Concourse vs SchoolStatus Attend

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.

SchoolStatus Attend is a web-based attendance management solution for K–12 districts focused on chronic absenteeism. It tracks attendance by time, period, or full day and displays year-over-year absence changes. Automated interventions begin when absences accumulate, while Early Warning Insights identifies students likely to become chronically absent after 60 school days. Districts can send letters, emails, two-way messages in more than 130 languages, and conference invitations. Daily Attendance Notifications text families when a student is marked absent and collect replies in a centralized dashboard. Attend imports student records through multiple student information system providers, including Infinite Campus and PowerSchool, to determine intervention eligibility. SchoolStatus describes a 4–6 week onboarding process for SIS integration, thresholds, and outreach workflows. Districts receive a dedicated Customer Success Manager for attendance reviews, recommendations, and team training. SchoolStatus says it serves districts in all 50 states. The service participates in SOC 2 Type II auditing and reporting, is certified by 1EdTech and iKeepSafe, and states FERPA and COPPA compliance. Pricing is available on request.