
Powering collaboration and education records in New Zealand: A case study
How Edsby contributes to New Zealand’s national K-12 school collaboration and learner outcomes, and secures records.
For governments and ministries of education
The modern K‑12 digital learning platform that unifies teaching, assessment, reporting and parent engagement at scale.
Chosen by ministries of education in New Zealand and Georgia, and adopted across Canadian provinces.
Equity and access
Parents and students can participate in any of 57 already-supported languages, ensuring equitable access for immigrant, minority, and indigenous communities.
Edsby excels where most online learning platforms in K‑12 fall short: family engagement.
Keep all families engaged, no matter their background or digital literacy. When parents are informed and involved, governments gain stronger public confidence in their education systems.
Virtual classroom features in Edsby promote the same sense of community as in physical classrooms. Students can participate in class discussions and polls from any device, including computers, tablets, Chromebooks, phones, even gaming consoles, and submit work online. Rural and urban schools benefit equally from the same learning management software for schools.
Built for schools
Unlike other companies that sell primarily to higher education and/or corporations, Edsby is solely focused on the needs of K‑12 students, teachers and parents. Broad support for family engagement and rich features for early year learners are but two examples.
Edsby does the heavy lifting to set everything up automatically for educators. Even teachers not on tech’s cutting edge can use the pre-configured tools Edsby provides. Your teachers can “fly in formation” regardless of their tech savvy, to the benefit of students and parents.
To ensure educators’ success, Edsby includes training plans with each deployment. Hundreds of online videos and text help files are available. A built-in “tour” introduces new users to system basics, and much more.
Consistency
Approved content is electronically distributed to every class by grade level and subject. This can include local curriculum standards, outcomes, expectations and a wide form of digital content including e-textbooks. Approved curriculum can be curated and distributed with learning object repositories (LORs). Edsby also simplifies access to other official apps via a launchpad and LTI integrations.
Edsby aligns your teachers with your approach to assessment and reporting. This includes customization with your local terminology, grading schemes and a wide range of assessment methodologies. Standards, expectations or outcomes can be pre-loaded in Edsby and automatically provided to teachers based on subjects and grade levels.
Edsby goes far beyond traditional learning management products with powerful reporting tools that meet your region’s requirements. Edsby can produce report cards for printing or publishing online, saving time and resources. Manage report cards across your entire region without needing to build support in each of your SIS/SMSes.
Data
Legacy warehouses put data only in the hands of a few specialists. Edsby’s award-winning analytics system gets rich data directly to all the educators and administrators in the region that need it. Edsby updates access permissions every day.
Measure how students are doing at all levels. Detect problem areas. Identify trends. Analyze data by gender, age, subject, ethnicity or other dimensions. Find students at risk and enable educators to intervene, right in the same system.
Edsby’s analytics use Microsoft’s Power BI visualization system to provide dynamic, living dashboards with filtering and drill-down only a click away. Edsby provides a range of ready-made dashboards, can help generate custom dashboards and enable regions to create their own.
Capacity
Your region’s educators can share best practices, mentor new teachers, exchange curriculum content and even jointly author course plans in Professional Learning Community (PLC) groups. Edsby knows which subjects and grade levels each teacher is teaching and can automatically add them to relevant PLCs.
Edsby Groups can unite educators and school administrators across your region. They also provide a way to share local insights and information around particular topics (e.g. “Pandemic Q&A.”)
At the school level, Edsby Groups support students’ sense of belonging and well-being and provide secure ways for staff, students and parents to share. Many schools using Edsby have hundreds of groups for clubs, teams, student council, parent advisory committee and more.
Customer story
Me tiaki te mana o te tamaiti me tana whānau – Te Rito (Edsby) protects the mana of the child and their family.
Myles FerrisChair, Ngā Rau Whakatupu Māori (Māori medium)
Read the New Zealand case studyArchitecture and assurance
Edsby uses Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform to meet the scalability, reliability and security requirements governments need. Microsoft’s broad global coverage with Azure enables Edsby to keep data locally to satisfy data sovereignty requirements. Microsoft named Edsby its Global Education Partner of the Year.
Ministries and departments of education are at risk of compromising student data when teachers turn to freeware found on the Internet. With free apps, organizations have little control over where and how student data is stored or potentially monetized. With the safe, managed Edsby system, teachers don’t need to take risks.
In their own words
6Government testimonials
Edsby protects the child and their family, and connects the data of the child to the child and their parents.
Partnering with Edsby equips students, parents, and teachers with world-class tools.
Edsby gives government agencies trusted, timely data to guide smart investments and decisions.
Georgia's new national LMS will enable personalized learning and provide robust support for educators and families.
Edsby will deliver major benefits to New Zealand learners and educators.
Te Rito (Edsby) has the ability to support whānau / families to better engage in their child’s education and build better relationships with their teachers.
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