Naviance is an indispensable tool and I would describe my overall experience with it to have been very good. I like how beneficial this is to not only teachers but also students as well. I would reccomend for anyone who's looking to use such a tool to definitely give this a try. I think it's absolutely great and I would highly reccomend it, despite the few drawbacks with the interface.

Naviance is great for any schools to use! It is extremely versatile and can be used for many different purposes. This is one thing that I like about Naviance because I can get so many things done via this one tool. For examples, Naviance can be used to directly communicate and e-mail students. Whether it be individuals or schoolwide, it can be used to reach everyone. In addition, Naviance also has tools that allow students to choose their classes as well as request letters of recommendations and has many tools to help them navigate through the college application process.

What I liked the least about this software is that sometimes things feel a little hidden. It is only when I sometimes accidentally discover something do I realize that it exists or is there. I think that this is not a good thing and hope to see changes in the future where it's much easier to navigate around in Naviance. I think this would be extremely beneficial as an easier interface to navigate around would mean that I know exactly what I can do through Naviance.

Overall the comprehensiveness of Naviance is a great program for students to use in future planning.

What I like most about Naviance is the ability to look at the scattergrams and see where our own students fell for each of the colleges with their applications. It is useful when looking at good match schools for students.

What I like least about Naviance is that when students decide to not apply to college, they don't often know to take it off their list and then Naviance keeps notifying me that I have transcripts to send.

Horrible; unable to make a simple update and I'm horrified to think my school district is spending our tax dollars on this garbage where the support is so rude. Naviance if you are interested I called on [sensitive content hidden] at about 11:10 am EST and the person I spoke with sounded male, and did not care at all about my concerns or history with this problem.

Nothing. We are getting zero value out of a program that is unable to be correctly updated to reflect accurate information.

My child's guidance counselor has repeatedly tried to change their name, which is listed incorrectly, in their naviance account and has called for support with it to no avail. When I finally called to see if anyone could help me, the representative was extremely rude and hung up on me. This leaves my child with all his college information coming to an INCORRECT name which is discriminatory. Their support could have offered me some resources or ideas for how to correct the information and instead, hung up on me after I'd spent ten minutes on hold waiting for help.

College application management, college info communication, career exploration, so much more.

As a counselor, it makes managing college information so easy. We use it to coordinate visits, inform students of important opportunities, send transcripts and materials, and so much more. I'm on Naviance every day multiple times a day and to be honest I don't know what I would do without it.

First, it's confusing at times to use effectively. I am very tech savvy so it's not as much of an issue for me but older colleagues routinely struggle with it. Second, there are problems that persist from year to year with Common App integration which is a huge part of our job.

My overall experience with Naviance has been somewhat positive and I would recommend for others to give it a try if it suits their needs for their educational program.

Naviance is a great tool that really simplifies the college admissions process for students. Since Naviance can be liked with CommonApp, materials such as letters of recommendation can easily be sent through Naviance as well as materials from guidance counselors.

What I like the least about Naviance is that it has now turned entirely into a management tool for college applications rather than anything else. Before, there were more options such as that of allowing students to choose their future courses on Naviance. I don't think getting rid of some of these features was a good idea.

Naviance has been essential for our students and staff in terms of post-secondary planning. The user-interface for school staff and administration could use updating. Tech support and the user forums are very helpful when navigating issues.

Naviance is essential for any secondary school looking to connect students with college/career readiness initiatives, provide access to scholarships, or submit post-secondary application documents. It provides a single platform for all that is post-secondary planning. It is a great resource for teachers to complete college recommendations, students to explore scholarships, compare colleges, and submit applications.

The UI for school staff/administration is extremely difficult to navigate and is not user-friendly. For how much business Hobsons conducts, you would think that the platform would be more intuitive and user-friendly. Data analytics are really lacking as well as the simple form/survey creation. Every school must have this, however, there is still a lot left to be desired in terms of system functionality.

Sadly, I cannot name any "like" about this software.

Naviance is known as a "One-Stop Shop" for high school counseling services. However, they are selling services/products (college searches, college application services, scholarship searches, career interest surveys, etc.) that schools in Georgia can receive free of charge from other entities. Naviance is not user-friendly, nor is the interface appealing to the eye. For example, typically students nor staff require training to complete college applications via the Common Application until required to complete Common App via Naviance. Naviance customer service has been disappointing as during the course of 2 1/2 years three different trainers have promised to send school counselors "1-pagers" regarding how to utilize various activities on Naviance but none have followed through on providing the actual support materials. According to training provided, Naviance does offer a service to track where students eventually end up attending college. However, according to Naviance trainers this information is not researched by Naviance but collected from a clearinghouse. Schools/school systems can purchase this service, as well as Parchment services, without obtaining them through Naviance.

Now that I know this software, I recognize all that it can do for me. I feel like it does a few things well, but leaves a lot to be desired.

Everything about it, from the functionality to the interface, feels like it's stuck in the past and not moving forward. Like even their customer service - most times I get a response and my request completed in a timely manner, but then there are sometime when I am waiting weeks for implementation. I'm sure there is more behind the scenes that I could never fully understand, but I also feel like I shouldn't have to feel that way.

I encourage current users to consider an alternative product.

The ease of use and ability to work well with Common App via eDocs. Pricing was fair for the size of the school

Customer service is next to none. They are quitting the international scene and did so with little notice leaving many schools scrambling to find an alternative solution. From what I've learned, they are having problems with their domestic market as well - implementing changes with no notice and leaving users frustrated at the lack of communication.

It is a great tool for counselors and students to look for colleges and track data from students like them getting in/doing well

it is not easily edited or seen from the college side- its like this big shadow that we have no idea how to work with and completely silos us.

The software, when understanding how to use it, really helps with the college application process. It makes it easy to send documents to schools.

It doesn't have a user-friendly approach to it. I only know how to navigate the basics and I feel there's so much more to be offered if there was an approach to make the platform simpler for those who are not tech savvy.

Overall, was a great took for our students.

I really enjoyed that it allowed students to explore different career options and school choices. It was a great way for students to apply to colleges and share their steps with the guidance counselors along the way.

The exploration tabs were not the easiest or most appealing for students to use. This turned them away from actually using those tabs.

Naviance has made my college recommendation process very easy. I write so many recommendations each year, and the ability to compile everything into one place has really helped.

I like how students can add teachers to the recommenders section for colleges within the platform, and when the teacher signs in, they can see all of the student’s information. I like how Naviance can be integrated into single sign-on with whatever school system’s learning management system they have selected. I also like how the one recommendation will be sent to all colleges, and that it integrates easily with common app.

There are many options where only the counselor will receive the information or they have to go in and change the setting for the teachers to easily access parts of the platform.

Poor.

It provides a convenient way to access necessary information to submit to schools.

1. NO customer service for parents or students.2. Passwords reset often. The website WILL NOT allow a reset. Only the school can reset and if they are gone for summer or whatever you are out of luck. This makes Naviance useless. 3. Transcripts need to be requested from this site.

It is easy to create a test preparation plan for individual students and students can access it from anywhere.

It is not a software issue, but since it is all electronic students without access at home may be less likely to see the benefits.

I don’t believe we use this software to its potential but it exposes kids to careers at a rate that cannot be matched in the classroom or in industry.

Lots of leg work to put together an activity

My overall experience with Naviance has been very positive and I think it really is a great tool that should be used more often.

Naviance is a really great tool for students as it really simplifies things such as the college admissions process. It no longer becomes as daunting once school officials send their documents through Naviance, with all being left to be done is then from the students' part.

What I liked the least about this software is that it can take some time for changes made on applications to be reflected on Naviance, or vice versa. This can be a little frustrating as there's no telling how long it may take for the updates to occcur.

Terrible

I do not like the software they have very little support and push it back on everyone else.

Everything. they had an issue that they knew about and never seemed to fix it. I do not recommend this at all. Find something else to use.

College applications for high school students

Nothing, really. For students it had a couple of good feature

Clumsy interface; multiple steps to complete actions; non-intuitive.

We are still getting the program up and running but our trainer seems to need some training herself. She was not able to answer common questions, like how do students access the program from PowerSchool.

This software has a lot to offer for students.

There are a lot of features that should already be in the program, rather than us having to add everything, like state standards, manually.

My overall experience with Naviance has been very positive and I'd recommend for others to see if this would be a good organizational need for them as well.

Naviance is a really great tool that school administrators can use to help their students with managing different documents, most importantly including letters of recommendation. This was essential in being able to have an online platform where the documents and letters of recommendations for students can be uploaded all into one place.

Naviance would definitely benefit from having some new updates to give it a new look. Everything can seem a little hidden at times behind tabs and so I'd love to see some new updates in the near future.

It doesn't offer a place to actually write the recommendation... one has to upload a letter. Then, it was very particular in what format the letter must be in in order to upload it.

Well, this was the first time teachers were asked to use technology for writing students' college recommendations.

Not very user friendly... writing a recommendation shouldn't be so difficult.

I have to YouTube EVERYTHING because this program is one of the worst I have seen as far as user friendly. NO help area, not easy to figure out stuff and very frustrating to say the least. I finally found a number to call only to be told closed because of the holiday; Mother's Day. It's the Friday before. I HATE the fact that my son's school uses this program and it's the only way to get a transcript sent. I would not recommend this program to anyone until they become lots more user friendly.

It is a great idea to have everything in one area to access information.

Sadly the entire program. No where to ask for assistance or help or how to contact them.