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Overview
Edvance360 is alearning management system and secure social network (LMS-SN) company headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It is known for its educational technology software-as-a-service platforms Edvance360 and MOOC360 serving institutions of higher education, K-12, school districts and corporations. Edvance360's services include: managed hosting, online course delivery, campus course delivery, massive open online courses, and training programs. The focus is on collaborative or social learning, allowing users to create, management, share, and track learning content.

Competitors include Moodle, Pearson’s eCollege, Blackboard, Desire2Learn, and Canvas.

Edvance360 has a wide range of standard and innovative features and tools including lessons, video conferencing, discussion forums, digital badges, and third-party integrations. The interface was built with a Responsive web design, allowing Edvance360 to be used on mobile devices. An Edvance360 app is available in Google Play and App Store (iOS).

History
Founded as Scholar360 in 2007 by president and CEO Glen Moriarty and chief software architect Paul Sanders. Originally designed as a secure social network to fill the gaps left by course management systems which were singularly focused on delivering course content. In 2008, the company changed its name to Edvance360 LMS-SN. Edvance360 has been a CODiE award finalist for seven years (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015). In 2011 and 2015 Edvance360 LMS-SN won the CODiE award. In addition, Edvance360 has been listed as one of the Top Tools for Online Learning and one of the Top 50 CMS/LMS Vendors.