EdOptimize vs LinkIt!

EdOptimize is a free, open-source learning analytics platform for K-12 digital learning systems, delivered through self-hosted web dashboards. It has three dashboards: Platform Analytics, Curriculum Analytics, and Implementation Analytics. Platform Analytics presents overall usage, trends, geography, product and content-type use, and leaderboards. Curriculum Analytics covers content use, assessment and item analysis, skill performance, curriculum pacing, and leaderboards. Implementation Analytics helps district leaders and success managers follow activity across districts, schools, and classes. The dashboards draw on online platform event logs and assessment item-response data. Setup requires preparing the inputs, running the R data-preparation script for each dashboard, and then running that dashboard's app.R file. Geography is set to US states by default, though the repository says it can be adjusted for other geographies. Live demos of all three dashboards are linked and hosted on shinyapps.io. The free offering uses GPLv3: modifications and copies must retain that license and disclose their source code. Maintainers invite support questions through a GitHub issue and provide an email contact for professional help.

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.