EduLink One

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Parents evening booking function doesn’t appear in web browser so has to be done through app; it’s like that game where you pair cards from face down. I spent 15 minutes trying to match subjects with free slots and still couldn’t get a full house. Furthermore, it doesn’t add the appointments to the calendar that I can see, so I presume my son doesn’t know what is booked. And all I can do is print them. From an app. In my phone. I may as well have got the school to write them on a piece of paper.... The other functions are nonsensical; the behaviour sector is seemingly arbitrary pie charts of the sort statisticians in the public sector are so fond but are in reality, utterly pointless. And the other sections seem to be blank or inaccessible, contrary to their function in the web browser. So, in common with pretty much every other absolutely rubbish app designed for state schools, this is toss and I’ll be requesting that no critical information be shared via such a cruddy system. It’s almost like the developers are young computer nerds with zero idea of what a parent wants from something like this, and are not parents... Also, in their wisdom, the app has replaced the paper planner books the kids had. Great idea. Except they’re not allowed their phones in school....? Who comes up with this stuff????? 🤦🏻‍♂️

My school started using this app a couple of weeks ago and I just don’t get why people are complaining so much! Everything I need is here, and for the people that say that there are not all the functions that the picture says, some functions are only for parents or teachers, and your school can disable what things you can and can’t use, so please stop giving it bad reviews because of that, it isn’t the apps fault. Since I started Year 8, I felt I needed to be more organised, since Year 7 was a bit of a struggle, organisation wise, and we had been using this useless planner, in my opinion, that had no reminders so if I forgot to check the planner, I would also forget the homework. So in my opinion this is a great app! It reminds you of your homework if you have notifications enabled, and if you have a lot of homework sue in the same day, it will remind you each homework in like 30 minute intervals, so that you don’t get overwhelmed or accidentally delete one of the reminders! Small but nice feature. The timetable feature is also really good and it tells you what your next lesson is. Though one thing I actually hate is that it logs you out, of course all you need to do is click log in, but it gets rather annoying, I would prefer if it wouldn’t log you out. Though overall really good job 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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Many people want “Edulink” removed. Why? It is because of misleading, useless features, horrible interface, can not reply to people, repetitive crashes to the point that it becomes predictable. This seems as if it has been designed under an extremely small budget and very little time or effort has even been put into the design or functionality. Many, many schools have paid a massive amount of money to be able to use “Edulink” for their homework and organisation systems. Teachers cannot properly communicate with students using “Edulink” as the messaging system is very unreliable and often completely useless, further adding to their workloads and issues. Assigning tasks is already a battle in the first place using this; might as well try to fly a paper aeroplane with the task to the pupils from their window. Students struggle with homework and this application is just adding onto the pressure, if this is what technology has to offer then we should return to pen and paper. What is the foolish idea behind an application for homework, timetable, future events and so on that you cannot even access on school grounds as phones are not permitted for use? Remove this application - the company behind it are ripping off already insufficiently-funded state schools.

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The app was a great idea and it really helps me keep on top of all my homework especially in quarantine. The links feature is really useful so i can find exactly what i need to be doing when I need to be doing it. However the amount it crashes is so annoying at the beginning of lessons or just after school it is almost pointless to even try to use the app. At the moment it crashes so often that I have to try to wake up early and memorise what I need so I can use it later while it is crashed. All together it is a great app but there are just too many bugs and it is SO SLOW. If I could I would give it a 2.5 star rating but I can’t so it’s gonna have to be a 3.

Oh my god! This app is such a great idea! I was so excited when my school started using this. But then it doesn’t work half the time and it loads ***SOO SLOW***! I think you should also consider making an Apple Watch version of the app as well as it would make the app accessible to more people who for example might have an Apple Watch linked to their parents phone because they don’t have their own. Please consider this. Overall though, great app! My school’s been using this for just over a year now and it has dreaded the need for paper planners that were hardly ever used and just wasted paper.