IOTA360 Evaluations vs Qualtrics

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.

Qualtrics provides survey tools and an experience-management platform called XM Data & AI, which combines experience data with human context to support decisions and outcomes. Its free Qualtrics Surveys account is for one user and allows three active surveys, 30 questions per survey and 500 total responses. It includes skip, display and branch logic. The Strategic Research plan costs $420.00 per month, billed as $5,040 annually, for 1,000 responses shared across users; it also supports unlimited users and surveys, and includes 23 question types. A 30-day Strategic Research trial provides access to most premium features, with some restrictions; without an upgrade, it downgrades to the free account. Paid plans include more than 20 guided research solutions and advanced analysis such as crosstabs, statistical tools and generative-AI video summaries. Surveys support more than 70 languages, while dashboards support 24. Data exports include CSV, TSV, Excel and SPSS, among other formats. Qualtrics offers API access. Its Strategic Research Custom plan is for enterprise organizations needing higher response volumes, with pricing based on interactions and 5,000 or more responses.