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Eric O.
Education Management, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Very positive. They are typically quick to respond to my requests and queries.
Edsby is a fantastic tool for educators. Unlike other Learning Management Systems (LMS), Edsby is easy to use and does a great job of integrating teachers, students, and parents into the ecosystem.
Sometimes Edsby pushes out incremental upgrades without warning and the results are often buggy.
Michael N.
Education Management, 10,001+ employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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I really like that the platform is available on desktop, tablet, and iOS/Android. I have had many parents tell me how easy it is to keep track of student grades.
I like that there were options for students to have digital assignments. I like the “poll” options. I like that it is easy to communicate with my students and other teachers.
I would have liked to make a way to transfer grades when a student transfers classes.
Jessica P.
Education Management, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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No more logging into different applications for different things. News, coursework, attendance, school events and important dates - all right here in one place. And no excuses that information was lost or couldn't be accessed.
I love that teachers, students, parents, and school staff can easily get updates from school administration, check attendance, see grades and course material, all in one place. The user interface is very intuitive, and a great way to disseminate news. It's also a great place for teachers to upload assignments and course material - and the students can access it from anywhere!
Students want to know how many community involvement hours they have, and Edsby has no means of tracking and communicating this.
Steve C.
Used daily for 2+ years
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The ease of use. The ability for us to accomplish many things in one platform. We can keep our calendar, grades and report cards all in one place.
We need to add a few more features for it to meet our SIS needs. Although it's not an SIS, it is very close. If we could input items related to health cards, health information and a few more customizable inputs, it would help us even more.
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Education Management, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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I've used Edsby as a teacher and a school administrator. As a teacher, Edsby has been an excellent tool to collect evidence of learning and calculate final marks. It's also been a very useful tool for communicating with students and their families. As an administrator, Edsby is very useful for accessing student contact information. We use it as an attendance management tool and the feedback has been positive.
Ease of access; ease of finding information; ability to tailor content specific to school's needs; user interface for administrators and end users
Wait times to speak with customer service can be frustrating
DANIELLE A.
Education Management, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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It makes my job easier!
It's so easy to use when monitoring a school of 650 students and thousands of parents. It's also easy to explain to parents, some of whom do not have a lot of computer experience. It's user-friendly and effective.
I sometimes have a hard time searching student names. I'll type in a name that I know is there, but it won't pop up. Mostly it works great.
Don R.
Education Management, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Significant increase in parental communications and, consequently, engagement. Happier teachers and academic staff re. attendance, gradebook, and report cards.
Easy navigation and addresses most pressing needs a school has regarding communications and tracking. Plays nice with Maplewood!
Customer support is almost always excellent...but there are times when responses have been slow or problems lingered.
Dan T.
Primary/Secondary Education,
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Using Edsby has revolutionized my classroom! I use it to communicate with students and parents. Not only do I use it to organize my students' grades, but I post study guides, review games, photos, rubrics, links and anything I feel might be helpful to my students when they're home. My students use Edsby to "blog" about what we're doing in their classes. They comment on each others' posts and engage in positive, supportive dialogue. I feel like Edsby helps my class become a real community.
The only thing I can think of is the mobile app can be a little buggy at times.
Tim B.
Education Management, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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It's a lot easier to stay organized with Edsby.
Edsby is a great place to keep everything organized for your class. You can do a lot with it, and really helps with students who accidentally keep losing all the handouts you give them.
There are a few little bugs that can be annoying. It needs to work far better as a mobile app. On a computer it's great.
Aaron S.
Used daily for 2+ years
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Communication. With parents, students, collegues and clubs. Having a central hub for communication has been amazing.
I would like the gradebook to be more transparent and have a bit more functionallity wrt weighting. Also, it can be a little frustrating uploading images, and the library doesn't give enough information about the files I've stored in it.
Alicia M.
Philanthropy, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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Edsby is trying to be a leader in LMS offerings. They do make a compelling case for how effective they have been in large and small school districts. You will need support, but they are responsive. If you have the manpower to have someone that can really explore the additional features and then provide staff training with strong, clear parent communication it will be tremendously valuable to any educational environment.
Edsby is a LMS that in its most simplistic usage allows effective recording of grades and other classroom information. Once in place, it’s a constant communication tool between staff/parents/students with a user friendly interface.
It requires a dedicated trainee or a decent amount of tech support to customize beyond the most basic usage. Most end users outside the school never access most of the additional features. It is not easily used as a replacement for easier and faster SMS communications.
Shelley H.
Education Management, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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The wide range of features available for K-12. There is something of value for everyone in our organization. Ease of use when communicating to parents is an added benefit.
I wish they had more people on the support line. It is difficult to bring on new customers, add new features, and still provide the same level of support.
Avital A.
Education Management, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Daily analytics, communications, LMS
Platform, report cards, features, interactivity, customer service (BOB), notifications, groups, platform, security
It is missing an important feature where teachers should be able to message students ONLY - That is a feature the company had and removed - promising to bring back and improve - has not happened yet.
Gina R.
Oil & Energy, 5,001-10,000 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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I am very thankful for Edsby. I cannot tell you how many times I have gone on to take a look at my son's grades and been upset because of something he didn't turn in. Well thanks to the ease of use of Edsby, I could easily look up the assignment and print it out, along with the list of grades for each class to keep my son on top of his work and grades. Even in HS, it has proven to be a valuable tool as now he is at a stage in which he communicates as little as possible with me. It is fun to know his grades before I ask him. The program is fairly easy to use, but could be a bit harder for someone with no computer skills, but overall I love it!
Everything
There is nothing that I don't like about it.
Cynthia D.
Education Management, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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everything is now in one place. the privilege of spending way more time entering marks and calculating final percentages
I like that 'everything" is in one place. I like that communication with parents (theoretically) is streamlined.
I hate the gradebook. It is inflexible and does not give me the information I want. I don't like that every change is communicated so precisely to parents (for example if I change a grade, it adds a comment - isn't changing the grade enough? I can add a comment if I want to.) I don't like that each item gives parents the percent it is worth out of the total. It takes away from my professional judgement and allows parents and students to calculate their overall percent which is something our board has opted NOT to tell parent.s
Cynthia, did you know you don't HAVE to share grades, averages or weightings with parents in Edsby? It's up to you. Select the options you'd like in each classes' setup form. Enter the class, and click the setup option in the top menu. Your district has chosen some options consistent with their overall policy, but you as a teacher still get flexibility to exercise your professional judgement.
David F.
Education Management, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Knowing that parents can view their child's progress realtime. This reduces the costs of time and resources of the front office staff of looking up the student's data / progress and keeping paper copies of records for years beyond.
The fact parents can see their children's grades realtime, while the data is safe and secure. Simplicity of use, and a shallow navigation learning curve.
Just a thought: having your own or preferred backend for the data for schools starting to work with Edsby for the first time.
Marilyn V.
Education Management, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Edsby has benefited our school community in that it's a great communication tool.
It's easy to use. It's a wonderful communication tool between students, staff and parents providing current information.
There should be an easier way to find or file/organize the messages you send and receive.
Robert A.
Used daily for 2+ years
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Posting lessons, handouts, worksheets...everything. When students are absent, they are still receiving all the material and they know where to find it.
Not a lot of cons. It does so much but one has to take the time to learn and figure it out. It can be a huge time saver.
Stuart R.
Used daily for 2+ years
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The communication tools it provides so that I can keep parents and students up to date with class activities and assignment due dates.
It does not work well as an on-line classroom tool. Uploading files is not always reliable. Students have issues accessing reaoirces at home.
Kimberly J.
Used daily for 2+ years
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The app is continuing to improve. It is nice to now have a better format of the app parents of our school are much more pleased with the app as most use that system.
Easy to use. New features are always being added. Easy implementation for new staff and administration. Easy integration for parent use.
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Kimberly L.
Education Management, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Easy communication - parents are able to communicate with teachers - and vice versa.
Easy to access all kids and staff and parents! When there is a message I need to send to students who I do not teach - I can find them and communicate with them easily!
Things get 'lost' in rivers... they need to be 'bumped' to find them again... I have a hard time finding documents that were shared earlier - as they are pushed to the bottom..
Wendy B.
Education Management, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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I love the ease of it! It took us less than 2 hours to get up and running. It has improved the communication between staff and with our parents
I'd like to be able forward messages to other people. Right now we have to cut and paste.
Rachel P.
Used daily for 1-2 years
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Quick, easy communications with students and parents. Its. great hub for activities and classes for students.
Posting options seems archaic, (can't edit or customize messages with colour, bold, etc.). Group pages have limited options for posting information; the knowledge section and library aren't very attratcive or obvious where students would find info that is posted (links, documents, etc.)
Frances P.
Education Management, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Communication opportunities greatly increased between staff and students
- Ease of use - Offers lots of functionalities (attendance, filtering, report cards, groups, messaging)
- how it syncs with our database - transcripts need fixing
Dan M.
Education Management, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Edsby has it all. It can track attendance, marks, posting of notes and pop-up surveys - and now it can even do online testing and quizzes that integrate with the gradebook!
Ease of use. Responsive customer service.
The email should be more like email and not a chat.