HelioCampus Course Evaluations & Surveys vs IOTA360 Evaluations

HelioCampus Course Evaluations & Surveys helps U.S. colleges and universities create, schedule, deploy, and analyze evaluations and surveys for institutional feedback. Surveys can be organized at college, department, or institution level using customizable hierarchical templates and question libraries, including dynamic questions based on Course Learning Outcomes. Course evaluations include student, instructor, and general course types, scheduled at the beginning, midpoint, or end of a term. Automated notifications can go to students and instructors, and students can complete evaluations through their learning management system. Integrations support multiple LMS connections through LTI and native APIs, including Blackboard, Canvas, D2L Brightspace, and Moodle. Student course evaluations may be anonymous; instructor evaluations cannot. AI sentiment analysis supports bulk review, but HelioCampus must enable it and provision access through role-based access. Participants need a platform account and institutional single sign-on. The maker says it is FERPA compliant and lists ISO 27001:2013 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications. Pricing is on request.

IOTA360 Evaluations is online course evaluation software for higher education institutions. Institutions can use a managed service for scheduling, reminder emails, survey delivery, LMS integration, student and faculty support, reporting, and results permissions, or administer the system in-house. It supports unlimited evaluation sessions within an academic term and dynamic scheduling for courses of different lengths. Reports include instructor benchmarks and comparisons, graphical summaries, word-frequency and historical analysis, and a custom report builder. Results can be exported to Excel, PDF, and CSV; historical data can be imported from TXT, CSV, and XML formats. The software can run standalone or integrate with an LMS, campus portal, or SIS through methods including LTI, LDAP, CAS, Shibboleth, SAML, Google Auth, and Custom API. Stored responses are not linked to identifying student information in reports or downloads unless students identify themselves in comments. The brochure describes anonymized, encrypted data, FERPA compliance, and role-based access. Students can submit evaluations and faculty can view results on mobile devices.