Edsby is the most comprehensive learning and analytics platform available for K-12. Edsby engages students, parents and teachers on all of their devices. It enables personalized learning experiences and gives school districts, states and provinces or national governments powerful, new ways to measure and improve their educational effectiveness. Features are described in detail here.

Edsby has been developed specifically to meet the needs of K-12 school districts. It is not developed for or marketed to individual schools, higher education or corporate learning.

Three big things set Edsby apart:

1. Edsby is designed specifically for K-12. Other LMSes try to service corporate and higher learning at the same time. Edsby’s specialization in K-12 allows it to do things critical to K-12, such as smart parent communication of grades, attendance and disciplinary data, parent approvals, parent-teacher conference scheduling, report card workflow and much more. Detail here.
2. Because no two K-12 districts do things exactly the same, Edsby allows for deep customization, including use of local terminology, assessment schemes and even policies around reporting academic progress to students and parents—all while remaining cloud-based. Even districts’ unique report cards can be reproduced in Edsby. More here.
3. To make district-wide rollouts quick and to minimize ongoing administration, Edsby integrates unusually tightly with existing student information (SIS), HR databases and other systems used in K-12. It lets districts leverage data and security policies that already exist, in a very elegant, zero-administration way. More details on what makes our approach different here.

More detail on Edsby’s underlying technology here.

If you’re a teacher, Edsby streamlines grading, attendance, parent communication and other administrivia, freeing more time for teaching. And it gives you new ways to make your class shine. Read more.

If you’re a parent, Edsby lets you see what’s happening with your kids at school, and helps you play a more active part in your childrens’ education. Read more.

If you’re a school district administrator, Edsby provides in-depth information on every student and their status, and gives you great new ways to engage parents. Read more.

If you’re an IT professional, Edsby interfaces elegantly with your legacy systems for quick deployment and easy ongoing administration. Read more.

If you’re a student, Edsby is the easy way to stay up on what’s happening at school and how you’re doing. Read more.

If your school or district doesn’t already run Edsby, you can’t log in or set up your own account. Because Edsby ties closely with a district’s other existing systems to do all the things it does, users can’t register an account and just try it. Edsby needs to be set up to talk with your systems. Invite your instructional technology or IT staff to contact us.

If you’re a student, teacher or parent at a school or district that already uses Edsby, ask the office at your school for the information you need in order to log in. Because of the confidentiality of academic data, it’s not as simple as just setting up your own account on the Edsby website. There are special processes.

If you’re a school district administrator, or district level instructional technology or IT professional and would like to evaluate Edsby, we’d like to show it to you. Click here to request a demo.

At minimum, Edsby needs to talk with a student information system, or SIS, in order to do what it does. Optionally, it usually also connects to a school or district’s authentication system (like LDAP, or Active Directory), often its HR system, and sometimes even other structured data.

Yes, by default. Most districts want their SIS and other existing systems like authentication and HR to remain their master databases of record, so Edsby pushes and pulls information to and from them as necessary. If your district wants Edsby to retain some information, that’s possible, too.

Edsby goes far beyond the simple parent portal or grade sharing add-ons offered by certain student information systems. And users can use any modern web browser without any plug-ins, or apps for iOS and Android. Even better, because Edsby can work with any SIS, standardizing on Edsby gives you the flexibility to change your SIS in the future without having to change the user experience for your teachers, students and parents.

Review our features. Then let us contrast Edsby with your SIS’s features in a demo.

Yes. Details here.

Yes. This information comes from your school or district’s existing databases. It is not added separately into Edsby.

Yes. Customization is one of Edsby’s core differentiators. We’ll implement your school or district’s existing assessment schemes for your gradebook and report cards. And we’ll reproduce your existing report card as part of our initial integration. Other customization, including custom reports like progress reports, etc., is charged for. We can describe timing and costing in a written proposal.

There are up-front charges for initial integration. There are also annual costs, variable with the number of students. Edsby does not charge for parent, teacher and administrator accounts. Certain other features are charged for annually. Contact us for details.

Edsby can pay for itself in the first year on the basis of savings from paper, toner and printer maintenance alone, because far fewer assignments and notices home need to be printed. Additional savings are realized from reduced printing of student agendas, integrated attendance, grade book and report cards, lesson planning, parent portal features, parent teacher conference scheduling, parent approval workflow and online testing. Ask us about our return on investment calculator tool that shows just how much your school or district can save with Edsby based on your number of students, teachers, parents, schools and other inputs.

Edsby implementation can be completed as little as 2 weeks after connection is made your student information system, authentication and other systems. Note that training often takes longer.

Yes. If a school or district hasn’t already collected parent information of its students, Edsby’s self-service parent registration can be used to do so.

Customers own all data collected by Edsby. Customers are invited to export any data at any time.

Edsby site administrators are invited to contact us via email, phone or within Edsby itself. Details here.

Teachers or school admins are invited to contact us via Edsby, or seek assistance with Edsby from their school or district help desks. Details here.

Students and parents should contact their school or school district help desks for help logging to or using Edsby. Details here.

Edsby does not charge customers for support.

We include basic training for professional staff in each new Edsby implementation. Additional training services are available. Contact us.