Concourse vs Jisc Learning Analytics

Concourse is a cloud-based web platform for creating, revising, auditing, and discovering syllabi in higher education. It is designed for faculty, staff, administrators, and students. Tiered institutional, intermediate, and course templates let institutions share standard information and update it across courses. Permissions can be assigned to groups or individuals at system, school, department, or syllabus level. Reports cover access, utilization, and section-level content, with filters for narrowing results. A central repository preserves past syllabi for students and accrediting bodies and can display them to prospective students. Concourse accepts feeds from student information systems and catalogs, supports single sign-on, and connects through learning management systems using LTI 1.3. The Starter edition is upload-based and includes a searchable public archive plus core compliance and access reporting. The maker states that it meets WCAG 2.1 AA and Revised Section 508 standards. Starter pricing begins at $2,000 a year, based on full-time equivalent enrollment, including implementation and maintenance.

Jisc Learning Analytics is a paid web platform for universities using student data to support student success, wellbeing, and regulatory needs. It combines information from multiple sources into configurable dashboards, including module-level views. Staff can examine attendance, online activity, assessment submissions, and other engagement measures to spot changes in learning behaviour. Notifications and reports help identify students who may need support. Attendance monitoring covers on-site and remote participation, and a student web app lets learners view engagement data and check in to teaching or support sessions. Jisc says the upgraded platform integrates with major virtual learning environments, timetabling systems, and attendance solutions. Institutions can request discovery and consultancy to assess readiness, infrastructure, and data through a two-day virtual or on-site evaluation. Attendance geolocation is opt-in at institutional and individual levels, with obfuscated location data stored under more restricted access. Pricing is available on request; the listed plan is an optional extra for Jisc members.