Comparison: Edumaps and Taskcards – Functions and Features
EdumapsContent Overview
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Comparison: Edumaps and Taskcards – Functions and Features
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🗺️ Display Formats of Pinboards
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Both tools offer different display formats:
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Function Edumaps Taskcards Pinboard ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Timeline ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Wall (Board) ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes World map ✔️ with image upload ✔️ Yes Change format ✔️ Yes ⛔ No -
Conclusion: Edumaps and Taskcards are similar in classic display formats. Differences mainly appear in the level of detail of individual views.
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📤 Export & Import
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Export and import options vary in scope:
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Function Edumaps Taskcards Export as Moodle course (MBZ) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Export as static HTML package including all files ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Export as PDF ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Export as image (screenshot) ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Exporter for own pinboards (JSON) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Importer for own pinboards (JSON) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Import from Padlet including media ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes -
Conclusion: Edumaps offers a broader range of import/export options than Taskcards, especially through open exchange formats such as JSON or Moodle.
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🤝 Collaboration & Sharing
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Both tools enable collaboration but differ in sharing options:
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Function Edumaps Taskcards Real-time collaboration ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Share with groups/classes ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Share with individuals ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Anonymous sharing (view) ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Anonymous sharing (edit) ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Notification for shared pinboards ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Real-time writing on one document with 100+ users ✔️ Yes (Teamtext) ⛔ No -
Conclusion: Both systems are designed for collaboration. Edumaps offers additional features for large groups and parallel work on extensive content.
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🛠️ Editing Options
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Editing options differ in scope of features.
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Function Edumaps Taskcards Custom background image ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Change font (entire pinboard) ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Duplicate pinboard ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Tags for pinboards ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Move columns ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Protect columns ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Share columns with permission profiles ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Embed individual columns in other pinboards ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Show columns at a specific time ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Show boxes at a specific time ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Set column width ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Freely move boxes ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Fully color boxes ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Lock individual boxes ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Share individual boxes ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Global search function for boxes ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Edit history per pinboard ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Version history per box (revisions) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Restore previous versions ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Freely place arrows and lines ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Freely place text fields ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Survey module with many options ✔️ Yes ⛔ No -
Conclusion: Edumaps offers numerous additional functions for structuring, time control, and versioning. Taskcards focuses more on classic pinboard features.
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📦 Elements of a Box
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The components that can make up a box differ:
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Edumaps Taskcards Label – Title Title Color Color Collapse box – Protect box – Comments (per box) Comments Likes Likes Ratings Ratings Calendar and bookings – Change visibility – Assign task – -
Conclusion: Edumaps provides additional organizational and management options within individual boxes.
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📁 Materials in Boxes
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Various upload options compared:
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Function Edumaps Taskcards Free positioning of text/uploads ✔️ Yes ⛔ No (fixed structure) Recordings (microphone, photo, webcam) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Screenshots (clipboard) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Direct upload, drag & drop ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Number of uploads per box ✔️ Unlimited ⛔ Limited Upload limit per file 500 MB 250 MB Real preview images for links ✔️ Yes ⛔ Limited Rotate images ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Hide content within box ✔️ Yes ⛔ No -
Conclusion: Edumaps offers more flexibility in media handling, positioning, and display within a box.
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✏️ Inputs & Formatting
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Feature range and editor differ significantly here:
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Function Edumaps Taskcards Bold/italic text ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Color for individual words ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Lists and indentation ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes LaTeX formulas ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Code (inline/block) ✔️ Yes ⛔ Limited Superscript/subscript ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Headings ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Quotes ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Spoiler function ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Image source references ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Private notes (hidden) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Link text ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Text-to-speech ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Dynamic QR codes ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Use Markdown content ✔️ Yes ⛔ No -
Conclusion: Edumaps offers more formatting options and a Markdown-oriented editor with advanced features.
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💬 Comments & Ratings
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Differences in interactions per box:
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Function Edumaps Taskcards Ratings per box ✔️ Yes Globally configurable Text comments ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Comments with uploads ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Comments with recordings ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Delete all comments with one click ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Notification for new comments ✔️ Yes ⛔ No -
Conclusion: Edumaps enables more differentiated feedback and extended commenting features.
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👥 User Management
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User management options compared:
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Function Edumaps Taskcards Admin accounts ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Student accounts ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Teacher accounts ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Classes/groups ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Account creation (name/email) ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Account creation (CSV import) ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes -
Conclusion: Both systems support school user structures. Edumaps offers additional import and management options.
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✨ Additional Features
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Overview of additional functions and special features:
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Function Edumaps Taskcards Overview of recently visited pinboards ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Public pinboards ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Internal shared pinboards per school/group ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Archive pinboards ⛔ No ⛔ No Moderate posts ⛔ No ⛔ No Custom domain setup ✔️ Partial
(state license/enterprise customers)✔️ Yes Bookmarks for pinboards ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Print pinboards ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Export as PDF ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Gallery for all images of a pinboard ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Folders to collect pinboards ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Follow pinboards ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Assign tasks ✔️ Yes ⛔ No AI-supported features ✔️ Yes ⛔ No -
Conclusion: Edumaps focuses on organizational and additional modules, while Taskcards emphasizes moderation and classic pinboard functions.
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🔒 Technology & Data Protection
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Performance data and compliance overview:
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Metric/Function Edumaps Taskcards Pageload (JS/CSS/Fonts) 0.49 MB 1.8 MB Initial load time (at 3 Mbit/s) 1.3 s 2.1 s Number of requests 19 19 External domains during loading None None Security mechanisms ✔️ Content Security Policy
✔️ Strict Transport Security
✔️ X-Frame-Options
✔️ X-Content-Type-Options
✔️ Referrer-Policy
✔️ Permissions-Policy✔️ Content Security Policy
⛔ Strict Transport Security
⛔ X-Frame-Options
⛔ X-Content-Type-Options
⛔ Referrer-Policy
⛔ Permissions-PolicyGDPR compliance ✔️ Yes (verified multiple times) ✔️ GDPR compliance information available -
Conclusion: Both systems position themselves as GDPR-compliant solutions for schools. Edumaps particularly emphasizes minimal external dependencies and technical transparency.
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