ConexED Retain vs HighPoint Degree Planner

ConexED Retain is a web platform for higher education institutions to identify students who may be struggling, route concerns to advisors and follow interventions through resolution. Activity feeds from Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle and D2L can trigger alerts for changes in attendance, grades or engagement; configurable rules also monitor missed appointments and milestone slippage. Faculty can flag a concern from a student profile, while students can submit configurable self-referrals that create an advisor case. Case records track severity, assignment, resolution reasons and change history. Advising, tutoring, financial aid and counseling teams can contribute timestamped notes, labels, attachments and threaded comments. Retain combines LMS engagement, attendance, milestone completion and advising touchpoints into success scores; alerts can assign a cohort, start a drip campaign or open a milestone. Listed integrations include Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, D2L Brightspace, Ellucian Banner and PeopleSoft. ConexED says it is TX-RAMP certified and FERPA compliant. Pricing is on request; the product page invites institutions to book a discovery call.

HighPoint Degree Planner helps students arrange graduation requirements across academic terms and map a route to graduation. It shows courses students should take and lets them place courses into terms. What-if planning lets students consider changes such as credit load, major, or study abroad and evaluate their effect on the plan. At the University of Pittsburgh, plans can be generated and refreshed using academic progress, degree requirements, prerequisites, and typical course offering semesters. A dashboard displays courses taken, remaining requirements, and recommended sequences. HighPoint says planning stays in sync with audits and scheduling, and its products are designed to reside inside PeopleSoft Campus Solutions. The planner uses students’ PeopleSoft requirements; HighPoint describes its in-PeopleSoft approach as requiring no integrations and leaving institutions in control of their data. Advisors can use plans to spot students who may need help staying on track. The University of Pittsburgh describes the planner as preparation for advising, not a substitute for individual advisor help. It runs on the web, with pricing on request.