IASystem vs IOTA360 Evaluations

IASystem is a course evaluation system for colleges and universities assessing teaching and learning. It supports online and paper evaluations, with administrators able to customize forms across an institution, college, or department. Instructors can add course-specific scaled or open-ended questions. Students can access evaluations from Canvas, Blackboard, and other LMS applications through an LTI tool; a web API supports campus integrations such as displaying evaluation links in a student portal. Reports include course summaries, combined summaries, administrative high/low and ratings summaries, survey lists, and data exports. Institution-specific reliability estimates, item-level deciles, and regression analyses help interpret and adjust evaluation results. IASystem uses HTTPS, role-based permissions, and server-side processing for calculations, validations, and reports. Reports and extracts omit student names, IDs, and login information. A one-term pilot license is listed as free. Annual rates are per enrolled student, from $1.59 a year for institutions with 20,000 or more FTE students; enrollment categories list a 5,404 USD one-time setup fee. Paper forms and scanning cost extra, with costs depending on usage.

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.