QuadC vs Penji: Beyond Scheduling
QuadC vs Penji: Beyond Scheduling
QuadC is the all-in-one student success platform that empowers educators with the tools they need to identify at-risk students early and provide personalized support, while Penji focuses on simplifying tutoring and advising services.
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Students Served
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Sessions Delivered
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Assignments Reviewed
QuadC vs Penji
QuadC offers a comprehensive suite of solutions in a user-friendly interface, from simplified scheduling to personalized learning tools. By providing features such as early alerts, AI-powered tutoring, and seamless integrations, Quadc empowers educators to focus on teaching and supporting their students
Top Features |
QuadC |
Penji |
Early Alerts | ||
STEM-Friendly Teaching Tools | ||
Video Conferencing & Advanced Whiteboard | ||
Designed to Support Multiple Sub-Services | ||
Facilitates Access to Out-Sourced Services | ||
AI for Students and Staff |
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What’s important in a student success tool?
Choosing a Student Success tool is an important decision. With the right tool, your team can not only save time on the day-to-day administrative tasks, but also access valuable insights and reporting metrics to impact your student retention goals.
Integrations
Connect with the tools you already use.
Both QuadC and Penji integrates with your existing LMS, SIS, and communication tools. This ensures a smooth workflow and eliminates complex integrations
Integrations |
QuadC |
Penji |
Zoom | ||
Microsoft Teams, WebEx, and Google Calendar | ||
Student Information System (SIS) | ||
Learning Management System |
Configuration
A customized experience with only the features you need.
QuadC offers a more comprehensive solution than Penji for managing student success departments. While Penji primarily serves tutoring and advising, QuadC covers a wider range of departments, including writing centres and drop-in centers. Additionally, QuadC’s single user-friendly platform streamlines operations and enhances overall efficiency.
Configurations |
QuadC |
Penji |
Tutoring | ||
Writing Support | ||
Advising | ||
Coaching & Mentoring |
Video Conferencing
Access a seamless virtual meeting space.
QuadC offers a more robust video conferencing suite than Penji. QuadC provides a built-in video conferencing solution, while Penji relies only on third-party integrations.
Video Conferencing Features |
QuadC |
Penji |
Video conferencing with audio, video, and text chat, a shared whiteboard, and drawing and math tools | ||
Ability to teach and practice coding within the whiteboard | ||
One-to-many video sessions | ||
Asynchronous & synchronous document editing | ||
An included eTutoring module with file upload, written response, and email response tools with a dedicated slot-based schedule interface |
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Access to video recordings of previous tutoring sessions | ||
STEM-friendly teaching tool |
Early Alerts
Tools that allow you to catch problems before they get out of hand.
QuadC’s data-driven approach provides actionable insights to help you proactively identify struggling students and personalize their learning experience. Unlike Penji, which may lack such automated capabilities, QuadC empowers you to make informed decisions.
Early Alerts |
QuadC |
Penji |
Manually triggered | ||
Automated triggers, case management, assign cases to multiple teams, single-source of truth for student info |
Administrative Tasks
Administrative tools designed to support staff holistically
Both QuadC and Penji simplify administrative tasks with streamlined workflows. Manage student data, track progress, and generate reports, all within a centralized platform
Administrative Tasks |
QuadC |
Penji |
Scheduling flexibly operated by self-serve or staff-managed | ||
Easily configured single-sign-on and LDAP authentication capabilities | ||
Tracking attendance of students and tutors | ||
No-show policy tracking, notifications, and enforcement | ||
Designed to support advising | ||
Designed to support the writing center | ||
Designed to support tutoring | ||
Designed to support counselling | ||
Designed to support supplemental instruction |
Reporting
Advanced-Data to Improve Your School's Performance
Both QuadC and Penji offer comprehensive reporting suites to provide valuable insights into student progress. However, QuadC’s data-driven approach offers actionable recommendations.
Reporting Features |
QuadC |
Penji |
Customizable reports with charts, graphs, and statistics which eliminate the need for manual data entry | ||
Can easily export data into CSV files to share |
Student Features
Intuitive student features to increase ease of use
QuadC prioritizes student ease of use with features like instant messaging and a social media-inspired interface. While both platforms aim to provide a positive user experience, QuadC’s focus on student engagement may set it apart.
Student Features |
QuadC |
Penji |
Instant messaging feature between hosts, students, and administrators | ||
One can easily search for services or tutors in a social media-inspired interface | ||
Support online sessions | ||
Support in-person sessions | ||
Can see a log of all past, current, and upcoming sessions (ie. advising or tutoring) |
Upcoming, and pending, but not past sessions. Past can only be viewed by the admin | |
Customer tech support | ||
Daily live seminars for tech support for training and ease of use | ||
Allows schools to consolidate multiple programs and services | To an extent - schools will still need to used video conferencing tools to supplement the ease of use. | |
New features/updates are installed automatically and without additional costs |
AI
Engage with AI tools ethically
QuadC takes student support to the next level with its innovative AI tutor, offering 24/7 access to personalized tutoring and learning resources. This ensures that students always have the assistance they need to succeed academically, giving QuadC an edge over Penji's tutoring services.
AI |
QuadC |
Penji |
AI Tutoring Features for Students, Tutors, and Administrators | ||
AI 'Study Buddy' - Supplement to Human Tutors and Instructors, 24/7 Quick Question and Answers (guidance, not direct answer), Practice Quiz, Study Plan, Writing Guide, Writing Review |
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Client Testimonials
QuadC’s adamant about their product; they are pushing something awesome. More than that was their willingness to work with us to customize the product. Phenomenal!
QuadC is formatted in a way that’s familiar to our students. They can chat with Tutors like they would on Facebook. It’s a better user experience!
It has been a pleasure working with you and the entire QuadC team to help the University of Pittsburg implement its new Academic Support model. I would rate all of you a 10 for your responsiveness and willingness to adjust the platform and accommodate our different use cases.
Find out how QuadC can help your institution improve student retention.
With customizable configurations and a superior user experience, QuadC will seamlessly integrate with all of your institution's existing tools.