iGradePlus Enterprise School Management System vs Sentral

iGradePlus Enterprise School Management System is a web-based service for schools and districts managing student information, staff, multiple schools, and communications with students and parents. An Enterprise subscription can cover one school, several schools, or a whole district, with users assigned to schools to restrict data access. Teachers and administrators have gradebooks, GPA calculations, attendance and behavior tracking, assessments, schedules, and transcripts. They can create report templates and produce grade, attendance, behavior, progress, and report card reports across multiple teachers’ gradebooks. Student portals and up to four parent or guardian portal accounts per student are included. Zoom integration allows teachers to schedule and hold student video meetings inside the web app, with links shown in student portal calendars. The service works in major browsers on Windows, Mac OS-X, and Linux, while data is stored on its servers. The maker describes SSL transfers, encrypted sensitive profile data, nightly local and remote backups retained 30 days, and a 30-day activity log. A sample Enterprise price is $3,055 a year for 400 students, with unlimited teachers and administrators.

Sentral is a cloud-based school management platform for administration, online learning, and student management. It serves government, independent, specialised, and multi-campus schools, bringing administrative, wellbeing, finance, and engagement tools together. Schools can manage profiles, enrolments, health records, activity permissions, transport, classes, attendance, and wellbeing. Finance functions include online payments, configurable fees and discounts, reporting, and links with Xero and Microsoft Dynamics. Teachers have an app for attendance and wellbeing tasks. Parents can use an app or browser portal for notices, teacher messages, absences, payments, and interview bookings, depending on what their school enables; students can view timetables, attendance, notices, and learning tasks. Sentral describes open integrations and flexible APIs, and says schools can configure more than 35 modules. It is available on Android, iOS, web, and API. Sentral says it is ISO 27001 certified and uses encrypted cloud storage. Demographic management is available to independent schools only. Pricing is available through demo and enquiry links, with no public subscription price stated.