Stellic vs Upswing Advising & Early Alerts

Stellic is a student journey platform for higher education institutions, supporting academic planning through graduation. Its Progress package includes degree audits, pathways across programs or timelines, and an audit-aware planner for multi-year planning. Students and advisors can see progress toward requirements, including how changing programs affects them. Care supports advising with shared student profiles, notes, in-app messaging, early alerts, engagement signals, appointments, filters, and reports. Explore supports prospective student pathways and transfer rule management, with AI transcript analysis for transfer credit evaluation. The platform connects with student information systems, learning management systems, and other campus tools; Stellic says it works alongside existing student information systems rather than replacing them. Institutional partners can use REST APIs to retrieve and publish data through periodic or real-time integration mechanisms. API access requires a Personal Access Token requested from Stellic’s integration team, and institutions may need to provide IP addresses for whitelisting. Stellic describes the platform as SOC 2 certified and WCAG 2.2 AA accessible. The public pages direct institutions to request a demo and list pricing as on request.

Upswing Advising & Early Alerts is a web platform for colleges and universities providing online advising, mentorship, and coaching. Students can check advisor or success coach availability and schedule appointments in person or online. Automatic reminders are sent by email and text. Students, advisors, coaches, tutors, and administrators can use instant messaging inside the platform. Online classrooms support one-to-one and small-group meetings with video, screen sharing, chat, and document upload and download. Administrators can create customizable student alerts with names, descriptions, tags, priority levels, and notification preferences. Advisors and administrators can view alerts together and add shared notes. Dashboards show engagement and usage, session notes, and early alerts; advisors can see usage data for assigned students. Upswing documents SAML and LDAP single sign-on integrations for institutional partners. It says sensitive information is encrypted with SSL and that primary and backup cloud data centers are in the continental United States. Institutional pricing is available on request.