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Learning is a journey for both students and teachers. Edsby’s Destinations allows for both students and teachers to visually see the journey and the destination of where their learning will take them. Destinations allow for students to have autonomy in their learning by permitting them to self-assess their learning and reflect. Teachers can also create […]

Activities Overview Activities combine structure and creativity, giving teachers a smarter way to engage students and capture learning. Activities guide students as they submit evidence of their learning, making expectations clear and easy to follow. Teachers can assign Activities to the whole class or tailor them for individual students to support differentiated instruction. Every Activity […]

Class Groups are special groups within a class that support student collaboration. The teacher can create groups that allow student participation or provide targeted resources to a group of students. Through the assessment form, the teacher can enable a submission on behalf of the group.    The teacher can also create Class Groups that are […]

The Edsby interface is available at this time in 57 languages. Edsby can display in the following: Afrikaans Arabic Bengali Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English English (Australian) English (Canadian) English (New Zealand) English (United Kingdom) English (United States) Finnish French German Greek Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Hmong Hungarian Igbo Indonesian Italian Japanese […]

The AI Teacher Assistant is a set of tools to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of educators in their daily tasks. These tools are available exclusively to staff; students and parents do not have access. The AI Teacher Assistant can be useful to teachers in a variety of ways, like creating question sheets, writing report […]

Attendance Codes Attendance Codes are categorization of types of lates and absences, mostly defined by the SIS. Codes are the general group, while reasons are the specific type of absence. It is crucial to complete this configuration before the start of the school year to avoid disruptions to attendance tracking and reporting. Changes to code […]

Traditional assessment refers to evaluating student learning through standardized tests, quizzes, exams, and assignments that result in a numerical or letter grade. These assessments often focus on measuring a student’s ability to recall information, solve problems, or apply learned concepts within a set timeframe. In traditional assessment, the results are usually expressed as a percentage […]

Outcome-based grading is an approach that focuses on assessing student performance against specific standards or outcomes rather than calculating an average score. Each assessment is aligned with one or more defined standards (also known as outcomes or expectations in some regions). For example, a standard might be “Identify positive and negative impacts that animals have […]

The Progress Report enables teachers to create a printed report of their student’s progress to distribute with parents and students. The Progress Report can be used as a helpful tool during parent-teacher interviews, as an indicator of student progress for the students, or even as a report card substitute for private schools.  To create a […]

Teachers, welcome back and thank you for making Edsby a part of the back to school routine. We’ve put together some information that is useful at the start of a new school year. Read about printing the class rosters. Learn how to copy content from completed classes to your current classes. Add additional teachers to your classes Choose which groups [...]

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The Edsby digital learning and analytics platform has an open architecture designed to connect tightly with many different school district systems.  Edsby offers API-level integrations with other popular applications, or through open standards such as the IMS Global Learning Consortium’s Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI). This documentation will walk through how to configure Turnitin with Edsby [...]

If your organization has integrated Turnitin as an LTI tool within Edsby, teachers can create assessments within Edsby, enabling students to submit files through the Turnitin environment. To create a Turnitin assignment, follow these steps: Create a LTI link from the Content panel menu. Choose Turnitin from the list of available LTI tools and then [...]

Teachers can create an assessment and provide students with a personal copy of a Google Doc, Sheet, or Slide. When the student submits their copy of the document, the teacher can use the Grader to annotate the student’s work. When a Google Doc, Sheet, or Slide file is submitted through this process, the teacher has […]

Teachers can create individualized assessments to support a modified curriculum, IEP’s, or to provide students with a choice of assessments. In the assessment form, the Assign To field enables teachers to choose between assigning all students or a subset of students. By default, assignments are assigned to all students.  To assign a subset of students, […]

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Field trips, school opportunities, and requests for volunteers are all simplified using Edsby’s approval feature. Traditionally, teachers send permission slips home with students to give to their parents. Parents will sign the form and send it back to school with their child who will hopefully remember to give it to their teacher. Teachers have to [...]

When it’s time for parents to schedule an interview with their children’s teachers, a message will be sent to their Edsby mailbox. Parents can click the envelope in the Navigation Bar to access their mailbox. Open the message and click Book Parent-Teacher Interview. Parents will see the children the interviews apply to and the available […]

Inside an Edsby Class, the teacher has access to the Perspective. The Perspective's Analyze page takes data from Evidence and Gradebook and enables teachers to see the results of both types of assessments in one place. Analyze empowers the teacher to look at the assessment data in multiple ways to spot trends or areas of [...]

Edsby enables teachers to access their students and classes with the convenience of their mobile devices by using the Edsby App. For more information about logging in to Edsby, click here. For more information about using Edsby on smartphones and tablets and how to download the app, click here.   Jump to a Section Home […]

Edsby enables students to keep up-to-date with their school life from the convenience of their mobile devices with the Edsby mobile app. For help logging in, click here. For more information about using Edsby on smartphones and tablets and how to download the app, click here. Jump to a Section Home Screen Classes My Work […]

Adding and Removing Edsby Live for Zoom If your School District would like to use Zoom as a service provider, please open a support ticket. Support can configure an OAuth2 authentication service for your district. The Support team will copy information from the Zoom Zoom App Credentials page. Copy the Client ID and paste it [...]

Edsby’s many features are equipped to import and update live documents linked from Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, or an external service. Live documents can be directly imported into the Content Builder in Classes and Groups. Additionally, Notes, Journals, Assessments, Polls, Calendars, Events, and Messages all include the Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive icons. Wherever the […]

The Gradebook's Grader provides teachers with a unified framework for viewing submitted files and online tests. In addition, the Grader also enables a teacher to give feedback by adding annotations to a student’s PDF document or image file. Jump to a Section Accessing the Grader Adding Annotations and Comments Sharing Annotations Navigating to other Assessments [...]

About EdsbyLive An organization can choose to enable the Go Live feature within Edsby. Once enabled, a teacher can create a secure Zoom meeting on the fly by clicking the Go Live Now button within a Class. Students in the class will be able to join via a button in Edsby (no URL exposed). Teacher […]

Edsby is designed to connect tightly with many different school district systems. Edsby offers API-level integrations with other popular applications, or through open standards such as the IMS Global Learning Consortium’s Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI).  LTI app configuration in Edsby is available at an individual teacher level for use by the teacher and students within [...]

Edsby is designed to connect tightly with many different school district systems. Edsby offers API-level integrations with other popular applications, or through open standards such as the IMS Global Learning Consortium’s Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI).  LTI app configuration in Edsby is available at a district or school level for use by all teachers and students [...]

Edsby provides both teachers and students with tools to capture evidence regarding student learning. Once captured, teachers can create Learning Stories to share the learning evidence with students and parents if they choose to. Students can capture evidence regarding their own earning through their Learning Story if their teacher has enabled the feature in the […]

Each organization configures the Class and Gradebook Settings with the recommended configuration to save teachers’ time, so teachers may not need to adjust them. However, these Settings can be accessed by teachers by clicking the drop-down arrow at the top right of the Class and selecting Setup. Teachers can also access the Class and Gradebook [...]

About EdsbyLive An organization can choose to enable the Go Live feature within Edsby. Once enabled, a teacher can create a secure Teams meeting on the fly by clicking the Go Live Now button within a Class. Students in the class will be able to join via a button in Edsby (no ugly URL exposed) [...]

To support team-teaching, teachers and school administrators can add additional teachers to Classes. To add another teacher to a class, navigate to the Class Setup form. Under Teachers and Assistants, search for the name of the teacher to add. Select the role they will have in the class by clicking the drop-down arrow and selecting [...]

Edsby helps teachers make connections between home and school by involving parents in their child’s learning, giving them a glimpse into their child’s classroom and school life. Teachers might be interested in increasing parent engagement in their student’s learning. Edsby gives teachers a variety of tools that can help parents take an active role in [...]

Edsby enables parents to easily communicate with their children’s teachers. Depending on a school or district's policies, Edsby can enable parents to communicate and interact with the teachers of their children through Edsby Messages, Recent Activity, and their child’s Learning Story. Edsby Messages The easiest way for a parent to ask their child’s teacher a [...]

Parents care about their child’s education and want to support them through their learning journey. Edsby enables students to keep up-to-date with their school life, grades, and assignments. Why not show them the ropes and help them get the most out of Edsby? The Student Interface When students first login, their Home Screen is the [...]

The Edsby Capture App, available via the App Store and Google Play, gives students and their parents a simple way to record evidence of student learning. After a record is uploaded, it appears in the teacher’s Evidence stream in Edsby. Parents can help their children get started with using Edsby Capture! Downloading the App The [...]

Edsby is designed to meet the needs of K-12 parents with tools that are purpose-built to help parents to review their child’s academic progress, stay up-to-date on school and classroom announcements, as well as communicate with their children’s teachers. Jump to a Section Activating an Edsby Account Logging In Setting Up Notifications Home Screen The […]

If teachers would like to parents to communicate with each other and the teacher they can invite them to a parent group. First, create a group to invite parents to. In this example, Christopher Nelson, an Art teacher, would like to create a group to collaborate with the parents of his 6th Grade Art students. [...]

Edsby Groups supports options for limiting the visibility of the Members panel. These options include: only moderators being able to see members of a group, only members seeing other members, anyone being visible as a member of a group, and anyone except parents seeing the members of a group. Although this feature enables limiting which [...]

Parents care about their child's education and want to support them through their learning journey. Edsby enables parents to keep up-to-date with their child's school life, grades, and assignments. Why not show them the ropes and help them get the most out of Edsby? Logging In Parents need their own Edsby accounts. They should not [...]

Every class has a grades and assignment report called My Work. Students can access My Work by clicking My Work in the class header. The My Work feed lists all assignments in a class as well as the results of any other assessments teachers have chosen to share. Students can click the speech bubble icon [...]

Everyone likes to be up-to-date with the latest news. Edsby makes this easy! When loggin in, students will see the News River across the top of the Home Screen. Each school and district has its own news stream. The News River collates news from all streams. Scroll to navigate through the River. Click an article [...]

Classes are the heart of how Edsby helps students. Every class includes an effective way for students to engage with teachers and classmates, view class information, and submit assignments. The Classes Panel On the students’ Edsby app Home Screen is the Classes Panel. This panel provides a brief overview of a students’ current classes, including: […]

Edsby is designed to meet the needs of K-12 students with tools that are purpose-built to help students keep up-to-date with their school life. Edsby fosters student-teacher communication, group collaboration, and classroom participation. Jump to a Section Logging In Setting Up Notifications Home Screen News Personal Calendar Recent Activity Classes Submitting Assignments Online Class Content [...]

With Edsby’s wide selection of purpose-built tools, teachers often benefit from training that shows them all of Edsby’s capabilities. Professional Development groups within Edsby enable senior administrators to create self-paced training material that informs and shows teachers everything they can do in Edsby. Creating a Professional Development Group To create a PD Group, click Find [...]

When managing a school, it is important to keep parents up-to-date with information regarding parking and drop-off information, managing absences for their children, volunteer information, as well as various resources to support their children in their learning at home. Professional Development groups within Edsby enable senior administrators to display important information to all of the [...]

With Edsby’s wide selection of purpose-built tools, senior administrators may want to collaborate with teachers and other staff in the school to determine best practices for how Edsby will be used consistently throughout the school. Teachers can use the sample Edsby Best Practice Guidelines below as a conversation starter when meeting with teachers in their [...]

Principals and Vice Principals play a valuable role on the School Administration team. By managing the activities of both staff members and students at the school, Senior Administrators are responsible for supervising all academic and extracurricular activities, overseeing disciplinary practices, and running the school. Edsby enables Senior Administrators to easily find important information regarding the [...]

Student-Led Conferences involve students leading a discussion about their progress and learning with their parents. Students can prepare, reflect on, and discuss evidence of their learning through the creation of Edsby Portfolios. Each student has their own Edsby Portfolio - similar to a personal blog. In the Portfolio, students can create posts about themselves and [...]

Student-Led Conferences involve students leading a discussion about their progress and learning with their parents. This unique method of conferencing encourages students to take responsibility and ownership for their learning by engaging them in an assessment and goal-setting process, empowers student voice, and involves families in richer and more transparent conversations about student progress. Student-Led [...]

Have a parent-teacher interview or a field trip coming up and need to quickly send a reminder for parents to book appointments or submit permission slips? Teachers can send bulk messages to groups of students and their parents. Messages sent in bulk are pre-addressed with the selected names and the BCC label indicates each recipient [...]

Edsby provides schools with powerful tools to communicate with their teachers, students, and families. The best tools to do this are the News River and Edsby Groups. The News River can be used to share information about events or resources to the entire school community. Articles in the News River will be displayed across the [...]

Rubrics are a scoring scale that provide a set of criteria for achievement and the descriptions of levels of achievement, used to assess and evaluate students’ work and to guide students to desired performance levels. Teachers can attach Rubrics to assignments within Edsby for students to view and understand the expectations of the assignment. To [...]

Schools are busy places. There is so much to keep track of – class timetables, tests, assignments, team practices and games, club get-togethers, and departmental meetings. Fortunately, Edsby is very good at helping users keep track of all these things. With Edsby, every class, every group, and every school has its own calendar. When a [...]

The Panorama gives teachers and administrators the information they need to plan for student success. The Panorama is a secure area, available only to teachers and administrators. As faculty members, teachers and administrators can see everything Edsby knows about the student. Link to the student’s Portfolio Parent information Student’s classes panel and grades with links [...]

The Guidance Office is a valuable part of the school administration team. The Guidance Office manages academic issues, career questions, college prep, as well as personal or social issues staff, students, and parents at their school may encounter. They monitor student academics to provide guidance, collaborate between teachers, parents, and students regarding best practices for [...]

Teachers create rubrics, online tests, and courses in their Personal Folders and collaboration is a key part of any school community. Edsby enables teachers to share the items they have created in their Personal Folder with other teachers at their school and across the district. Using Libraries Teachers can copy content from their Personal Folder [...]

The Student Report Zoom enables school administrators to view valuable attendance data and information specific to each class and group a student is enrolled in. Administrators can access the Student Report by navigating to any Zoom and clicking the Student Report link at the top right of the Zoom. The Student Report has two tabs: [...]

Office Administrators can support the Guidance Office through the creation of Monitor Groups that can be used for various monitoring purposes such as identifying at-risk students based on attendance incident, grades or other factors. Monitor Groups are Edsby groups that students and their parents never see they are a member of but appear as a [...]

School office administrators are the first point of contact for parents with Edsby questions or concerns. Jump to a Section Edsby Login Basics Activating a Parent Account Choosing a New Password Edsby Mobile App for Parents Parent Groups Messaging Parents Requesting Parent Permission Managing Parent Bookings for Parent-Teacher Interviews Parent Frequently Asked Questions School office [...]

Schools are very busy places. There is so much to keep track of – class timetables, tests, assignments, team practices and games, club get-togethers, and departmental meetings. Fortunately, Edsby is very good at helping keep track of all these things. With Edsby, every class, every group, and every school has its own calendar.  When teachers [...]

Edsby enables administrators at the district level to perform various actions across the entire district including managing the schools in the district, creating district-wide groups, News River articles, report card comments, and reporting periods. Jump to a Section Schools Zoom District Groups District-Level News Articles District-Level Report Card Comments District Reporting Periods Schools Zoom The [...]

The Schools Zoom provides district administrators with a list of all schools in the district and information pertaining to them. District administrators can access the Schools Zoom from the right side of their Home Screen. The Schools Zoom provides the following information for each school: Name School ID School Level (Elementary, Middle, or High) The [...]

After processing the parent emails, voice mails, phone calls, and notes, approving parent submitted requested absences, admitting late students, and reviewing the Incidents tab, the Attendance Office may export the list of absent students to an external system. Attendance Export File Attendance data can be exported for use in a spreadsheet program. The file includes [...]

Planned absences are potential absences. Next week’s medical appointment could be cancelled. A student may miss the bus and not go on the field trip. A Planned Absence enables the teacher to see that the Attendance Office knows about the absence. When the teacher submits the attendance sheet, the absence is recorded. If the student [...]

Teachers working at the same school can take attendance from the Classes zoom on the teacher home screen. A teacher cannot open a class of another teacher, but the attendance sheet and student roster is available. The person who submits the attendance is listed on the attendance sheet. However, a substitute teacher may not be [...]

The Student Contacts Zoom provides school administrators with a list of all contacts associated with students in the school. Student contacts may include parents and guardians as well as doctors or babysitters. However, only parents and guardians will receive an Edsby account. The Student Contacts Zoom displays up-to-date information about: Who has not been invited [...]

The School Page, accessed from the top left of the Home Screen in Edsby, provides a great way for office administrators to share and manage a wide range of school-specific information including: Key Contacts of the school A list of Staff members in the school An Important section for policies and procedures School Groups for [...]

Introduction Groups provide a great space for discussion and updates on parent council, volunteer opportunities, or other school groups. Each group has at least one teacher assigned as a moderator. Parents can access the Groups they are a member of by clicking the Groups icon in the Navigation bar of the mobile app. On a [...]

To support team-teaching, teachers and school administrators can add additional teachers to Classes. To add another teacher to a class, navigate to the Class Setup form. Under Teachers and Assistants, search for the name of the teacher to add. Select the role they will have in the class by clicking the drop-down arrow and selecting [...]

Teachers can choose to give students and families access to QR codes that let them use the Edsby Capture app to submit pictures and videos to Edsby. Sharing QR codes enables students to print their own QR codes and use the Edsby Capture app to contribute to their own Evidence for a class. Once submitted, [...]

Edsby provides many great ways for teachers, students and families to stay connected even if schools are closed. Teachers Edsby Classes can help promote student wellbeing by helping students connect, move, learn, and share while they are at home. Enabling student participation The Edsby Class is a secure and equitable place for students to connect [...]

The Attendance Sheets tab in the Attendance Zoom enables the Attendance Office to modify the attendance sheets of multiple classes or an individual class through the Modify Sheets feature. Jump to a Section School Closures Canceling Classes School Activities Cancelled School Buses To access the Attendance Sheets page, navigate to the Attendance Zoom on the [...]

When the Attendance Office opens the Attendance Zoom, the Student Tab is the first screen they see. When the Attendance Office searches for a student, they are provided with the student’s complete attendance history. Student information including grade, age, and the current class information. If the teacher has taken attendance, the current state is shown. [...]

Organizations may be concerned that students can be issued a late slip from the Attendance Office and then not go to class. When a student reports to the Attendance Office to pick up an Admit Slip, there is no guarantee the student will proceed to class. Students have been known to take advantage of this [...]

The Edsby Gradebook, also referred to by some teachers as a mark book, enables teachers to turn on a wide range of summary columns. This provides teachers with great flexibility in how they can view assessment data they’ve captured, and how that can be shared with students and parents. To access the Gradebook Summary Columns […]

Edsby wants to be sure your account is appropriately protected. When you log in to Edsby your password is evaluated to assess its strength. If it doesn’t meet the strength guidelines configured for your system you will be asked to select a new stronger password. Creating a new password is easy. First, you need to […]

School and district administrators can use Edsby to print the school or district’s official report cards issued at the end of reporting periods. Printing by Grade Level Edsby report card sheets can be filtered by school or district administrators using the filters on the left side of the screen when logged into Edsby with a […]

Report Card Review Process Using the report card zoom, which works like any other zoom on Edsby, keeps administrators organized as they can filter report card sheets to their status: approved, not submitted, published, returned for correction, submitted for review, and unlocked for editing. With a system that is so simple to use, it is […]

Edsby provides support for comment categories. Comment categories can optionally be turned on for a report card data entry template with the specific set of categories defined in the template. Each category then provides a shortcut method to filter whatever comment library(s) are set up with the tag associated with the category. In this example, [...]

Edsby provides teachers with a “Find/Replace” button on all report card data entry sheets. This feature enables teachers to quickly change one word or phrase into another across the entire sheet. Options enable the teacher to control whether it is case sensitive or not, and whether only whole words should be matched or not. For [...]

For school districts using Edsby for report cards, report card sheets are generated for teachers every reporting period, pre-populated with Edsby gradebook and attendance data to make completing them easier. Usually, these report card forms are made available to teachers near the end of a reporting period at a time chosen by a district administrator. […]

Edsby includes support for Study Groups. These are district-wide groups that are automatically employed across the district for each unique course being offered in the given district. When a Study Group is created for a specific course code, every student and teacher across the district enrolled in that course will be automatically enrolled in the [...]

When schools first deploy Edsby, parents are sent invitations to activate their account. However, sometimes the invitation may need to be reissued and teachers have the ability to do this for parents linked to their classes. This is especially useful in cases when the teacher is speaking directly to a parent and encouraging them to [...]

The Edsby Evidence system provides teachers with a powerful tool to capture pedagogical evidence regarding the learning of each of their students. The Edsby Capture App provides a simple way to do this. In order to link learning evidence to the right student, unique QR codes are issued to each student in a class and [...]

Edsby Monitor Groups are used to monitor a list of students. Monitor Groups are Edsby groups that students and their parents never see they are a member of, but appear as a normal group for administrators and teachers if they are a member of the group. Monitor Groups provide administrators and teachers with access to [...]

Teachers have the option to take attendance from the convenience of their mobile device. To do so, teachers should login to the Edsby App and navigate to the class that attendance will be taken in. In the top menu bar of the class, click Attendance. A grid view of the students in a class will [...]

Students can easily submit assignments from their mobile device through Edsby if teachers have chosen to enable online submissions. On the Home Screen is the Classes Panel. Click the class that contains the assignment requiring submission. In the top menu bar, click My Work. If the teacher has enabled online submissions, the assignment will have [...]

Students can access their Portfolio from their mobile device through the Edsby App. The Portfolio is accessed from the home screen of the App. Here, posts curated by the student themselves are displayed in the Portfolio feed. The Edsby app enables students to capture their work in their Portfolio by using the camera on their [...]

Edsby enables support for List Groups which can be used for performing various actions on a set of students. List Groups are Edsby groups that students or parents never see they are a member of, but they appear as a normal group to teachers and administrators. List Groups can be used for attendance or for [...]

The focus of Edsby’s Learning Evidence system is to support the assessment, evaluation, and reporting practices of K-12 teachers. Edsby provides teachers with purpose-built tools to capture Evidence. Once captured, Edsby provides innovative tools to organize and analyze the Evidence as well as create Learning Stories to share with students and parents. When teachers first […]

The focus of Edsby’s learning evidence system is to support the assessment, evaluation, and reporting practices of K-12 teachers. Edsby provides teachers with tools to capture evidence regarding student learning. Once captured, teachers can create Learning Stories to share with students and their parents. Students can view evidence teachers have shared through their own Learning […]

The focus of Edsby’s learning evidence system is to support the assessment, evaluation, and reporting practices of K-12 teachers. Edsby provides teachers with tools to capture evidence regarding student learning. Once captured, teachers can create Learning Stories to share with parents. Parents can view evidence teachers have shared through their child’s Learning Story. This feed [...]

If teachers would like to parents to communicate with each other and the teacher they can invite them to a parent group. First, create a group to invite parents to. In this example, Christopher Nelson, an Art teacher, would like to create a group to collaborate with the parents of his 6th Grade Art students. [...]

Edsby Usage Dashboards built into Edsby provide insights into overall Edsby usage across their district as well as per-school dashboards that provide insights for each school in the district. District IT and District Administrators in Edsby have access to the district-wide dashboards and can drill-down into specific schools. School Administrators have access into the dashboards [...]

The Edsby Capture App, available via the App Store and Google Play, gives educators a simple way to record, tag, share, and report on learning evidence. Edsby Capture gives students and teachers the ability to easily capture photographs and videos of their work and create evidence items within the Edsby platform. After a record is [...]

Looking to capture a picture of schoolwork to show the teacher or document some learning? Students can use the main Edsby app to capture evidence of their learning to share to their teacher. Optionally, the separate Edsby Capture App, available via the App Store and Google Play, gives students a way to record evidence of [...]

Many high schools support a process known as Credit Recovery. This process focuses on students who did not achieve a passing grade in a course for credits. Credit Recovery typically identifies which failing students would be good candidates for a focused one-on-one teaching experience to address key areas where the student’s achievements in the class [...]

Many high schools support a process known as Credit Recovery. This process focuses on students who did not achieve a passing grade in a course for credits. Credit Recovery typically identifies which failing students would be good candidates for a focused one-on-one teaching experience to address key areas where the student’s achievements in the class [...]

Edsby provides support for badge groups. These groups support the awarding and tracking of certifications and badges for both students and staff. These groups are useful for a range of applications including tracking student accomplishments and staff professional development. Badge groups can be configured to be open to members to collaborate in which provides a [...]

If a parent forgets their password, they should click "Forgot password?" on their Edsby login screen and follow the instructions on the screen. In some cases, a parent may not have access to the email associated with their Edsby account or the Forgot Password button may be unavailable. In this case, teachers, the principal, guidance [...]

Field trips, school opportunities, and requests for volunteers are all simplified using Edsby’s Approvals feature. Edsby Approvals enable teachers to send requests directly to parents and teachers will receive a list of parents who have responded as soon as they do. Edsby Approvals does not let permission slips get lost at any point during the [...]

Edsby enables teachers to send private messages to parents, students, and other staff members. Messages can normally only be read by the recipients and the sender. But be aware: administrators can see Edsby inboxes. Messages in Edsby are never deleted because of the student safety and compliance policies unique to K-12. Edsby messages, sent or […]

  Mobile Calendar Sync To sync your Edsby Calendar to your mobile calendar, copy the Edsby Calendar URL from your browser and send it to your mobile device. On an IOS device, copying the URL to your clipboard will allow you to paste from your mobile device. For android users, you can email the link […]

Adding Character Matters to a News River is a great way to promote the program. These illustrations were created by Tiffany TJ, a Co-Op student at Richmond Hill High.

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Edsby makes it easy for teachers to capture evidence from the convenience of their smartphone or tablet. Evidence can be captured in the moment and accessed later for editing or viewing. All classes automatically have evidence enabled. To access evidence from a mobile device, login to the Edsby app. Once logged into the Edsby app, […]

Edsby features a simple and easy way to take tests online. Whether it’s a traditional quiz, an exit ticket, or a student reflection, online tests with Edsby are convenient for both students and teachers. With the Edsby mobile app, students can also take online tests straight from their mobile device. Taking an Online Test When [...]

A Personal Course is an Edsby object which can be created in a user's Personal Folder for the purpose of developing rich content using the Content Builder. This content can then be copied to Classes, Learning Object Repositories (LOR), and Professional Development (PD) Groups so that it can be re-used. If content is developed in [...]

The Learning Object Repository (LOR) is a powerful tool for teachers. LORs are a type of group used to collect, discuss, categorize and curate content. They are connected to the search engine so teachers can easily find content and use it in their own classes. LORs can be Open or Closed and have Show To [...]

A Professional Development Group (PD group) is a class for teachers, or anyone. It is a type of group with a Content Builder in place of the Knowledge base. The moderator of a PD Group can add members so they can take the course. These groups can be made both school and district-wide. For example, [...]

The Content Panel lists all units, journals, assessments, and other information in the Class. When students enter a class, the class Content is found by clicking Content in the header on the mobile app. The Content Panel is located on the left side of a class on the browser. Underneath Content, each student has a […]

The Edsby Content Builder enables teachers to create rich course content with embedded Edsby objects in both classes and Professional Development groups. The use of the Content Builder can vary from a few pages added into the usual mix of assignments and lessons to full online learning courses complete with online testing and automated grading. […]

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People who work in a Guidance role may want to review the following help resources. Zooms provide a way to find out information quickly. The Students Zoom is particularly helpful to Guidance Teachers. The Panorama gathers everything Edsby know about a student in one place. Guidance Teachers can learn about the Parent experience here. To […]

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With so many things happening inside Edsby, it is important to stay organized and up-to-date. Edsby makes this easy by enabling various notifications to ensure teachers, students, and parents using Edsby are notified of the important things happening within school, Classes, Calendars, and Groups. Jump to a Section Changing Notification Settings Email Notifications Instant Notifications […]

Teachers can use Edsby to create assessments that are automatically linked to the Edsby Gradebook. Edsby helps teachers organize everything connected to an assessment in one convenient place such as learning goals, success criteria, relevant documents, and even learning standards (ex. Common Core standards or ministry expectations). Accessing the Assessment Form Teachers can create assessments […]

If an educational organization has chosen to share Report Cards online through Edsby, parents can view their children’s Report Cards through their Edsby account. If the organization is sharing its Report Cards online, a button will become available at the bottom of the Classes panel of each child. Click the View Report Cards button. This [...]

Edsby enables parents to inform their children’s school of an absence quickly and easily right from their mobile device.   To submit a planned absence, scroll to the child the absence is for. Parents have two options when scheduling absences: Absent Today and Plan an Absence. Absent Today If a parent's child is going to [...]

Field trips, school opportunities, and requests for volunteers are all simplified using Edsby’s Approvals feature. Edsby Approvals enable teachers to send requests directly to students and teachers will receive a list of students who have responded as soon as they do. Edsby Approvals does not let permission slips get lost at any point during the [...]

Field trips, school opportunities, and requests for volunteers are all simplified using Edsby’s approval feature. Traditionally, teachers send permission slips home with students to give to their parents. Parents will sign the form and send it back to school with their child who will hopefully remember to give it to their teacher. Teachers have to [...]

Edsby features a simple and easy way to take tests online. Whether it’s a traditional quiz, an exit ticket, or a student reflection, online tests with Edsby are convenient for both students and teachers. Tests are graded online by the teacher and delivered directly to My Work for students to view their scores and feedback. [...]

Before a school year begins, much of the previous year’s content is automatically moved to an archive. The entire contents of Classes are archived including Course Plans, Gradebooks, and Report Card sheets. For Groups, feed items older than 90 days are automatically archived and at the school level, all News River posts are archived. Private […]

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Classes are never deleted - they are only moved out of the way to make current classes the center of attention. Completed classes are moved off the home screen about two weeks after the last day of the class. Around August 1, Edsby archives all Classes from the previous school year. Course plans, seating plans, [...]

Everyone likes to be up to date with the latest news. Edsby makes that easy. After logging in to Edsby, there is an engaging News River across the top of the home screen. In the News River, news items come from multiple streams, including each school as well as from the district. Creating News events [...]

Strands are consistent threads running throughout the duration of a course that are used to indicate the disciplines within a learning area. Edsby enables teachers to use strands in their classes and keep assessments within each strand organized. As a teacher creates assessments for a class that uses strands, they can cover just one strand, [...]

Strands are consistent threads running throughout the duration of a course that are used to indicate the disciplines within a learning area. Edsby enables teachers to use strands in their classes and keep assessments within each strand organized. Madison Brant is a grade 4 teacher. In the Language Arts class that she teaches, she has [...]

By default, Edsby inherits the language of the web browser it is being accessed on or the language of the device’s operating system. Additionally, Edsby supports Microsoft Translator and Google Translate browser extensions to enable a student or parent to translate any content within Edsby. This enables parents who don’t speak English to use Edsby [...]

Edsby enables parents to keep up-to-date with their children’s schooling at the convenience of their mobile phones by using the Edsby mobile app. For help logging in, click here.  For more information about using Edsby on smartphones and tablets and how to download the app, click here.   Jump to a Section Home Screen Children […]

Users' Edsby password may be reset or a new password chosen from within Edsby settings. To choose a new password on a web browser, navigate to the drop-down menu found next to the name in the top right corner of the account and select Settings. On the mobile app, Settings may be found under the [...]

Edsby Groups supports options for limiting the visibility of the Members panel. These options include: only moderators being able to see members of a group, only members seeing other members, anyone being visible as a member of a group, and anyone except parents seeing the members of a group. Although this feature enables limiting which [...]

Edsby enables teachers to import pre-existing rubrics into the Edsby system, which can then be used to grade students online. The rubric content needs to be saved as a .csv file, and then it can be imported into the Edsby system. Edsby configures the content into a rubric within Edsby that can then be attached [...]

Everyone likes to be up to date with the latest news. Edsby makes that easy. After logging in to Edsby, there is an engaging News River across the top of the home screen. In the News River, news items come from multiple streams, including each school and its extensions (groups, classes, and the main office) [...]

Edsby enables organizations to keep track of administration processes happening within the school. The Office contains messages generated by parents during the onboarding process, security notices for unauthorized login attempts, and reported inappropriate content. The Office link can be found to the right of the news river and will display a red counter to indicate [...]

Jump to a section Overview Creating a schedule Creating slots Deleting Slots Adding classes and groups to the schedule Open to teachers Printing a main list by teacher Open to parents Example of parent’s view Parents' appointment summary Managing bookings on behalf of a parent Printing a list of parent appointments Completing the registration period [...]

Schools often send home a letter to inform parents about Edsby, such as the below sample "Invitation from Edsby to connect to your child's school" email: Edsby has been chosen by North Central School Board (NCSB) to provide a modern way for parents and guardians to follow their children's progress at school, receive school updates, [...]

There’s so much learning and growing happening every day at school and it’s exciting as a parent to get a glimpse into your child’s day. Teachers are sharing wonderful pictures and important information about your child’s learning journey on Edsby. Families have one account for all their children that can be accessed on mobile. Once [...]

The focus of Edsby’s learning evidence system is to support the assessment, evaluation, and reporting practices of K-12 teachers. The Perspective Analyze tool works together with Evidence and the Gradebook to enable teachers to see the results of both types of assessments in one place. Analyze empowers the teacher to look at the assessment data […]

Edsby is designed to meet the needs of K-12 teachers with tools that are purpose-built to help teachers keep track of what’s important. Edsby fosters parent engagement, classroom management, and assessment and reporting practices. Jump to a Section Getting Started Edsby Mobile App Logging In Setting Up Notifications Home Screen News Personal Calendar Recent Activity […]

Office Administrators run one of the largest organizations in the community - the school. They are responsible for keeping students, teachers, and parents in the school community informed, engaged, and connected. Edsby provides powerful tools designed to enable the Office Administration team to work efficiently and easily. Jump to a Section Zooms The Panorama The [...]

Report Card Maintenance Edsby features a way of enabling administrators to change the details of report cards, even after the reporting period has been created. Ideally, there will be no need to make a change, but Edsby enables a change to be made with no difficulty. This video covers how to change templates after they […]

Creating a Question Sheet This video covers how to create a question sheet from the personal folder as well as the differences between multiple choice, paragraph, choose all that apply, and short answer questions. Teachers and administrators have the option of creating an online test that exists entirely within Edsby. Tests are created and stored […]

Edsby Overview Getting ready for a new school year Edsby Classes Overview The Class is the heart of how Edsby helps teachers and students. Learn how to maximize the potential of your Edsby Class in this video. Printing a Roster Learn about Edsby’s customizable roster printing with this short video. Taking Attendance Created for teachers, […]

Creating Report Cards This video covers how to create a report for a school and explains the Reporting Period Setup form. Report Card Maintenance Edsby features a way of enabling administrators to change the details of report cards, even after the reporting period has been created. Ideally, there will be no need to make a […]

Attendance Overview Edsby's Attendance helps teachers, parents, and the school office to manage daily and period attendance. This overview video highlights the key features for all stakeholders. Resolving Attendance Incidents This video includes information on how to resolve incidents for individual students and multiple students. Planned Absences This video covers how to create a planned absences [...]

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The Class Planner enables teachers to copy content from completed classes to new classes. Teachers have access to classes completed in the current school year and completed in the previous year. To access completed classes: 1. Click on the Classes panel title. 2. From the drop-down menu, choose a previous school year. 3. Click on [...]

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About Comments Organizations can choose to support report card comments in Edsby in the following ways: Teachers type ad-hoc comments in the report card sheets. Pre-approved report comments are provided by the organization and teachers choose from the pre-approved set. Teachers do not have the option of adding ad-hoc comments. Teachers can add ad-hoc comments [...]

When a student leaves the school district or transfers to another school in the district, school administrators can provision a report card for the student. A report card can be provisioned before the student leaves the school or after the student has transferred. Student Specific Reports Cards can have a maximum of 50 students. Provisioning [...]

Reporting periods are created by the school district. Reporting periods define a submission period by supplying a start date and a due date. Teachers complete and submit report cards sheets during the submission period. School administrators can choose to review report cards either by class or by student before they are made available to parents [...]

Organizations can choose to support report card comments in Edsby in the following ways: Teachers type new ad-hoc comments in the report card sheets. The organization provides a set of pre-approved report comments and teachers choose from the pre-approved set. Teachers do not have the option of adding new ad-hoc comments. The organization enables teachers [...]

The My Parents Zoom lists all parents of students enrolled in the teacher’s classes and part of groups where the teacher is the moderator. 1 Use the filters to view parents linked to students in a specific class or group. 2 Move the mouse over the name to view the mini-profile. Clicking Send Message creates [...]

Edsby enables teachers to easily keep track of which expectations, standards or outcomes have been addressed in assessments, units, and lessons. Adding Expectations Teachers can use the expectations picker to browse all expectations for a course and choose expectations that relate to the nature of the assessment. Expectations can be added by choosing from the […]

Teachers have a Personal Folder on their Edsby navigation bar. The Personal Folder is used by teachers to: Create rubrics Create online tests Upload files Rubrics, online tests, and uploaded files remain in the Personal Folder until deleted by the teacher. Teachers can copy content from their Personal Folder into the Content panel of classes [...]

Organizations may choose to provide a set of pre-approved comments from which teachers can build a student’s report card comments. For example, teachers have been provided with a PDF listing of the available comments. Here’s an excerpt from the pre-approved comments. Code Comment Tags 501 <<name>> has difficulty reading to gather information. Reading 502 <<name>> [...]

In most cases, parents receive a separate email from the school or district for each student they have in the district. You need each of these emails to link them to a single Edsby parent account. Click the link(s) in the email(s) you were sent and a browser will send you to a screen like [...]

  Teachers receive an up-to-the-second schedule of which meetings have been booked. They can print their final schedule so they know where they need to be, and when. Parents book their own appointments, but the teacher has the option of booking on behalf of a parent. Teachers can also enter the room number where the [...]

Rubrics are a scoring scale that provide a set of criteria for achievement and the descriptions of levels of achievement, used to assess and evaluate students’ work and to guide students to desired performance levels. When a rubric grading scheme is defined at an organizational level, the assessment form’s Grading Scheme drop down menu includes [...]

Edsby groups are a very powerful way for groups of people to collaborate with each other in a convenient, secure and effective way. Most schools using Edsby very quickly end up with 50 – 100 groups as they add groups for sports teams, clubs, teacher professional development, the student council, parent advisory councils and the [...]

Within a school district or school board, each school may manage their own database of parent and contact information. A parent with children at more than one school may have different information recorded at each of the children’s schools. The information was accurate at the time it was collected, but parents don’t always update the [...]

In general, the attendance workflow involves: The Attendance Office approving parent-submitted planned absences The Attendance Office creating planned absences based on parent emails or phone calls Teachers submitting class attendance sheets to the Attendance Office The Attendance Office contacting parents to confirm and record absences in Edsby Jump to a Section The Attendance Zoom Resolving [...]

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Edsby features a convenient way to test students online. Delivering an online test to your students has two key steps: Create a Question Sheet Create an assessment and attach a copy of the Question sheet. Question Sheets can be created within the Personal Folder, a Class Content panel, or within the Knowledge panel of Professional [...]

The class journal is one of the most effective tools on Edsby for communicating learning objectives and student expectations. As such, it is important that parents on Edsby are able to keep track of Journal entries and see what their children are learning. For parents to view class Journal entries on Edsby, they simply need to [...]

Your Edsby homepage only displays classes currently active. Once a reporting period/semester is over, finished classes are archived and new ones take their place. If you would like to view grades, assessments and other materials from a completed class, click the word "Classes" in your classes list, or the blue arrow at the top right [...]

When parents log in to Edsby, they see a home screen that is similar to a teacher's that contains: Schools and districts their children are part of Applications like Registration Campaigns News River from all schools and districts their children are part of The parent's Groups The parent's Personal Schedule The parent's Children However, instead of a list [...]

You’ll see this message for generally one of three reasons: All logins temporarily disabled – Your school district or individual school may have turned off Edsby logins for a time, for instance over the summer break. They usually turn Edsby on again a few days before the start of school after they’ve input all the […]

If you’re a parent at a school or district that uses Edsby, ask the office at your school for an account on their Edsby system. You can’t just set up an account yourself. Your account needs to be connected to that of your child, or children. So the school must set up the account for you. […]

Many school districts allow their teachers to exercise professional judgement when assigning students’ final grades. So, while Edsby may have reported certain grades to you throughout the school year based on your assessments and how teachers have been weighting them (not all of your tests and exams get the same weight, i.e. are worth the same to […]

When this happens it can be confusing, but it doesn’t mean something is wrong. Here’s what’s going on: Edsby gives teachers the ability to use weighting to define what percentage of your overall grade each assessment type is worth. For example, a teacher could define that tests are worth 50% of your overall grade, and everything else […]

Some school districts that observe a quarterly schedule sometimes choose to give students a “blank slate” in Edsby when each quarter begins. This is an academic policy of the district. These districts have configured Edsby to hide students’ previous quarter’s grades when the new quarter begins. It’s not an Edsby bug—it’s how these districts want things in Edsby. Students and […]

Schools and school districts that use Edsby generally choose not to allow students to manage their own profile pictures as a matter of policy. Some import official school pictures as students’ Edsby picture. Some don’t allow any pictures at all and only use a default icon for every student. If your school or district has imported a […]

When students want to communicate with a teacher but don’t want to post in the class, they can send a private message. Messages can normally only be read by the recipients and the sender. But be aware: school and district administrators can see Edsby inboxes. Messages in Edsby are never archived or deleted because of [...]

Edsby gives teachers the ability to create assignments that can be handed in online. There are multiple places where an assignment can be submitted in Edsby, but any of them will do the trick. For the teacher to receive the assignment, it only needs to be submitted one time in one place within Edsby. To [...]

To enable students to submit a file as their work for an assessment, select File Upload on the assessment's form. You can enable or disable online submissions at any time. Students will see a submit button on their home screens and My Work. Students access My Work from the home screen by hovering over the [...]

For school districts using Edsby for report cards, report card sheets are generated for teachers every reporting period which are pre-populated with Edsby gradebook and attendance data to make completing them easier. Usually, these report card forms are made available to teachers near the end of a reporting period at a time chosen by a [...]

Edsby allows teachers to import CSV files into the gradebook to generate graded or ungraded assessments. To use this feature, just open the gear menu in the gradebook and select "Import." This will open the following form: Edsby needs to know which values are which, so you will need to match up the required fields [...]

If you have a gradebook on Edsby which has a large number of graded and weighted assessments, you may have noticed some peculiar behavior. Sometimes, when you give a student 100% for an assignment, this can actually cause their overall average to drop! Don’t panic, the gradebook and weighting form are working correctly. Before a […]

Since the buckets in the weighting form always add up to 100%, you may assume that an empty one would automatically subtract its value from a student’s overall average. In Edsby’s Gradebook, this is not the case. If there is an empty bucket, the grading will not include that percentage when calculating the average. To […]

This is often useful when an assessment is of the Yes/No variety or other assessments where many students have the same result. Simply enter the grade for a single student, click and hold the bottom right hand corner of that gradebook cell, and drag down to copy this grade to multiple students.

Edsby normally allows teachers and other school/district staff to change their pictures. By default, this is done by clicking on the picture in your profile (click on your name in the top right of any Edsby screen, and select Profile). However, some districts have intentionally disabled this capability and don’t allow staff to change their photos […]

Using the Grade Gadget in the Gradebook, Edsby allows teachers to mark an assessment as Overdue even if the due date has not yet passed. This will be visible on both the student's and their parent's Edsby homepage. If e-submission is enabled for an assessment and the submission date has passed, the assessment will automatically [...]

Edsby allows teachers to create assessments which either contribute to the student's overall average, have no effect on the average, or are "bonus" and are only able to contribute to the average in a positive way. To create a bonus assessment, select the bonus option under "Grading" on the assessment form. Like normal assessments, bonus [...]

Clicking the blue dropdown arrow next to the name of the course enables you to jump to your other classes while staying on the current view. For example, if you are in the gradebook, you can navigate to other gradebooks. If you are in the planner, you can navigate to the Planner of different classes.

You can copy and cross-post assessments from your class Planner by doing the following: Click on the Planner link across the top navigation bar in a class. Click on the "Gear" icon in the top-right corner of the Planner. Navigate to the assessments, lessons, or journals you wish to copy and place check marks in [...]

Within each class is a Setup menu only available to teachers. To access it, click the three line "hamburger" menu at the right of the Classes' navigation panel and select Setup. Within the Class Settings, teachers will find settings for student and parents that govern their level of access to the class. These settings only [...]

Edsby is a modern web application that uses modern web standards like HTML5 and JavaScript to deliver a powerful and elegant user experience using the web. For this to work properly you need to have a reasonably modern web browser that is designed to support these popular web standards. Browser upgrades are free, and each [...]

If you have an account on an Edsby system, log in at the Edsby URL provided by your school or district. You might find it on your school or district’s website, or may have to ask your school for it. It will resemble https://your-server.edsby.com, where “your-server” is a name unique to your system. You do [...]

  If Edsby has been chosen by the child's school or district, an email from the school or district will be received to set up an account and/or attach an existing account to each student. Parents only need one Edsby parent account but, will receive a separate email invitation from each school their children attend. [...]

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The Progress Report tools enable teachers to create a printed report of their student’s progress to distribute to parents and students. The Progress Report can be used as a helpful tool during parent-teacher interviews, as an indicator of student progress for the students, or even as a report card substitute for private schools.    Progress […]

Teachers that use software that captures student grades can import the information into the Gradebook. The minimum requirements to import assessments and grades are: The software must produce a csv file that includes student names or student IDs, grade, and scheme. If the export includes a date, multiple assessments can be imported. If the software […]

Edit Weighting is accessed from the Gradebook. Edit Weighting is only available to the teachers of a class. Ontario teachers click here to watch the KTCA video. To access the weighting form of a class, navigate to the Gradebook, click the gear icon, and select Edit Weighting from the drop-down menu. Assessments fall into two broad [...]

The Gradebook records grades, calculates averages, and sets Subjective Performance Indicators. Every time a teacher adds an assessment in the Class feed or Planner a column is added to the Gradebook. Jump to a Section Entering and Sharing Grades, Assessment States and Comments Dropping a Grade from a Student's Average Gradebook Sidebar When Assessment Information [...]

Every class has a My Work report. Students can access the My Work Report by clicking the My Work button in the Classes Panel. Students can also view the My Work report from within a class by selecting the My Work link at the top of the page. Assessments The  Assessments page of the My [...]

Reporting periods are created by the school office. Reporting periods define a submission period by supplying a start date and a due date. Jump to a section What happens when - report card stages in Edsby Creating a Reporting Period Report Period Setup Form Editing Reporting Periods Adding Classes to a Reporting Period Changing Report [...]

The Perspective provides the teacher with an overview of academic achievement, personal observations, and attendance. The information is provided at a class and student level. The Perspective takes the vast sea of numbers in the gradebook and presents them in a way that enables teachers to identify students at risk and discover learning and behavior […]

The Planner organizes teachers' Units, Assessments, and Journals in a Calendar view. No matter where teachers create units, journals, and assessments, they are automatically added to the Planner. Creating units, assessments, lessons, and journals The Planner provides the quickest way to create items. In the Class and Gradebook, teachers need to specify units and dates, [...]

Edsby collates information about each child and presents it in a way that is clear and easy-to-understand. At the top of the page, parents will see a News River from each of their children's schools. Parents are an important part of the school's family. They have their own groups and calendar. When an event is [...]

Edsby’s Recent Activity gives parents insight into what their kids are learning in each of their classes, so parents can start a richer conversation with them. Parents can access their child’s Recent Activity by clicking Recent Activity under their name on the mobile Home Screen. For parents on a browser, their child’s Recent Activity is [...]

Edsby enables parents to stay up-to-date on their child’s homework and assignments, as well as monitor how they are doing in each class. Calendar The Edsby Calendar is the perfect tool to help parents understand their children's school schedules. Each child’s calendar is found by clicking Calendar under the child’s name on mobile. On a [...]

Backpacks are great for carrying books and lunches, but they fail as the communication channel between parents and their child’s school. Edsby gathers school news and other important school information conveniently for parent access. The News River Edsby gathers all the news from the district and schools that parent's children attend in the News River [...]

  School Administrators can add events to the School Calendar. The School Calendar is located on the School Page. School events will appear on everyone's Edsby home screen and on the school page.  However, only class events will appear in the class calendar and only group events will appear in a group calendar. This is how [...]

Everyone likes to be up to date with the latest news and Edsby makes that easy. The News River is located at the top of everyone's home screen. In Edsby, schools and districts can publish news to the News River. When individuals log into Edsby, they will see the News River at the top of [...]

When students log in, they see a home screen that is similar to the teacher's with their school in the upper left, the news river, and a calendar. While teachers see a list of all of the classes that they are currently teaching, the students Classes panel will display a list of all of the classes [...]

When parents log in to Edsby, they see a home screen that is similar to the teacher home screen, however, instead of a list of classes, parents are shown a list of all of their children. Within the section for each child, the parents will be shown a condensed version of the same information that [...]

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Teachers can navigate between classes they teach from any screen. Click the drop-down arrow to view the list of classes the teacher teaches. When a teacher navigates to another class, the current view stays for the new class. For example, if the teacher is in the Gradebook, they can navigate to Gradebooks of their other [...]

Teachers can view and print rosters of students in their classes. Within each Edsby Class, teachers see a Student panel, which lists students currently enrolled in the class. it is only visible to teachers. Teachers can click Students to open the panel to access additional actions. The window first shows Portrait View which displays photos [...]

On the Home Screen, just below the Calendar, teachers have a My Students Zoom view for detailed information on the students they currently teach. The Students Zoom provides teachers with the following information for each student: Name Homeroom Teacher Gender Grade Student ID The current class the student should be in and one of four [...]

All Edsby students can use Settings to change their password, Notification Settings, user interface theme, and on some systems, language preferences. Settings also enables a student to view their username, role, and other personal information. Students can access their Settings by clicking their profile in the top right corner of the browser navigation bar and [...]

Personal Information displays information about a student that only administrators and the student can see. Students can use it to find their Student ID if they forget it. Information found in the Personal Information window includes: Full name Student ID Address Phone numbers Parent names Locker number Accessing Personal Information Students can access through their [...]

Each student has their own Edsby portfolio, which is similar to a personal blog. In the Portfolio, students can create posts about themselves and their academic or extracurricular successes. Each submission is posted to a board, along with all previous posts. The board makes it easy for the student, along with teachers and parents, to [...]

The Navigation Bar is the bar running across the top of the screen on all browser Edsby pages and across the bottom of the mobile Edsby app. Mobile Navigation Bar The Navigation Bar is visible across the bottom of the screen in the Edsby Mobile App. This provides options to access the Home Screen, Groups, [...]

What parents see in Edsby is almost identical to a student's view of Edsby. There is typically no difference between the student and parent view of an Edsby feature. For example, parents can see their child's schedule. The default schedule the student sees on their Edsby home screen is identical to the schedule the parent [...]

If a student forgets their password, they should click "Forgot password?" on their Edsby login screen and follow the instructions on the screen. In some cases, a student may not have access to the e-mail associated with their Edsby account or the forgot password button may be unavailable. Luckily, teachers, the principal, guidance counselors and [...]

The School Page in Edsby makes it easy for students to quickly find key information about their school. Mobile School Page Access the school and district page from the Home Screen by clicking the gear icon in the top right and selecting the name of your school or district. This will provide a feed of [...]

Introduction Groups provide a great space for discussion and updates on clubs, sports teams, or other school groups. Groups are similar to Classes, with a less-academic focus. Each group has at least one teacher assigned as a moderator. Members can access the Groups they are a part of by clicking the Groups icon in the [...]

Students can communicate with their teachers through My Work, Class posts, or through Edsby Messages. My Work Sometimes for students it’s just not feasible to stay after class to ask their teachers a question about an upcoming test or assignment. Edsby enables students to privately message their teachers about a specific assignment. If there are [...]

By clicking the pop out at the upper right of the class panel on your home screen, the journal summary will appear.   The journal summary shows you the most recent journal entry from each class, and under the class name lets you know how many lates and absences you have. From the journal summary […]

Some schools and districts may decide to distribute report cards through Edsby. If this is the case, when report cards are available, a View Report Cards button will appear on the class panel of the Edsby home screen visible to students and their parents on browser login or via mobile app. Report cards published in [...]

Classes are the heart of how Edsby helps students. Every class includes an effective way for students to engage with teachers and classmates, view class information, and submit assignments. Jump to a Section Classes Panel Inside a Class Class Content Viewing Grades and Assignments through My Work Viewing Rubrics Submitting Assignments Online Switching Between Classes [...]

Jump to a Section School Page Searching News River Settings Portfolio Learning Story Recent Activity Launchpad The Home Screen is the hub of the Edsby experience. From here, students can use the quick links to access the school news, the Portfolio, Learning Story, and Recent Activity. On a browser, the Home Screen will also display [...]

Schools are busy places. As a student, there is so much to keep track of - class timetables, tests, assignments, team practices and games, club events, and student council meetings. Fortunately, Edsby provides great tools for helping you keep track of all of it! Accessing the Calendar of a School, Class, or Group Within Edsby, [...]

The Rooms Zoom provides school administrators with a list of all rooms in the school and information about their occupancy. Administrators can access the Rooms Zoom from the right side of their home screen in the panel below the name of the school. The Rooms Zoom provides the following information for each room defined at [...]

The Groups Zoom provides school administrators with a list of all groups created at the school and various types of information regarding them. Administrators can access the Groups Zoom from the right side of their home screen in the panel below the name of the school. The Groups Zoom provides the following information regarding each [...]

The Classes Zoom provides school administrators with a list of all classes being taught in the school as well as various types of information regarding them. Administrators can access the Classes Zoom from the right side of their home screen in the panel below the name of the school. The Classes Zoom provides the the [...]

The Parents Zoom provides school administrators with a list of all parents and guardians associated with students at the school as well as information about each of them. Administrators can access the Parents Zoom from the right side of their home screen in the panel below the name of the school. The Parents Zoom provides [...]

The Staff Zoom provides school administrators with a list of all staff members in the school and information pertaining to them. Administrators can access the Staff Zoom from the right side of their home screen in the panel below the name of the school. The Staff Zoom provides the following information regarding each staff member: [...]

The Students Zoom provides school administrators with a list of all students in the school and information pertaining to them. Administrators can access the Students Zoom from the right side of their home screen in the panel below the name of the school. It is only available to school administrators - not any other role. [...]

Zooms are a powerful data analysis tools, designed to help school administrators manage the school by providing information about people, classes, rooms, and groups. Each Zoom provides a list view of data. These lists can be sorted by clicking on the column headers. Each Zoom also provides a set of filters on the left that [...]

Everyone likes to be up to date with the latest news and Edsby makes that easy. When users log into Edsby there is an engaging News River across the top of their screen. It is called the river of news since the news items may come from multiple news “streams”. Each school has its own [...]

Schools are busy places. Parents have so much to keep track of - class timetables, tests and assignments their children need to complete, as well as team practices, games, and club events parents need to make sure their children are on time for. Fortunately, Edsby provides great tools for helping them keep track of all [...]

Edsby is clever. If you try to access Edsby through a web browser on a tablet or smartphone, Edsby notices this and automatically adapts the screen layouts to match the screen size of your mobile device. However, most people prefer to have an “app” for their mobile device, and Edsby does that as well. Edsby iOS [...]

The Edsby platform is a modern application that uses modern web standards to deliver a powerful and elegant user experience. For it to work properly, you need to have a reasonably modern device designed to support current web and mobile technologies like HTML5 and JavaScript. Edsby is tested extensively on recent versions of popular browsers, [...]

Groups help people to focus on an activity or a subject matter. Groups are used for collaboration, communication, sharing resources, scheduling, and capturing group knowledge. Sports teams, school clubs, parent volunteers, and school departments, all use groups to achieve their goals. Groups include a conversation area, a knowledge base, a calendar, and a library. Moderators [...]

The Panorama gives teachers and administrators the information they need to plan for student success. The Panorama is a secure area, available only to teachers and administrators. As faculty members, teachers and administrators can see everything Edsby knows about the student. Options to plan an absence and message the student, their parents, or their teachers [...]

The Seating Plan is only available to the teachers of a class. To access the Seating Plan, select Seating Plan from the top menu of an Edsby class.     Click Edit and drag student photos from the right panel to the grid on the left. Click Save.     To make changes to the [...]

The Report Card application appears in your classes prior to a report card deadline. The report card includes marked summative assessments for the dates listed at the top of the form. The due date for report card submission is displayed next to the reporting period. Review Assessments To see which summative assessments are included in [...]

Teachers use the Journal to communicate learning objectives and student expectations. Edsby pulls together the Journals from all a student’s classes and creates a summary to enable the student to see everything at a glance. To create a Journal, click Journal. Journal entries will appear in the class activity feed and the Journal area of [...]

Jump to a section Taking attendance Changing a student's attendance state Attendance for a student who leaves class early Accidentally marking a student present Planned absence for an entire class Confirming late arrivals on the attendance sheet Taking attendance for another teacher Taking attendance Attendance is accessed from the teacher’s home screen during class hours. [...]

Jump to a Section Class Conversation and Activity Feed Class Calendar Library Pinned Items Class Setup Students Panel and Class Groups Maximizing your Class for Online Teaching Teachers and their students share an Edsby class. Everyone sees the same conversation, Pinned Items, Course Plan, Students, Calendar, Journal and Library.  In addition, teachers have access to [...]

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