Akari vs CourseLoop

Akari is curriculum management software for higher education institutions. It supports collaborative curriculum design, review, approvals, and publication, then maps teaching and assessment activities to learning outcomes and professional accreditation standards. The platform maintains curriculum versions across downstream systems serving different student cohorts. Governance features include automatic publication, CMA compliance support, evidence of pedagogy evolution, and organisational risk reduction. Integrated intelligence and visualisations support curriculum and operational management. Akari’s RESTful open APIs connect with student information systems, virtual learning environments, content management, CRM, timetabling, library systems, and data warehouses or BI tools; named integrations include SEAtS ONE, Tribal SITS, MortarCAPS, Amos, and DegreeReady. It runs in modern browsers without installation and is designed for mobile devices. Public-cloud and private-cloud deployment are available as a single-tenant service hosted in AWS. Akari states 99.5% standard uptime. The company was established in 2010 as a Cork, Ireland spin-out. Pricing is available on request.

CourseLoop is an end-to-end curriculum management platform for higher education institutions, with modules for structured curriculum data, governance, review, mapping, publishing, marketing, and student study planning. Curriculum Data Management stores programme, module, and area-of-study information in configurable forms. Governance automates proposal workflows and task allocation, while audit records track changes and connect item versions. Review supports scheduled reviews, templates, and feedback; Mapper visualizes curriculum relationships and can highlight gaps against standards, accreditation requirements, learning outcomes, and competencies. Marketer lets institutions create and publish marketing content alongside curriculum items. Student Study Planner supports digital study plans that help students track pathways to qualification goals, and plans can be published to a course catalogue with links to relevant pages. APIs make curriculum data available to downstream systems, with schemas in the Developer Portal. CourseLoop describes its offering as modular, so universities can add functionality as needs grow. It is available via web and API; pricing is on request.