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Edsby Overview

What is Edsby?

Edsby® is a comprehensive software solution designed specifically for K-12 learning organizations, including independent schools, K-12 districts, and regional governments. This platform offers a wide array of capabilities that cater to the unique needs of educational institutions, focusing on enhancing assessment and reporting, family engagement, learning management, and analytics. By providing a modern and pedagogically sound approach, Edsby aims to transform the educational experience for teachers, students, and parents alike. The target audience for Edsby encompasses a diverse range of K-12 organizations, from small independent schools to large school districts and regional governments. Its user-friendly interface fosters engagement among all stakeholders in the educational process. Teachers and administrators use the platform extensively throughout their day, while students and parents access it for all aspects of school life. They do so with a familiar, social-style user interface that encourages active participation and collaboration across the school community. Edsby addresses several critical challenges faced by K-12 institutions. It modernizes assessment and reporting processes, allowing educators to track student progress effectively and provide timely feedback. The platform also improves parental engagement by facilitating communication between schools and families, ensuring parents are informed and involved in their children's education. Additionally, Edsby streamlines communication channels, enhances student engagement through interactive features, and builds capacity for educators by providing tools that support professional development. Other challenges solved by Edsby include data-driven insights into student performance and engagement via robust analytics capabilities. This allows educators to make informed decisions based on real-time data, ultimately improving educational outcomes. The platform also helps improve privacy and security, ensuring that sensitive information is protected while maintaining compliance with relevant regulations. With its extensive integration capabilities, Edsby is built to work alongside existing systems, extending the functionality of K-12 organizations and enabling them to achieve more. Edsby is deployed on a global scale. It has been licensed for national use by the New Zealand Ministry of Education and the country of Georgia. With over 80 industry awards and distinctions, it stands out for its comprehensive set of features tailored specifically for K-12 learning environments. With Edsby, educational institutions can enhance their operational efficiency, foster stronger relationships among stakeholders, and ultimately create a more effective learning environment for students.

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Product Description

Edsby is a modern, cloud-based learning management system (LMS) for K-12 school districts that uses latest web and mobile technologies to connect teachers, students and parents in exciting new ways. It incorporates social learning, school news, group collaboration, assessment management, timetables and calendars, course planning, report cards, attendance and more.

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1. Designed Specifically for K-12

Many LMS platforms are adapted from higher education or corporate environments. Edsby is purpose-built for K-12 schools and districts. Its features align with the specific workflows, policies, and educational goals of K-12, ensuring it meets the needs of students, teachers, administrators, and parents.

2. Comprehensive All-in-One Platform

Edsby combines multiple tools into a single platform, including classroom management, curriculum planning, assessment, reporting, student collaboration, parent communication, and analytics. This eliminates the need for multiple disconnected systems, streamlining operations and reducing complexity.

3. Strong Focus on Assessment and Reporting

Edsby excels in support for both formative and summative assessment practices. It allows teachers to align assessments with district or state standards, use custom grading scales, and track progress in real time. Its rich reporting tools include official district report card workflow and other features that help educators communicate student progress through the year.


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Edsby
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Year Founded
2010
HQ Location
Andover, Massachusetts
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40 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Edsby is an innovative educational software platform designed to enhance K-12 learning environments. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools for student learning management, communication, and collaboration among teachers, students, and parents. Edsby integrates features such as grade tracking, attendance management, and personalized learning pathways, facilitating a streamlined and engaging educational experience. The platform is tailored to meet the specific needs of schools and districts, supporting both classroom instruction and administrative functions. For more information, visit their website at https://www.edsby.com.


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4.5 out of 5
"Best of Breed"
The most user-friendly and comprehensive all-in-one LMS out there.
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5.0 out of 5
"Absolute Must Have for Any School"
Esbsy is an absolute must have for our school. It allows everyone from staff, to parents, to students to always be updated and make sure there are ...
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"Edsby, best K-12 software!"
Edsby is simply great. I hardly know where to start. From taking attendance, to attendance reports, to communication with parents, sharing marks, g...
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Edsby Demo - Desktop
A teacher's desktop in the Edsby digital learning platform for K-12.
Edsby Demo - Student portfolio
A student eportfolio in the Edsby learning and analytics platform for K-12.
Edsby Demo - LOR
A searchable learning object repository for teachers in the Edsby digital learning platform for K-12.
Edsby Demo - Gradebook
Teacher's view of a class gradebook in the Edsby learning and analytics platform for K-12.
Edsby Demo - Class
A teacher's view of an Edsby class, the heart of the Edsby learning and analytics platform for K-12.
Edsby Demo - Analytics
District-wide attendance report in the Edsby digital learning platform for K-12.
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Verified User in Education Management
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What do you like best about Edsby?

I think Edsby is a unique platform. Teachers can use the Grader to evaluate student work, and Edsby's Evidence of Learning is fantastic. Teachers and students can capture their work, reflect on it, attach expectations to it and build out a thorough portfolio of student evidence for authentic assessment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Edsby?

Sometimes there are bugs with the program, which can make it annoying to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Edsby solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ease of assessment and evaluation for our teachers. It's also a great parent communication tool and reporting tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Edsby?

Edsby is helpful as a teacher to keep track of student progress throughout the semester. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Edsby?

Unless your division has accounts, can cannot access the additional apps partnered with Edsby. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Edsby solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can easily see when assignments are submitted, and also grade them right in Edsby. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Edsby?

Edsby has all communication features (gradebook, messaging, analytics) all in one program Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Edsby?

Edsby app functionality. It requires some additional user functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Edsby solving and how is that benefiting you?

Edsby allows for grades, attendance and home communication to all happen within the same environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Edsby?

Edsby has been very easy to use in order to communicate with my child's teachers throughout the school year. I can communicate about when my child is ill or has to miss school. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Edsby?

Every time I log in and out of Edsby I have to put in my user name and password. It would be much more time efficient if it could remember me each time and save my password. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Edsby solving and how is that benefiting you?

Edsby has allowed for easy daily communication with the classroom teachers. This constant updating allows for a deeper knowledge of what is going on with my child day to day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Edsby?

Edsby helps our students, parents, and faculty to connect and communicate about the learning in and outside of the classroom! Edsby has helped staff to share information and student progress or areas for improvement with ease. The Edsby interface is very intuitive, and so allows for ease of access as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Edsby?

The challenges we have had with Edsby are more on the backside of things - such as when there are "known issues" and the timeliness of things being updated. Also, often there would be new features added that we didn't know about before release so keeping staff up to date and trained on these new features was at times tricky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Edsby solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeping in touch with families and students has been ideal in Edsby, students can take ownership of their learning, and faculty can share what is going on in the classroom and help staff and students best understand expectations in their classes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Edsby?

I like how students can submit work digitally, take online tests that are automatically graded and put into gradebook. I like the ease of inputting marks and changing weightings. Communication with students and parents is easy. It's very similar to Facebook so navigation is simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Edsby?

There's a glitch in the planner now - I used to be able to create a post there and it would show in my class' newsfeed. It doesn't always show nor copy to my other classes. I wish the student averages would automatically transfer over into their report card so I wouldn't have to manually type them in, but I would like them to remain editable. I also wish I could access gradebook through the mobile app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Edsby solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm not sure.... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Edsby?

customer service, they resolve the issue if any. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Edsby?

There is nothing that i dislike about Edsby software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Edsby solving and how is that benefiting you?

Communication with teachers, booking appointments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rozina M.
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What do you like best about Edsby?

All functions in a school can be digitally managed through Edsby. It take cares of the attendance, class schedules, grades, assessments, parent teacher interviews along with school wide communication. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Edsby?

User interface and mobile app is not excellent, though it works well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Edsby:

Highly recommended to carry various K-12 administrative and academic tasks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Edsby solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have been able to excecute hybrid model of learning well through Edsby. It has made assessment, evaluation and grading transparent and easy for the faculty to administer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Edsby?

I love that students can submit their work directly to me via Office365 and their grade book. It is excellent that I can control if parents can message me or not. I also love the ease of use of creating assignments as opposed to in Microsoft Teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Edsby?

I do not like that when I am in Grade Book I do not receive messages from my students. Also, having a way for students to collaborate through messaging would be great instead of having to send them to a different software. It is also frustrating that I cannot annotate student work within Edsby. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Edsby solving and how is that benefiting you?

The integration with Office365 was the biggest benefit. It has been easy to work with students and be able to see if from their perspective as well. I have a split class so the Zoom integration (Go live now) does not work for my situation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Edsby?

Massive functionality. The best integration of SIS and LMS anywhere. Customizable, but the power lies in the easy to use interface. Forget multiple clicks to do a simple task, Edsby is designed for the end users... but has the power in the back end for the administrators :-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Edsby?

Support is iffy at best. Sometimes lightning fast, but at other times nothing... cricket. This is really the biggest need for improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Edsby:

It is a different model of software - changes come fast and furious. The feature rich environment is easy to learn but requires a complete buy-in from the school district. Incremental implementation with Edsby is like pulling a cart with a thoroughbred racehorse... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Edsby solving and how is that benefiting you?

There is no other LMS, SIS, portal system with this ease of use, low cost, low overhead, and massive functionality out there. If you're using another product you are wasting people's time and effort... From Portfolios to the Gradebook to Journals, Attendance, Groups, Messaging, Notifications... it really is a powerful school-focused productivity tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.