Learning Technology Partners

IZIO Overview and Competitive Comparison
Feature	IZIO	eCollege	Blackboard

Users	- Student - Staff with permission - based administration privileges - Instructor - Head TA - TA - Grader - Other - Training Manager - Department Admin - School Admin	-Professor -Demo Professor -Mentor -Student -Teaching Assistant -Administrator	-Professor -Demo Professor -Mentor -Student -Teaching Assistant -Administrator
School Administrator	Creates and manages departments and department administrators. Selects features available and controls feature names, URL, enrollment types, logos and colors.	No	No
Department Administrator	Creates and manages courses, professors, teaching assistants, and graders. Assigns sections and staff (or allows professors to do so). Reviews course material and assigns department-wide surveys.	No	No

Online Submissions	Per Assignment, Time stamped, associated with grading item and feedback enabled	Via Drop Box, Doc Sharing, or attachment	Using single drop-box. Comments enabled
Quizzes and Surveys	Quiz Autograding. WYSIWYG form creator with page-break ability, allowing student to continue after a computer crash. Object Types: -Short Answer -Long Answer -Multiple Answer -Multiple Choice -Rating (with average score statistics) -Excellence -Agreement -Consistency -Numeric -Custom -Page Break -Image with caption Department-wide surveys with statistics aggregated over the Course, Section, Staff Member, or custom groups. Rating objects give averaged numerical scores over associated group. Results can be reviewed by department administrators, and can optionally be made available to the reviewed staff members.	Quiz Autograding. One question-at-a-time form creator Question Types: -True/False -Multiple Choice -Multiple Answer -Fill-in-the-blank -Matching -Short Answer -Essay Images for Questions Evaluation Module Separate	Quiz Autograding. One question-at-a-time form creator. Question Types: - Fill in the blank - Matching - Multiple Answer - Multiple Choice - Ordering - Short Answer - True/False - Question Pool Images for questions. Surveys for a single course, percentage-type statistics per answer.
Study Groups	Course-related professor-led study groups (discussions, file sharing, meetings, chat, schedules). Student-created open and closed study groups, available for all users.	Groups created by instructor. File sharing and content items by group if desired.	Groups created by staff, and if allowed, by students. File-sharing, email, chat.

Customizability	All campuses may upload and change banner graphics, text labels of all features, enable/disable features and use a customized URL subdomain.	The template colors 1 of 18 to choose from. School banner can be changed.	Customizable graphics
Support	Free to all users	By Purchased plan	By purchased plan