Instructure Elevate K-12 Analytics vs Synap

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.

Synap is an online exam platform for authoring, delivering, proctoring, marking and analysing exams. It serves awarding bodies, universities, companies and training providers. Reusable question banks support more than 15 interactive question types, with tags for topic, skill and difficulty. Security options include lockdown, record-and-review, and live invigilation, with incidents timestamped. Objective questions can be marked instantly; written work can be routed to examiners using rubrics and moderation. Analytics include pass rates, item discrimination and KR-20 reliability. Integrations include a REST API, Zapier, webhooks, LTI 1.3 and Blackboard App Center, with LTI connections for Moodle, Canvas and Blackboard. Synap lists iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, web and extension access. Mobile apps require enabled access on Business or Enterprise plans. It states ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification, GDPR compliance, TLS 1.2+ in transit, AES-256 at rest and AWS hosting options in the EU and US. Plans start at £1,200 per year, with a 14-day trial after a demo.