Montessori Compass Reviews

Would not even open, crushes right away. Used to work before, I don’t know what kind of update was made to it... deleted several times and reinstalled it - it did fix the issue on android, did not fix on Apple

MontessoriCompass is absolutely horrible. First of all, you can’t even use MontessoriCompass as a teacher! You have to use the web version to update “trackers” for the student’s day. It is a confusing site to navigate, doesn’t share information with the parents in real time, and has so many glitches and faults. It has an option to add captions to pictures, but MontessoriCompass doesn’t even send the caption or description to the parents! It takes me over an hour to update the information for my classroom, and I don’t have the time to do that everyday. You are unable to upload videos, the site continuously crashes, it’s very difficult to delete messages or get rid of notifications and there are so many unnecessary extra features that no one needs to use. I cannot stand MontessoriCompass, and would rather do paper reports than use this

MontessoriCompass 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.

I use the website can check new uploaded photos, but not MontessoriCompass , even I refresh multiple time, it still show old photos.

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.

Information uploaded to MontessoriCompass by the school takes too long to appear. Reporting of events is also out of order (basically random).

MontessoriCompass 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.

I don’t see the need for MontessoriCompass. It doesn’t have real time updates for messages or pictures.
I can do all those things through my regular email where I can sort and forward email, quickly add events to my calendar, and get quicker responses and photos from the faculty.
General files shared on there are PDF files that still require you to open them before being able to read them.

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.

This doesn’t appear to be formatted for the pro max (large screen) iPhones. MontessoriCompass 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!

Would love for MontessoriCompass to be able to more easily record and share care giving (like bathroom & eating) throughout the day. Make it easy for the teacher share this info in real time with the parents

I have hopping way more from MontessoriCompass, you cant do anything as a teacher. You should include more perks, like the ability to upload photos or comments. A daily bathroom and meal chart would be AMAZING. Please improve MontessoriCompass, if not it just shouldn't exist.

Could you lease fix the bug with photo “save” button force-closing MontessoriCompass ? Can’t save a single photo :(

I do like the idea of having MontessoriCompass 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 MontessoriCompass would do wonders. Thanks!

I frequently get notices of messages from my kids’ teachers then go to MontessoriCompass to find no new messages. If I go online the messages are there.

What is the point of having an app if it doesn’t update in real time? I don’t want to have to wait a day to get (or to respond to) emails from teachers. Nor do I want to have to double check MontessoriCompass with the online site every time I get a notification.

The point of an app is to make it so I do not have to log in to the site - on that point alone MontessoriCompass is a complete waste of my time.

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.

The update times are inaccurate. Should show real dates MM/DD/YYY. The versions have read “2 minutes ago” for months now. So there is no real way to know when the last up date actually occurred.
The mobile app is not really that friendly. I use it mostly now for getting notifications that guides added something (ex messages or reports) I can read messages on the go). Composing messages is painful for new parents when you don’t know who to send messages to and when you do there is a lot of scrolling involved to find the person you want to contact. There is no way to sort or search.
Events are listed, no traditional calendar view or method to search for “School closed” or sort events or see only events by classroom.
Most MC features are best only available on a desktop computer. Our school would like to use it exclusively but, its just not there yet. Anxiously waiting for an update to both desktop and mobile version in the beginning of 2018. So I’ve heard from Customer support who is responsive, very polite and takes suggestions to the programmers. So figures crossed for a Happy New Year update.