Compare the Top Student Engagement Platform Software in Africa as of January 2026

What is Student Engagement Platform Software in Africa?

Student engagement platforms are digital tools designed to boost interaction, participation, and connection between students, educators, and institutions. They go beyond traditional content delivery by facilitating active learning through polls, discussions, real-time feedback, collaboration spaces, and analytics on student behavior. Such platforms help educators monitor engagement, identify students at risk of disengaging, and adjust instruction or outreach accordingly. Many also support events, co-curricular activities, community building, and mobile access to make learning and campus life more engaging. Ultimately, they aim to improve academic outcomes, retention, and the student experience by making learning more interactive and responsive to student needs. Compare and read user reviews of the best Student Engagement Platform software in Africa currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Classter

    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.
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    Starting Price: €4.5/student
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    Classtime

    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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    ConexED

    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

    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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    Top Hat

    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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    Acadly

    Acadly

    Acetone Designs

    Acadly is a Classroom Response System that helps professors engage students inside the classroom, and record attendance at the tap of a button.
    Starting Price: Free
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    SARS Anywhere

    SARS Anywhere

    SARS Software Products

    SARS Anywhere is an easy-to-use appointment scheduling system for student service offices at colleges, universities and other higher education institutions. The scheduling component allows students to manage their own appointments and allows support service staff to make, reschedule and cancel appointments. It also allows academic advisors, counselors and other specialists to work with their own schedules. The drop-in component is used to register and track unscheduled visits. All of these functions are web-based and are compatible with the four major browsers. Appointment confirmations: email, printed and/or text* (* optional). Appointment changes: reschedule, cancel, revise details. Advisor assignments: by last name grouping or specialty. Attendance: mark show/no show. Drop-ins: registration, advisor assignment, waiting time calculation. Conflicting appointment warning: booking appointments and registering drop-ins. Student history log: search for upcoming appointments and display.
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    Verity IQ

    Verity IQ

    Verity IQ

    Verity Dialog unifies and streamlines communication with prospects, students, and employers. With a powerful contact center built-in, Verity facilitates meaningful and convenient conversations via voice, text, chat, email, and video. Further, leverage contact strategy workflows and marketing automation for flexible outreach with real-time visibility into results. Go paperless with enrollment workflows, e-signatures, and document hubs. Verity Student provides reliable student record management powered by Verity Dialog for built-in communication at every step of the way. Manage class schedules, grades, attendance, and transcripts, and monitor and report students' satisfactory academic progress. Keep account ledgers and financial aid awards and disbursements. Rely on accurate compliance reporting for academics, financials, and placement information. Verity Dialog and Verity Student are two solutions with a common goal to ensure the best student experience.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Unifyed

    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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    Jenzabar

    Jenzabar

    Jenzabar

    Jenzabar One is a flexible, cloud-ready platform exclusive to higher education. Our powerful suite of technology products and services provides your campus with mobile-friendly solutions to drive institutional and student success. Surpass your advancement goals by planning, building, strengthening, and managing relationships with constituents all through a single system. Jenzabar Fundraising helps schools identify prospective donors and engage them through modernized, personalized communications centered around the best solicitation programs. Jenzabar SONIS is a powerful yet cost-effective student information system that helps you improve efficiencies for all your on-the-go constituents. Designed specifically for smaller or specialized schools, Jenzabar SONIS empowers you to manage all aspects of your school’s administrative tasks online and provides integrated services for admissions, registration, grading, billing, course management, and other administrative functions.
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    Ellucian

    Ellucian

    Ellucian

    Purposeful innovation designed for higher education. Ellucian’s SaaS-enabled ecosystem of open and flexible technologies, like Ellucian Experience, make institution-wide success possible. Transform your ERP into an ecosystem. Only Ellucian combines higher education expertise, focused innovation, and deep partnership to unlock the full potential of your institution. Combine our market-leading solutions and your other applications in our open, interconnected, configurable platform powered by APIs and a unified user experience. Reduce complexity to integrate, configure, and extend without customization. Securely use data for decision-making and deep insights. Define and implement your modernization and technology transformation, empowered every step of the way by our world-class capabilities and services. Simplify everyday tasks and access to essential information to better engage students, alumni, faculty and staff.
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    Eventus

    Eventus

    Whitestone Technologies

    Eventus powers all types of events at universities and other large institutions around the globe with our suite of apps, builders, and virtual products. For better or for worse, students are used to apps and websites built by leading companies, and are not responsive to anything but the most well crafted user experiences. An event solution built around Higher Ed. Distribute event guides through a single app/website, including invites, RSVPs, and check-ins. Create push notification campaigns that can be targeted to certain groups of students to get higher engagement on your content. Enable student connections that might not have been with modern social capabilities. Profiles, social feeds, chat, and more. Feature usage rates, notification open rates, app usage rates. Use in-app analytics to iterate year after year.
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    Education Management Solutions (EMS)

    Education Management Solutions (EMS)

    Education Management Solutions

    Education Management Solutions offers a comprehensive suite of simulation training solutions, designed to enhance learning through advanced audio/video (AV), media capture and management technologies. Our offerings seamlessly integrate state-of-the-art video recording and capture software, ensuring that simulation training is not only easy to conduct, but also highly effective. Today’s healthcare educators face a myriad of challenges. The difficulties of accelerated onboarding, providing a tangible training return on investment, and comprehensive skills tracking are magnified amidst rapid technological advancements and evolving patient care protocols.
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    Admit Video
    AdmitVideo is helping University’s evaluate remotely and more efficiently to find their best-fit applicants for a more successful student body and more successful institution. We are completely customizable and fit into your admission process to streamline how you and your department currently do things.
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    DegreeSight

    DegreeSight

    DegreeSight

    Search schools by key demographics, such as their online presence, acceptance scores, and willingness to take transfer students. Build a list of your dream schools you want to attend. Submit your transcript to your favorite schools, and get into live chat (or offline messaging) conversations with multiple schools in one location. Schools review your transcripts and tell you exactly how much will be accepted vs. denied (and how much you’ll save!). Take your transcript, and build a personalized & comprehensive plan to finish your degree, bringing all transfers and AP credits in. The planner checks all prerequisites and requirements for you in real-time. You get to work directly with your advising staff through DegreeSight to give a final human confirmation. On average, students lose 43 percent of college credits when they transfer schools, or an estimated 13 credits, equivalent to a full semester.
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    Ment.io

    Ment.io

    Ment.io

    Ment.io is an online discussion board that improves student analytical skills, stimulates deep discussions and simplifies assessment in higher ed. Lead discussions that are easily digestible while remaining engaging and meaningful with discussion-improving AI and analytics. A modern discussion board that provides valuable structure and encourages more meaningful and collaborative discussions. Ment.io guarantees every voice can be heard in a crowded discussion and students can easily participate and stand out. Using Ment.io you can easily see the bottom line in a large discussion. Save time, and receive in-depth, unprecedented student grading profiles.
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    CampusGroups
    Help your students, staff, alumni and community partners connect, collaborate and be successful. Create custom badges to recognize student for involvement, including memberships, leadership positions, event attendance, etc. Support retention initiatives with dynamic student success profiles. Let members see everyone's badges, points and ranks on the leaderboard. Guide students toward goals, competencies, and established learning outcomes by leading them through co-curricular involvement tracks. CampusGroups Tracks display clear & transparent program expectations and progress, connecting students to enriching outside-the-classroom experiences to earn credit for the requirements you set for them.​ Give advisors and student success staff centralized insight into students' involvement and engagement outside the classroom.
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    Signal Vine

    Signal Vine

    Signal Vine

    Signal Vine is an AI-powered text messaging platform that reaches students where they operate most and saves staff time. By nudging students and alumni with personal messages on key deadlines, appointments, and offers of support, administrators can improve engagement, enrollment and persistence. Integrating your CRM or SIS data allows you to segment your audiences and build targeted communications to ensure that your messages hit the right mark at just the right time. By sending messages that are tailored to each student, you can limit opt-out rates and improve response rates. Signal Vine is a preferred partner of Ellucian and Salesforce and can be found on AppExchange. View all integrations. Use Signal Vine’s message calendar to manage everyday communications with students, coordinate campaigns, and avoid sending recipients too many messages at one time. Manage your workload by scheduling and automating responses with Signal Vine’s Virtual Advisor.
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    Cadence

    Cadence

    Mongoose

    Cadence. The premier texting platform, meticulously designed to help your campus make instant, meaningful connections. Yes, it works with your current systems. Simple yet powerful. Cadence allows staff to efficiently reach students and alumni in their preferred communication channel – texting. With time-saving features like campaigns, auto-responses, templates, and shared inboxes, your team can work smarter, not harder. Built for the enterprise – and everyone. Cadence easily scales to deliver undeniable results for institutions and departments of all shapes and sizes. Enterprise. Achieve campus wide engagement Enrollment. Connect with prospective students. Student Success. Increase retention with current students. Advancement. Improve alumni relations, stewardship, and donations. Any device, any time. Thanks to the flexibility of managing messages through any web browser or the Cadence mobile app, staff will always be in a position to engage with contacts and inspire action.
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    Ocelot

    Ocelot

    Ocelot

    With crunched budgets and overextended staff students are at risk of not getting the advising and support they need. AI-driven technology empowers staff to engage every student so schools can set themselves apart from the competition and improve student outcomes. The current outlook forces administrators to get creative to stay competitive. With scalable AI technology you can unburden your staff and let them do what they do best. Deploy personalized text campaigns to increase yield across the admissions funnel. Actionable insights and best practices for advocates and leaders of student success. From a bot to a real live person in a single click. Empowering staff to be ever-present even during these unprecedented times. Advisors can leverage the AI to deliver immediate, impactful guidance.
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    Involvio

    Involvio

    Involvio

    Involvio is a powerful student experience platform for higher ed. Colleges & universities across the globe use Involvio to bring the full campus experience right to their students’ devices, and improve student engagement and retention. From onboarding new students, engaging students on a personalized campus app, to automating student attendance at scale, Involvio’s product suite empowers campus teams with tools and analytics at every level. Involvio supports student experience in remote and hybrid environments, helping campuses deliver resources, build community, and drive involvement, wherever students are. Involvio takes student experience to the next level, and supports the complete student lifecycle from orientation through graduation and beyond.
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