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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Coursedog

    Score6 out of 10
    N/ACoursedog in New York presents what they describe as an all-in-one curricular success management solution that manages schedule optimization, curriculum and catalog management in one platform in order to drive efficiencies across campuses to improve student success.N/A

    Ellucian Banner

    Score2.6 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
    Pricing
    CoursedogEllucian Banner
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CoursedogEllucian Banner
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    CoursedogEllucian Banner
    Considered Both Products
    Coursedog
    Chose Coursedog
    Coursedog is much more user friendly for semester scheduling.
    Incentivized
    Ellucian
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    80%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    82%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    80%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    78%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    CoursedogEllucian Banner
    Student and Faculty Administration
    Comparison of Student and Faculty Administration features of Coursedog and Ellucian Banner
    Feature
    Coursedog
    -
    Ratings
    Ellucian Banner
    8.5
    8 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology00 Ratings7.98 Ratings
    Online Registration Management00 Ratings8.97 Ratings
    District Communications, such as messaging and alerting00 Ratings8.94 Ratings
    Roster Management00 Ratings8.56 Ratings
    Platform Customization00 Ratings8.16 Ratings
    Teacher Self-Service00 Ratings8.86 Ratings
    Student Data Security00 Ratings8.67 Ratings
    Community Support00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
    Class Scheduling00 Ratings8.67 Ratings
    State and National-level Reporting00 Ratings9.27 Ratings
    Compliance Support00 Ratings8.96 Ratings
    Teacher and Parent Mobile Application00 Ratings7.25 Ratings
    User Ratings
    CoursedogEllucian Banner
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.4
    (21 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CoursedogEllucian Banner
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Coursedog
    To lessen the workload from having to input everything manually based off of PDFs, now the schedulers input into Coursedog on their side, and all stakeholders have access to their sections and schedules and can see the status of everything.
    Incentivized
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Coursedog
    • "Source of truth"
    • Responsive tech team
    • Admin access to what we need
    Incentivized
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Coursedog
    • Banner integration
    • Openness to new recommendations
    • Need an effective testing environment for new features
    Incentivized
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Coursedog
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Coursedog
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Coursedog
    No answers on this topic
    Ellucian
    It's pretty much up all the time.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Coursedog
    No answers on this topic
    Ellucian
    Has gotten much better due to new hardware.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Coursedog
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Coursedog
    No answers on this topic
    Ellucian
    very satisfied, along with the IT staff and ellucian support the upgrades do very well and have minimum down time.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Coursedog
    Coursedog is much more user friendly for semester scheduling.
    Incentivized
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    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.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Coursedog
    No answers on this topic
    Ellucian
    being able to scale with hardware was easy and not cumbersome. We were allowed to user virtual machines which made things very scalable.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Coursedog
    • Accuracy has dramatically improved for schedules
    • Payroll flowing into our database is much more streamlined
    • Able to download Excel reports at any time of our schedules
    Incentivized
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    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
    Incentivized
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