Edsby Reviews

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Everything

There is nothing that I don't like about it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Easy to use. New features are always being added. Easy implementation for new staff and administration. Easy integration for parent use.

No cons were added to this review

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..

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.

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.)

- Ease of use - Offers lots of functionalities (attendance, filtering, report cards, groups, messaging)

- how it syncs with our database - transcripts need fixing

Ease of use. Responsive customer service.

The email should be more like email and not a chat.