BCPS Connect vs Saint Mark's Episcopal School
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BCPS Connect
This app serves as a central hub for parents, guardians, and students of Broward County Public Schools. It provides easy access to important educational information like grades, schedules, attendance, and school news. Stay connected with real-time notifications and messages to support your student's academic journey.
- Student and Parent Portals
- Access grades and assignments
- View schedules and attendance
- School calendars and events
- Real-time notifications and messages
- Class resources and forms
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Presenting BCPS Connect, the official one-stop-shop app for parents, guardians, and students of Broward County Public Schools (BCPS). Our carefully designed Student and Parent portals ensure that you stay involved and up-to-date with your student’s education. Effortlessly access key information such as enrollment status, schedules, attendance, grades, assignments, calendars, news, events, school and district social media feeds, class resources, forms, alerts, and messages—all in a single, user-friendly platform. BCPS Connect keeps you informed about essential updates and deadlines through real-time notifications and messages sent directly to your device. Support your student’s educational growth and remain connected to the BCPS community by downloading BCPS Connect. Now available on the Apple App Store.
Saint Mark's Episcopal School
This app serves as the primary communication portal for a school community, offering parents and students access to announcements, event calendars, homework assignments, and financial information. It aims to keep everyone connected and engaged with essential school tools and content.
- Announcements
- Event Calendars
- Homework Access
- FACTS Financial Portal
- School Community Communication
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Welcome to the official app for Saint Mark's Episcopal School in Fort Lauderdale, FL. This app is a one-stop shop for our parents, students, and school community, with any time, anywhere access to all the tools, content, and communications needed to stay connected and engaged. This app is our primary communication portal and provides easy access to Announcements, Calendars of Events, Homework, FACTS Financial and so much more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Saint Mark's Episcopal School at 2.6 against BCPS Connect's 1.8. BCPS Connect's advantage is ratings volume (101 vs 5) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Saint Mark's Episcopal School holds the better App Store score, 2.6 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BCPS Connect has 101 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | BCPS Connect | Saint Mark's Episcopal School |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (101 ratings) | 2.6 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 101 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Focus School Software | THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST. MARK EVANGELIST, INC. |
Customer experience
BCPS Connect
Saint Mark's Episcopal School
Bugs and requests
BCPS Connect
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes frequently
- Blank/white screen after login
- Login issues (permission declined, Microsoft sign-in broken)
- App logs users out automatically
- Information disappears, children no longer visible
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- Cannot register new students or create accounts
- Content overlaps on screens
- App freezes after one login
- Translation is awful
- JQuery errors on first open
Requested features
6 requests- Bring back Pinnacle/Virtual Counselor
- Improve language settings/translation
- Add face recognition for login
- Fix bugs and improve functionality
- Make app more user-friendly
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- Allow students more privacy
Saint Mark's Episcopal School
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BCPS Connect
No in-app purchases
Saint Mark's Episcopal School
No in-app purchases
Questions
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