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Education & LMS

The discovery shortlist is a three-tier stack. Google Classroom leads at 71% share across all four engines, Moodle follows at 63%, and Blackboard plus Schoology tie at 49%. A cluster of seven additional brands — from practice.do to Kajabi — splits the remainder, each visible on every engine but cited in fewer than half of buyer queries. No head-to-head evaluation data exists yet, so AI attention today flows entirely through discovery-stage prompts: buyers ask which platforms serve K-12 vs higher ed, which handle certification courses, which support STEM programs. This is a consolidated category with a clear Google anchor, but the tail is broad enough to fragment second-tier share.

35 discovery queries · refreshed May 1, 2026

Discovery stage

The shortlist

Across 35 buyer-style "Education & LMS" queries

Google Classroom shows up in 71% of buyer queries about education and LMS software, surfacing across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Moodle lands in 63% of those same prompts with identical four-engine visibility. Blackboard and Schoology tie at 49%, both present on every engine but less frequently cited. Practice.do, nearpod.com, and talentlms.com each appear in 37-40% of discovery queries, maintaining consistent visibility across all four engines despite thinner mention share.

2%9%16%23%30%Coverage — share of discovery prompts where the brand surfaces68%74%80%86%92%Engine diversity

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X = coverage across discovery prompts · Y = engine diversity · Bubble size = total mentions
Tracked acrossChatGPT,Gemini,Claude

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Signal by intent

By topic

Top 5 most-cited brands per intent cluster. Brands with zero citations in a topic are not shown.

1Schoology
7/9
2Google Classroom
7/9
3Nearpod
7/9
4Practice
5/9
5Microsoft
4/9
1TalentLMS
5/5
2Moodle
4/5
3Teachable
3/5
4Practice
2/5
5POINT
2/5
1Moodle
5/5
2TalentLMS
5/5
3Teachable
5/5
4Kajabi
5/5
5LearnWorlds
5/5
1Class
4/4
2Google Classroom
4/4
3Schoology
4/4
4Microsoft
4/4
5Nearpod
3/4
1Moodle
4/4
2Blackboard
4/4
3Google Classroom
3/4
4Sakai LMS
3/4
5Honorlock
3/4
1Google Classroom
3/3
2Schoology
2/3
3Questionmark
2/3
4Blackboard
2/3
5Moodle
2/3
1Google Classroom
3/3
2Schoology
2/3
3ClassLink
2/3
4Teachable
1/3
5POINT
1/3
1Docebo
3/3
2TalentLMS
3/3
3Moodle
3/3
4D2L Brightspace
2/3
5POINT
2/3
≥50% cited
25–49%
<25%
Topics are discovery-stage prompt clusters · education-lms

Citation sources

Where AI pulls citations from

670 citations captured across Education & LMS prompt runs.

Vendor pages

188

Product, help, and marketing pages from tracked vendors

Independent sources

162

Reviews, encyclopedias, forums, press — not vendor-owned

Buyer questions

What AI cites for top Education & LMS questions

Every query in this category is discovery-stage exploration. Buyers ask AI for learning platforms by use case — certification courses, classroom management tools for teachers, STEM program software. The phrasings are vertical-specific and role-specific, not vendor-comparison questions. AI engines respond with shortlists that mix institutional LMS (Moodle, Blackboard) and course-creation tools (Teachable, Kajabi) depending on the framing of the ask.

Discovery

Buyers exploring the category

Evaluation

Buyers comparing options

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