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Edsby Adopted by Three New Ontario School Districts, Expanding its Footprint to 25% of the Province

Edsby Adopted by Three New Ontario School Districts, Expanding its Footprint to 25% of the Province

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Posted on by Dallas Kachan

The Rainbow District School Board, Conseil scolaire catholique des Aurores boréales, and Rainy River District School Board are now live with Edsby this academic year, joining the growing list of Ontario districts using the Edsby K-12 digital platform

Richmond Hill, Ontario (September 16, 2026) – Edsby®, a multi-award-winning, next-generation K-12 digital learning platform, is being introduced this school year in three additional Ontario school districts, bringing the total number of Ontario districts using Edsby to 18 of Ontario’s 72 school districts.

Among the new adoptions is the Rainbow District School Board (RDSB), the largest public school board in Northern Ontario. Covering a vast geographic area of 14,757 square kilometers across the regions of Sudbury, Espanola, and Manitoulin Island, RDSB supports more than 14,000 students across 29 elementary and 9 secondary schools.

“We welcome the opportunity to integrate modern technology to further support parental involvement and student achievement,” said Bruce Bourget, Chief Executive Officer of the Rainbow District School Board. “Edsby will enhance communications between the school and the home by streamlining attendance, improving safe arrival practices, providing another venue for sharing information, and celebrating student learning.”

Joining RDSB in introducing Edsby to modernize its family engagement are two more school boards in the province:

  • Conseil scolaire catholique des Aurores boréales (CSDCAB):Serving French-language Catholic students in Northwestern Ontario, CSDCAB will leverage Edsby to seamlessly connect its nine elementary schools, one secondary school, and remote communities in a secure, bilingual environment.
  • Rainy River District School Board (RRDSB): A previous Edsby district, Rainy River returned to the Edsby family this year, recognizing the value of this powerful tool.

Edsby continues to gain momentum in Ontario
The addition of RDSB, CSDCAB, and RRDSB adds to Edsby’s significant usage across the province of Ontario. Edsby is specifically designed to meet the unique and challenging needs of K-12, unlike other corporate or higher-education platforms, and has become central to the digital transformations of school districts throughout the region.

Hundreds of thousands of Ontario families already rely on Edsby as their primary way to follow class schedules, access class materials, review homework, monitor assessment results, participate in discussions and more. In any given academic year, Ontario teachers use the platform to capture millions of points of learning evidence. This evidence is tagged directly to Ontario curriculum expectations, shared instantly with families and streamlines provincial reporting.

These newest districts join a long and growing list of Ontario boards that have adopted Edsby, including York Region DSB, Greater Essex DSB, Kawartha Pine Ridge DSB, Superior-Greenstone DSB, Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic DSB, Algoma DSB, St. Clair Catholic DSB, Durham Catholic DSB, Lakehead DSB, Near North DSB and others.

Districts using Edsby repeatedly say the platform has the best capabilities to streamline communications and assessment in the Ontario K-12 environment.

In a profile on Edsby’s website, Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board calls Edsby the right tool for stakeholder engagement. In a similar profile, Greater Essex County District School Board says the district doesn’t even allow other parent options because “parents know that everything they need—from attendance reporting to grades—is right there in Edsby.”

To learn more about how Edsby is driving K-12 digital transformation in Ontario and beyond, visit www.edsby.com.

About Edsby
The unique needs of K-12 education are hard to meet with conventional technologies. Edsby’s innovative software systems have been fostering student success and leveraging data responsibly in K-12 worldwide since 2010. Districts, regional governments and independent schools use Edsby for modern K-12 assessment & reporting, family engagement, personalized learning and analytics. Edsby and its products have received more than 90 industry awards and distinctions. Learn more at https://www.edsby.com/.

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Dallas Kachan
Dallas Kachan

Dallas Kachan is VP of Marketing at Edsby. He has led, worked with or consulted to dozens of technology firms in Silicon Valley and Canada over thirty years. He was the original vice president of sales and marketing for SoftArc, developers of FirstClass, credited as one of the first internet-based LMSes. Dallas was managing director and head of global marketing for the Cleantech Group, the organization that founded the cleantech investment theme, and served on the board of the U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business’ Cleantech Institute. He is the author of the travel and adventure novel, The Starship Diaries and voice of the popular Deeply Unimportant sleep aid for insomnia podcast.