Embrace Reviews

Very few businesses value customer service like Embrace. Their responsiveness to districts' needs is amazing. We purchase their IEP, 504, MTSS, and Medicaid programs. Each program is simple to use, is supported equally by its customer support and integrates seamlessly with other educational software.

I can honestly say, the only thing I dislike about embrace is that it is not supported financially by our state board of education. ISBE gave millions of dollars to private contractors to develop an IEP system that no one in the state uses. I am not sure why ISBE and Embrace were unable to work toward a common solution. I can't say this is the fault of embrace, but they have not come forward and discussed why ISBE would not contract with them.

Embrace continues not just to stay abreast of changes in Medicaid, but some of their employees have assisted Illinois with expanding Medicaid reimbursement. This forward-thinking has allowed them to begin modifying their programs to implement those changes the day they are signed into Law in Illinois.

Everyone is so upbeat and nice. They go out of their way to help me.

I like everything nothing is missing from this product

Embrace is a good supportive System.

Questions about Reports, Data Mismatch among other things.

I really like that Embrace is extremely user friendly (compared with an old software we used, eSped)

I'm still getting used to it since my district just implemented it a few months ago, but the ability to learn new functions seems pretty straightforward.

Utilize the user friendliness when making the switch over. The green check marks, highlighted areas, etc. make it much better.

It's made it so much better when writing IEPs. It specifically highlights things you need to complete before each meeting, and is organized really well. I like that it checkmarks a section once you have all necessary fields completed.

I love that many people can work on and make changes to the same IEP at the same time. It makes gathering all of the peices super easy. Each piece is at your fingertips

Really, not too much. The only thing is that you have to down load the file if you want to see the whole IEP in it's entirely.

It is very much worth the time it takes to play around and figure the school out.

Easy collaboration throughout the entire IEP team.

The features are easy to navigate and I really like that when setting up a new iep you have the ability to add only the pages that you need

I would like it if there was a “next” button that would allow you to move forward to the next document instead of the drop down that would list everything out. Sometimes working on several ieps you forget where you are

I like embrace is user friendly and straightforward

You can easily write iep goal and track the student's progress right on the site. I work for a private schools but we serve the public schools. Therefore, it is critical that we maintain good communication on their student's goal progress. This makes the process much easier that tracking goal on our our forms, printing them, and then mailing them out,as the districts have access on embrace.

You used (when it was PowerIEP)to be able to upload additional data related to a students present level of preformance right on the present level page. This made for a good presentation on the printed IEP. Now you have to upload it under additional documents and it prints out at the bottom.

I would recommend over many others like easyiep.

Being on the same page with the 23 districts that my school serves and making sure all students are receiving the accommodations that they require to be successful

I used two other IEP programs before using Embrace, and so far this has been the best program. Embrace is very visually pleasing, and it is also easy to navigate.

I wish multiple people could edit the same page at the same time as long as they were in different text boxes.

Embrace allows our school district to manage student IEPs and 504 plans. It benefits us by keeping these important documents organized and secure.

PowerIEP is easy to learn and use especially if you've had experience using other IEP documentation systems. I like that forms can easily be added, deleted (hidden), or simply edited.

PowerIEP does not alert to upcoming IEP expiration dates.

Give yourself some time to navigate through it and you'll love it.

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I love that they took all the features I disliked from a previous program and made them better!

I wish it was easier to switch back and forth between months (while staying on same child) rather than having to change the month and then select the child again.

I also wish there was a way to decrease the likelihood that another employee locks you out of a screen.

I like the streamlined interface and the checks and balances (highlighted areas for necessary sections)

***Having to "leave page" formally in order for another person to be able to access the page. At minimum, an "override" function by an administrator/LEA/case manager would be helpful. If someone were to be logged onto the page on their home computer this could be a problem. It is also inconvenient that only one person can work on a page at a time (doc of evaluation results).

Section with goal implementers: there is no way to designated primary implementer. When multiple implementers are checked, they all appear to be clicked with no regard to the order. I get around this by using the "other" checkbox and listing in the order desired. In "scheduling for determining progress" there is no option for "monthly" which is what many in my district use. In the related services area, there is no "trimester" option for frequency. This would be helpful since my district is on a trimester vs. quarterly schedule. When printing a goal, there does not appear to be an option to print it without "goal updates" included. For parent contact documentation form, there is not an option to select which contacts to print (such as if I wanted to only pick my contacts for my records).