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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Schoolbox

    Score4.1 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Because learners thrive in a connected community. Schoolbox is an integrated, all-in-one learning management system (LMS), community portal, and engagement platform for K-12 schools. Schoolbox is designed to present a robust solution that connects the entire school community, and drives innovative teaching and learning. Schoolbox is self or cloud hosted, integrated, flexible, and secure to simplify communication and collaboration in schools, and improve teaching and learning.

    $10

    per student

    Thinkific

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AThinkific Plus is a scalable learning platform that’s designed to be easy to use for teams and customers. Thinkific Plus offers enterprise-grade features that scale with the needs of enterprises, and the service includes a people seriously dedicated to helping users to reach their goals.N/A
    Pricing
    SchoolboxThinkific
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $10.00
    per student
    Pro
    $13.00
    per student
    Elite
    $15.00
    per student
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SchoolboxThinkific
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$4,000 per installationNo setup fee
    Additional Details
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    SchoolboxThinkific
    Considered Both Products
    Schoolbox
    No answer on this topic
    Thinkific
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    87%
    Would buy again
    41 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    35 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    44 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    Features
    SchoolboxThinkific
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of Schoolbox and Thinkific
    Feature
    Schoolbox
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Thinkific
    -
    Ratings
    Course authoring8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Course catalog or library8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Player/Portal8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile friendly9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Assignments9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning administration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social learning6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    SchoolboxThinkific
    Small Businesses
    Google Classroom
    Score8.2 out of 10
    iSpring Suite
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Schoology Learning
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Articulate 360
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Axonify
    Score10 out of 10
    Articulate 360
    Score9.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SchoolboxThinkific
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SchoolboxThinkific
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Schoolbox
    Schoolboxn is well suited to being a school portal. You can manage user accounts, access to information and communicate to users individually or as a group. The pages allow for a great range of media types, you can use blog, forum or chat and embed videos and images easily. As an LMS, this system is great. Student accounts link to class information easily by the back end sync tools. Giving students instant access to their information. Assessments are easily submitted and feedback given by teachers can be viewed by students and parents.
    A situation where this system is less suitable is if you work in a school that already has a dedicated portal and/or LMS.
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    Thinkific
    I think Thinkific is very well suited if you want more control and not a ton of competition. It is very well suited if you want to create courses because it does an amazing job with providing course outline examples for you to stay organized and so forth. The only thing I would say where the courses might be less appropriate is if someone is expecting it to be like an udemy where people can see a ton of different course creators all in one place with course recommendations. Thinkific is not that type of platform and I LOVE that. On Thinkific, it almost feels like our site is our own ya know. I tried out other platforms and it just felt like you were competing with so many other people and could see other courses. Felt like being on a platter served with others. Thinkific just feels more unique in the sense it feels like when people come to your page, they are only seeing your page.
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    Pros
    Schoolbox
    • Learning management
    • Feedback management
    • Communications - email/news posting
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    Thinkific
    • Enables course creators to deliver high quality courses very fast
    • Offers unlimited hosting for videos included in the subscription price
    • Provides an easy to use administration interface that's powerful and accessible
    • Easy to scale subscription tiers on B2C plans, cost effective highly scaleable B2B plans (Thinkific Plus) ideal for companies who want to start a customer education program
    • Amazing support and account management team - great mindset and people in the teams.
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    Cons
    Schoolbox
    • User interface
    • System search
    • Quiz builder
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    Thinkific
    • auto formatting of some course building content, does not format well on phone vs desktop
    • filter by group functionality for website based content, it's mostly filter by enrollments
    • the plug and play web building is convenient but really we need a UX/UI designer to build a super good looking website. Plug and play builder works but doesnt look SUPER sharp if done by someone with no dev skills or coding ability
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Schoolbox
    No answers on this topic
    Thinkific
    I'm very likely to renewal as long as Thinkific stays focused on helping small businesses like myself to stay in the know of new and more effective ways to use digital learning tools to help our students get better success. I will also stay with Thinkific if they do not intend to hike up the prices and keep the different price plans suit all businesses regardless of the size.
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    Usability
    Schoolbox
    No answers on this topic
    Thinkific
    Under Site Builder, when trying to add a new section, so many templates appear; however, preview is not shown, which makes it super difficult and time consuming to identify a template that suits the purpose. Customization of certification designs is a bit difficult too. There are limitations to the type of quiz questions I can create - for example, there's no option to have fill in the blank questions.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Schoolbox
    No answers on this topic
    Thinkific
    I've never had any issues with accessing Thinkific but I can see when it has been a problem for others. When I get updates on when they are doing maintenance to their platform I tend to make sure that is not the day I plan to be working on my school so as not to get frustrated
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    Performance
    Schoolbox
    No answers on this topic
    Thinkific
    When it comes to the performance of Thinkific for me I find that it's good but could be better. I tend to think that the larger the files and videos you upload on your courses may add to the impact of it's uploading (not sure if that's actually true or not). But overall the performance of Thinkific via my tablet and desktop is very good when I have a fast speed broadband speed
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    Support Rating
    Schoolbox
    No answers on this topic
    Thinkific
    I rate Thinkific a ten because of its excellent customer service, ease of use, high-quality product, fair price with excellent ROI, and because they keep making improvements. Using Thinkific solved the problems of piecing together our course with various WordPress plugins, iframes, and payment processing software. It's easy to create a course website for people who can't write code.
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    Implementation Rating
    Schoolbox
    No answers on this topic
    Thinkific
    The implementation period took time like it would in earning and using any new tool. It was more about being organised, having better time management processes in place and having people you were able to reach out to if you were every able stuck. The other key ting with the implementation period was giving yourself a realistic time scale to get the job completed.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Schoolbox
    Canvas is purely an LMS. Whilst it is a good system, it didn’t allow us to manage parent communication or use it as a portal. In the end we didn’t want to manage 2 separate systems. Schoolbox is the only all in one system we found that stacked up. Other systems did the portal well, or the LMS well, but not both together.
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    Thinkific
    ClickFunnels is great for funnels, but as of now, it does not do well with e-learning. Maybe they'll change that in ClickFunnels 2.0. But for now, I use Thinkific because I need a place where the students can come into their own dashboard, find all the courses they have purchased on a single place and be able to track their progress.
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    Scalability
    Schoolbox
    No answers on this topic
    Thinkific
    The opportunities to scale your online course business with Thinkific is endless. They provide a great range of plans with features, integrations and support to suit the needs of any business as different levels. The key here is knowing where to start with the budget you have and then knowing when it's time to scale up and the tools and resources it will require.
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    Return on Investment
    Schoolbox
    • It’s a time saver for teachers as course information can be re-used
    • User administration rules allows for automation
    • Parent comms are centralised and easily managed
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    Thinkific
    • I have to work harder to insure I get a monthly return on my investment.
    • A positive is once I create a course, I market it over and over each year.
    • Being able to mix hosting a live masterclass with course modules allows me to offer more value to my customers, which is good for my business.
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    Schoolbox Screenshots

    Screenshot of DevicesScreenshot of School News FeedScreenshot of Calendar - eDiaryScreenshot of My ClassesScreenshot of Class MarkbookScreenshot of Inline Grader.