Concourse vs LinkIt!

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.

LinkIt! is a web-based K–12 platform for assessment management, data analytics and intervention support. Educators can create assessments from scratch, use item banks, choose varied item types or digitize existing assessment content. Its banks contain over 100,000 items aligned to state standards in ELA, Math, Science and Social Studies. Testing can be online across devices, operating systems and browsers, or on paper with plain-paper bubble sheets. Data Warehousing combines instructional data in dashboards and reports that can be broken down by school, teacher, class, student, demographics, question, standard and subscore. Intervention Manager supports MTSS/RTI, gifted learners, multilingual learners, 504 plans, behavior and SEL, with tools for plans, goals, progress monitoring, meetings and communication. Navigator Analytics offers custom reports, trend and predictive analytics, subgroup analysis and consultation. The company serves K–12 schools, districts, networks, state and regional agencies, content providers and teachers. LinkIt says customer data is encrypted in transit and at rest, access is permissioned and audited, and hosting data centers are SOC 2 compliant. The platform is accessed through a web browser, subject to minimum technology requirements. Prices are not displayed; prospective customers are invited to contact sales.