What data collection tools are you using?

I'm compiling a list of data collection tools and am interested in knowing what folks are using and what you think of the tools. Below are a list of the type of tools I'm referring to.

Salesforce.com
Daedalus Scientific Software
Excel add-on CAFÉ
Datacation
Oracle’s Learning Management System
Google Apps and Docs
eInstruction's Collaborative Suite with Pulse response system
Schoolbinder
GradeSpeed (by School Net)
Easy Grade Pro
Data Director
Assessment Pro
Power School
Learning Directions
Pinnacle Suite
Athena

Thanks in advance for sharing.

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Cunningham on December 17, 2009 at 11:34am

Pearson Inform is insane

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Nielsen on December 17, 2009 at 3:28pm

Insane good? or insane bad? Can you say more?

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Wylie on December 17, 2009 at 3:58pm

We use Power School. We had a lot of problems early on because we were a pilot school for the first version, but it has settled down a bit now. (now that we have reported all the bugs!). The grade book is pretty good, but not perfect. We can still not work out how to write comments on quarterly reports. Well, we can write the comments, but they dont print out.

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Permalink Reply by Tanya John on December 18, 2009 at 10:25pm

From this list I use google apps and docs and Datacation. Google docs is perfect for a netbook since they have minimal RAM. It also makes access to your documents so much easier. As long as you have internet you're always good. Datacation I've used for a few years now. It is a very comprehensive package and my real place for "one stop shopping" in the education field. NCLB - no problem, Student Graduation Tracking - no problem, and now we are getting rid of a program not listed here called "teacherease" because Datacation does that too (gradebook that is shared with teachers, admin, students, and parents)! It just takes the guesswork out of the work. In this day in age, "compiling the data" should be easy. That's what Datacation does. It's what we do with the data now is a more challenging endeavor. Written from a principal's perspective.