Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just so folks know it doesn’t have to be this confusing. Platforms already exist that combine all of these elements into one. Colleges and private K-12 schools is Blackbaud and it’s so much better than all the MCPS platforms from the teacher, student and parent perspective. Just sayin’

My child has blackboard for her college courses and hates it.

Blackboard is not the same as Blackbaud.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just so folks know it doesn’t have to be this confusing. Platforms already exist that combine all of these elements into one. Colleges and private K-12 schools is Blackbaud and it’s so much better than all the MCPS platforms from the teacher, student and parent perspective. Just sayin’

My child has blackboard for her college courses and hates it.

The issue isn't the system itself, but that the systems - all of them - have so much flexibility that every school and instructor is all over the place when they implement them.

Anonymous wrote:Just so folks know it doesn’t have to be this confusing. Platforms already exist that combine all of these elements into one. Colleges and private K-12 schools is Blackbaud and it’s so much better than all the MCPS platforms from the teacher, student and parent perspective. Just sayin’

My child has blackboard for her college courses and hates it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MCPS seems to be so behind the times. There are platforms that handle all of these things in one. This is probably the one area where private schools have the advantage. The Blackbaud platform will do all these things and it’s mobile friendly. One log in for every single thing related to school.

Yes, that's exactly what synergy does. The permissions and presentation are simply branded by the user's role.

Not at all. As a teacher I have to take attendance on Synergy but post assignments for submission on Canvas. I can grade on canvas but the. I have to make missing assignments with a Z in synergy. Same for school materials. I have to sift through emails and Google drive to find info about workplace policies and other important files instead of it living on a faculty only tile on a singular platform designed for all of these things.

Anonymous wrote:Np.i have parent vue but I can see the kids' grades in individual assignments, but I cannot view teacher's comments, though I get an email saying "Mr.So-and-so has commented on your essay". Am I looking in the wrong place?

Comments are (usually) visible in Canvas. If you're logged in to the ParentVue web site, click on Parent Resources, then MyMCPS Classroom. That gets you into Canvas, where you can see individual assignments.