Concourse

What Concourse is

Concourse is a cloud-based syllabus system for higher education. Faculty, staff, administrators, and students can use it to create, revise, audit, and discover syllabi. Its template structure covers institutional, intermediate, and course levels, so institutions can share common syllabus information and update it across courses. Permissions can be assigned to groups or individuals at the system, school, department, and individual syllabus levels.

Reports cover syllabus access, utilization, and section-level content, with filters to narrow results. A centralized repository lets users retrieve past syllabi for students and accrediting bodies, and show them to prospective students. Concourse accepts data feeds from student information systems and catalogs, supports single sign-on, and can be reached through learning management systems using LTI 1.3. Its Starter edition is upload-based and includes a searchable public syllabus archive and core compliance and access reporting; it can launch in as little as four weeks. Starter pricing is based on full-time equivalent enrollment and includes implementation and maintenance, starting at $2,000 a year. The maker states that Concourse is 100% WCAG 2.1 AA compliant and meets Revised Section 508 standards. The company says two engineering students created Concourse in 2007 after facing syllabus problems in their courses.

Who it suits

Concourse is for higher education institutions and the faculty, staff, administrators, and students who work with course syllabi. Its templates, permissions, reporting, and archive support institutions that need shared syllabus information and access to past syllabi.

Limits

Concourse has no free plan. Starter is upload-based and provides a searchable public syllabus archive plus core compliance and access reporting; its price starts at $2,000 a year and depends on FTE enrollment.

Getting started

1. Visit the Intellidemia website.
2. Choose Concourse Starter, priced from $2,000 a year based on FTE enrollment.
3. Use the upload-based Starter edition to create the searchable syllabus archive.
4. Plan for implementation and maintenance, which are included in Starter pricing.
5. Connect data feeds from student information systems or catalogs as needed.
6. Enable single sign-on or learning management system access using LTI 1.3 as needed.

Verdict

Choose Concourse if your institution needs a shared syllabus process, searchable archive, and reporting across courses and departments. Starter is the listed entry plan, with pricing based on enrollment; institutions seeking student progress tracking, at-risk alerts, intervention workflows, or case management should look elsewhere.