About us

We believe educators, parents and students in K-12 have unique needs that aren’t being met by traditional education software. Edsby is on a mission to improve K-12 teaching and learning around the world with next generation social technologies and industry-leading student data stewardship.

1980s - Partnership forged

Brothers Steve Asbury, Jon Asbury and colleague Scott Welch develop, among other things, Northern Telecom’s bestselling voicemail system Meridian Mail under supervision of John Myers.

1990 - World’s first LMS

Leaving Nortel and forming SoftArc, the Asburys and Welch develop FirstClass, a communication and collaboration system used by millions worldwide and credited as the first Learning Management System (LMS).

1999 - Public listing, acquisition

Former Nortel supervisor John Myers joins as CEO. SoftArc renamed Centrinity, lists on Toronto Stock Exchange. Acquired by OpenText in 2002.

2010 - Edsby born

The Asburys, Welch and Myers form new co. and design what eventually becomes Edsby and Unison, modern systems focused on education leveraging learnings from the K-12 success of FirstClass worldwide.

Delivering on K-12 digital transformation for 30+ years

Edsby is a member in good standing of the 1EdTech Consortium (formerly IMS Global) and the A4L Student Data Privacy Consortium. It is ISO 27001 and Project Unicorn Interoperability certified. It has been evaluated by Common Sense Media’s Privacy Program and was an early signatory of the Student Privacy Pledge.

138

Organizations powered
worldwide

5,000+

Transactions/second under peak
COVID load

88 Billion+

Secure student data
transactions facilitated annually

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