the needs of each classroom.

CLASSROOM CURRICULUM MANAGER: This is where a teacher can create and manage their own individualized curriculum for this class and attach specific documents, assignments, and lesson plans.

LESSON PLANS: Teachers have the ability to create their own lesson plans for each class and subject. These plans can include assignments, attachments, print in list/grid view, and are saved in the classroom from year-to-year.

ONLINE ASSIGNMENT SUBMITTAL: Students can log in and submit assignments via a dropbox, which allows students and teachers teachers to make comments, receive instant feedback, and have a digital copy of any and all assignments, projects, etc., submitted.

ONLINE TESTS: Teachers are able to create a multitude of tests in their classrooms for students to take online. If teachers mark the test to be reviewable, students can review the test immediately after they take it to see how well they performed and receive their results immediately.

IEP EVALUATIONS: Students can be added as an IEP student with goals & objectives set for them. In addition, teachers can enter trials and track students' progress.

ATTRIBUTE GRADING: Sycamore offers flexibility for schools that require attribute grading for grades and classes.

NARRATIVE EVALUATIONS: Teachers can provide parents with a narrative evaluation of their students.

PASS-A-NOTE: An exclusive Sycamore communication feature, administrators and staff can communicate with families, students, and fellow staff members. When a Pass-A-Note is received, it will pop up when users are logged into Sycamore, providing a quick and effective means of communication.

VISITORS LOGS: Easily see who visits your classroom using the Visitors Logs.

REPORTS: Teachers are able to generate reports from within their classrooms to pull attendance data, family demographics, grade reports, etc.

TEACHER SUPPORT VIA CHAT: If teachers have questions relating to their classroom, they can click on the green icon at the top of their classroom page. Doing so will connect them with our teacher chat support team, who are available to chat instantaneously and assist teachers from 8AM-5PM Monday-Friday Central Time.

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Specialities

Tools and resources all in one place: Asset Manager, Discipline Tracking, Facility Manager, Library, Nurse’s Office, Parent Teacher Conferences, Service Hours Tracking, Timecard Manager, Volunteer Manager.

School Communications

Manage all your school communications right from within Sycamore School: Batch Email, School News Articles, Teachers Instant Support Chat, Text/Voice Messaging (via Twilio).

Working Well With Others

Easy data management between various systems using some of the partnerships, collaborations and integrations mentioned below.

Master Scheduler

Manage your school’s schedule no matter what format: Different teachers in different class periods, rotating bell schedule, two-week cycle, university model.

Admissions and Enrollment

Handle admissions and enrollment functions from within Sycamore: automatic confirmation emails, online forms and custom applications, track prospects from Inquiries to Acceptance.

Straightforward Pricing Based On Enrollment

The cost of our school management software is based on your school’s enrollment and will always be up front, honest, and extremely affordable. Isn’t that the way it should be? When you choose Sycamore School, you get:

our entire school management system—no extra modules to purchase;
complete data migration;
unlimited customer support;

a comprehensive training program;
automatic, free upgrades and enhancements as they become available; and
secure, worry-free data storage and backup.

We know you want to increase enrollment, improve communications, and get parents more involved in their students’ education. Leave your outdated (or too expensive) school management system behind and switch to Sycamore School. We make your onboarding and transition fast and easy and support you every step of the way.

For pricing specific to your school fill out our contact form or call 1-866-757-5401. To learn how Sycamore can help your school do more, schedule a demo and start your free trial today.