ConexED Retain vs Stellic

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.

Stellic is a student journey platform for higher education institutions, supporting academic planning through graduation. Its Progress package includes degree audits, pathways across programs or timelines, and an audit-aware planner for multi-year planning. Students and advisors can see progress toward requirements, including how changing programs affects them. Care supports advising with shared student profiles, notes, in-app messaging, early alerts, engagement signals, appointments, filters, and reports. Explore supports prospective student pathways and transfer rule management, with AI transcript analysis for transfer credit evaluation. The platform connects with student information systems, learning management systems, and other campus tools; Stellic says it works alongside existing student information systems rather than replacing them. Institutional partners can use REST APIs to retrieve and publish data through periodic or real-time integration mechanisms. API access requires a Personal Access Token requested from Stellic’s integration team, and institutions may need to provide IP addresses for whitelisting. Stellic describes the platform as SOC 2 certified and WCAG 2.2 AA accessible. The public pages direct institutions to request a demo and list pricing as on request.