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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Relias Learning Management System

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AThe Relias Learning Management System is a corporate e-learning platform for healthcare, insurance, and education industries. Features include: automated training enrollment, a library of over 3,000 pre-built courses as well as customizable courses, live training management, and tracking and reporting.N/A

    Renaissance Star Assessments

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AStar Assessments are a suite of assessments for reading, math, and early literacy, in both English and Spanish, boasting users among over 30,000 schools. Star Assessments helps educators to gain accurate insights into student learning, growth, and achievement—so they can help all learners reach their full potential. The full Star Assessment suite includes the computer-adaptive Star Reading (K–12), Star Math (K–12), and Star Early Literacy (pre-K–3) assessments; a formative assessment tool, Star…N/A
    Pricing
    Relias Learning Management SystemRenaissance Star Assessments
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Relias Learning Management SystemRenaissance Star Assessments
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Relias LLC
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    Renaissance Learning
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    70%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    48 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    70%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    46 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    75%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    30 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    37 Answers
    Features
    Relias Learning Management SystemRenaissance Star Assessments
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of Relias Learning Management System and Renaissance Star Assessments
    Feature
    Relias Learning Management System
    7.9
    12 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Renaissance Star Assessments
    -
    Ratings
    Course authoring7.612 Ratings00 Ratings
    Course catalog or library7.612 Ratings00 Ratings
    Player/Portal8.29 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning content7.612 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile friendly6.610 Ratings00 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications9.212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Assignments9.212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance management8.411 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning administration9.211 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics7.412 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social learning6.88 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gamification5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign On (SSO) Enabled Learning10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Relias Learning Management SystemRenaissance Star Assessments
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.6
    (14 ratings)
    8.7
    (71 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    2.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.2
    (9 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (15 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Relias Learning Management SystemRenaissance Star Assessments
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Relias LLC
    Good for an organization who are in health care and in ABA. Not so good everyone else. There are courses specific to the industry, however, the glitches and the lack of support from the customer service staff makes it hard to recommend the product.
    Incentivized
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    Renaissance Learning
    Renaissance Star Assessments are great for students who already know English and know how to use a device, especially a tablet. The children can listen to the question, choose an answer, then move on to the next question. These assessments are less appropriate for students learning English as a second language. Since the questions are in English, and most students primarily speak another language, they do not understand the questions and get many of them wrong. As a result, they score low and it appears as if the child has not been learning when in fact the low score is due to a language barrier. I think there should also be some type of block to choosing an answer until after the question is presented because some children like to press answers before the question is finished and then try to move on. I think having the answers be unclickable before the question is finished would be a benefit for the children to pay more attention to the question.
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    Pros
    Relias LLC
    • Relias Learning Management System has a massive catalog of pre-built trainings available for employees to take at their leisure
    • Relias Learning Management System has many compliance & hr related trainings based in the system already based on laws and regulations
    • Relias Learning Management System makes it easy to record & build your own trainings to add into their system for specific employees in your company to take as you require
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    Renaissance Learning
    • Renaissance Star Assessments gives me a look at each student as an overall reader.
    • Renaissance Star Assessments shows me the areas of which my students are struggling.
    • Renaissance Star Assessments is linked with Nearpod, so I can assign lessons based on what each student needs.
    • Star CBM helps me see whether my students' fluency is improving or not.
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    Cons
    Relias LLC
    • Reporting is abominable, hasn't been updated in over 4 years.
    • Organization of courses, modules, training plans, skills checklists, manuals, and tests— a lot of options and very challenging to differentiate
    • Their mobile application is not user-friendly, it crashes, doesn't load certain courses, doesn't play audio on other ones, and has very poor performance.
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    Renaissance Learning
    • The graphs for each subject are not consistently the same. (ie. some graphs are by 5s and some are by 50s.) It's very confusing to read them.
    • The questions are not rigorous enough for state standards.
    • Different reports will show data that does not align. If 'state' is chosen, then all reports should show the same data. The Parent Report will show the child in 'green', but every sub-skill is in 'red'. That is super confusing for parents and teachers.
    • All reports should be based on the same score, but they are not. It is like comparing apples to oranges on the same child.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Relias LLC
    RMLS have become an important component of our agency's support systems. It provides consistent context for education and trainings as well as being flexible to allow staff to access it on their time. We have found many of the content sessions to be very useful for staff development and supportive of our overall agency goals and strategies.
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    Renaissance Learning
    Star Assessments and Renaissance is the best educational products at this time. They are found worldwide, easy to use and informational for districts teachers and families. Information will follow a student if they change districts and give previous information to new districts and teachers
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    Usability
    Relias LLC
    I enjoy the ease of setup. It has a large course library and selection filter to choose by
    profession and/or module type. Even though it has a generic user
    interface and navigating tools, but it gets the job done. It offers the
    basic and simple delivery, tracking, and reporting.
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    Renaissance Learning
    It is very user friendly and intuitive. I have had minimal training on the system and was able to access many of the features. I was able to easily create student accounts and set up testing for our students. I was able to find appropriate reports that provide the right data for our team and our parents.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Relias LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Renaissance Learning
    It’s wonderful
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    Performance
    Relias LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Renaissance Learning
    I absolutely love this program
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    Support Rating
    Relias LLC
    Our implementation specialist was second-to-none, and upon 'graduating' from implementation, we were underwhelmed by the support after that. Due to the thoroughness of our implementation, we have had few occasions to contact support. We've been passed among several different contact persons, but have always received answers to our questions.
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    Renaissance Learning
    I have been very happy with the support. By phone or email I have found the support very good and they get back to me quickly. This survey however is wa6 overdone, expecting me to come up with 50 words on each question. It becomes very repetitive and very laborious.
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    Online Training
    Relias LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Renaissance Learning
    I just feel this way.
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    Implementation Rating
    Relias LLC
    It was very easy to implement. It's cloud based, so the most difficult part was getting users loaded.
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    Renaissance Learning
    When presenters show us how to use the program they need to have a full class size of data. During training, there were only 5 or 6 sample students. Classes are more like 25 and that makes the training more realistic to have similar data to what we will use.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Relias LLC
    Relias has significantly more and higher quality training courses and video offerings than any competitor in the space. At the end of the day, it's about the caregivers receiving as much information they can to be successful.
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    Renaissance Learning
    Renaissance Star Math Assessment provided a proven data collection tool. This was also being used at the lower grades in our district, so it made sense to continue with its use to provide a more reliable and accurate picture of our students entering the middle school. The continuation of the data trail should continue to help their overall growth.
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    Scalability
    Relias LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Renaissance Learning
    Great overall program with lots of advice in implementation
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    Return on Investment
    Relias LLC
    • We have been able to manage a large amount of training for a diverse work force more efficiently.
    • We are adding functionality to be able to use the system to circulate materials to our workforce where documentation of knowledge/understanding is needed,
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    Renaissance Learning
    • It has positively impacted student time to learn by reducing testing times and allowing more time for instruction
    • The reduced testing time also positively impacted our schools by freeing the computer labs and making the planning and creation of testing schedules easier. This has allowed more computer lab use for education and learning.
    • It has negatively impacted the time and effort required by support staff, administrators, and some teachers by requiring more time spent on looking up results or going to multiple spots and manually combining results because a larger group couldn't easily be made.
    • Another negative impact on our district is that it has also taxed those few educators with more technical ability and data knowledge moreso than other programs. The need to create/summarize/write programs to deal with full, raw data export files since the smaller, more specific reports and summaries are not downloadable into a format that can be manipulated easily (pdf only, not csv exports), and to constantly back up data exports and to have to search through them when the State wants results on past students etc.
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