TeacherVUE Reviews

TeacherVUE itself was WONDERFUL & extremely helpful for me to keep track of attendance and student activities. HOWEVER, the other day TeacherVUE crashed and will no longer let me open TeacherVUE itself. I have tried deleting TeacherVUE itself and redownloading it and it does not work. If this issue gets fixed, TeacherVUE is great.

When TeacherVUE first came out I really enjoyed it. I would mainly using it for taking attendance when I was on the go. Now, it just crashes all the time. Sometimes I can’t even get it to open. I’ve tried deleting and installing it again. It works for a little bit but crashes again. There’s to many bugs in it right now. Hopefully, the developers can fix it and possible add additional features in the near future. Please fix and update!

App is unreliable. It lets me take attendance, but I can't save grades. I tried using it for the first time today in class. I went around my classroom and entered student assignments., then tried to save and it keeps giving me an error. I exited out of the grading screen and then lost all my grades. This apps is worthless if it won't work properly. When I tested it out last week, it worked fine, now it's crap. Please fix soon.

My IT dept is trying to help get this fixed, apparently the company needs to give them a patch to install on our servers. This has going on now for three weeks. Why can't the company get this fixed. I really wish our school would have selected a decent company to do business with. I would not recommend synergy to anyone.

I don’t understand TeacherVUE. Basically, it lets you access your class lists and maybe something else? But basically you can access some info on the go if that’s helpful to you… otherwise, you cannot enter grades or enter in assignments under gradebook or create rubrics for assignments…. Or create assessments. I’m sorry, but TeacherVUE is basically useless and just takes up space. I wouldn’t download it. It’s honestly easier to just use a web browser.

I truly hope a developer for TeacherVUE will decide to make it more functional. Teachers have busy jobs. It would be so nice to access most synergy functions from a mobile device….

Other than provide a class list with pictures and a spot to leave a note, this ap does nothing. I can't see their attendance history, grades, grade book, access grade book resources. To be useful I should have access to nearly the same information I do through the computer, if not, what's the purpose? If it doesn't meet the teacher's needs you've left out arguably the most important element of the education equation.

TeacherVUE crashes each and every time I log on to my grade book to enter grades, attendance, or anything for that matter. Each time I go to the grade book, it puts me back to the 1st quarter and it takes time for it to load the correct quarter. In addition, it won't necessarily tell you if you have timed out so when you enter grades you need to save frequently so that when you spend the time inputting hundreds of grades, your work doesn't disappear. Another problem is that you cannot access the same data as you can from the website version. I am not a fan of Synergy to begin with, but TeacherVUE needs to be improved for basic classroom use.

This is the worst app I have ever used. It doesn't let me grade, take attendance, or view student data. I just get various error messages. I was really looking forward to using this, as my subject area demands I move around the classroom constantly. A working version of TeacherVUE would have been a godsend, and saved me hours in prep time each week (I have to grade in a regular paper grade book, then enter them into synergy to make my admin happy). Please fix your bugs.

Everything we need TeacherVUE to do is missing, and it’s like they went out of their way to brainstorm every possible useless feature and built an app. It’s like they went to that one admin who tried teaching and completely tanked, so they demoted him to admin, and they asked him what they should put on TeacherVUE. Sometimes I feel like we’re on a game show where they give us piles of garbage resources and watch us like one of those satanic obstacle course shows where contestants are hit with rubber balls on a rotating balance beam.

TeacherVUE is a testament to the state of public teaching.

I was hoping to open it up to give a quick daily work grade while I was on the go. After spending ten minutes of researching how to login (You need your school district’s url, but it’s a synergy version of your school districts url. Seriously, why is there not a drop down menu?), I found out that it doesn’t even let you access the grade book. I have no idea what any teacher would use TeacherVUE for—looking at their class rosters maybe?

I was hoping after I finally got in, because finding your schools synergy url is not easy to find that I would be able to input grades quickly on TeacherVUE , nope! If they could update this where we can access the gradebook and and enter assignments and grades on TeacherVUE TeacherVUE would be useful and totally worth the time to find the school’s url, but right now it’s useless app. I am going to see if I on a school day I can at least take attendance on it but I highly doubt it. Very disappointed teacher!

Especially now with virtual learning, I’m using every screen I can access to keep organized. Many times I’m on the go grading in blackboard and Teams on my iPad and trying to enter grades on my phone. As an English teacher, I need the bigger screen of the iPad to view essays and writing assessments. I was very excited to see this app offered an app, and jumped at the chance to download. Unfortunately the only functionality it has is to take attendance. The biggest piece of the puzzle that TeacherVUE is missing is the ability to enter quick grades. I continue to waste time switching between screens on the iPad while I grade in Blackboard and then enter into synergy. Honestly, synergy - think like a teacher! What would you want TeacherVUE to do? I guarantee you, in the middle of a pandemic, attendance taking is NOT top of the list.

At this point, cannot access saved grades via Grade Book. All m students show up but their grades do not. This makes TeacherVUE essentially useless...

Two weeks ago, I could not access Grade Book from the Synergy app. The update was a step in the right direction, but while I can now access Grade Book, I cannot access students' grades (all the kids show up on TeacherVUE at 0% even though my school and home computers can access the actual grades). Great idea but worthless right now.

Please fix!

I consider TeacherVUE to be pointless until it is updated to allow teachers to, at minimum, enter grades for an assignment. I don't need to enter attendance on my phone because I have a laptop on my desk. I don't need access to contact info because I don't call parents when at home.

What WOULD be nice is the ability to leave my laptop at school while having the ability to enter grades if I grade at home.

Pointless.

I was so excited to be able to access my grades through TeacherVUE since our network at school is so slow, but when I enter grades through TeacherVUE and hit "save changes", it says it's saving and that grades are updated and then THEY DISAPPEAR! So frustrating when things do not work properly and a waste of my precious time. I've been trying this for 3 weeks now and it still does the same thing. Please fix and I will gladly give 4-5 stars!

Definitely need to fix the term problem- should open to current term not default to term 1.

Also, teachers should have report card access from their mobile devices. The grade book should be available for iPhone users. Student information should include student schedule as well as snapshot grades.

Summary: the mobile option should have full functionality without having to use a computer.

App works with the features available. It will be 5+ stars when it adds the grade book feature available in the iPad version. Who wants to carry around an iPad all day. Being a teacher is hard enough! Make my life easier by adding grading on the spot.

The update has it made it so every time you take roll you have to choose which view you want, seating chart or list. How about a preference so you can always take roll one way (the way it was before) or the other. Also, when looking at the class view, they have removed the # of students present. These may seem like small things but time is a something that is limited in a classroom.

PRO: TeacherVUE is very handy to take attendance when I'm not at my computer. I also like that I can look up students' contact information.

CON: when will you add the "classes" tab? It would be nice to be able to view a student's schedule in TeacherVUE as well.

Thanks for a very handy tool.

For taking attendance, TeacherVUE is fantastic. You can move around the class rather than be tied to your computer. What it truly needs is the green check mark list for which classes have taken attendance. It exists on the web, why not TeacherVUE ? The same thing applies to grades. How do we know which classes we have posted? Sure, you go in order, but what happens when one last assignment gets handed in? You end up reposting all classes. They are small features, but ones that could help!

It works as long as you're willing to arm wrestle it into submission. Opening a class takes two or three tries, and the grade book part only works when it feels like it (it hasn't been in the mood for the past few weeks)