Edsby wins 2017 Tech & Learning Award of Excellence

Edsby honored as an “outstanding education technology product.”

Tech & Learning magazine has named Edsby among 76 education hardware and software products as winners of its 2017 Awards of Excellence.

The prestigious 35-year-old recognition program tested software, hardware, network, app and web products “including innovative applications that break new ground as well as those that added significant enhancements to proven education tools.” A panel of T&L advisors tested hundreds of entries and chose the winners.

From the publication:

Edsby is a comprehensive learning and analytics platform available for K-12 school districts and regional governments. It comes with apps that let parents get real-time views on what’s happening in class, help administrators assess students according to their districts’ policies, terms, and standards, assist students in tracking their assignments and classes while providing helpful reminders, and more. Judges liked its intuitive interface, user-friendly tools, and the brief but engaging tutorials available for all items.

This is the latest in a long list of recent awards for Edsby.

Among them, Edsby won a CODiE award for best education data solution from the SIIA earlier this year, one of the highest honors in the software and information industry. And it was a finalist for Microsoft’s 2017 Education Partner of the Year.

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.