The catalog you rent.The platform you own.
Community colleges publish their catalog three ways today: a mature vendor system, a curriculum-focused vendor system, or a PDF nobody can search. Kenii is a fourth option, native to the website your institution already runs, student-facing by design, and modular enough to grow with you. Compare all three honestly, then see the difference on your own site.
The right catalog platform is the one your students actually find, not the one your vendor hosts.
Ownership is the whole argument.
Name the real alternatives, then look at what each one actually costs.
Acalog, from Modern Campus
The most established name in the category, with a deep feature set built over two decades and the largest install base in higher education. A real strength if your team wants a mature system with a long track record and peers who can vouch for it. A real cost too: about $12,500 a year plus about $20,500 in implementation (John A. Logan College, IL, 2024), and your catalog renders on a Modern Campus domain, not yours.
CourseLeaf, from Leepfrog
The strongest curriculum workflow in the category (CIM), favored by registrars, and the deepest Banner and Ellucian SIS integration available. Its annual license runs lower than Kenii’s, and we say so plainly. A real cost: about $8,000 a year plus about $34,000 in implementation (Monterey Peninsula College, CA), on a system built curriculum first, with catalog publishing as the secondary job.
The PDF you already have
Free, and unusable. A static document with no search, no filters, and no connection between a course and the programs that require it, updated once a year if the spring calendar allows for it, and impossible for a prospective student to explore on a phone.
Your catalog runs on
your own site.
Acalog and CourseLeaf send your students to a vendor domain to read your catalog. Kenii installs on the WordPress site your institution already operates and stores every course, program, and credential in your own database, so your catalog is indexed as your pages and works as part of your recruiting, not beside it.
Programs
48 programs in the catalog · 2026 to 2027
Built to recruit,
not just archive.
Acalog and CourseLeaf were built to hold requirements. Kenii Catalog is searchable and filterable by interest, credential, delivery mode, and campus, on a phone, with shareable results, and it is a base a college can build on: add Pathways for career exploration or Curriculum for the approval workflow, on the same data, the same login, the same site.
Programs For You
Business & Finance · Dual Enrollment · Part time
Accounting and Finance
2 credentialsCAREER OUTCOMES
Look at what a real first year costs before you compare a recurring line to ours.
| Feature | Catalog | Pathways | Curriculum | Academics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenii Catalog | ||||
| A printable catalog, generated not maintained | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Programs, credentials and courses, connected | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| See exactly what changed between catalog years | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Students search and filter it themselves | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Academic calendar and term dates | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalog access without site admin | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Every change is logged | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Locked catalog year archives | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mid-year addenda | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Student handbook and policies | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Transfer and articulation agreements | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Academic policies in the catalog | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| More than one campus, more than one delivery mode | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Programs found by search engines | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sign in with your existing accounts | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Kenii Pathways | ||||
| Career communities | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Careers matched to programs from the federal crosswalk | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| High school students can start early | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Change the pace and see what changes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Compare programs side by side | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Compass career finder | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Your state's name for dual enrollment | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Certificates that stack into a degree | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| What students are actually looking for | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Job growth for your state | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Real salary data on programs | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Export every program with its careers and plans | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Suggested plans of study | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Who to ask about this program | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| What you need before you start | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Estimated program cost | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Graduates on the program page | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Leave out the careers that do not fit | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Milestones along the way | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Students can print their plan | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| See what adding a certificate would cost | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Skills employers ask for | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Trending and related programs | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Name the pages what your college calls them | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Kenii Curriculum | ||||
| Approval workflows | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Approved changes write themselves into the catalog | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Course change proposals | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Nothing publishes until it is approved | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| See only what changed | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| What else this change touches | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Committee review and voting | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Curriculum validation rules | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Every rule carries its source and its date | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Everything waiting on you, in one place | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Evidence export | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| People are told when it is their turn | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| The route changes when the proposal does | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Curriculum reports | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Discussion stays on the proposal | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Finish it before you send it | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Substantive change flagging | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Standard on every install | ||||
| Runs on your own WordPress site | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Your brand, without a developer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Documented REST API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Your data leaves in open formats | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Works with the page builder you already use | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Never priced per student or per seat | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Built to WCAG 2.2 AA | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Kenii Essentials Free when it ships | ||||
| Staff directory and departments | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Site-wide alerts | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Announcement popups | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Kenii Board In development | ||||
| Meetings, agendas and minutes | add-on | add-on | add-on | add-on |
| Past meetings stay as published | add-on | add-on | add-on | add-on |
| Trustee roster | add-on | add-on | add-on | add-on |
The Acalog and CourseLeaf figures are real, cited contracts, not estimates. Kenii’s price depends on the size of your catalog. We will not guess at it here. Request a demo and we will send you a written quote to hold every number in this table against.
What sets Kenii aside is that it is all built into one, and it is inside your own website.Jason Freeman Chief Information Officer Martin Community College
The honest objection, answered.
- Isn't CourseLeaf's annual license lower than Kenii's?
- Yes, and we will not pretend otherwise: about $8,000 a year against a roughly $34,000 implementation (Monterey Peninsula College, CA). Kenii wins on first-year total cost against that real deployment, on owning your catalog on your own site instead of a vendor domain, and on a platform your enrollment team can use to recruit, not just a system your registrar uses to file requirements.
- We already run Acalog. What would actually change?
- Your catalog moves off a Modern Campus domain and onto your own website, in your own database, searchable by phone from day one. Update a course once and every program that includes it is correct the same second, with no separate export step and no republish cycle.
- Doesn't CourseLeaf's CIM matter for curriculum approvals?
- If your curriculum workflow is the whole project, CourseLeaf’s CIM is real and registrar-favored. Kenii Curriculum runs approvals through your actual committee chain with per-member votes stored and retrievable, and an approved change writes into the real catalog record automatically, no re-typing, on the same platform as your catalog and your recruiting site.
- Can we really move off a PDF and a static page?
- Yes, and it is the easiest move of the three. We migrate your existing catalog content, your team edits it in an interface built for a coordinator, and it publishes as a searchable, mobile catalog and as a PDF whenever you need one.
- What if we are not ready to switch this year?
- Ask for a branded demo anyway. Seeing your own logo and colors on a working catalog makes the comparison concrete for a board or a purchasing office, whenever the timing is right for your institution.
See the differenceon your own site.
Request a demo and we will stand up a Kenii site with your logo and your colors, running on demo catalog content, yours for fourteen days. Compare it against what you run today, then we send a written quote your purchasing office can act on.
Nothing to sign to get the demo site.