Blackbaud Education Management Solutions vs. WizIQ LMS

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Blackbaud Education Management Solutions
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Blackbaud Education Management Solutions is a unified student management system for K–12 private schools. Blackbaud Enrollment Management System™: Gives schools and families the ability to track admissions progress from first impressions all the way through the application process to acceptance, enrollment, and tuition payment. Blackbaud Learning Management System™: Track students' academic performance and progression…N/A
WizIQ LMS
Score 5.5 out of 10
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WizIQ LMS is designed to meet both teaching and training needs and to give users more control over the learning process. Users can build their learning environment within minutes, add and manage multiple teacher accounts, create online courses, and schedule live classes. This solution provides a space that can be built and customized to the user’s liking.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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Features
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Learning Management
Comparison of Learning Management features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Education Management Solutions
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Ratings
WizIQ LMS
5.4
7 Ratings
41% below category average
Course authoring00 Ratings5.96 Ratings
Course catalog or library00 Ratings6.26 Ratings
Player/Portal00 Ratings3.66 Ratings
Learning content00 Ratings5.87 Ratings
Mobile friendly00 Ratings5.67 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications00 Ratings5.67 Ratings
Assignments00 Ratings5.87 Ratings
Compliance management00 Ratings5.67 Ratings
Learning administration00 Ratings5.87 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics00 Ratings5.36 Ratings
Social learning00 Ratings5.66 Ratings
Gamification00 Ratings3.63 Ratings
Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning00 Ratings5.63 Ratings
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User Ratings
Blackbaud Education Management SolutionsWizIQ LMS
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(118 ratings)
5.5
(19 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.5
(9 ratings)
1.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
6.9
(5 ratings)
1.1
(2 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(115 ratings)
9.2
(5 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
4.5
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
1.1
(2 ratings)
Configurability
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(0 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.0
(21 ratings)
6.4
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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5.5
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
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8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Blackbaud
A good, and constantly improving solution for private schools. I don't know that a lot of its functionality would be well suited to public schools, but maybe? The integration with other Blackbaud software is a huge plus for us, as we have several of their other products including their flagship Raiser's Edge. Smaller schools may not need the sophistication of Blackbaud solutions, and it is not an inexpensive option.
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AuthorGen Technologies
They have to try out within their own use case scenarios with a sample learner, and test the features of their course and delivery needs. As there is not a content structuring tool, the course author has to have expertise in content and instruction design to create their own materials. The rest is easy to test and check. Test it on all browsers and test the functionality under various internet service speeds.
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Pros
Blackbaud
  • Seamless integration between the LMS, EMS and SIS modules
  • Real-time, effective chat support helps me not only with urgent needs but also to work through possibilities for increasing how we use the product.
  • Feature upgrades monthly that respond to voiced needs from users
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AuthorGen Technologies
  • WizIQ virtual classroom offers an Interactive whiteboard, Screen Sharing, youtube video play, media content upload option.
  • Class Recording in MP4
  • It provides you with a wonderful experience of a Virtual classroom with better Audio and Video streaming.
  • The platform offers courses feature where users can create a paid course, enroll the student in a course and earn.
  • Search functionality to find courses/classes from the list
  • 24*7 after sales customer service
  • Supported languages for the virtual classroom: English, Arabic, Spanish, Czech, French, Greek, German, Turkish, Hindi
  • It provides a Virtual Classroom integration option with Moodle, WordPress, Joomla, Java, PHP, .NET websites.
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Cons
Blackbaud
  • Forms - lack of conditional questions
  • Gradebook -lack of links to assignments
  • Not being able to customize displays, for example, Grading tab - we just finished 1st semester and teachers could only see the current quarter but not the 1st one which is still part of the first semester. Lack of customization in assessments.
  • Scheduling- even though re-running generating schedules, we're still getting a high number of unscheduled students. Lack of being able to limit the number of scheduled classes in a row for teachers.
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AuthorGen Technologies
  • Although all are good but WizIQ needs to improve in these fields...It goes offline once in a while which is a headache as it needs to be constantly managed and needs to be kept under observation all the time.
  • It is better for less userbase management as its browser platform is not stable for a larger number of participants.
  • We need to manage each online department separately.
  • Audio sound needs to be more clear.
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Likelihood to Renew
Blackbaud
It is a solid product. We have some issues with the capabilities of the website building components and the out dated technology behind its communications software but overall Blackbaud Education Management Software services to combine numerous functions into one product.
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AuthorGen Technologies
I need to overcome some of the important limitations which have been pending for more than 6 months indicating inability of the vendor or lack of clarity among the development team about what we want and how it can be done easily on their platform and MySQL at virtually no cost without ending up in a feature modification custom development and cost. Teaching and learning with respect to an Indian scenario is different and needs to be adapted to the local needs and realities.
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Usability
Blackbaud
Blackbaud EMS is very usable from my perspective. I am a power user and get lots of valuable functionality. It is, however, a complex system. Sometimes necessarily complex to accommodate flexibility for diverse customer needs. Some complexity seems unnecessary and/or hold-over functionality from earlier versions; nice to see this type being evolved away from over time. It is valuable to receive regular updates to the system along with good release notes of what changed and notices of significant changes in advance.
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AuthorGen Technologies
I have understood and used most of it by now after 6-7 months of exploration and use. Though there are small glitches that could be easily resolved by WizIQ, I feel comfortable to handle the product by now. However, clients find it a challenge to explore and do not wish to spend time to learn
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Reliability and Availability
Blackbaud
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AuthorGen Technologies
It has been very good till date.
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Performance
Blackbaud
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AuthorGen Technologies
I have not experienced any of these issues as yet.
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Support Rating
Blackbaud
Decent support however the chat feature can take a great amount of time out of the workday. If for instance you are waiting for someone to respond in the chat and there is a fire drill, if you are not responding within a few minutes, you are disconnected and have to start all over again. It would be great if you could submit your problem and then whoever has the most experience, can respond. The training in the Blackbaud University is good but also time-consuming - a 3 hr training in the middle of a workday is a lot to ask. I like the 90-minute sessions. It would also be great to offer a shorter webinar to update on any changes implemented. Other than the email I subscribed to, there is no information on how these updates actually work.
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AuthorGen Technologies
Very responsive and accommodating during the sales period, then totally unhelpful, rude and dismissive when you are unhappy with the product. Now ignoring my messages.
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In-Person Training
Blackbaud
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AuthorGen Technologies
It was remote and not in-person.
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Online Training
Blackbaud
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AuthorGen Technologies
It was a product presentation and not a live work through kind of training. I had to remember the presentation from remote and then go about the tool/ builder. It was difficult to handle and I had a lot of doubts and clarifications to address in my initial rounds of launching my courses.
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Implementation Rating
Blackbaud
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AuthorGen Technologies
I have developed my own expertise and that is for sale to my clients as a part of my consulting services. I have much to share for assignment and assessment models, course design aspects and mentoring aspects as this is a remote self paced service. If the courses are live and managed still there needs to be mentoring and support to help the learner.
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Alternatives Considered
Blackbaud
Blackbaud K-12 is very similar. I feel like I would be trading one set of issues for another so it's kind of a wash. We are very much hooked into the Blackbaud website with our Google SSO, SmartTuition, and Schooldoc integrations. It would be difficult for us to transition. That is the main reason I haven't really entertained other web firms.
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AuthorGen Technologies
I selected WizIQ because I used them when I subscribed for org.wiziq for nearly 10 years. It was firstly trusting in their technical support system in place and their new plug-in. Other products that are available for free or a nominal amount, e.g. Zoom and Google Meet are way better in their performance and features in my opinion.
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Scalability
Blackbaud
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AuthorGen Technologies
Seems pretty good to me as of now. Of course there are usage slabs and commercials to handle before scaling up.
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Return on Investment
Blackbaud
  • Negative - The rollout is brutal. Blackbaud said it could happen in 6 months, but that is definitely not a reality. It will take well over a year, and one complete school cycle to actually integrate everything correctly.
  • Positive - The amount of time saved in data processing has allowed our office to become more involved in other areas of the school.
  • Positive - The ease of having everything in [one] place, from inquiry to application to contracts and course registration, has been a HUGE benefit to our applicants and their families.
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AuthorGen Technologies
  • By using the WizIQ our team has launched more than 130 courses for internal staff capacity building.
  • We also monitor which learner is doing well in the overall assigned courses.
  • Created a list of courses which help everyone who is new to the organization.
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ScreenShots

Blackbaud Education Management Solutions Screenshots

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WizIQ LMS Screenshots

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