Pointerpro vs. Alta from Knewton, a Wiley brand

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Pointerpro
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Pointerpro (formerly Survey Anyplace) helps users create surveys, quizzes, and assessments that return personalized advice to respondents in the final screen, through email, or in a branded PDF report. Customers include Capgemini, Adobe, Accor Hotels, as well as many midsize consulting companies and agencies. Pointerpro is designed to take the guesswork out of creating a custom experience and provides a tool to get questions answered. Features such as custom scoring, formulas, and…
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Alta from Knewton, a Wiley brand
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Alta is Knewton’s product for higher education. Alta is a courseware solution that combines Knewton’s adaptive learning technology with content, and is designed to deliver a personalized learning experience that is affordable, accessible and improves student outcomes. Knewton is a Wiley brand (acquired 2019).N/A
Pricing
PointerproAlta from Knewton, a Wiley brand
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
Essential
$39
per month
Professional
$59
per month
Enterprise
On request
ReportR
On request
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PointerproAlta from Knewton, a Wiley brand
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
PointerproAlta from Knewton, a Wiley brand
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Pointerpro
Chose Pointerpro
We are currently looking into JotForm. Their prices are much more reasonable. They offer 10,000 submissions a month for $29. Why can't you guys offer something like that? I would fall in love with Survey Anyplace if the price was $29/month. I would tell everyone to purchase it. …
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Unable to remember names, but other competitors were very highly-priced.
Chose Pointerpro
Monthly fees as opposed to annual. As a returning user to Survey Monkey, they wouldn't allow me to have a month-to-month contract.
Chose Pointerpro
Survey Anyplace allows respondents to save progress, offered a respectable UI (User Interface), and offered surveys with a modern design. It seems most survey tools are designed for short/quick responses. The really modern, intuitive and design aesthetic options aren't designed …
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I looked at a few options through Google searches but none of the solutions could cater to my quiz's logic and formula needs.
Chose Pointerpro
Survey Anyplace is much more customizable and flexible than any alternatives I have tried.
Chose Pointerpro
Survey Anyplace is an excellent piece of software.

Chose Pointerpro
Survey Anyplace was the only tool that could handle the survey, email campaigns, and ecommerce. No other tool that we found could compare.
Chose Pointerpro
This is not a tool we use for our heavy-duty market research studies - rather, it complements our existing research tools.
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Survey Anyplace has incredible customization and with is ReportR feature... hands down the most powerful app out there.
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Not as intuitive as Typeform but has a bit more flexibility and significantly more custom scoring options.
Chose Pointerpro
Outgrow's pricing was simply not competitive -- to my memory, it was about 6x per month what SurveyAnyplace charges for their Enterprise plan, which felt extravagant considering our scope. Their sales team was also rather difficult to work with.
Chose Pointerpro
Survey AnyPlace has a lot more flexibility and types of questions, plus the ability to customize the branding/look/feel.
Chose Pointerpro
We conducted a market survey of available tools that met our requirements.
Alta from Knewton, a Wiley brand
Chose Alta from Knewton, a Wiley brand
Compared to competitors, the Knewton system is much more adaptive and designed for mastery and learning rather than assessment. If those are your goals, then this is a good system to use. The complexity of the problems is generally lacking, so you will need to supplement with …
Chose Alta from Knewton, a Wiley brand
I have not used any other courseware but when making a decision I did look into a few others and meet with reps. By far [alta from Knewton] seemed like the best option for me because it was focused on students meeting standards rather than just getting a grade. I also love that …
Chose Alta from Knewton, a Wiley brand
alta from Knewton, a Wiley brand, is much less expensive than the other LMSes, not just for the students but for the institution, too.
Chose Alta from Knewton, a Wiley brand
Cheaper than Pearson, and better customer support. The adaptive assignments are harder to fake your way through—guessing and modeling answers after the correct answers are shown doesn’t work since the questions change when a student misses a question. MyOpenMath is free, but …
Chose Alta from Knewton, a Wiley brand
alta from Knewton is more of a homework platform with remediation. Topics for assignments are randomized. ALEKS is more of a teaching platform working on a single topic at a time.
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User Ratings
PointerproAlta from Knewton, a Wiley brand
Likelihood to Recommend
7.7
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8.2
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Usability
8.0
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7.3
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Support Rating
7.8
(0 ratings)
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User Testimonials
PointerproAlta from Knewton, a Wiley brand
Likelihood to Recommend
I found the platform to be very suitable for assessment/survey products. Nevertheless, the offer is limited to some markets and may not work well for countries that have different languages, especially Asian countries. I have yet to test this out myself, but fingers crossed. I hope it works. It would be nice if the company could advise exactly which country the platform is working in.
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I think any computational based math class will greatly benefit from [alta from Knewton, a Wiley brand]. It simplifies the professor's work in terms of grading while also increasing the student's ability to get real time help on homework problems if they are struggling. I like that the questions are at a deep level and not all multiple choice. If a student gets a problem wrong they get a growth mindset message of encouragement.
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Pros
  • Intuitive branching logic mechanics. Survey Anyplace offers a nicely pipeline/process map format to visually see the branching logic for more robust question sets.
  • Reliable results. Survey Anyplace offers important tracking data to evaluate and hold respondents accountable to completing the surveys.
  • Users can save progress and come back. This allows busy respondents time to think about deeper questions, specifically when the surveys are being used in an interviewing approach.
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  • Adapts to students level.
  • Supports students through a mastery program.
  • Is user friendly from a manager point of view.
  • Provides excellent support for course managers.
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Cons
  • Creating something highly customized at the ReportR level means you will need to have some savvy with CSS if you want to do it yourself. But it also means you can create something truly incredible and they do not have the same limitations as other similar software.
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  • Wider distribution--not many know about it
  • Tighter line between objectives and learning
  • Alternative testing to prevent student cheating
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Usability
We found it user friendly and fairly easy to set-up with our current personnel and without having to engage external consultants or to do any specific software development. It helped us implement a new marketing approach in very agile and quick way, which is much appreciated these days since you always have to act rapidly on the market not to loose any opportunities!
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Support Rating
I wish there was a better live chat feature. Seems like I have to wait 30-60 every time I need to talk to someone. Though once I am able to speak with someone via the chat in my account, they have been very helpful in answering my questions or pointing me in the right direction.
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Alternatives Considered
We are currently looking into Jotform. Their prices are much more reasonable. They offer 10,000 submissions a month for $29. Why can't you guys offer something like that? I would fall in love with Survey Anyplace if the price was $29/month. I would tell everyone to purchase it. You would definitely get more clients if you lowered your prices.
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Compared to competitors, the Knewton system is much more adaptive and designed for mastery and learning rather than assessment. If those are your goals, then this is a good system to use. The complexity of the problems is generally lacking, so you will need to supplement with more difficult problems for your students to tackle, whereas many other systems have these more difficult problems built-in.
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Return on Investment
  • As a publisher, the quizzes provide us with compelling type of "advertising" product to engage our clients' audiences.
  • We use the quizzes to direct respondents to thought leadership content for lead gen. The "correct response" feature in the quizzes provide the most interesting sample of our clients' content.
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  • My students had an excellent learning experience at a reasonable price.
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ScreenShots

Pointerpro Screenshots

Screenshot of This is not a single-purpose assessment app. You can build maturity assessments, personality tests, 360 assessments, competency quizzes, self-assessments, or quote calculators.Screenshot of The waiting game is over! Respondents can immediately receive their personalized report after they complete their assessment. Of course the tool also offers the possibility of giving postponed feedback.Screenshot of No need for coding skills or software expertise, user-friendliness is key. The tool seamlessly combines an assessment creator and a report generator.Screenshot of No need to scare respondents away by asking for their email. Let people download their personalized PDF with a download button at the end of the assessment.Screenshot of Every organization is unique and we genuinely believe that should be reflected in the assessments you will be drawing up. Pointerpro allows you to design your very own branded assessments.