Most edtech systems show system usage, i.e. system analytics. Edsby goes beyond. Optional learning analytics provide insight into student achievement.
Breakthrough learning analytics capabilities enable educators to find trends in achievement data and identify at-risk students in near real time across an individual school, group of schools or a whole school district or region.
In conventional data warehouses, academic data must be imported periodically. Edsby provides near real time insight using data up-to-date to the day before.
Standalone systems often only offer insight to a select few data specialists in a district, through whom data requests must be funnelled. Edsby analytics use the Edsby permissions system synchronized with district or region databases. Teachers see information only on students they currently teach. Principals and office staff only see info relevant to their school. Regional officials can access information across the region.
When a parent calls, the Edsby Panorama can show a school principal everything at a glance: a student’s current classes, grades, performance against standards, attendance, schedule, teachers’ observations, student workload, whether they’re getting assignments in on time, discipline records and more.
Educators can use Perspective Analyze to understand learning trends in their classes, even against standards/expectations.
Edsby’s analytics use Microsoft’s Power BI visualization system to provide dynamic, living dashboards with filtering and drill-down. Edsby provides a set of ready-made dashboards, and with additional professional services can generate custom dashboards and enable sites to generate their own.
Analyze data from any source... and even save it to your database, if preferred.
Edsby can serve as the primary store of academic information across a district or region—where everything having to do with student success can be collected and normalized. Data comes from Edsby, and with additional professional services, from other LMSes, gradebooks or any other historical sources.
Customers can import any normalized assessment data from any source, e.g. EQAO, PM Benchmarks, standardized tests, CASI, etc.
Even if external data lives in SQL tables or CSV files or other formats, it can be leveraged for the most complete picture possible.
An optional service pushes Edsby analytics data to customers’ own data storage systems every night.
By writing data into a customer’s Microsoft Azure SQL database, regions and districts can craft their own analyses leveraging existing staff and tools.
Students at risk, or that might benefit from extra care, can be grouped together in Edsby for special educator attention. Edsby Monitor Groups, a long-established and appreciated feature of Edsby, can be set up as desired by educators.
Edsby enables teachers to communicate privately with students and/or parents, and/or fellow teachers or guidance counsellors. Observations allow educators to make confidential notes that only other educators with permissions can see.
Edsby Groups enable teachers to collaborate online when their schedules allow and serve a place to assemble resources. Connections to popular videoconferencing systems enable realtime meetings.
For large states and provinces or national governments, Edsby’s Unison education data platform allows policymakers to assemble and query education data across their jurisdictions, regardless of what systems it was previously siloed in.
Easy to use, looks great, and lets parents view student work and connect with me.
Darryl HorrocksTeacher, Greater Essex County District School Board, 38,000 students and their parents on Edsby since 2015
Edsby has everything a school needs: assessments, report cards, and privacy controls.
Mike PackowskiPrincipal, Linbrook School
I like seeing my child’s schedule, class activity, office announcements and being able to report absences to the school.
Naomi VanasseParent, Greater Essex County District School Board, 38,000 students and their parents on Edsby since 2015
Edsby is excellent, and I love using it to communicate with my child’s teachers.
Farzana AhmadiParent, York Region District School Board, 131,000 students, on Edsby since 2016
A great way to stay in touch with teachers and track my son’s assignments and grades.
Marlene MishquartParent, Near North District School Board, 10,000 students and their parents on Edsby
Edsby checks all the boxes: info access, standards-based gradebook, calendaring, and messaging.
Warren ApelDirector of Technology, The American School in Japan, 1,700 students on Edsby since 2017
Edsby is superior to Schoology, Edmodo, Moodle, and Google Classroom.
Jonathan BoerTeacher, London District Christian
Edsby is a really valuable tool.
James PatenallVice Principal, Cobourg Collegiate Institute
Edsby keeps evolving and becoming more usable and user-friendly all the time.
Tamara PearsonEdsby Lead, Greater Essex County District School Board, 36,500 students and their parents on Edsby since 2015
Students love sharing on Edsby. It really supports a growth mindset.
Jami AntleTeacher, Fort McMurray Catholic Schools
Now that I know Edsby, it’s a great tool for online learning.
Shannon SolinskiParent, Pembina Trails School Division, 18,000 students and their parents on Edsby since 2022
It aligns with our privacy and equity goals. Easy to use and familiar.
Paulla BennetChief Information Officer, York Region District School Board, 131,000 students, on Edsby since 2016
Edsby wins a 2025 “Cool Tool” award and is named a finalist in two others.
Read moreEdsby is now in wide use at the Near North District School Board, a school district of 10,000 students in the picturesque Great Lakes region.
Read moreBest Data & Analytics solution CODiE is award #31 for Edsby, the industry’s highest honor: the “Academy Award” of software.
Read moreJohn Myers of Edsby and Sivakumar Harinath of Microsoft showed real time insights from educational data to ISTE attendees.
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Read moreMindShare Learning, an edtech strategy consulting, news, and events company, has published a review assessing how well Edsby meets the needs of managing learning in K-12.
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