Bring parents 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 parents 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 parents to be active members of your community. Edsby Groups can be used by parents, 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 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.

Planned absences

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.

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 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.

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 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.

Timetable & calendar

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.

Real time notifications

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.

Parent accounts

Unlike other systems, Edsby gives parents their own accounts to follow their kids’ education and communicate with teachers and staff.

Status of learning

Easier for teachers & parents

Edsby does heavy lifting behind the scenes.

Automatic enrolment

Edsby can add 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.)

Build official parent databases

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.

Single app

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!

Use...

  • Email to message parents
  • 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
  • Hudle for sports teams

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