Gibbon vs Wisenet

Gibbon is a free school platform for learning, teaching, and school management, designed by educators. Teachers, students, parents, and administrators use one web-based system with configurable access levels. The Planner supports lesson plans, homework submissions, curriculum mapping, and peer assessment. Student Profiles consolidate academic, behavioural, medical, and special educational needs alerts for authorised users. Markbook, rubrics, tracking, and formal assessment modules support recording and reviewing progress. Messenger can send group communications by email, SMS, or Message Wall. Schools can extend the platform with modules and themes, including BigBlueButton and Moodle integration; its documentation also describes Google calendar and single sign-on integration and Microsoft single sign-on setup. Gibbon is installed on a web server and hosting is self-managed. The v30 download page specifies PHP 8.0 and MySQL 8.0 as minimum requirements. Documentation and community forums are available, as is optional expert support through ad hoc help or a support contract. Older versions are not directly supported, and the security policy advises using the current stable release in production.

Wisenet is a cloud-based Learning Relationship Management platform for education and training organisations. Its Management product covers admissions, enrolments, learner progress, results, certification, compliance reporting, timetables and attendance. Sales+ provides course publishing, enquiry and application forms, pipeline tools, online payments, digital signatures and automated application handling. eLearning supports course delivery, assessments, quizzes, automated grading and learner access management. Marketplace connectors include Brightspace, Canvas, Moodle, Xero, SurveyMonkey and BI; Wisenet also offers an API, and eLearning integrates with Office 365 and G Suite. Management lists two-factor authentication, single sign-on, role-based permissions, audit logs and AWS hosting. The platform is available on web, Android and iOS. Wisenet names vocational and higher education providers, short course providers, corporate training and international institutions as customer groups. Listed prices include eLearning Connector Standard at A$160 a month and Management Starter at A$290 a month. Paid products have a minimum initial two-year subscription term, prices are exclusive of VAT, and some plans meter active learners.