Instructure Elevate K-12 Analytics vs LinkIt!

Instructure Elevate K-12 Analytics combines education data to help teachers, administrators, and districts understand factors that affect student success. The hosted, vendor-managed web platform draws information from student information systems, assessment platforms, and Canvas LMS. Its pre-built structure supports longitudinal analysis without requiring a district to build and maintain a custom data warehouse. Users can explore, filter, and drill into interactive dashboards, charts, and visual indicators, compare schools, grades, and demographics, and create their own visualizations using predefined data relationships and aggregates. The platform helps education leaders track achievement and equity measures against district and state goals, and identify learning gaps to target support. Elevate Data Quality is a companion tool for checking the information used in dashboards. The product uses Ed-Fi technologies and received Ed-Fi badges. Instructure says its platform is hosted on AWS, stores data in a customer's region, and encrypts customer data in transit and at rest. It lists web access, custom dashboards, and API access. Pricing is on request.

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.