ManageBac 4+

Current Assignment

Difficult to find important topic details or current lesson info. Google Classroom has set an example of more intuitive navigation.
I believe there should be an area where the Teacher / Educator could attach the last assignment or last Graded Quiz or last Graded Test. In our case last Summative. It would give the Parent an opportunity to see where the child is in current lesson . There should also be an area where parent Can note question for next Parent - Teacher conference. So Teachers are not consumed with full conversations on Manage Bac.

Developer Response ,

Hi, thank you for your feedback and sorry to hear of the difficulties. Please feel free to submit additional details to support@managebac.com or submit a support request to https://help.managebac.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=114093960592? Please feel free to use our app guide (https://help.managebac.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017949892) for additional navigation advice. Parents and Students can use the Tasks and Deadlines page via the app to review most recent Tasks and grades in those. We have shared your suggestion for note taking options with our app development team for future consideration. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Not intuitive or user-friendly

Through several other schools my children have attended over the past 13 years, I have encountered very good (Powerschool), okay (Canvas, Sycamore, Google Classroom) and bad (Magnus) apps for tracking and submitting school grades, assignments, forms, teacher communication, etc. ManageBac is by far the worst app I have had to use. It is neither intuitive nor user-friendly. There is nowhere one can see (as a parent) an overall view of how my student is doing in terms of grades, assignments (graded, missing, upcoming), tardy/absence standing, or a means of communicating with teachers for ALL CLASSES AT ONCE. I have to click on each class individually to see assignments, which may or may not have been graded (not always correctly indicated) and the grades may or may not show. The problem is not exclusive to parents. I have spoken with several of my student’s teachers and found that they, too, struggle with the clunkiness. For that reason, they often don’t bother to enter or update the grades, etc., which in turn leaves us parents “in the dark” about our students’ standing and progress. My understanding is that ManageBac is most useful for the IB Program students in Years 12 and 13. For Year 7, my student’s current grade, ManageBac is virtually useless and wastes time because I need to contact teachers, who are already very busy, just to find out how my son is doing in school. I have never been more mystified nor frustrated by a school-related app.

U.I Is Unappealing

I think managebac is generally a good platform as far as the basic necessities go, but unlike a platform like google classroom, or even skyward, the user interface is very boring and unappealing.

Its very all over the place and not very user friendly, im used to it now, but when i first switched from Google Classroom to ManageBac it was very hard to tell where to go and what certain tabs did, and going back to my point about it being unappealing, everything is too small and there is too much on the screen, making it both overwhelming and underwhelming at the same time, which doesn’t help the non-user-friendliness.

I hope my review has been an indicator for some of the fundamental problems of managebac.