Comparison: Edumaps and Padlet – Functions and Features
EdumapsContents Overview
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🗺️ Board Representation Formats
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Both tools offer various display formats:
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Function Edumaps Padlet Pinboard ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Timeline ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Wall (board) ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes World map ✔️ With image upload ✔️ Yes (interactive) Switch format ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes - Conclusion: Edumaps and Padlet are very similar in classic representations. Padlet supports an interactive world map, which however violates data privacy. Edumaps provides a privacy-friendly workaround via image upload. See details here.
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📤 Export & Import
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Export and import options vary in extent:
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Function Edumaps Padlet Export as Moodle course (MBZ) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Export as static HTML package including all files ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Export as PDF ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Export as image (screenshot) ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Exporter for own boards (JSON) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Importer for own boards (JSON) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Import from Padlet incl. media ✔️ Yes Not applicable -
Conclusion: Edumaps offers a much wider range of import/export options than Padlet, including specific formats (like Moodle or JSON), making it more flexible for school use.
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🤝 Collaboration & Sharing
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Both tools enable real-time collaboration, but differ in sharing options:
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Function Edumaps Padlet Real-time collaboration Yes (SSE) Yes (Websocket) Share to groups/classes ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Share to individuals ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Anonymous sharing (view) ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Anonymous sharing (edit) ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Notification for shared boards ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Real-time writing with 100+ users ✔️ Yes (Teamtext) ⛔ No -
Conclusion: Edumaps is particularly designed for working in groups and classes and scales better for many editors.
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🛠️ Editing Options
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Editing options are more extensive in Edumaps than Padlet.
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Function Edumaps Padlet Own background image ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Change font (for entire board) ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Duplicate board ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Tags for boards ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Move columns ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Protect columns ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Share columns with profiles ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Embed single columns from board A in board B ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Show columns at specific time ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Show box at specific time ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Set column width ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Move box freely ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Color entire box ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Lock individual boxes ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Share individual boxes ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Share any columns (with link profiles) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Copy box from another board ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Box search (on board and across boards) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Embed single boxes from board A in board B ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Edit history per board ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Edit history per box (revisions) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Restore previous versions of boxes ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Draw arrows and lines freely on sticker wall ✔️ Yes ⛔ No (boxes can be connected) Place text fields freely on sticker wall ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Place images freely on sticker wall ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Likes per box ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Ratings/voting per box ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Poll module with unlimited options ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Convert box to course ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Create/manage bookings (course system) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Receive payments via Paypal ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Automatic participation certificates ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Calendar per box ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Lending module per box ✔️ Yes ⛔ No -
Conclusion: Edumaps offers numerous additional features, such as edit history, polls, and more restrictive/shareable elements – Padlet lacks most of these options.
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📦 Elements of a Box
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The contents a box can consist of are different:
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Edumaps Padlet Label – Title Title Color Color Collapse box – Protect box – Comments (per box) Comments (only globally) Likes Reactions Ratings Reactions Calendar and bookings – Change visibility – Assign task – -
Conclusion: Edumaps provides more fields and interaction options within boxes (e.g., calendar, bookings), while Padlet's comments and reactions are not as differentiated.
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📁 Materials in Boxes
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Edumaps stands out with versatile upload options:
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Function Edumaps Padlet Free positioning of text/uploads ✔️ Yes ⛔ No (fixed structure) Recordings (microphone, photo, webcam) ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Screenshots (clipboard) ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Direct upload, drag’n’drop ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Number of uploads per box ✔️ unlimited ⛔ only 1 upload per box Upload limit per file 500 MB 500 MB Real preview images for links ✔️ Yes ⛔ No, only og-image graphics (or first image on linked site) Preview images stored on server ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Rotate images ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Hide content in box ✔️ Yes ⛔ No -
Conclusion: Edumaps is more versatile in handling media, uploads, and representation within boxes.
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✏️ Inputs & Formatting
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Here, the range of functions and editor differ greatly:
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Function Edumaps Padlet Text bold/italic ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Color for individual words ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Lists and indents ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes LaTeX formulas ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Code (inline/block) ✔️ Yes Yes, only block Superscript/subscript ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Headings ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Quotes ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Spoiler function ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Image citations ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Own notes (hidden) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Link text ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Dynamic QR codes ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Markdown content usable ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Editor type Markdown-like WYSIWYG (when text is marked) -
Conclusion: Edumaps offers more formatting options and a modern, markdown-based editor.
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💬 Comments & Ratings
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Differences in per-box interaction:
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Function Edumaps Padlet Ratings per box ✔️ Yes Only globally possible, not per box Comments as text ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Comments with uploads ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Comments with recordings ✔️ Yes (microphone, photo) ⛔ No Delete all comments with one click ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Notification when new comments on website ✔️ Yes ⛔ No -
Conclusion: Edumaps provides more ways for differentiated feedback and manageable comments.
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👥 User Management
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User management options are more extensive in Edumaps:
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Function Edumaps Padlet Admin accounts ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Student accounts ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Teacher accounts ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Classes/groups ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Account creation (name/email) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Account creation (CSV import) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No -
Conclusion: Edumaps supports full management of large user groups and roles – these functions are missing in Padlet.
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✨ Other Features
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An overview of additional features and specifics:
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Function Edumaps Padlet List of recently visited boards ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Public boards ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Upload manager Yes, uploads can be flexibly managed Yes, called "Drive", but no delete option (files can only be deleted by deleting the box) Internal, shared boards per school/group ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Archiving boards ⛔ No ✔️ Yes Moderation of posts ⛔ No ✔️ Yes Bad word filter (English) ⛔ No ✔️ Yes Own domain possible ⛔ No (only state license) ✔️ Yes Bookmarks for boards ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Print boards ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Export boards as PDF ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Gallery for all images in a board ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Folders to collect boards (including folder sharing and collaborative editing) ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Follow boards ✔️ Yes ✔️ Yes Assign tasks ✔️ Yes ⛔ No Create quiz with AI ✔️ Yes ⛔ No -
Conclusion: The special features are distributed differently – Edumaps scores with school organization tools, while Padlet offers moderation and filters.
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🔒 Technology & Data Protection
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Performance and compliance overview:
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Metric/Function Edumaps Padlet Pageload (JS/CSS/Fonts) 0.49 MB 1.45 MB First load time
(at 3 Mbit/s)1.3 s 3.9 s Number of requests 19 91 External domains on load None 8 domains 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 (multiple checks) – -
Conclusion: Edumaps is resource-efficient, does not send data to third parties, and is said to meet GDPR requirements; Padlet requires more bandwidth and calls third-party servers.
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