Simple, institution-wide licensing

Per-Institution Licensing, Not Per-Seat Math

One license covers every course, department, and semester — no seat-counting, ever.

A single institutional license covers instructors and learners across courses, departments, and semesters. Because Annoto works inside Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Brightspace, and Open edX through LTI 1.3 — and on top of video platforms such as Kaltura, Panopto, Wistia, YouTube, and Vimeo — one agreement follows your video wherever it lives. Nobody has to reopen the contract each time a new program, department, or campus comes online, and IT keeps a single integration to maintain.

Pilots That Prove Value Before You Commit

Start with a real semester-long pilot on the full product, not a canned demo.

Most institutions begin with a structured pilot: a defined set of courses, a real semester of teaching, and success criteria agreed up front. Pilots include onboarding, LTI configuration, and access to the same time-anchored discussions, in-video quizzes, and attention and comprehension analytics as a full deployment, so your review committee evaluates the product exactly as faculty and students will use it rather than judging a canned demo.

What Every Plan Includes

Discussions, quizzes, analytics, and gradebook sync ship in every tier — never an upsell.

Every tier ships the collaboration core: time-anchored discussions, polls and reactions, notes and AI summaries, and an activity feed that keeps classes connected. Completion and gradebook sync and analytics export are part of the platform, not add-ons hidden behind an enterprise wall. Higher tiers deepen institution-wide analytics, admin controls, and support commitments, and the Lumo AI copilot can be added when your teaching teams are ready for it.

Taken together, these three structural choices are why institutions moving off per-seat video tools describe the switch to Annoto as a procurement simplification rather than a new negotiation. A single FTE-based license replaces a patchwork of course-level purchase orders, a pilot behaves exactly like the production deployment that follows it so a review committee is evaluating the real product, and every tier ships the same collaboration, quiz, and analytics core so a smaller department is never quietly downgraded. Most renewal conversations end up being about expanding into new departments or campuses under the existing agreement, not renegotiating price, because the FTE figure procurement already tracks for accreditation is the same figure the license is built on. That predictability is usually the deciding factor for budget committees comparing Annoto against a metered, per-seat alternative.

Most institutions run this pilot-to-license path with the same procurement contact from first conversation to signed agreement, rather than being handed off between a sales team and a separate onboarding team partway through. That continuity tends to shorten the overall timeline, since the person scoping the FTE count and the person answering technical questions about LTI setup already share the same context. A typical timeline runs from an initial pricing conversation to a live pilot within a few weeks, and from pilot results to a signed institution-wide agreement within a single semester.

At renewal, the license simply tracks your current FTE band: if enrollment grew, you move up a band; if it shrank, you move down. There are no per-view or per-minute meters to reconcile, and no true-up invoices arriving mid-year. Because usage is unlimited within the band, a course that doubles its video activity costs nothing extra — which lets teaching teams push adoption as hard as they like while the budget owner signs one predictable number a year.