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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Ellucian Banner

    Score5.2 out of 10
    N/AEllucian offers Banner educational ERP, including its student management system emphasizing control and reporting of process-oriented facets of education such as grading and attendance.N/A

    iSpring LMS

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AiSpring LMS is an LMS developed by iSpring Solutions. iSpring LMS automates corporate training and helps to improve employee retention through quality onboarding, on-the-job training, gamification and engagement mechanics. With iSpring LMS, training and development professionals can launch eLearning fast, without any technical skills. Also, account owners can customize or white-label the learner portal to reflect their corporate branding. iSpring LMS's features…

    $16,050

    per year for 300 users (minimum)

    Pricing
    Ellucian BanneriSpring LMS
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Business - 300 users
    $16,050.00
    per year
    Business - 500 users
    $23,790.00
    per year
    Business - 1000 users
    $42,930.00
    per year
    Enterprise
    Custom Quote
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Ellucian BanneriSpring LMS
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—No fees for storage or bandwidth.
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    Community Pulse
    Ellucian BanneriSpring LMS
    Considered Both Products
    Ellucian
    No answer on this topic
    iSpring Solutions Inc
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    31 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    82%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    30 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    80%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    32 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    78%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    Features
    Ellucian BanneriSpring LMS
    Student and Faculty Administration
    Comparison of Student and Faculty Administration features of Ellucian Banner and iSpring LMS
    Feature
    Ellucian Banner
    8.5
    8 Ratings
    2% above category average
    iSpring LMS
    -
    Ratings
    Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology7.98 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Registration Management8.97 Ratings00 Ratings
    District Communications, such as messaging and alerting8.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Roster Management8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Customization8.16 Ratings00 Ratings
    Teacher Self-Service8.86 Ratings00 Ratings
    Student Data Security8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Community Support8.66 Ratings00 Ratings
    Class Scheduling8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    State and National-level Reporting9.27 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance Support8.96 Ratings00 Ratings
    Teacher and Parent Mobile Application7.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of Ellucian Banner and iSpring LMS
    Feature
    Ellucian Banner
    -
    Ratings
    iSpring LMS
    8.6
    37 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Course authoring00 Ratings9.036 Ratings
    Course catalog or library00 Ratings9.228 Ratings
    Player/Portal00 Ratings9.333 Ratings
    Learning content00 Ratings6.626 Ratings
    Mobile friendly00 Ratings8.927 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications00 Ratings8.834 Ratings
    Assignments00 Ratings9.331 Ratings
    Compliance management00 Ratings7.228 Ratings
    Learning administration00 Ratings10.034 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics00 Ratings8.935 Ratings
    Social learning00 Ratings8.422 Ratings
    Gamification00 Ratings7.724 Ratings
    Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning00 Ratings8.317 Ratings
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    Ellucian BanneriSpring LMS
    Small Businesses
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    Tovuti LMS
    Score6.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Schoolmint Hero
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Intellum
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Schoolmint Hero
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Bridge LMS, Skills & Performance Management
    Score7.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Ellucian BanneriSpring LMS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (21 ratings)
    9.6
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.8
    (30 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Ellucian BanneriSpring LMS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Ellucian
    As a SIS, Banner Pages is the full meal deal. There are multiple modules that integrate out of the box. Because Banner is all I've ever used as a SIS, I can't contrast it with another program. I can say, it gets the job done for us. I will also say that a tremendous amount of time goes into strategizing how to get new functions to work for us and there always seems to be some catch that requires even more work. In general, the university has been hesitant to build too many modifications into Banner because they take a lot of time to maintain. Inevitably, a new update (of which there are MANY for Banner) will break stuff that isn't "vanilla." This is unfortunate because we've had some great ideas for how to make Banner better for us, but also understandable. If you're looking for a highly modular system, this isn't it. Banner has lots of components, but the components work the way they work and that's that. Also, don't expect very quick responses to bugs or glitches. If the bug is major, yes, it will be addressed. But, little function issues seem to be regularly overlooked.
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    My specific scenario is, that I need to deliver courses in two languages to multiple departments, so iSpring helps me with that from beginning and creating courses, to translating, and then enrolling people. What could be better is how reports works. Right now you can check report either by course or by department/person, but I would need to see everything on one page, like every single enrolment.
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    Pros
    Ellucian
    • I think it's great to use if you are tracking grades for certain classes, especially if you'd like to see how students do, comparing midterm to final grades. If you have the permissions, you can see both.
    • It's also good to track students individually. You can look up a certain semester, and see how they did in that particular time frame, but you can also see their cumulative gpa, or even look up their entire course history.
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    • Automatically re-enrolling employees when a certificate expires. Set it and forget it!
    • If set up properly from the beginning, you don't have to do much, with the roles and groups settings, you can automate a large portion of the course management.
    • I can provide visibility to anyone about any employee necessary, allowing me to put more responsibility on my managers, instead of doing it all myself.
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    Cons
    Ellucian
    • One thing I miss from the previous version of Ellucian Banner, is the control + page down. I struggle with alt + page down.
    • I love the Ellucian Banner favorites; however, it is a little difficult to navigate.
    • I can honestly only think of 2 things that could be improved. I use Ellucian Banner daily.
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    • Some limitations where you can't create exactly what you want either in the design of interactions or lack of varied interactions
    • Images cannot be moved to where you want them on the interaction slides
    • Layout of interactions can't be adjusted and overides your powerpoint background
    • If you have to edit a course and delete it off iSpring Learn then the records of all the people associated to that course are swiped and there's not a way of retrieving the information.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Ellucian
    We have no reason not to renew with Ellucian - we are in deep with the ecosystem, and have Ellucian providing us with information technology support. If anything, should the opportunity arise, we'd probably consider adding a different ellucian tools into the suite of applications we already have on board.
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    In the past I could not encourage my students to take online training. The results and the questions were hard to be given. When I used the iSpring Suite along with iSpring Learn, my dreams came through and most of the time my students are online and take good training with my programme.
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    Usability
    Ellucian
    You definitely have to learn it before it becomes easy to use. It's better than it was, but it's still not entirely intuitive. You can't just look at it and play around to figure out how it works
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    Sometimes, things just aren't intuitive enough. For example, burying the catalog in the settings area makes no sense at all. The same goes for permissions and year reviews. It was a massive oversight that really caused a lot of confusion for all of our managers. It caused distrust in the LMS simply because someone who designed and developed it did not think that an employee review should be private to them, their direct supervisor, or the supervisor above. Instead, ANY manager could read ANY employee review. I have mentioned this several times throughout these questionnaires, and as you can see, I still find it incomprehensible that a company that wants to promote its software as a multifaceted solution could be so blind to something so critical, especially in terms of privacy.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Ellucian
    It's pretty much up all the time.
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    I never experienced any unavailability
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    Performance
    Ellucian
    Has gotten much better due to new hardware.
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    Everything runs smoothly.
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    Support Rating
    Ellucian
    Our department generally does not contact the support center for Banner but the IT department does. That being said, in the seven years that I have been here, I have not once needed to contact the support center; we have had no glitches on Banner's side that needed to be addressed.
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    iSpring Learn’s customer support receives high praise for responsiveness. Live chat and tutorials are noted as highly effective in promptly resolving technical issues. iSpring Learn is a strong LMS for organizations focused on efficiency, engagement, and ease of use, with excellent support to ensure adoption success. iSpring Learn is a strong LMS for organizations focused on efficiency, engagement, and ease of use, with excellent support to ensure adoption success.
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    In-Person Training
    Ellucian
    No answers on this topic
    iSpring Solutions Inc
    We can say that most of my students attend my classes twice a week and that's not enough for someone to learn. I put some training for them to do at home and they really enjoy doing them. The kind of progress they make is really satisfying for them and they are always learning.
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    Online Training
    Ellucian
    No answers on this topic
    iSpring Solutions Inc
    As a teacher, I used to spend a lot of time correcting my students' papers. Now with iSpring Learn, my time has been saved and everything is done automatically. All the time I can check my students' progress and I know which exams they have taken or they should take. On the whole, online training has really helped a lot of teachers
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    Implementation Rating
    Ellucian
    very satisfied, along with the IT staff and ellucian support the upgrades do very well and have minimum down time.
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    When I talked to my colleagues or informed them to search for a programme before iSpring Learn, they were not successful in designing and implementing a programme like this. I am sure they have done a lot to implement it in the best and educational way. That was not that easy as we thought.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Ellucian
    PeopleSoft was more user-friendly. It also provided the ability to save and bookmark queries. PeopleSoft will allow users to use common names to search for queries. Overall, it seemed much more current than Banner. PeopleSoft provided enrollment data for specific sections which allowed one to spot trends of enrollment in a given class.
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    iSpring is a more entry level LMS. It does not have the same level of features and benefits. For example, it does not have the same level of communication capability. It does not have the same level of reporting functionality. It does not have the same ability to build reporting. It also does not have the same level of communication capabilities
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    Scalability
    Ellucian
    being able to scale with hardware was easy and not cumbersome. We were allowed to user virtual machines which made things very scalable.
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    Awesome. We have 10+ department, around 10 to 100 people in each and it is still very manageable
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    Return on Investment
    Ellucian
    • There is positive ROI on the product overall. It had reduced or allowed us to focus our staff members on something which is very use and it does the job in the background.
    • The application has supported in a lot of ways in saving resources and utilizing them in very productive & efficient manner
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    iSpring Solutions Inc
    • iSpring has enabled me to deliver professional education to very high-level learners.
    • Due to the reviews of my users, many more learners have purchased my courses.
    • Several professional colleagues have inquired about my experience setting up online courses on iSpring Learn. I told them it was easy, logical, and no hassle; they will love the level of support.
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