Data Quadrant Awards 2023
Education Learning Management
SoftwareReviews names Google Classroom, Moodle, Canvas, and Sakai as Education Learning Management Data Quadrant Award Winners.
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Education Learning Management
Data Quadrant
Data Quadrants are proudly founded in 100% user review data and are free of traditional "magical" components such as market presence and analyst opinion, which are opaque in nature and may be influenced by vendor pressure, financial or otherwise.
The SoftwareReviews Data Quadrant evaluates and ranks products based on feedback from IT and business professionals. The placement of a software in the Data Quadrant indicates its relative ranking as well as its categorization.
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A thorough evaluation and ranking of all software in an individual category to compare software across every dimension.
- user satisfaction rankings
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- vendor capability comparisons
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- business value scores
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- individual feature evaluations
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- emotional connection to products
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Note Software product placement is based on the scores provided by users, recency of the reviews, and review volume. Axes are dynamically adjusted based on the minimum and maximum values in the data set.
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Software Experience
When distilled down, the software experience is shaped by both the experience with the software and the relationship with the vendor. Evaluating enterprise software along these two dimensions provides a comprehensive understanding of the product and helps identify vendors that can deliver on both.
Product Features and Satisfaction
The satisfaction is captured in the overall satisfaction score, which is driven by the likelihood of users to recommend the software, combined with user satisfaction across top product features.
Vendor Experience and Capabilities
The vendor relationship is calculated in a weighted average of the satisfaction scores tied to vendor capabilities (e.g. software implementation, training, customer support, product roadmap) as well as emotional response ratings toward the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).
Gold Medalists
Google Classroom
Classroom is a free service for schools, non-profit organisations and anyone with a personal Google account. Classroom makes it easy for learners and instructors to connect – inside and outside of schools. Classroom saves time and paper, and makes it easy to create classes, distribute assignments, communicate and stay organised. Classroom is designed to help teachers create, collect and mark assignments paperlessly, including time-saving features such as the ability to automatically make a copy of a Google document for each student. It also creates Drive folders for each assignment and for each student to help keep everyone organised.
8.5
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+85
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
90%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Moodle Pty Ltd
Moodle
Moodle is an open source, feature-rich, secure, and scalable learning management system that integrates seamlessly with other platforms and can be customized for any teaching or training method you choose. With fresh and intuitive interfaces, Moodle has solutions suitable for K-12, higher education, vocational training, corporates, and all types of enterprise learning. You can get support from our community forums, access Moodle's certified integrations, and explore over 2000 open source plugins. Or, for expert advice and end-to-end support and service, get in touch with one of the Moodle Certified Partners and Service Providers in our global network.
8.3
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+81
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
83%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Instructure
Canvas
Canvas is the 21st Century LMS. Adaptable. Reliable. Customizable. Easy to use. Mobile. Time-saving. And, perhaps most importantly, it gets used. That’s because it’s designed to get out of your way, to let you do your thing. Every last feature, every last interface is crafted to save you time and effort and to make teaching and learning easier.
8.3
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+77
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
85%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Apereo
Sakai
Sakai provides a flexible and feature-rich environment for teaching, learning, research and other collaboration. As an open source software suite developed by its adopter community, the Sakai continually evolves in step with the needs of the students, faculty members and organizations it serves. Colleges, universities, governments and other organizations deploy Sakai’s rich toolset to expand the possibilities for technology-enabled learning across many facets of the educational experience.
8.2
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+80
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
81%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Vendor Capability Awards
Availability and Quality of Training
Blackbaud Learn
Breadth of Features
Blackbaud Learn
Business Value Created
Google Classroom
Ease of Customization
Google Classroom
Ease of Data Integration
D2L Brightspace
Ease of IT Administration
D2L Brightspace
Ease of Implementation
Google Classroom
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Google Classroom
Quality of Features
Google Classroom
Usability and Intuitiveness
Google Classroom
Vendor Support
Google Classroom
Vendor Capability Awards
Availability and Quality of Training
Blackbaud Learn
Breadth of Features
Blackbaud Learn
Business Value Created
Google Classroom
Ease of Customization
Google Classroom
Ease of Data Integration
D2L Brightspace
Ease of IT Administration
D2L Brightspace
Ease of Implementation
Google Classroom
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Google Classroom
Quality of Features
Google Classroom
Usability and Intuitiveness
Google Classroom
Vendor Support
Google Classroom
Other Evaluated Vendors
Anthology Inc.
Blackboard Learn
Blackboard is the world's leading education technology company. We challenge conventional thinking and advance new models of learning in order to reimagine education and make it more accessible, engaging and relevant to the modern day learner and the institutions that serve them.
8.0
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+72
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
78%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
D2L
D2L Brightspace
D2L is the software leader that makes the learning experience better. The company's cloud-based platform - Brightspace - is not a common one-size-fits-all learning management system (LMS). It's easier to use, more flexible, and smart. With Brightspace, you can personalize the experience for every learner to deliver real results.
7.5
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+78
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
76%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
PowerSchool Group LLC
Schoology Learning
Schoology Learning is the leader in K-12 teaching and learning technology—designed to help schools and districts improve student performance while enabling equity and access for every student, at home, at school, or anywhere in between.
7.4
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+78
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
78%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Blackbaud, Inc
Blackbaud Learn
Leap ahead in educational technology with Blackbaud Learning Management System™ (formerly onCampus®). Give teachers the tools to quickly submit attendance and post homework assignments from their phones; coaches the ability to add announcements and enter game highlights; and advisors a forum to communicate. The benefits include parents engaging with all phases of their child’s education and faculty members spending more time on learning outcomes.
6.8
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+75
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
81%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
Jenzabar, Inc.
Jenzabar eLearning
With Jenzabar eLearning software, your instructors can offer more dynamic, engaging learning environments - and develop creative learning spaces that engross students.
6.0
Composite
Score
Composite
Score
+70
Emotional
Footprint
Emotional
Footprint
62%
Likeliness to
Recommend
Likeliness
to Recommend
For the full list of vendors in this space, click here.
About Gold Medal Awards and Software Reports
SoftwareReviews Gold Medal Awards recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace as evaluated by their users. Gold Medals are the capstone of an in-depth software evaluation report, and awarded using a proprietary, transparent methodology based on a composite satisfaction score that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend. The Net Emotional Footprint Score measures user emotional response ratings of the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).
Software Reports present comprehensive evaluations of software vendors on the above elements. Software buyers can use this data to make more informed, data-driven software purchasing and renewal decisions.
