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Information For Teachers📎

Homeroom holds many features that come in handy for schools. This page will give you an overview of how Homeroom can work best for you.

Why Homeroom?📎

Advantages📎

  • Documentation and Support:
    • Homeroom features full, and detailed documentation, which is able to support you through every issue you may encounter.
    • If this does not help, our GitHub Issues can help your through any issue you may encounter with support from real contributors to the project.
  • Cloud-Based:
    • Data is stored and processed on external servers. This allows you to use Homeroom anywhere.
    • Use Homeroom on another device without missing a beat, continue your work from any device anywhere.
  • Ease of Use
    • Homeroom is incredibly easy to use. Simply have an administator install it on your machine (or do it yourself!), and get going.
    • There is no training required for Homeroom.
  • Detail:
    • Homeroom is capable of storing detailed information about all aspects of your institution. Store and manage everything in one centralised solution.
  • Minimalism:
    • Homeroom's minimalistic design makes Homeroom so much easier to use.
    • Log in, and get started straight away with Homeroom's intuitive, innovative user experience.
  • Speed:
    • Homeroom is fast. Perform your action with virtually no wait times1 whatsoever.
  • Training:

Disadvantages📎

  • Fully Featured:
    • Homeroom does not contain as many features as other MISs, which can be an issue for institutions trying to hold an all-in-one solution.
  • Cloud-Based
    • Homeroom requires an internet connection at all times to be able to connect to the database. Without one, Homeroom will not be able to run.
  • Speed:
    • Homeroom might not run as fast as expected.1
  • Data Visualisation:
    • Data can't be visualised easily using Homeroom.

Homeroom vs. Other MISs📎

Feature2 Homeroom SIMS Arbor HUBMIS RMIntegris Scholar Pack Cloud School
Open-Source ✅3 ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
Free ✅4 ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
Database Support ✅ ❌ (Internal)5 ❌ (Internal)5 ❌ (Internal)5 ❌ (Internal)5 ❌ (Internal)5 ❌ (Internal)5
Cloud-Based ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Documentation ✅6 ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌
Dedicated Support ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Training Required ❌7 ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅

  1. Wait times are hard to calculate, and can often be significant dependent on your latency, database server location, among other factors. ↩↩

  2. This table was last updated on the 5th of December, 2022. If there are any mistakes, please notify us. ↩

  3. Homeroom is entirely open-source. This means that the community, or other developers are welcome to contribute to the project  ↩

  4. Homeroom is entirely free software. There are no costs involved with Homeroom, unless you wish to hold data at scale. ↩

  5. An internal, managed database system is used within this MIS. You do not have to do anything except pay for the solution, and let them handle the rest. ↩↩↩↩↩↩

  6. All MISs contain some form of documentation, but none are to the extent, nor are they as detailed as Homeroom. ↩

  7. There is no training required to make use of any MIS, although, all other solutions recommend purchasing their on-site training courses and documentation. Homeroom does not require any form of training. ↩