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Panorama Education vs Securly

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Panorama Education

Education

Student survey, wellbeing screening and multi-tiered support tracking for school districts

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On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite
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Securly

Education

Web filtering, student safety monitoring and device management for K-12 schools

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On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Panorama Education social and emotional survey responses about named children are more sensitive than grades, and districts that adopt without an explicit consent, retention and access policy have found themselves defending the programme to parents after the fact.; Securly pricing stacks by module and only Filter has rates that surface publicly, so the quoted total for Filter plus Aware plus On-Call is routinely several times the number a district budgeted from the filtering line alone.
  • They diverge on capability: Panorama Education covers Validated surveys, Securly covers Filter.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Panorama Education and Securly actually diverge.

Attributes where Panorama Education and Securly differ
AttributePanorama EducationSecurly
Pricing modelquotePer student per year by module
PlatformsWebWeb, iOS, Android, Chrome OS, Windows

Identical on both: starting price (On request), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Education).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Panorama Education

  • Validated surveys
  • National comparison data
  • Student Success
  • Early warning indicators
  • Playbook of strategies
  • Role based dashboards

Only in Securly

  • Filter
  • Aware
  • On-Call
  • Classroom
  • MDM
  • Pass
  • Home
  • Delegated admin

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Panorama Education

  • A district required to report on school climate and needing an instrument it can defend methodologicallynot Securly
  • Multi-tiered support teams that currently track interventions in spreadsheets with no record of what was triednot Securly
  • Districts wanting to test whether an attendance intervention actually moved attendance for the pupils who received itnot Securly
  • Boards asking for evidence on staff retention and school climate rather than anecdotenot Securly

Securly

  • A district that must show CIPA compliance for take-home Chromebooks used on home broadband, where network-level filtering does nothingnot Panorama Education
  • A district whose safeguarding policy requires that a human being reads a self-harm alert within minutes at any hour, including school holidaysnot Panorama Education
  • A one-to-one iPad programme needing Apple device enrolment, filtering and classroom control from a single agent rather than threenot Panorama Education
  • A district under pressure from parents who want visibility of what their child does on the school device at home, without the school having to field each request by handnot Panorama Education

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Panorama Education

  • Social and emotional survey responses about named children are more sensitive than grades, and districts that adopt without an explicit consent, retention and access policy have found themselves defending the programme to parents after the fact.
  • Measurement without intervention capacity produces documented problems and no change, and the annual renewal then has to be justified on data the district could not act on.
  • Survey fatigue is real. Pupils who are surveyed repeatedly answer less carefully, which degrades the comparison the district paid for.
  • The platform depends on clean feeds from the student information system, so districts with poor data hygiene get risk flags built on wrong enrolment and attendance data.
  • Comparison against a national set invites league table thinking inside a district, and school leaders whose climate scores are compared publicly start managing the survey rather than the climate.

Securly

  • Pricing stacks by module and only Filter has rates that surface publicly, so the quoted total for Filter plus Aware plus On-Call is routinely several times the number a district budgeted from the filtering line alone.
  • The safety scanning generates false positives at volume, including song lyrics, creative writing and health-class assignments, and each one consumes counsellor or administrator time that the vendor does not pay for.
  • Alerting on student writing is a surveillance decision with real community consequences, and districts that deploy it without an explicit board policy and parent notification have faced local objections after the fact.
  • Coverage is strongest on managed Chromebooks; personal devices, non-Chrome browsers and encrypted apps outside the agent leave gaps that the compliance story quietly depends on nobody testing.
  • Per-student pricing is charged on enrolment rather than on devices, so a district that issues devices to only some year groups still pays for every student on the roll.

Pricing, plan by plan

Panorama Education

On request
  • Panorama Education$undefined/year
    • Quoted per pupil or per district
    • Survey administration and Student Success priced separately
    • Multi-year district agreements typical

Securly

On request
  • Filter$undefined/year
    • Web filtering on and off network
    • Tiered per-student rates that fall as enrolment rises
    • Published in some purchasing co-operative catalogues, not on the vendor site
  • Aware$undefined/year
    • Automated scanning of email, documents and search for safety risk
    • Quoted per student, no public rate
  • On-Call$undefined/year
    • 24/7 human review and escalation of serious alerts
    • Quoted per student, priced on top of Aware
  • Classroom, MDM and Pass$undefined/year
    • Sold as separate per-student modules
    • Quoted

Which should you pick?

Choose Panorama Education if

  • You need validated surveys.
  • You also want national comparison data.
Panorama Education review

Choose Securly if

  • You need filter.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android, Chrome OS, Windows.
  • You also want aware.
Securly review

Questions people ask

Is Panorama Education or Securly better?
Neither clearly leads. Panorama Education starts at On request and Securly at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Panorama Education or Securly?
Panorama Education starts at On request and Securly at On request.
Does Panorama Education or Securly run on more platforms?
Panorama Education runs on Web. Securly runs on Web, iOS, Android, Chrome OS, Windows.
What is Panorama Education best used for?
Panorama Education is most often used for a district required to report on school climate and needing an instrument it can defend methodologically, multi-tiered support teams that currently track interventions in spreadsheets with no record of what was tried, districts wanting to test whether an attendance intervention actually moved attendance for the pupils who received it, boards asking for evidence on staff retention and school climate rather than anecdote. Of those, a district required to report on school climate and needing an instrument it can defend methodologically and multi-tiered support teams that currently track interventions in spreadsheets with no record of what was tried are not what Securly is typically brought in for.
What can Panorama Education do that Securly cannot?
Panorama Education covers Validated surveys, National comparison data, Student Success, Early warning indicators. Securly covers Filter, Aware, On-Call, Classroom.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Panorama Education: Do parents have to consent to SEL surveys?

Under FERPA and COPPA the district can consent as the school official, but several states and many districts require parental notification or opt out for social and emotional screening. Decide the local position before the first administration, not after the first complaint.

Securly: Does Securly publish pricing?

Not on its own site. Tiered per-student rates for Filter appear in some US purchasing co-operative catalogues, falling as enrolment rises, but Aware, On-Call, Classroom, MDM and Pass are quoted.

Panorama Education: Is Panorama a student information system?

No. It reads from one. It is a measurement and intervention tracking layer and does not hold the official education record.

Securly: What is the difference between Aware and On-Call?

Aware is the automated detection that produces alerts. On-Call is the staffed service that reads the serious ones out of hours and phones your escalation contacts. Buying Aware alone leaves the triage with your own staff.

Panorama Education: Has it signed the Student Privacy Pledge?

Yes. That commits it on data use and retention. It does not answer the separate question of whether your district should screen pupils on social and emotional measures at all.

Securly: Does it filter on home internet?

Yes, filtering follows the managed device rather than the network, which is the point for take-home Chromebook programmes.

Securly: Is student data used for anything else?

Securly signs the US Student Privacy Pledge and district data processing agreements; check the specific DPA rather than the marketing page, since scanning scope and retention are negotiated terms.

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