Civitas Advising vs Instructure Elevate K-12 Analytics

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.

Instructure Elevate K-12 Analytics combines education data to help teachers, administrators, and districts understand factors that affect student success. The hosted, vendor-managed web platform draws information from student information systems, assessment platforms, and Canvas LMS. Its pre-built structure supports longitudinal analysis without requiring a district to build and maintain a custom data warehouse. Users can explore, filter, and drill into interactive dashboards, charts, and visual indicators, compare schools, grades, and demographics, and create their own visualizations using predefined data relationships and aggregates. The platform helps education leaders track achievement and equity measures against district and state goals, and identify learning gaps to target support. Elevate Data Quality is a companion tool for checking the information used in dashboards. The product uses Ed-Fi technologies and received Ed-Fi badges. Instructure says its platform is hosted on AWS, stores data in a customer's region, and encrypts customer data in transit and at rest. It lists web access, custom dashboards, and API access. Pricing is on request.