Blackbaud is an in-depth project management system and helps keep our contacts, notes, client history, scholarship donors, etc. all in one place.

Great tracking software for Graduate admissions.

The Reviewer portal is a bit cumbersome. Our departments scholarship committees find it difficult to use.

The system is very user friendly and the staff are very helpful and supportive.

Working more efficiently (no errors, make awards quickly and timely)  and reporting is easier.

I am most impressed with the accuracy and depth of the results. One word to describe this software is “personalized.

I used to be able to call and get someone on the phone or online chat with someone. Now, I always have to leave a message and never get anyone on the online chat.

It helps us manage the both the application and selection process for over 150 different scholarships. It's easy for students to apply and for donors and selection committees to review.

Once you get the hang of it, it's pretty easy to use. Like the ability to add notes, and ease of making changes.

I love Academic Works the more that I use it. I am very happy that this is the software we chose.

I have missed updating dates in the application from year to year.

I love the ease with which you can create and modify applications, the post-acceptance feature, and user messaging abilities.

It can be hard to track where scholarships are in the process.

The website does its job by assisting and managing in the process of offering scholarships. It is easy to use and very intuitive.

This is a scholarship software which is very useful for the institutions.

Making changes is super easy and the ability to add notes is great. Customer support is also excellent.

This is a good system for our University. Even sporadic users (professors that need to login to review an application) can move through the process quickly.

Easy to identify eligible applicants, great features , ongoing enhancements and fantastic customer service.

We love the software because it is easy to use, and has revolutionized our process. The main reason we love the software is of the excellent customer support and service that we receive.

This system has been a wonderful in increasing efficiency and improve donor contact.

Academic works has provided me with the confidence that my students are getting some of the best help they can to find scholarships.

The interface can be clunky and often times, setting up a new scholarship can be problematic (redundancies don't always prevent transcription errors).

Takes a lot of set-up time on the front end and if your college hasnt provide ample support, its a lot of work for a few people.

There was always the possibility of losing your work if you timed out or hit the wrong key, especially on a laptop.

I hate that there is not an autosave feature, specially when building quizzes. More than once, I accidentally save the quiz without saving the individual question and loose a ton of work.

Great to connect with lecturers and have a unified platform for all courses material. Allows multimedia file transfers and integration with third party application like Turnedin.

I am happy that I can accesses it from my phone... on the go.

I like it because it is easy to use and it is easily available on internet. You can download it free of cost.

It is pretty easy to use, intuitive, and organized. Their customer service is extremely helpful and responsive helping to problem solve whatever my needs have been.

Overall product experience is best in student life. It's help features is very useful.

It is easy and quick to set up even for no technical people. It is a reasonable cost depending on usage.

And also this makes students miss assignments they never saw.

The user interface is lightyears ahead of other services. The app is just as easy to use as the online version.

I have found the ease of use to be my favorite aspect, as well as the organization of the website is great to help me stay on track and keep tabs on upcoming assignments.

What I least liked about it is the fact that It lags at times.

I loved CANVAS - I highly recommend it. Very intuitive, and it keeps you organized.

The Canvas guides, videos, Community and help desk are really fabulous. Being able to access the answer to development questions 24/7 is a game changer for motivated learners.

It is one of the amazing application which is cloud-based and enables working smartly. It is a great tool that aids in better working for learning.

You need to learn how to use it, play nice with it, and it will play nice with you and with many other integratable softwares. Adapt to its quirks and you will be happy with it.

I love Canvas for all of my LMS needs. I love the ability to customize pages and design learner-centric courses for synchronous and asynchronous delivery.

Perhaps one of its best features is its plug-ins. Canvas works with other popular providers to integrate their products into Canvas.

The color theme of even and odd Courses seems weird. The odd courses are shown in a faded color which gives the illusion of inactive course.

Conva is very easy to use( user friendly). With canva am able to design flyers for my business at no cost.

The calendar function is especially bad. There are also times where it is very frustrating to navigate around the People section.

The amount of different components could be confusing and as a user you may miss things if it’s not organized correctly.

It's really easy to use and it's quite intuitive.

I love that I can see my employees progress on assignments and test, as well as they can see their progress. It is easy to use for both myself and employees.

Good integration with videoconference tools, like Cisco Webex.

Also, some communication was missed as the alerts are slow, not seeming to be in real time.

It is a stable platform and has great usability. The best one for classes, scheduling, lessons and all the stuff.

The addition of external apps and ease of integration is helpful. I also really appreciate the support you can get from experts or others who share similar issues when using canvas.

My overall experience with Canvas is a great one. I did not run into any problems their customer service was unable to resolve very quickly.

I started out with what can be done for free online, having not a lot of money to spend as a start up. I could not have been more pleased.

CANVAS is a great system that I have used from both sides as a student and as an administrator, both were a great experience compared to other education systems I have used.

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Blackbaud Award Management is an award management software designed to help higher education institutions manage their entire scholarship process.   

Teams can collect and record donors’ contact information, funding details, scholarship recipient data and donor acknowledgments on a centralized dashboard. Blackbaud Award Management lets administrators match applicants with scholarships and notify them regarding available awards. Additionally, the platform lets stakeholders gain cross-functional visibility across scholarship processes and streamline fund utilization.

Blackbaud Award Management helps managers share campus news, thank-you statements and annual reports with donors. Pricing is available on request and support is extended via live chat, email, phone, knowledgebase and community forum.

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Canvas by Instructure is a cloud-based learning management system for every stage and style of education. Available to institutions of all sizes and types, from individual K-12 classrooms to universities to Training Organisations and companies with a blended or fully virtual environment. 

As the hub of your digital learning environment, Canvas offers complete LMS functionality, including standards-based grade books, course content authoring, customisable student assessments, mobile communication, video learning, and digital badging, (just to name a few). 

Canvas LMS integrates with your institution's existing SIS and other teaching tools. With over two hundred different LTI tools educators can customise courses and monitor engagement with classes or individual students.  Canvas also has top-rated mobile apps to keep everyone informed and connected, on the go, on any device. 

Take teaching and learning to the next level with Canvas LMS, the #1 educational software, and the foundation of the Instructure Learning Platform.


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