AyoTree is cloud-based school management software intended for traditional and online schools to manage scheduling, attendance, payments, and virtual classrooms. It allows you to access your account from any device, anywhere in the world. It is available for a nominal fee with no hidden charges; provides all-day customer service, even on weekends.

Website: https://www.ayotree.com/

What Users Love About the App

“It’s very customizable, right down to profiles, invoice templates and even contracts. In particular, the software has allowed us to expand into virtual (video conference) classes which are very well integrated into the product. Not only does this software work well in terms of school management software, students are able to get a comprehensive view of their classes and all timetabling is also taken care of. So, for anyone to administrators, students and teacher alike, this is a complete system and one that we rely on daily. These guys listen to their users. I have made suggestions from time to time and often, if the suggested feature benefits all users, it is built in as a feature.”

“It was relatively easy to switch to this software and learn how to use its basics features. I like the excellent support we receive whenever we have an issue and the fact that there is a certain degree of flexibility in developing new useful features for our needs; we don’t use all the features but some could be interesting in the future.”

“I really like the price for my small starting company. Compared to other platforms, AyoTree has a good price and several features that are not found so easily in one program. Also, the online classroom allows for upload of slide material and is interactive. iSPEAK is an indigenous language learning program for children. We were excited about AyoTree for many reasons, but one reason is the name of the company. Ayo means joy in the indigenous Yoruba language. We thought that was a symbol for the software being a good fit with our company.”

“I love the fact that it is so easy to use, the fact that anyone can set up a school is great. AyoTree provides the tools to make it so simple. It’s all there. Another bonus is that there is 24/7 customer service. I’ve only used it once, but it is very useful to have that in reserve just in case. It is also worth mentioning the price. So cheap! I’m really hoping the prices remain as they are.”

“I like the clean and tidy feel. I think it’s more user friendly than our previous software. I love how we can upload student information, teacher qualifications and class administration so easily.”

What Users Dislike About the App

“The program is not intuitive. Teachers often couldn’t use the online classroom because of connectivity issues. In addition, each student has to have an individual course. For example, two students cannot be enrolled in the same level unless they take the same number of classes at the same times. So, if Student A is a beginner and student B is a beginner,they will need to have individual Beginner level class courses each. If you have 10 beginner students, they will be in 10 beginner courses. You cannot design a beginner course and an intermediate course and an advanced course and have separate classes in these three areas. If you try, each student will see one another’s account information and/or if a few students sit through 4 one–to–one classes and a few other students sit in for 6, the latter group of students will not be able to rebook until other students catch up. This means if you have 100 beginner students, you need 100 beginner courses for one–to–one class sessions.”

“The folders for online classes are difficult to organize as the number of added resources grows. This problem equires an easier way for teachers and administrators to move, change (re-order) and save material for future courses.”

“I hate the current payroll feature. In my previous one, I would type in the two dates, and it gave me the list of hours. With this software, it doesn’t want to calculate itself. I don’t like the AyoTree feature at all. It isn’t helpful to me that it only shows up depending on the teacher inputting attendance. I don’t like it wanting to calculate. I just want a list of teacher’s hour reports for the dates I input. Also, I really don’t like that if we are a little behind with opening a new class, it won’t automatically put classes in the past. For example, if I create a class on Wednesday 3rd of January for a class that was running from Monday the 1st – Friday the 5th, it will not show classes for Monday or Tuesday. Or if I only input class registers on Wednesday, no students will show on Monday or Tuesday. I find this very frustrating and not remotely intuitive. The old software was better in this respect. I would also like to be able to click on a student, see their enrollment and (if a private lesson) see the list of classes, so that I can easily see how many of the pack of ten they have already taken. I also want to see what has been cancelled, taught and how many hours are remaining. I can’t currently see this aspossible in AyoTree. I have to trail back through the calendar.”

“The virtual classroom is not so easy to use and we had some problems with it; the software sometimes has glitches and courses are duplicated. It would be useful if online tests could also be scored by the software and classes automatically created based on student scoring. We use the parent’s section for storing our host families’ details but ideally, we would need a host family section that we can then use to assign students to automatically and have a digital record of which students were hosted by which family.”

“Occasional bugs, although recently these have been ironed out and reduced. From time-to-time certain issues arise after updates. Support has sometimes been slow to react, but in the last three to four month this has been much improved and most issues are resolved quickly. So, although this is a con, it is getting much much better.”