DHIS2-Ed vs Rally Analytics Platform

DHIS2-Ed is an education management information system for collecting, analyzing, visualizing, and using data from educational institutions. Its SEMIS app manages student, staff, and school records, including attendance, student progress, and staff registration. Attendance can be handled on the web or Android, online or offline. The Education Toolkit supplies customizable annual school census forms, standardized data collection metadata, dashboards, and analysis modules. Users can examine data with maps, charts, tables, and reports, including pre-configured SDG4 and CESA dashboards. The platform can exchange data with public health programs and other DHIS2 sectors, and connect to existing software and data sources. Country-specific forms and tools can be built as custom applications, while SEMIS can be extended with features such as payroll or timetable scheduling. It is free and open-source, but requires a secure central server, computers and/or Android devices, and periodic internet connectivity for uploads. HISP groups support implementation and staff capacity building.

Rally Analytics Platform is a web platform that unites student data for educators. It combines assessment and screener results with student information system records such as attendance, behavior, and course grades, plus surveys about well-being and the learning environment. Rally provides continuously updating predictions of each student’s end-of-year state assessment result. Educators can create student groups, assign targeted interventions, invite colleagues to co-manage them, and track notes and progress over time. Using the Ed-Fi data standard, the platform integrates district data sources, and groups can use prepopulated district information without manual uploads or data entry. Access depends on district identity management and student information systems, with automatic role-based security and school- or district-level access options. Education Analytics describes the data pages as requiring low to no training. The product page displays SOC 2, TX-RAMP, and Ed-Fi Alliance API Consumer badges. Pricing is on request; districts and state education agencies can schedule a guided demo.