Koji vs Survey&Report (Artologik): Course Evaluation Compared (2026)

Short answer: Survey&Report (by Swedish vendor Artologik) is a mature, EU-hosted, form-based survey platform that handles Likert-plus-open-text course evaluations reliably and cheaply, and doubles as a general institutional survey tool. Koji replaces the static questionnaire with an AI-moderated conversational interview that follows up on each student's answers in real time and returns automatic thematic analysis. Choose Survey&Report if you want an affordable, flexible, optionally self-hosted survey engine for many use cases. Choose Koji if your priority is richer, less superficial course-evaluation evidence and qualitative analysis done for you.

What each tool is

Artologik Survey&Report is a survey-and-reporting platform from Artologik (Sweden), used by European universities such as Örebro University for course evaluation and wider institutional surveys. It offers a large set of question types, branching/skip logic, automated distribution and reminders, real-time reports and exports. It integrates with learning-management systems through an LTI connector (SR-LTI) and a general API. (Artologik)

Koji is an AI-native evaluation platform built around an AI-moderated interview. Instead of presenting a fixed list of rating items, Koji holds a short conversation with each student, asks adaptive follow-up questions when an answer is vague ("you said the labs felt rushed — which part specifically?"), and then performs automatic thematic analysis across all transcripts, surfacing the themes, their prevalence and representative quotes. The same interview engine powers customer and user research on the main Koji platform.

Feature comparison

Capability	Artologik Survey&Report	Koji
Core method	Form-based survey (Likert + open text)	AI-moderated conversational interview
Follow-up probing	None (fixed questionnaire / branching logic)	Adaptive, per-answer follow-ups
Qualitative analysis	Manual; text export, standard reporting	Automatic thematic analysis with prevalence + quotes
Standardised moderation	Same form for all; wording fixed	Same moderation logic applied to every student
Question types	Many; broad language support	Conversational; multilingual
LMS / SIS integration	SR-LTI + API	API / LTI
Anonymity	Configurable (identified or anonymous)	Anonymous by design
Data hosting	Sweden, ISO/IEC 27001:2023 data centre	EU / GDPR-aligned
Deployment	Cloud SaaS or on-premise	Cloud (SaaS)
Public pricing	Cloud from ~€95/month; on-prem from ~€855 one-time	Not public as of publication — contact sales
Best fit	Affordable, flexible all-purpose surveys	Deep course-evaluation insight with analysis done for you

(Survey&Report facts and figures from Artologik; pricing as published at the time of writing and subject to change.)

Where Survey&Report is genuinely strong

Honesty matters to procurement-literate buyers, so let's be clear about what Artologik does well:

Cost and ownership. An on-premise perpetual licence from roughly €855 and a cloud plan from roughly €95/month make it one of the more affordable options. The on-premise route — letting you keep data on your own servers — is rare and valuable for institutions with strict data-control policies.
Versatility. It is not only a course-evaluation tool. Registration forms, event feedback, research surveys, NPS — one licence covers many jobs across the institution.
EU data residency. A Sweden-based ISO/IEC 27001:2023-certified data centre, BankID authentication and granular data deletion will reassure a GDPR-conscious QA office.
Operational maturity. Branching logic, scheduled reminders, automated reports and LTI integration — the day-to-day plumbing is all there and well proven.

If your evaluation philosophy is "a well-built Likert questionnaire with a couple of open-text boxes, distributed reliably and reported on time," Survey&Report covers it competently.

Where Koji is different

The limitation Koji targets is not Survey&Report's execution — it is the format every form-based tool shares. A static questionnaire captures whatever a student types in the moment, with no ability to ask "why?" or "which part?". That produces two well-documented problems in course evaluation:

Shallow open text. Most students write a single line or leave the box blank; the rich detail a programme committee actually needs is rarely volunteered.
Manual qualitative load. Someone has to read, code and theme hundreds or thousands of comments — the step most universities skip, rush, or do inconsistently from cohort to cohort.

Koji's conversational interview probes vague answers in real time, and its automatic thematic analysis turns free text into structured, themed evidence with prevalence and representative quotes. Because the same moderation logic is applied to every student, the qualitative signal is collected in a standardised, bias-aware way rather than depending on how articulate or motivated each respondent happens to be. For the methodology behind this, see AI course evaluation vs traditional SET surveys.

Data, GDPR and EU hosting

Both tools take EU data protection seriously. Survey&Report stores data in a Sweden-based ISO/IEC 27001:2023-certified data centre, offers configurable anonymity and granular deletion, and supports BankID. Koji is built for EU/GDPR-aligned handling with anonymous-by-design interviews. For either tool, your DPIA should focus on the same things: lawful basis, anonymity vs identifiability, retention periods, and — for any AI processing — transparency to students about how their words are analysed.

Pricing — compare the total job, not the licence

As published at the time of writing, Survey&Report lists a cloud plan from about €95/month (99.9% uptime) and an on-premise option from about €855 as a one-time perpetual purchase; confirm current figures and tier inclusions with Artologik. Koji does not publish list pricing as of publication — request a quote. When you compare, price the whole job: licence cost plus the staff hours spent manually reading and theming open-text comments each semester. That hidden analyst cost is exactly what Koji automates and what form tools leave to you.

When Survey&Report is the better choice

You need one affordable platform for many survey types, not only course evaluation.
On-premise / self-hosting is a hard requirement.
Your evaluations are primarily quantitative Likert items and you are content with light open text.
Budget is tight and you have in-house analyst capacity to handle qualitative coding.

When Koji is the better choice

You want deeper, less superficial qualitative evidence and are tired of one-line comments.
You do not have the staff time to manually theme thousands of comments every cycle.
You need standardised, bias-aware collection and accreditation-ready thematic output for NVAO, ESG/ENQA or AACSB/EQUIS. See best course evaluation software for European universities.
You want to close the loop with evidence of what changed, not just average scores.

If you are also weighing the incumbents, our EvaSys alternatives guide and Koji vs LimeSurvey cover adjacent options; Koji vs EvaSys is the most-requested head-to-head.

The shared-engine note

Koji's course-evaluation product runs on the same AI interview engine that powers general customer and user research on the main Koji platform — so if your institution also runs alumni, employer or staff studies, the method carries across. Survey&Report likewise spans many survey use cases; the real difference is conversation-plus-analysis versus form-plus-export.

What the rollout looks like

Switching evaluation tools is mostly a change-management exercise, not a technical one. With Survey&Report, the lift is familiar: build or import your question bank, configure distribution lists and reminders, set anonymity, and schedule reports. Teams used to traditional surveys feel at home quickly, and the LTI connector means students meet the evaluation inside the VLE they already use. The ongoing cost is human — every cycle, someone reads and codes the open-text comments before a committee can use them.

With Koji, the setup differs in emphasis. Instead of writing thirty Likert items, you define the topics you want the interview to cover and let the moderation probe within them. The first cycle is where the contrast shows: rather than a spreadsheet of comments to triage, you receive themes with prevalence and supporting quotes ready to drop into a programme-committee paper. The change-management work shifts from "who will analyse the comments?" to "are we ready to act on richer findings?" — a better problem to have.

Response rates and the student experience

Form length is the enemy of response quality: long questionnaires drive break-off and straight-lining. Survey&Report lets you keep forms short and use branching to skip irrelevant items, which helps. Koji takes a different route — a short conversation that adapts, so students answer fewer but more relevant prompts and tend to give more considered open responses. Neither approach is a magic fix for low participation; reminders, protected in-class time and visibly closing the loop remain the strongest levers, whichever tool you choose.

A note on objectivity

We publish Koji, so read the framing accordingly — but the facts about Survey&Report above are drawn from Artologik's own materials and are accurate to the best of our knowledge at publication. If your shortlist is price-driven and survey-shaped, Survey&Report deserves a serious look. If it is insight-driven and analysis-heavy, that is where Koji was built to win.

Bottom line

Survey&Report is a strong, fair-value, EU-hosted survey platform — a sensible pick if you want flexible forms and optional self-hosting. Koji is the better choice when the quality of course-evaluation insight — probing follow-ups, standardised collection and automatic thematic analysis — matters more than fielding yet another questionnaire. Many institutions can justify both: a general survey tool for routine forms, and Koji for the high-stakes course and programme evaluation that has to stand up to an accreditation panel.

See how Koji's AI-moderated interviews perform on your own modules — book a Koji for Education demo.