Best Higher Education Software in Africa
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What is Higher Education Software in Africa?
Higher education software refers to tools and platforms designed to support the unique needs of educational institutions such as universities, colleges, and research organizations. These solutions help manage various aspects of academic and administrative operations, including student enrollment, course management, grading, communication, and campus facilities. Features typically include Learning Management Systems (LMS) for delivering courses, Student Information Systems (SIS) for tracking student records, and tools for managing finances, scheduling, and resource allocation. Higher education software can also provide tools for faculty collaboration, student engagement, and research management, enabling institutions to improve operational efficiency, enhance the learning experience, and ensure compliance with accreditation standards. Compare and read user reviews of the best Higher Education software in Africa currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Jotform
Jotform
Trusted by over 25 million users, Jotform is an all-in-one, no-code platform that simplifies data collection, automation, and online sales. Using its drag-and-drop Form Builder, businesses can create customized forms and surveys to collect leads, payments, and e-signatures. With 10,000+ templates and advanced features like conditional logic and 200+ integrations, Jotform streamlines workflows. Jotform's AI-powered Agents provide real-time customer support, guiding users through form submissions, answering questions, and ensuring a smooth experience while reducing manual intervention. These AI agents learn from interactions to improve responses, enhancing efficiency and customer satisfaction. The platform also includes a Store Builder to sell products and services, accept payments through 30+ gateways, and tools like Approvals and Report Builder to automate workflows and generate actionable insights.Starting Price: $34 per month -
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Titan
Titan
Bend, don’t break with Titan’s flexible business solutions and forms for Salesforce. Our scalable Salesforce Forms and software is rapidly developing a reputation as the gold-standard in Salesforce integration, and it’s easy to see why. Slash time to market, nuke code, and tackle any use case on a single platform. Our best-of-breed forms in Salesforce and applications cater to any industry and it’s our mission to provide custom solutions for difficult problems. Build web portals, sign documents, generate docs, send surveys, automate contracts, fill out forms in Salesforce, and so much more in just a few simple clicks. No code required and AI assisted! This is all 100% Salesforce integrated, empowering you to send data to the #1 CRM and pull it back in real-time. No other product on the market does it better or faster. Our customers and partners are the heartbeat of Titan. If you need a feature, simply request it via our Titan X Lab and we will consider it for our roadmap!Starting Price: $12 per month -
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Classter
Vertitech
It’s time we keep school management simple. With the only all-in-one Student Information, School, and Learning Management System on the market, Classter takes the chaos out of your daily operations. Admissions? Done. Attendance? Handled. Communication? Smooth as ever. We know every school is different, which is why Classter adapts to fit your needs—whether you’re running a small K12 school or a bustling university. No more jumping between systems. Everything you need is right here, so you can focus on what really matters: supporting students and building a thriving learning environment.Starting Price: €4.5/student -
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OpenEduCat
OpenEduCat Inc.
At OpenEduCat, we provide a comprehensive open-source ERP tailored to meet the unique needs of educational institutions. Our software is designed to streamline and automate essential administrative tasks, enabling schools, colleges, and universities to manage their day-to-day operations with greater efficiency. From student information management, attendance tracking, and course scheduling to fee management and reporting, OpenEduCat covers every aspect of institutional administration in one unified platform. Built on an open-source framework, OpenEduCat offers flexibility and scalability to meet the evolving demands of modern education systems. Whether you're a small school or a large university, our ERP solution is designed to grow with you, providing customizable modules that can adapt to your specific needs. Our cloud-based platform also ensures secure, real-time access to critical data, empowering administrators, faculty, and students to make informed decisions.Starting Price: $79/month -
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EduSec
RudraSoftech
EduSec has a suite of selective modules specifically tailored to the requirements of the education industry. EduSec is engineered and designed considering a wide range of management functions within the university. Helps to manage multi-campus colleges and universities. With the use of EduSec, staff can be more accountable as it helps to know the performance of each department in just a few seconds. Almost all departments within the education industry can be synchronized and accessed. EduSec helps to assign the responsibilities to employee staff and can reduce time wastage and can speed up the administrative functions. Core functions like Online Admissions, Course Management, Fees Management, Timetable, Online Learning (LMS), Library Management, Examination with Result and Transcript generation, students’ attendance in the short entire range of university functions can be well performed by EduSec. -
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Wisenet
Adapt IT
Wisenet, a division of Adapt IT, is the leading provider of integrated cloud learning relationships management software. Headquartered in Melbourne, Wisenet serves hundreds of vocational education providers globally. Composed of experts in education and training management, compliance, web application development, and information technology infrastructure, Wisenet delivers unrivalled services in data management, hosting and security, and web application development.Starting Price: $195/month (unlimited users) -
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Jetpack Accreditation Management
Virtual Atlantic
Jetpack Accreditation Management by Virtual Atlantic was built specifically for accreditors by accrediting professionals and is the only turnkey solution available that can be 100% configured to any accreditation process. Jetpack streamlines and simplifies the accreditation process by utilizing a centralized framework that automates the processes that are most important to accreditors: direct submission of self-studies, annual reporting, site visit management, archiving, data visualization, benchmarking tools, etc. and can fully adapt to any accreditation process. Key features of Jetpack include collaboration, compliance management, user access permissions, self-assessment, triggering, substantive change management, site visit/calendar management, document control, archiving and retention, survey management integration, process/workflow automation, and certification management. Jetpack's full featured architecture allows you total freedom to manage any accreditation process. -
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Classtime
Classtime Inc.
Classroom management solution designed for students and teachers with features such as analytics, real-time grading, and libraries. Classtime is a solution for teachers that complements in-class teaching with immediate feedback on students level of understanding. Create great questions, engage everyone, improve understanding. No registration required to see how it works!Starting Price: $9.00/month/teacher -
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Engageli
Engageli
Engageli is an AI-powered learning platform built for active, inclusive, and data-driven instruction. Created by Stanford educators and the founder of Coursera, it addresses the limitations of video tools by providing a simple, web-based environment where instructors can focus on teaching instead of managing technology. Engageli combines live classes self-paced learning, and AI course creation in one platform. Virtual tables support small-group work, and built-in tools (polls, quizzes, notes, chat, and Q&A) replace the need for multiple apps. Teachers maintain full oversight with table visibility, content monitoring, and session controls. AI supports quick polls, summaries, tutoring, and course creation. Engagement data shows participation, helps identify learners who need support, and meets reporting or compliance needs. Today, Engageli powers over one million learning hours each week across K-12 districts, colleges and universities, and global corporate training programs.Starting Price: Custom -
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ConexED
ConexED
ConexED is the first complete appointment scheduling, student kiosk, video meeting, and reporting system designed specifically for higher education. Our streamlined, all-in-one EdTech software provides everything you need to increase student engagement, boost retention, and provide equal access to services — whether on or off campus — with a cloud-based platform that requires no software installation. Offer students, faculty and staff the convenience and flexibility to schedule and meet from anywhere, on any device. Our integrated scheduling software, on-site kiosk and queuing system, and interactive video meeting platform make it easy for students to connect with vital support services like admissions and records, financial aid, academic advising and counseling, tutoring, instructor office hours, and library services. -
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Pearson
Pearson
Our educational and assessment tools, content, products, and services are designed to help learners at every stage open doors to new experiences. Because wherever learning flourishes, so do people. Because learning is a never-ending road of discovery, it needs to meet each student where they are. Ignite a love of learning with interactive tools and content that engage, motivate, and prepare each learner for success. The technology behind digital learning doesn’t isolate or disconnect — it strengthens the connections between learners and educators, improving lives and shaping futures. Connect, extend, and expand the learning experience with interactive content and tools that meet learners where they are. We’re constantly creating and innovating more effective and affordable ways to learn. Explore our products and services, and discover how you can make learning possible for all students. -
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Aveon College Management Software
Aveon Infotech Private Limited
In today’s world, the administration & management of organizations, particularly, educational institutions, has become a tedious and complex task. It requires careful planning, a systematic approach and accurate control of administrative processes to attract the best students, produce the best results, and project the best image. Coupled with tight competition from the industry, these institutions are increasingly seeking the help of information technology to improvise their facilities and maintain a competitive edge to their educational business. We are providing a world-class, extremely efficient, systematic and sophisticated user-friendly automated campus called ‘College Management System’. CMS 2020 from Aveon Infotech Pvt. Ltd., is focused to overcome the major drawbacks of the existing administration system in the instituting of higher education in India.Starting Price: $4 per student per annum -
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Top Hat
Top Hat
Top Hat’s higher education software tools help professors engage students before, during and after class, from the front row the back. Use existing devices, no extra hardware needed. Create a learning environment where every student, from the front to the back row, can participate and have a voice. When you started teaching, you imagined a class eager to learn. But it’s become more and more difficult to capture students’ focus. It’s time to change that. Top Hat Classroom helps over 2,000,000 students come to class. Better yet, it encourages and aides student participation. Energize your class by asking questions, starting discussions, and gauging understanding all through students’ own devices. Interested in learning more? Get a 20 minute demo on how you can adopt Top Hat in your classes.Starting Price: $4 per student per month -
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Calimatic
Caliber Technologies Inc
Calimatic is a fully integrated, operational system hosting comprehensive online institute management. By combining a bundle of modules like Institute Management, SIS, LMS, Franchise/Center management & CRM, you get the interactive learning features under the hood. Serving different types of Educational Institutions & Purposes Schools / K-12: Sophisticated platform for Schools to create an engaging learning environment for fresh minds. Higher Education: Virtual education experience that goes beyond traditional LMS and facilitates e-learning and management. Learning Centers: Supporting every small, medium and large educational centers to make impactful presence and deliver success. Online Tutoring: Starting & Succeeding in your Online Tutoring now gets more affordable, easy and efficient.Starting Price: $4/month/user -
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CampX
CampX
CampX is an all-in-one campus management platform transforming higher education institutions across India. It delivers a comprehensive suite of modules to streamline admissions, academics, examinations, payments, transport, hostel, alumni management, and more—bringing the entire campus ecosystem onto a single digital platform. With 30+ active campuses and over 2 lakh+ students already using CampX, the platform continues to expand rapidly across universities and colleges nationwide. Backed by an experienced team, strong technical capabilities, and a vision for digital transformation, CampX is redefining efficiency, transparency, and student-centric operations in higher education. Its user-friendly interface, powerful features, and scalable architecture make CampX an ideal solution for institutions of all sizes. By adopting CampX, institutions can optimize administration, enhance student engagement, improve academic outcomes, and unlock new possibilities for growth and innovation.Starting Price: 3,00,000 INR One - Time Fee -
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Byndr
Byndr
Byndr is an online, free cloud-based social learning management system (LMS) platform for teachers & students which are beneficial for educational institutions. Byndr provides teachers the ability to extend their guidance beyond the classroom and helps students increase their learning potential. Our online learning management platform helps students in driving engagement with teachers, clarify their doubts, and complete assignments. Also, it helps teachers to manage and assess the student’s day to day activities & evaluate the performance and guide students individually for better academic outcomes.Starting Price: INR 220/year/student -
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WIISE
WIISE Learning Network
Smarter way to better training. Trainers, Coaches, Consultants & Learning companies benefit from modern affordable learning platform. Own your users’ data, brand your Organization or Training business with your own logos and offer a premium experience. Do not let your training be ruined by the interruptions of course marketplaces. Add your own Video content, Audio podcast or simply text-based content. Create and push them to either All or selective groups. Product, Process or new policy trainings can be executed with ease.Design customized Assessments, Quizzes, with multiple questions types. Extensive test reporting of test results. Attach with course or keep separate. A complete built-in social network and course-specific discussions. Connect with your students, help them expand their professional network and convert them to customers.Starting Price: $5.00/month/user -
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MagicBox
Magic EdTech
MagicBox is an AI-powered, end-to-end digital publishing platform that empowers K-12 and higher education publishers, authors, and content providers, as well as enterprise publishers, to create, manage, enrich, and deliver digital content through custom-branded web and mobile apps. With its multi-tenant architecture, each school, district, or corporate entity is a separate tenant that can be customized to individual requirements. With over 7 million users globally, MagicBox has received several accolades for its inclusive learning solutions and continues to innovate to enhance its features and functionalities. -
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Edublooms
Sublime Enterprises
Edublooms is a state-of-the-art cloud-based Educational ERP / Campus Management Software. It is geared for K12, Schools, Colleges & Universities. Our design philosophy has three key goals: Simplicity, Sophistication & Security End To End Orchestration Open And Adaptable Architecture Ease Of Use and Deployment Affordable Customized to Curriculum - Supports custom constructs for multiple curricula – American, British, CBSE, ICSE Role-Based Management Easy & Elastic Expansion Site Management - with calendar, events, gallery. Student Management - Comprehensive with student document storage. Academic Management - Staff skills, school levels, Assignments & Assessments, Grade books, results, & report cards. HR Management -Profiles, qualification, training, dependents, reviews, payroll, logins Zoom Meeting Management with Google Classroom support Transport Management Infrastructure and Inventory Management Vendor ManagementStarting Price: $0.50/user/month -
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Eduflow
Eduflow
With our expansive and flexible platform, Eduflow supports a wide range of learning experiences. Eduflow is easy to use and get started with. It only takes 2 minutes to sign up and create your first course. Yes, we have timed it! Formatted text, images, videos, file uploads. Eduflow handles it all and more. No need for a third-party authoring tool! With our extensive peer review features you will be able to let learners review each other anonymously and save time on giving feedback. We work with organizations and institutions with thousands of users all over the globe. Eduflow is built with WCAG standards in mind and can easily be navigated by keyboard and screen readers. No matter what device you’re using, Eduflow will work right in your browser. Built by educators, we believe in equitable education for all. Eduflow can be used as a standalone tool or it can be integrated with tools you are already using for a seamless learning experience.Starting Price: $100 per month -
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Centralized Campus Management System (CCMS)
MasterSoft
Centralized Campus Management System is a cloud-based ERP system useful for all types of Educational Institutions. Multi-Academy Trusts, Educational Societies can use the campus management software for effective centralized management of all its Schools, Colleges, Polytechnics, and ITI located in multiple Campuses. It provides a total online solution for the digitization of all administrative activities of the campus. manage all activities and tasks of campus from a single CCMS software platform. Provides precise & accurate information to end-users for a better decision. Automated tasks enable teachers & faculty to focus more on teaching. Organize & store all key education institution data in the unified database of CCMS. Since all operations are carried out through centralized campus management software, the need for paper documentation is eliminated. The deployed workflow-based system ensures streamlined processes. -
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Mimir Classroom
Mimir
Mimir Classroom provides the tools for instructors to efficiently teach Computer Science courses of any scale without compromising quality of education for students. Assignments provide you with the ability to mix standard question types like multiple choice and short answer, with our automated coding and code review questions. All students and instructors have access to a 100% cloud-based IDE with a persistent workspace on Mimir Classroom. The Mimir IDE supports all major languages that we support for automated grading. Unfortunately plagiarism is a very serious problem in computer science courses. The configurable plagiarism detection system on Mimir Classroom acts as a strong deterrent for those tempted to cheat and catches those who do.Starting Price: $25 per user per month -
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Valai School
Valai School
Cloud based School ERP to manage your school in your mobile, starting from admissions to Fee Management and attendance to Report cards. Digitalize your daily tasks & operations easily like pre-admission, fee, LMS, ID Cards, Bio-metric device integration, Payroll, Leave Management etc. Pre-defined CCE Report Card templates as well as custom-made report card formats are available based on your package. For custom-made versions, we match your report card format by 100%. All teachers can use this report card module to enter the marks. Parents can view/download the report card from their mobile.Valai offers a wide range of features than any other private school management system software in the market. It’s practical and widely used and still enhancing. You will be auto-updated as new features are added. 100s of schools trust Valai School. It is built on security guidelines for modern web applications. Our cloud takes daily backup. Also schools can download core data anytime.Starting Price: $3.00/year/user -
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Edukit
Edway Tech
Teach your student with your own branded mobile app and website with integrated LMS and give them a seamless experience. Teach them live or provide them Pre recorded Video lectures with Audio, Video, PPTs, Integrated quizzes and Assignments. Get detailed reports of students registration, courses created and courses purchased to analyse the growth. Based on the plan usage, a dedicated account manager is assigned to smoothen the process of onboarding. We are living in the world of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality and still lag so much in the use of technology in education. We want to make technology affordable for an institute and a tutor. We are a SAAS company building affordable technological solutions for the education industry. Our team has vast experience in education industry and we know how hard it is for the institutes & tutors to deliver Quality education consistently. -
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Unifyed
Unifyed
Unifyed products are built by Columbia University and partner institutions’ representatives through a working group process to address the unique digital transformation needs of higher education. This has led to unique features such as Unifyed App Sharing, that enables institutions to share apps amongst each other, which helps institutions avoid reinventing the wheel. This also means that as more colleges and universities select Unifyed, the ‘power of the crowd’ increases and more apps are available for the community. Unifyed Student – Financial Aid powered by PowerFAIDS® is a highly efficient and comprehensive solution that helps higher ed institutions in managing and automating financial aid; drastically eliminating manual processes. -
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Pathify
Pathify
The best way to connect and engage your students. No more ping-ponging between apps. Bring students and resources together in one place, from before orientation to after graduation. Higher Ed Institutions big and small are building digital communities and giving students resources tailored to their exact needs. Over the years, you’ve implemented best-of-breed ed tech solutions. This is great, except for one problem: It creates a web of disjointed systems students, faculty and staff spend hours navigating through to get anything done. Centralizing solutions in a single, unified engagement hub surfaces only the most relevant info from each system, making it easier for users to find what matters to them and saving time by getting everything done in one spot. Pathify is a personalized, unified experience that guides the entire student journey — from prospect to alumni. Students only see the information they need at that time.Starting Price: Varies -
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Trifork Assessment
Trifork Learning
With their joint efforts, the quality and effectiveness of the cantonal education systems can be increased. Through the development and implementation of common performance tests, as well as the development of a collection of exercises for competency-based practice and testing, the Bildungsraum Nordwestschweiz is preparing for a world-class educational ecosystem. To ensure this is achieved, the Institut for Bildungsevaluation, the University of Zurich (IBE), and the Dutch assessment institute Cito were selected to compose all the requirements for the new system. IBE and Cito defined the advanced set of needs to reformulate the educational system for Swiss children between the age of 4 and 13, leading to the development of the new e-learning portal Mindsteps. A portal that enables students and teachers to have access to a truly advanced learning system for both high-stake and low-stake assessment based learning.Starting Price: $0.50 per month -
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TargetX CRM
TargetX
We are a higher ed focused company building enterprise software that will challenge colleges and universities to transform the way they support their prospects, students and alumni. TargetX is an award-winning, fast-paced, dynamic and challenging workplace. We’re a group of folks who love what we do and love the industry we serve and are the epitome of a work-hard, play-hard organization. Contact TargetX today to learn how their suite of products can facilitate growth and improvement at every stop on the student journey, from prospective applicant to graduation day. Transform enrollment management and power admissions productivity with intuitive, mobile-first CRM functionality designed just for higher ed. Power student success initiatives with robust CRM technology to help redesign the student experience and increase retention rates across campus. Leverage data-science-as-a-service backed by advanced analytics to take action across the student lifecycle and drive ROI. -
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Evisions Argos
Evisions
Evisions Argos delivers the insights that you need in order to make timely, better-informed decisions. Argos helps colleges and universities work better, delivering flexible, powerful, easy-to-use reporting tools developed by higher education experts. View student, departmental and institutional data in real time. Interactive reports and dashboards illustrate that data, providing insights at a glance and improving visibility throughout your institution. You can also: Schedule reports and emails; Use the Data Dictionary and Library of Objects; Insert, update, and delete! Argos’s CO-OP user community can help you speed up implementation and lower your total cost of ownership, with an online library containing pre-designed reports and DataBlocks. It encourages collaboration and sharing by bringing together higher education professionals with similar reporting responsibilities and experiences. -
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Campus Cloud Services SIS
Campus Cloud Services
Campus Cloud Services’ Student Information System (SIS) is the first cloud based, real time SIS utilizing the newest, secure technologies. Low cost annual subscription with no long term commitment. All maintenance and regulatory updates are free. Expert, hands-on implementation support and training are included. No costly infrastructure required. You get our entire system for one affordable price. No hidden fees. No surprise charges. Just plain and simple pricing. Complete training and customer support included in price. Never pay a cent for servers, bandwidth and data storage. Powerful functionality on any device, any time, at any location. Backups and system security are included. Guaranteed up time and built in hot sites mean no business interruptions. It is a “soup to nuts” solution to the complexities of enrolling, tracking and managing a student from start to graduate placement and everything in between.
