Bring families in
With Edsby, you have a safe, managed “walled garden.” Share safely with your school community.
District, school & class news
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.
Groups for clubs & more
Give new immediacy and relevancy to Parent-Teacher Association and similar conversations. Let all families that want to be involved participate at a time that suits them. Field questions and answers in safe, closed forums where everyone participates when they can.
Enable your families to be active members of your community. Edsby Groups can be used by families, and are richer than anything similar anywhere, with their own collaboration, polls, document sharing, storage, wiki-like knowledge base, calendars and more.
Two-way connections
Modern communications with stakeholders that’s light years beyond paper in backpacks.
Messaging
Teachers and families 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.
Planned absences
If a student isn’t going to be in class, families can use Edsby to officially notify the school. Integrates with district’s attendance system.
Parent-teacher conference scheduling
Edsby can facilitate parent teacher conferences. Edsby can serve as the district’s master system for setting dates and times for families 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.
Registrations and approvals
With optional registrations and approvals, custom workflows like field trip approvals and kindergarten registration are possible with Edsby.
Status of learning progress
Realtime insight into a child’s academic status.
Current student achievement, attendance, schedules… even location
Edsby shows families 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 families 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.
Timetable & calendar
Edsby can serve as the official district calendar for families 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. Families always know what day of any complicated multi-day period rotation it might be.
Real time notifications
If something changes, families 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.
Parent & guardian accounts
Unlike other systems, Edsby gives families their own accounts to follow their kids’ education and communicate with teachers and staff.
Easier for teachers & families
Edsby does heavy lifting behind the scenes.
Automatic enrolment
Edsby can add educators, students and families into correct group conversations when their data changes in master systems, like the SIS (ie – all principals, all Grade 9 teachers, all families, all students in grade 9, etc.)
Build official families databases
Many education organizations don’t have good contact info for their families or formal ways to engage them electronically. Edsby can enable organizations to build their database of families and associate them securely with their children’s data.
Single app
With Edsby, teachers and families only need one app for everything related to teaching and learning. Families no longer need to use multiple apps to follow their kids’ education, saving frustration for everyone!
Use...
- Email to message families
- Broadcast system to share mass school messaging and attendance
- Quizizz for online tests
- SIS for grades & report cards
- Google Classroom for homework & class news
- School websites for school news
- District website for district news
- Seesaw for learning evidence
- Social media for community conversations
- Hudl for sports teams
Or use:
In their own words
What Edsby customers say
167School district testimonials
Edsby has transformed how we communicate, both inside and outside the classroom.
Parents know everything they need—from attendance reporting to grades—is right there in Edsby. We don’t even allow other options.
I like seeing my child’s schedule, class activity, office announcements and being able to report absences to the school.
During COVID-19 and six daily classes, Edsby was a lifesaver for communication.
I can see my kids’ grades, progress, and what they’re missing all in one place.
A great way to stay informed. I like seeing homework, test notices, and study guides.
The Edsby gradebook is a game changer that self-populates at report card time.
Students love sharing on Edsby. It really supports a growth mindset.
Edsby makes learning more transparent. I've stopped receiving parent phone calls.
Edsby is user-friendly for everyone. I love that grades update in real time and students can easily catch up on missing work.
Getting notifications of new evidence for my JK son is a game changer. There are no words!
Parents already feel in the loop thanks to Edsby, so much so that conference night attendance has dropped!
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How can we help you?
Talk with our team about your district, region or school.