Horrible
I need this app for my child’s daycare but it is not functional. Whoever is in charge needs to fix this app.
Doesn’t open anymore
Crashes immediately on open. I’ve reinstalled, turned my phone on and off again, but i can’t find a way to open the app.
Garbage
Teachers hate it. Confusing to navigate. We maybe see updates once every two days, and even then they are incomplete. Had no problem when the school used ProCare.
Complete garbage
This app is horrible. The reports section looks like it was written 100 years ago and is not visually appealing or useful. The inbox section functions poorly and it is hard to track incoming and outgoing messages. The app just feels like it had a $1 budget.
Works perfectly
Besides the two blank fields on installing, you have to infer its username and password, the app took me to the inbox, has a full calendar, photo albums, events. It’s great and much better than using the website. Doesn’t deserve the low review score.
Archaic and disappointing
Our daycare just switched from Procare to this and it’s so very disappointing. No landing page to see multiple categories at once, requires refreshing every section to see updates, no spell check in messaging (you use this more than you think). It’s detached and unfinished. My tech world partner said ‘this looks like an app someone who is just learning to make an app makes on their first day from their dorm room’ it’s an embarrassment — and teachers have to log onto a web browser to make updates so updates are not real time and are purposefully difficult to make. So clunky and not at all up to market standard. We really don’t understand why anyone would accept this as a communication modality. Easily compare to Procare, sprout about, kangaroo time and nameless others to see what a daycare communication app *should* be capable of.
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Terrible app
Full of bugs!
Funciona bien
Es la que usan en la escuela infantil de mi hija, nunca ha dado problemas, funciona muy bien y es fácil de usar.
Unreliable - far better apps out there
Information uploaded to the app by the school takes too long to appear. Reporting of events is also out of order (basically random).
Too cumbersome and lacks important features
I have been using Montessori Compass in my Upper El classroom for 2 months since stopping by their booth at the AMS conference in Boston. I wanted a way to quickly record lessons and observations of students. Initially I downloaded the app with the intention of using it to gather information that I would analyze and reflect on at the end of the day and for generating reports for my parents.
The quick add feature is too cumbersome as you must select the student then the lesson. The app shows all lessons in your curriculum with a search bar. It would be helpful if there was an option to show planned lessons. I had hoped this app would allow me to quickly record lessons in real time, capturing students who came to the lesson along with their chosen follow up work.
It would be helpful to be able to upload pdf copies of observations like time sampling, physical map observations, rating scales and three column running records done in GoodNotes.
Each time I attempt to use the app, I switch to using the web based in Safari to the pint I’m deleting the app and just adding a shortcut to my iPad’s Home Screen.
The quick add feature is too cumbersome as you must select the student then the lesson. The app shows all lessons in your curriculum with a search bar. It would be helpful if there was an option to show planned lessons. I had hoped this app would allow me to quickly record lessons in real time, capturing students who came to the lesson along with their chosen follow up work.
It would be helpful to be able to upload pdf copies of observations like time sampling, physical map observations, rating scales and three column running records done in GoodNotes.
Each time I attempt to use the app, I switch to using the web based in Safari to the pint I’m deleting the app and just adding a shortcut to my iPad’s Home Screen.
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Photo not refresh
I use the website can check new uploaded photos, but not the app, even I refresh multiple time, it still show old photos.
Trash
This application is trash. Writing a message is terrible. You cannot see the whole screen, it doesn’t have basic tech needs to an application. There has not been a SIMPLE application update for over 11 months when there are multiple reviews stating the issues. Where is the money our daycares are paying going towards? Communication with parents is the whole reason for this application, but Montessori Compass obviously doesn’t care about this. This is intensely frustrating for parents. I would suggest daycares put their money in an application that invests in technology on a frequent basis and remember the whole purpose of this application is for communication.
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Terrible app
Clunky and poorly coded. Basic things like messaging don’t function well. Reports are jumbled and hard to read. Doesn’t provide a simple way to save photos or content in a simple way.
Pretty sad
Our child’s school uses this as their primary app and it is severely lacking. When typing a message, there is no auto-correct or auto-capitalization at the start of sentences. Every time I try to refresh the photos, the whole app crashes. Literally every time. You only get a report at the end of the day, so unless you message the teacher specifically, you have no idea what is happening with your kid throughout the day. This is the most basic and boring app and somehow it is still full of issues.
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Garbage
This app is trash. It’s glitchy, the times on reports scramble themselves around. It’s the most user unfriendly app I’ve ever seen. Not possible to get notifications. I would’ve thought that the brand Montessori would have held a higher standard for this aspect of daycare too. Or at least partnered with a company that does it right, like bright wheel. Very disappointing.
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Not for all phones
This doesn’t appear to be formatted for the pro max (large screen) iPhones. The app info goes off the screen and you can’t tap on icons around the edges of the screen. Hope there’s a fix for this soon!
Horrible
This app is horrible. It does not alert you when new messages appear. It does not let you archive messages. It does not let you reply to messages.
Horrible horrible horrible.
Horrible horrible horrible.
Nice idea but needs some updates
I do like the idea of having the app and it’s generally the right direction. But on my iPhone 12 mini, it’s entirely unusable because both the tab bar at the bottom and the navigation bar at the top expand out beyond the safe space. So they overlap with the time and battery indicators and the notch at the top. And the tab bar overlaps with the gesture bar at the bottom. Fixing the auto layout for the app would do wonders. Thanks!
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Please improve your messaging system. I send emails and then check in my sent messages and it shows that it has only sent the first sentence of my entire email/message. When checking with the receiver, they too only received the first sentence. It has done this multiple times. It is extremely frustrating and it also confuses communication immensely.
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No badges and no zoom
The app does not allow badges even if you turn on all notifications you’ll just get the banner, no badge.
Photos will occasionally load, but you can’t zoom in/out of pictures.
Other than that it’s pretty useful to message teachers and administrators.
Photos will occasionally load, but you can’t zoom in/out of pictures.
Other than that it’s pretty useful to message teachers and administrators.
