Pikmykid

Pros: We have been using Pikmykid for student dismissal for a few years and love how easy it is to use and how quickly we can contact Pikmykid for great support in the moment. We have recently expanded our purchases with them to include visitor management and attendance and could not be happier with the product for student management! Pikmykid provides a great value for our budget!

Cons: We would love it if they integrated with our SIS, schooltool with more ease, especially with attendance.

Pros: I love how seamlessly we were able to incorporate it into our dismissal. Parents love the real time bus departures, and it makes for a much smoother and calmer dismissal.

Cons: We don't utilize everything that PikMyKid has to offer such as, syncing absent students, we do that manually. The process to have our systems link and set up always seem complicated when I do reach out.

Pros: It allows our families to safely identify they are at school and who they are picking up. Our staff is able to identify each car for each child.

Cons: Sometimes, there are glitches to the program but they are few and far between.

Pros: It gives us a reliable platform that we can completely control to help manage the dismissal of the 534 birth through 5-year-old children we serve. It is also a reliable platform for parents to delegate alternative pick-up guardians for their children.

Cons: Our parents have had intermittent issues with their apps randomly not allowing them to log in. I can usually guide them through a workaround for this issue, but it is a multi-step process and inconvenient during pick-up.

Pros: I appreciate the versatility, intuitiveness, and functionality of PikmyKid. Their customer service is also second to none. We could not be more pleased.

Cons: I really have not complaints. I have recommended PikmyKid to several colleagues.

Pros: It improves communication between parents and teachers regarding transportation."

Cons: The rollover process is a little hard at the end of the year with adding new students and enrolling student into homeroom

Pros: I like being able to access students in the classrooms for dismissal

Cons: I don't like the hall pass I think its too much of a process for the teachers to use

Pros: The program is very intuitive, which makes in easy to learn and use.

Cons: I'm not sure I dislike anything about this program.

Pros: PikMyKid has not only decreased the overall amount of time our dismissal team spends on getting our students safely to cars, it has increased our accuracy in dismissal plan communication. Our dismissal time prior to PikMyKid was about 23 minutes, this includes classroom communication, organization of a dismissal room and walking students out to cars or signing parents into the building. Our current, daily time averages 12 mins. in total.

Cons: This program does have a fairly step learning curve for both parents and the dismissal team. It requires a significant investment in WiFi by the district as well.

Pros: CUSTOMER SUPPORT is EXCELLENT. TRAINING is SIMPLE. APPLICATION USE is EASY. SET UP is SMOOTH. DISMISSAL ORGANIZATION is NEXT LEVEL. STUDENT ACOUNTABILITY is REASSURING. COST is WORTH IT.

Cons: NOTHING TO SAY. The RELATIONSHIP FACTOR with PIKMYKID STAFF MEMBERS is the KEY to their SUCCESS.

Pros: Pikmykid is easy for all stakeholders to use. Teachers rely on the dismissal progress to know when to send our car riders to the front. Parents rely on the app to get through the pick up line quickly and efficiently. Students know to look for their names on the teachers' screens to move to the front for dismissal. It is a great program!

Cons: I wish that Pikmykid allowed parents to change from one bus to another, but I understand that the bus drivers need to have a written note of transportation changes. I also wish that parents would update when the student is with the non-custodial parent. Keeping up with which parent has custody of the child on a weekly basis is exhausting.

Pros: PIKMYKID has helped make our very large Elementary school’s dismissal almost seamless. We do not use all of the features of the sight has to offer, but it definitely keeps our carline organized.

Cons: Sometimes the software can be glitchy, but usually resolves itself within a few minutes.

Pros: As the administrative assistant in a charter school who services 14 different school districts with transportation, I absolutely LOVE Pikmykid. We are able to dismiss 30 scholars in 20 minutes. The safety feature is also amazing. Putting dismissal changes in the hands of the parents has also eliminated many of the incoming phone calls to the school.

Cons: There isn't anything I dislike about Pikmykid outside of the fact that we are a 3 school campus but can't have all 3 schools on the same app due to the SFT

Pros: The safety aspect that it brings to our campus and the ease of use.

Cons: Parents still have some difficulties understanding the app. It usually happens with older parents.

Pros: Pikmykid allows all of our students to stay in their classroom with their teacher until their ride has arrived at school. Previously we moved students to two holding areas during dismissal, which meant ending the instructional day earlier for the transition and created behavior management issues with large numbers of students waiting in the same space for up to 30 minutes until a ride arrived. As a lottery based enrollment school, the large majority of our almost 700 students are car riders. Pikmykid transformed our dismissal and our days end in a more peaceful and organized manner as students dismiss from their classrooms each afternoon.

Cons: Occasionally poor internet or technology issues create challenges during dimissal, but that has been infrequent.

Pros: simplifies the drive through pick up car line

Cons: I don't like that only 5 kids at a time can be in the app to be dismissed. Sometimes they don't come out in the order they're on the app and you can't dismiss them if they're still listed in the "Next" section. It makes it hard to keep track of who has already been picked up.

Pros: Simplifies complex logistics and easy enough for all staff and parents to use.

Cons: It takes more time to do your dismissal this way and it takes the whole staff, but it's the best way.

Pros: With pikmykid there are less phone calls into the office. It is easier to keep track of alternating schedules for parents. It helped to organize our parking lot and reduce on accidents.

Cons: I feel like it is very effective and useful, but I don't know how to use all of the features.

Pros: The empowerment for families and organization for the school overall.

Cons: The communication about override when someone checks in through the car line when they have designated a different pickup method.

Pros: PikMyKid is easy to use for parents and school employees. When we started using PikMyKid, almost all of our families got signed up and started using the app right away.

Cons: PikMyKid compares so favorably with its competitors, it's hard to find something I don't like! It was easy to set up and implement and provides great value for investment.

Pros: I like the fact it's reliable and easy to use. This helps keep the kids safe. I also really like all the reports I can generate to help with record keeping.

Cons: Parents seem to struggle using the app. I'm not sure why.

Pros: It has sped up dismissal time 40 minutes to less than 10 mins for almost 500 students.

Cons: That parents who have not changed their child to car line can still be manually added to car line with no pop up letting the person outside know that child wasn't scheduled for pick up.

Pros: Pikmykid packs a simple and streamlined interface into their system in a way that meets our school's roster-management needs.

Cons: There are some UI quirks and features that take a bit of getting used to.