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2 Introduction This document is a detailed comparison between NEO and, taking under consideration the features, functionality, and cost of each platform. NEO is a word-class, award-winning learning management system (LMS) for schools and universities. NEO helps schools manage all classroom activities, such as creating and delivering educational content, assessing students, tracking their results, and promoting communication and collaboration between students and teachers/faculty. NEO is a product of CYPHER LEARNING, a company that specializes in providing learning platforms for organizations around the world. from D2L is a consolidated learning solution developed for use by K-12 education districts, higher education institutions, as well as by government offices and corporate clients.

3 User interface The NEO interface is a modern, responsive design that looks sharp and automatically adjusts based on the type of device. It provides attractive tile-based dashboards for students, teachers and administrators, a graphical class catalog, as well as simple pop-out navigation. Many features can be enabled or disabled to suit young children through to college students. It provides rich content authoring as well as a visually attractive way to create and organize lesson material. NEO offers native mobile apps for ios, Android and Windows. The interface is fairly easy to use and intuitive, just not quite as graphical as the NEO interface. The dashboards are very simple and there is a lot of text instead of visual elements. has native mobile apps for ios and Android.

4 Ease of use NEO is very intuitive and easy to use. In addition, it includes an online help center, with videos, getting started guides, and searchable help content. NEO also has a rapid response support forum where staff members typically respond to questions within minutes during business hours 24/5. is easy to use and understand, includes online help and technical support via and forum, video tutorials, and the Community.

5 Features NEO provides the range of functionality you'd expect in a modern LMS, such as support for classes (instructor led, blended, self-paced, and micro learning), twelve kinds of assignments, full-featured gradebook, content authoring, beautiful lesson layouts, gamification, automation, learning paths, drip content, adaptive learning, mastery and competencies (including US common core standards and Next Generation Science Standards), question banks, class templates, rubrics, collaboration tools, resources catalog, a customizable portal, and more.

6 NEO supports many important industry standards such as SCORM, Common Cartridge Format, LTI, QTI and LDAP. We also integrate with a wide variety of systems, including Google Drive, G Suite, Office 365, OneDrive, Calendars (ical), Turnitin, Zapier, GoToMeeting, Zoom, WebEx, SIS, Equella, and more. provides a similar feature set and has a special user interface for K-12 students, with the main difference being that the features are not as visually attractive, and a little harder to configure and use. The class creation tool does not allow you to add resources on the same page and the assignment tool is rather restrictive.

7 In addition, here is a list of the features that NEO provides that does not: User interface Graphical dashboards Customizable visitor portal Customizable terminology Support for more than 40 languages Branded mobile apps Windows native app Automatic translation of messages & forum posts Content Automation Compliance Drip content Class ratings and reviews Micro learning Prerequisite certificates Adaptive learning Personalized assignments Collaboration Wikis Social networking Teams Organizations Debates and team assignments Compliance

8 Integrations Integration with 1,000+ Equella Stripe MailChimp Authorize.net xapi Skype for Business PayUbiz Cometchat GoToTraining PayU Latam Unicheck PayPal apps via Zapier Other Built-in student help desk Account types such as Archiving students teaching assistant, SEO features parent, and monitor Trash can for restoring deleted content

9 Cost NEO has a free plan and costs about $6 per student per year for its Small school plan and $7 per student per year for its Enterprise plan. There are no setup fees, cancellation fees, storage fees, bandwidth fees, support fees, or other hidden costs. usually costs between $16 - $20 per student per year and has an implementation fee of $10,000 for 1,000 users. There is also an additional charge for SIS implementation.

10 Summary This was a comparison of the most important features between NEO and. NEO is a more modern, powerful, and intuitive LMS than offering a larger set of features suitable for both K-12 and Higher Education clients. If you require additional information on NEO, please contact us at sales@cypherlearning.com. This comparison was written in April 2018 based on publicly available documentation on both vendors sites. It was prepared as a guide and is not intended to be exhaustive. The comparison information does not constitute any contractual representation, warranty or obligation on our part. Liability for errors, omissions or consequential loss is expressly disclaimed. If you find any information in this comparison guide to be inaccurate, please contact us and we will correct the information.