Holy Family Roman Catholic Separate School Division is the latest to adopt the Edsby learning platform for K-12 in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, where more than 80% of students are now on Edsby

Saskatchewan continues to move to the Edsby digital learning platform, with the vast majority of the province’s school divisions having now chosen the system.

In a recent board meeting, the Holy Family Roman Catholic Separate School Division revealed its plans for teachers to begin using Edsby for attendance, report cards, sharing learning evidence captured in classrooms with parents and letting families know about district, school and class news.

According to a news article from Sasktoday.ca, “other school divisions already use the system … and users note that it’s easy to use for communications between school and home.”

Outcomes-based assessment and reporting key

Most school divisions in Saskatchewan have independently chosen Edsby as their primary system for teaching and learning. The primary reason: its unique ability to connect with the province’s student information system (MySchoolSask, or MSS, based on Aspen by Follett) to enable the province’s outcomes-based assessment and reporting methodology for tracking and reporting K-12 student progress towards learning mastery. Local educators can comply with Ministry assessment directives while teaching and assessing using locally adopted strategies.

Teachers will be using it for everything from attendance and report cards, to showing portfolio items from their students to their parents, or letting parents know about events at school or in the class.

-Sasktoday.ca, Holy Family school division to move to Edsby platform in fall

Wide adoption of Edsby across Canada

Edsby has proven popular elsewhere in Canada. It’s been licensed by one of the country’s three territories. And it’s seen remarkable adoption in the country’s most populous province, Ontario, where 1 in 5 school districts independently choose to use Edsby, even though Ontario makes a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) available to them for free. In Ontario alone, 62 private schools, including some of the country’s most prestigious, have also independently elected to use Edsby.

In Ontario, as in Saskatchewan, Edsby’s success continues to be driven by its attention to local pedagogy, tight synchronization with local student information systems and unique community engagement capabilities.