In K-12, there’s class news, like upcoming field trips. There’s school news, like snow days or assemblies. There’s official district news, like pandemic masking policies. Different educators manage each level. Only Edsby gives K-12 organizations a well-thought out framework with permissions and workflows for the distribution of these different types of news to their communities.
PLCs, teams and clubs can get their own special areas. Edsby Groups are richer than anything similar anywhere, with their own collaboration, polls, document sharing, storage, wiki-like knowledge base, calendars and more.
Every group has at least one staff moderator, so educators always shape what the community is discussing.
Give new immediacy and relevancy to Parent-Teacher Association and similar conversations. Enable everyone to participate at a time that suits all parents that want to be involved. Field questions and answers in safe, closed forums where everyone participates when they can.
Modern communications with your stakeholders that’s light years beyond paper in backpacks.
Teachers and parents can message privately. Send broadcasts by class, grade, teacher, club/group or more. Distribution lists are maintained automatically so teachers don’t have to themselves.
If a student isn’t going to be in class, parents can use Edsby to officially notify the school. Integrates with district’s attendance system.
Edsby can facilitate parent teacher conferences. Edsby can serve as the district’s master system for setting dates and times for parents to meet with their children’s teachers using whatever schedule the district has adopted. Meetings can be performed online via Edsby using Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet or even a phone.
With optional registrations and approvals, custom workflows like field trip approvals and kindergarten registration are possible with Edsby.
Edsby shows parents everything about their kids up to the minute. Even what class they’re supposed to be in right now, in what room #, and if they were marked present or late. If teachers share grades, parents see them instantly. If students have homework, they can’t claim otherwise.
For younger kids, Edsby gives parents a gateway into their child’s activities so they can see evidence of their learning. Teachers can share photos, videos, lesson plans and journals capturing classroom activities.
Edsby can serve as the official district calendar for parents and students, even driving what appears on the district website. While populated straight from the district SIS, it displays students’ schedules in a more modern, attractive way than most SISes. Parents always know what day of any complicated multi-day period rotation it might be.
If something changes, parents don’t have to wait for an end of day (or week) email. Their cell phone can ping the moment a teacher shares a grade, or marks their child absent or late.
Unlike other systems, Edsby gives parents their own accounts to follow their kids’ education and communicate with teachers and staff.
Edsby does heavy lifting behind the scenes.
Edsby can enrol educators, students and parents into correct group conversations when their data changes in master systems, like the SIS (ie – all principals, all Grade 9 teachers, all parents, all students in grade 9, etc.)
Many education organizations don’t have good contact info for their parents or formal ways to engage them electronically. Edsby can enable organizations to build their database of parents and associate them securely with their children’s data.
With Edsby, teachers and parents only need one app for everything related to teaching and learning. Parents no longer need to use multiple apps to follow their kids’ education, saving frustration for everyone!
I don’t have to call to report my child absent. I can do that the night before or anytime through Edsby.
Thayanithy SivapathasutharamParent, York Region District School Board, 125,000 students and their parents on Edsby
I've been traveling from school to school training staff and students on Edsby. I like sharing how many cool new things Edsby offers us, especially in communicating with our parents and the groups feature to share information.
Shannon WestoverTELTc, Rainy River District School Board
I'm a teacher who uses your anecdotal evidence of learning and gradebook! Amazing. All in one place! Love it!
Michael PearsonTeacher, York Region District School Board, 125,000 students and their parents on Edsby
Edsby has transformed communications internally and externally at our school district.
Paul CuthbertSuperintendent & CEO, Evergreen School Division
The Edsby gradebook gets an A. I like that there are options for students to have digital assignments. I've had many parents tell me how easy it is to keep track of student grades.
Michael Novello6th Grade Language Arts Teacher, Hillsborough County Public Schools
The Edsby gradebook is the best thing that has ever happened to me as a teacher.
Emily DiotteTeacher, Glenwood Public School
I like that Edsby is simple enough that the students could learn to navigate the platform when we were all thrown into distance learning.
Marc SmithTeacher, Durham Catholic District School Board
Edsby does a lot more to show observations than Google Classroom and it can go directly to parents. We are using Edsby district-wide.
Natalie MukherjeeElementary Teacher, York Region District School Board
Students love the accessibility of Edsby and many of them use their mobile devices to track homework, upcoming events and extracurriculars. Parents are using it to track their child’s schedules.
Lisa CoffeyPrincipal, Stewarttown Middle School
As a parent and a vice-principal, I see how hard you're working in really difficult circumstances to create a product that allows our students and children to continue learning. We value you and your work.
Jennifer KeenanVice Principal, Algoma District School Board, 2020, at the height of COVID-19
Edsby's evidence and learning stories have allowed our educators to prompt authentic tasks, collect individualized evidence of learning, provide unique feedback and engage with families.
Stacey WallwinTechnology Enabled Teaching and Learning Contact/DeLC, Superior-Greenstone District School Board
Edsby’s modern, fresh, intuitive interface is engaging to our students, teachers and parents.
Ron PlaizierCIO, Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board
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