CampusGroups vs Civitas Advising

CampusGroups is a campus experience management platform for students, staff, alumni, and community partners. Institutions can manage student organization registrations and memberships, events, communications, and group websites. Event tools include a centralized calendar, registration, ticket sales, and attendance tracking. A branded campus app can bring together groups, events, messaging, push notifications, and campus resources. The product lists more than 30 modules, including surveys, approval workflows, budgeting, room reservations, analytics, reports, and career tools. Integrations include Google Calendar, Outlook/Office 365, Blackboard, EMS, 25Live, PeopleSoft, Salesforce, Banner, and Colleague. Single sign-on options include CAS, LDAP, SAML, Active Directory Federation Services, and Shibboleth. Its API supports importing and updating members or users, creating and updating events, and RSS feeds for members and groups. The privacy statement describes secured servers, firewalls exposing only necessary services, and browser-to-server protocols such as TLS 1.2. CampusGroups launched in 2005 at New York University's Stern School of Business; its maker is based in Burlington, Massachusetts. The service runs on web, Android, and iOS. Pricing is on request for a campus-wide platform.

Civitas Advising combines student information, advising workflows, and planning tools for colleges and universities. Advisors can view profiles containing academic information, advising notes, and alerts, then identify students for outreach based on factors such as changes in persistence likelihood or unfinished schedules. Teams can coordinate with dynamic student lists, shared notes, alerts, and outreach. Advisors and students can collaborate on degree plans and class schedules; students can also schedule appointments and message advisors through a portal. Civitas lists integrations with more than 100 systems, including Banner, PeopleSoft, Workday Student, Canvas, Blackboard, D2L, Moodle, Slate, Salesforce, and others. Advising is accessed through a mobile website, while the separate Inspire student app is native for phones. Civitas says it supports institutional single sign-on, does not sell data to third parties, and acts as an institution-designated FERPA school official. Pricing is by annual subscription and quote; institution size, scope, and integrated systems affect the price, and multi-year terms are typical. Additional integrations may carry fees.