Stay away from Redrock software. It may have been a viable application once, but the company is now in the hands of some half-baked college dropouts. They do not service their customers, the application dumps weekly, and requires a full-time IT staff to keep it up and running. Their TutorTrac 4.0 is still in development, one year after the hype at the Arizona conference. Use your 2010 budget money carefully – but a different tracking application.
Posted by
college_customer88
January 14, 2010
The 4.0 version is a piece of ****. At this point, after 4 weeks of trying to get the bugs out of the system, we still cannot schedule students in groups because confirmation emails don't go out. Lack of quality support is frustrating. If we set the session length to 50 minutes, we cannot get the sessions to repeat weekly, as opposed to 60 minute sessions. They have some nice features and the demo looks good, it just does not work as shown in the demo. There are some great features….
Posted by
Randy Ruchotzke
May 19, 2010
I would like to know if anybody knows of any alternative software other than tutortrac.Thank you.http://www.foxtutors.com
Accutrack also does tutor tracking but I don’t see an enormous quality difference compared with Tutortrac. You might try http://www.timetrade.com/Default.aspx. They are enterprise quality but their pricing is prohibitive. At any rate I think a demo would be helpful if for no other reason than to provide a means to evaluate the other two companies.
Eight months later and things are better. Initial stability problems have eased, scheduling is much easier than on 3.0. I'm hoping that when the semester starts in a couple of weeks this 4.0 version will run as smoothly as 3.0 and all of the features that made this upgrade so compelling will make my decision to switch a sound one. I'll update in mid-September, but for now I'd cautiously say "Take the leap".
Stay away from Redrock software. It may have been a viable application once, but the company is now in the hands of some half-baked college dropouts. They do not service their customers, the application dumps weekly, and requires a full-time IT staff to keep it up and running. Their TutorTrac 4.0 is still in development, one year after the hype at the Arizona conference. Use your 2010 budget money carefully – but a different tracking application.
The 4.0 version is a piece of ****. At this point, after 4 weeks of trying to get the bugs out of the system, we still cannot schedule students in groups because confirmation emails don't go out. Lack of quality support is frustrating. If we set the session length to 50 minutes, we cannot get the sessions to repeat weekly, as opposed to 60 minute sessions. They have some nice features and the demo looks good, it just does not work as shown in the demo. There are some great features….
I would like to know if anybody knows of any alternative software other than tutortrac.Thank you.http://www.foxtutors.com
Accutrack also does tutor tracking but I don’t see an enormous quality difference compared with Tutortrac. You might try http://www.timetrade.com/Default.aspx. They are enterprise quality but their pricing is prohibitive. At any rate I think a demo would be helpful if for no other reason than to provide a means to evaluate the other two companies.
Eight months later and things are better. Initial stability problems have eased, scheduling is much easier than on 3.0. I'm hoping that when the semester starts in a couple of weeks this 4.0 version will run as smoothly as 3.0 and all of the features that made this upgrade so compelling will make my decision to switch a sound one. I'll update in mid-September, but for now I'd cautiously say "Take the leap".