Need Leadership Software Suggestions!

Hi -

 

Our Student Leadership program is looking for a software solution, and we're hoping you might have some information to share. In particular, we need something that will track workshop sessions, and students' participation in those sessions.

 

At a minimum, we need these features:
- A database of workshop sessions
- Registration for workshops
- Student profiles that track what sessions have been completed

 

Ideally, we'd also like these features:
- Reporting features
- Automated email reminders
- Workshop assessments and other surveys
- Pushing reservations to students' Google calendars

 

We would greatly appreciate any feedback you can provide on the questions below.

 

Please send your feedback directly to me no later than March 15, 2010. We will collate whatever feedback we receive and post it back out to the group for your information.

 

1. What software package do you use to manage your leadership programs?
2. What is the name of the vendor who makes/sells this package?
3. What features do you really like?
4. What features don't work as well as you would like?
5. Are you satisfied with the tech support provided?
6. Are the databases hosted by the vendor, or do they live on your campus?
7. Does the software work well with your enterprise systems (like PeopleSoft, or Banner)?
8. Does the vendor offer customized solutions? If so, are costs for this reasonable?
9. What reports do you run directly from your software package?
10. What reports/information have you needed and NOT been able to run directly from the system?
11. Would your staff be willing to talk to us if we wanted to learn more about your system? If so, please share a) a technical contact; and b) a functional contact.
12. Anything else you can share?

 

Thanks,
Leslie Dare