Edsby is a cloud-based software application that combines social networking with class and student management features. It is a learning management system with data aggregation features and analytics intended to promote engagement between K-12 students, teachers and parents, and provide simplified workflow and insight for school and district administrators.
Edsby, originally named CoreFour, was founded in April 2010 by the three original founders and architects of the FirstClass software application-used widely in education and often identified as the first modern learning management system-along with a longtime co-worker. It offers K-12 school districts an array of online social learning tools connected to their existing legacy systems, including gradebooks, attendance-taking, parent-teacher communication features, classroom management, content management and social classroom interaction. Edsby, in recent years, has also started emphasizing data consolidation and learning analytics capabilities.
In March, 2010, the company announced educational researcher Michael Fullan had joined its board of directors.
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Business model
Edsby is privately held. The company has had one funding round so far; it has collected around two million US dollars.
Edsby is sold only to K-12 school districts and not available as a free version. It sells its system directly to school districts and private schools and charges a traditional per-user fee annually. Edsby synchronizes bi-directionally with school districts' legacy student information systems and other systems and creates and manages classes, students, teachers and schedules by leveraging districts' existing databases, speeding deployment and district-wide adoption.
Edsby has partnered with Microsoft and makes its service available on the Microsoft Azure cloud service worldwide. Microsoft has enhanced its OneNote application to support easy entry of grades into the Edsby gradebook.
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Customers
One significant Edsby site is the school district of Hillsborough County Public Schools. Edsby is deployed to all of the 194,000 students and 15,000 teachers at 260 schools in the district. Edsby replaced a more expensive system, Edline, in September 2013 for grade books and parent engagement. The company claims to serve approximately 20 million requests every day. District educator reaction has been positive, with some end-user grousing.
District-wide deployments with other school systems include 34,000 students and 3,450 staff at Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board and 60,000 public school students at Halton District School Board. The Greater Essex County District School Board has adopted Edsby for its 35,000 students and their parents, as has the District School Board of Niagara for its 36,000 students and their parents.
In August, 2017, the company announced it had added half a million more paid users.
References
External links
- Edsby CrunchBase profile
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