Civitas Advising vs Explorance Blue

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.

Explorance Blue is a paid web platform for collecting, analysing and distributing feedback insights across higher education and employee programmes. It supports employee engagement, course evaluation, onboarding, exit, 360-degree review, student engagement and campus surveys. Blue can import data, tailor questions and content to each respondent, distribute surveys and insights, and validate data through its Data Integrity Gateway. Role-based reports and dashboards provide real-time results, trends and visualisations, with benchmarking, advanced reporting and data export listed. Explorance MLY adds sentiment analysis, topic categorisation, recommendations, alerts and redaction for open-ended feedback. Integrations cover LMS, HRIS, SIS and CRM systems, while respondents can be reached through portals, email, mobile and QR codes. Explorance says Blue meets WCAG 2.2 AA and Section 508 standards, maintains an annual SOC 2 Type II examination and supports stated privacy requirements. Hosting may use Canadian or Microsoft Azure regional data centres. Pricing is on request.