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Explorance

Explorance empowers organisations with next-generation feedback analytics to accelerate the insight-to-action cycle, encouraging the philosophy of "Feedback for the brave" to drive purpose, impact, and growth.

With more than 20 years of expertise, they’re proud to be a trusted partner to 35% of Fortune 100 companies and 35% of the world's leading higher education institutions.

The Explorance Blue platform is used at the University of Leeds to automate the collection, analysis, and distribution of module evaluations, a key driver of understanding and supporting student feedback.

Panopto

Panopto is a media enhanced learning platform that facilitates lecture capture, video creation, sharing, streaming and media based assessment.

Panopto is new to Leeds for the 2025/26 academic year. It is a platform for media enhanced learning and lecture capture. The platform is used by 22 of the world's top 25 universities and provides a range of new tools and functionality to help staff and students in their learning and teaching.

Blackboard

Blackboard delivers the digital environment for transformational teaching and learning. They serve thousands of institutions with the industry's most AI-advanced LMS, Ally for accessibility, and institutional effectiveness solutions that put educators and learners at the centre. We're an education company that builds technology.

At Leeds, Minerva is built on Blackboard technology. The Blackboard LMS underpins My Leeds and module and organisation spaces on Minerva. Core tools for creating and organising content are provided by Blackboard, alongside assessment tools such as Assignment and Test. Blackboard also delivers Ally accessibility reports and alternative formats.

PebblePad

Since 2004 PebblePad has been building software that helps universities support, guide and develop students – from induction to graduation and beyond.

PebblePad is a versatile application, enabling the gathering of learning and development material in one easily accessible place. Their platform helps Leeds students to plan for, record and reflect on learning experiences, and collect, curate, share and showcase evidence of their academic growth.