New Edsby-based Twine for private schools

Twine: Affordable Edsby Cloud Solution for Private K-12 Schools

Private K-12 schools in the U.S. now have a new, fast-track path to engage their students, teachers and parents online: a cloud service from Aptiris called Twine.

The new Twine offering is powered in part by the Edsby® learning management, data aggregation and analytics platform popular with large public school systems.

Twine’s developers approached Edsby seeking to build a complete offering for private schools by pairing Edsby with Twine’s cloud-based student information system (SIS). The bundled, integrated arrangement is intended to simplify startup and reduce costs, particularly for smaller private schools that may not already have an SIS.

“Twine is extremely intuitive and easy to use,” said Wendy Blair, director of Arbor School of Florida, Twine’s first site. “Our teachers are very excited to have Twine, and we implemented it in just a few weeks without any IT involvement.”

Edsby is pleased to support Twine and invites similar arrangements with other SIS vendors targeting specific vertical or geographic markets.

For more information on the hosted Twine service connecting private school educators, students and their parents, visit ChooseTwine.com.

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.