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Frontline Professional Growth

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What is Frontline Professional Growth?

Frontline Education offers a learning management system focusing on the development goals of teachers, in Frontline Professional Growth.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Frontline Professional Growth has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Player/Portal

    Students or employees can engage with content and take courses using this interface, which may be called a player or portal.

    Category average: 8.7

  • Progress tracking & certifications

    The system tracks individuals’ progress on courses, scores, transcripts, certificates, etc.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Compliance management

    Users can identify potential risks and ensure that requirements are met and that certifications are up to date.

    Category average: 8.8

Areas for Improvement

  • Learning reporting & analytics

    Provides insights into course completion, engagement with learning content, etc.

    Category average: 7.7

  • Social learning

    Includes features for collaboration and knowledge sharing among peers.

    Category average: 7.6

  • Mobile friendly

    Students or employees can access content from mobile devices. Course authors can develop responsive learning content.

    Category average: 7.1

Reviews

What users are saying about Frontline Professional Growth.
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Frontline Professional Growth Does It All

Incentivized
Melissa Ferro
Library Media Specialist at Ramapo High School (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Frontline Professional Growth is set up to organize and document all aspects of a teacher's evaluation. Artifacts are archived and can be used in multiple areas.
  • SGOs, observations, PDPs, and documentation logs can all be shared between the staff member and the administration.
  • The forms are easy to fill out, can be saved as drafts in progress, and can be referred to from year to year.
  • The Professional Development Workshop section offers a calendar of workshops in catalog format as well as calendar format.
  • As a workshop presenter, enrollment tools are easy to use and offer multiple ways to access your roster.
  • As a workshop participant, workshops are listed as in progress and completed. Hours are tabulated and saved each year.

Cons

  • Frontline Professional Growth can be a little cumbersome as there are many tabs and multiple choices under each tab. It is not always easy to find exactly what you are looking for on the first try. There are often multiple steps to one location.

Return on Investment

  • For our district, Frontline Professional Growth has definitely helped to organize all the State requirements for teacher/educational specialists' evaluations and professional development.
  • Frontline Professional Growth allows staff and administration to work to complete the evaluations an professional development in a streamlined way.

Alternatives Considered

Frontline Absence Management (formerly Aesop)

Professional Growth Professionally Relevant

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Saves paperwork.
  • Keeps digital copies of records to review on demand.

Cons

  • Confusing sign-on processes.
  • AESOP (absence management) is not integrated with Professional Growth as advertised.

Return on Investment

  • Reduce lost paperwork.
  • More efficient salary upgrades.

Other Software Used

Frontline Absence Management (formerly Aesop)

Managing Your Staff Professional Growth in the Digital Workspace

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Frontline includes a digital catalog, that you can use to enter all of your professional development workshops into, and track who is attending, print sign-in sheets, and tag professional hours.
  • The digital routing of forms was a main goal of ours. Not too many applications can create custom routing procedures, and go from person to person as designated in the configuration of the form.
  • The ability to take all of your commonly used forms and have they digital and available for teachers is useful.
  • Teachers can track how many hours they have earned throughout the year (and years) in their digital portfolio.

Cons

  • The configuration and startup of Frontline Professional Growth is time-consuming. I wish this was easier to get going.
  • Creating forms is difficult and the form editor is hard to navigate and use. You cannot create a form yourself. That has to be created and entered into your system by Frontline, which takes more time, especially if it is an easy form you want to create.
  • There needs to be a better way to save forms you are completing and being able to go right back to them at a later date. I have had teachers lose what they were doing when saving a draft and then have to start all over.
  • Notifications on forms at individual levels only go out once a day, sometime around 2am. This should be instantaneous, notifying individuals as the form comes in.

Return on Investment

  • We have used a lot less paper over the past few years which leads to cost savings.
  • The time it takes to submit a form and get approval has sped up since this is all digital.
  • The time it takes to track and award professional development hours has sped up.

Alternatives Considered

Schoology

Other Software Used

Poll Everywhere, Google Drive, Zoom

Power of Professional Growth

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Customer Service (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • Provides professional learning opportunities to employees.
  • Easy to track and navigate users.
  • Professional development that is easy to access and convenient.

Cons

  • Instructing beginner users on how to navigate for the first time.

Return on Investment

  • Professional development that is web-based is the trend and this makes it easy for organizations.