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Higher Education Software with Surveys & Feedback (2026)

Last updated: April 2026

Key features of Higher Education Software

Based on GetApp's analysis of verified user reviews collected between July 2021 and August 2024.

  • Student Portal: Reviewers emphasize the portal's ability to organize assignments, track course progress, and facilitate communication with instructors. 90% of reviewers rated this feature as important or highly important.
  • Learning Management: Users appreciate the streamlined organization of course content, progress tracking, and multimedia resource integration. 87% of reviewers rated this feature as important or highly important.
  • Activity Dashboard: The dashboard provides a clear overview of upcoming assignments, recent activities, and course progress, aiding in task prioritization. 85% of reviewers rated this feature as important or highly important.
  • Student Information/Records: The system efficiently tracks grades, attendance, and personal information, supporting administrative tasks and personalized learning. 84% of reviewers rated this feature as important or highly important.
  • Communication Management: Reviewers highlight the ease of sending announcements, emails, and messages, fostering effective student-instructor communication. 81% of reviewers rated this feature as important or highly important.
  • Alerts/Notifications: Users value timely alerts for assignment deadlines, grade updates, and course announcements, enhancing task management and awareness. 81% of reviewers rated this feature as important or highly important.
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Canvas logo
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Where smart learning meets powerful simplicity.

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Canvas is a modern, cloud-based LMS that helps organizations of all sizes deliver impactful learning. Whether you're teaching students, onboarding new hires, or running a training program, Canvas makes it simple to build, manage, and scale engaging learning experiences.

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Moodle logo
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With hundreds of millions of users around the globe and translated into over 100 languages, more organisations choose Moodle to support their education and training needs than any other system in the world.

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OnBoard logo

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Vevox logo

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Award Force logo

Awards management software

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Blackboard logo
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A marketing-leading LMS for education, biz, gov, and more.

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Help learners, instructors and institutions achieve their goals with Blackboard Learn by Anthology, a market-leading Learning Management System (LMS) that integrates with the world’s most holistic EdTech ecosystem.

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Classtime logo

Learning and assessment management software

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Classtime is a solution for teachers that complements in-class teaching with immediate feedback on students’ level of understanding. Create great questions, engage everyone, improve understanding. The platform is available in multiple languages to both students and teachers.

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Thinkific logo

Platform to create and sell online courses

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Thinkific helps higher education institutions create, manage, and sell online courses with tools for course creation, progress tracking, and engagement. Thinkific Plus offers enterprise-level solutions with branding, reporting, e-commerce, integrations, and enhanced security for scalability.

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Classter logo
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Fully customizable, end-to-end solution for higher ed institutions. Manage enrollment, scheduling, communication, engagement & more.

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LMS based on social learning principles and tools, easy to use faculty tools and reports (we get to a 95% or higher faculty usage rate at all our institutions).

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CYPHER Learning logo

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CYPHER Learning® provides the only all-in-one AI-powered learning platform that is easy-to-use, beautifully designed, and built to power hundreds of billions of learning moments every day. Create courses faster. Train better. Upskill quicker.

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Coursebox is the AI course creator and LMS that helps you build online courses faster than ever.

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ConexEd is a cloud-based platform for virtual student services, instruction, and reporting. It provides ADA and FERPA-compliant software for scheduling, meeting, messaging, collaborating, and reporting. Now, campus departments can connect students to the right help at the right time on any device.

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Enterprise training registration and program management

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Learning Stream is a powerful training and class registration platform for in-person, virtual, hybrid, and asynchronous programs. Built for complex professional development and continuing education workflows, it simplifies registration, payments, and reporting.

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Transforming education software with an assessment-first LMS, supporting compliance, efficiency and engagement from enrolment to result.

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Q10 es el Sistema de Información Estudiantil (SIS) en la nube para instituciones de educación superior en Latinoamérica. Gestiona matrículas, programas académicos, cartera financiera y educación virtual en una sola plataforma

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NEOED provides an easy-to-use talent management system to service educational institutions.

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InfoReady is used across campuses of universities and colleges, and at hospitals, to handle applications for limited submission grants, internal and seed funding, pilot grants, prizes, fellowships, scholarships, administrative approvals, awards, nominations and much more.

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Monitor, engage and instruct students with ease with classroom management and monitoring software.

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Synap logo

Deliver online exams and courses with ease

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Our award winning platform enables higher education institutions around the world to deliver and manage remote online tests, courses and examinations securely via the cloud.  We provide a range of features to support test delivery and track learner performance with our analytics dashboard.

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Eduflow logo

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Eduflow is a learning experience management software that helps higher education institutes and corporate training programs create courses, manage learner engagement, create deadlines, and more from within a unified platform. With the built-in authoring functionality, trainers can build custom course resources with text, videos, images, and other file uploads.

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PeopleGrove is a mentoring software designed to help non-profit and faith-based organizations, universities, and law schools connect students, alumni, and mentors on a unified interface. Administrators can build communities to share job opportunities, manage referrals, and communicate with learners to help them achieve career goals.

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Etrieve is an enterprise content management software that helps businesses eliminate paper to save time and money and reduce errors ensuring the best student, staff, and faculty experience.

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Abuzz logo

Stronger connections. Happier students.

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Abuzz is a powerful engagement and retention platform built exclusively for schools, that provides connectivity through every phase of the student lifecycle. From Admit, to Student, to Alumni, Abuzz enables and strengthens connectivity across your entire campus community.

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