Edsby 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Edsby

4.3

(148)

Pricing

Starting at $5.00 per year

About Edsby

Edsby® is an award-winning, next generation K-12 learning management system (LMS) with the broadest set of capabilities available in a single application made just for the specific needs of K-12 students, educators and parents. It enables improved teaching effectiveness and student success in and out of the classroom with a familiar, social-style user experience.

Unlike other systems, Edsby goes beyond the standard definition of an LMS with a wide set of features (including modern assessment & reporting, timesaving tools for K-12 educators and parents and innovative analytics) for the full spectrum of K-6 and 7-12 learners in one platform that can be tailored to meet a specific district or region’s needs.

Edsby is used district-wide by some of the largest K-12 districts in North America. It has been licensed for national use by the New Zealand Ministry of Education and has received more than 60 industry awards and distinctions.

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Edsby Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $5.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$5.00

per user, per year

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Edsby Features

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Customizable Questions
Live Results Sharing
Reporting/Analytics
Scoring
Skills Assessment
Test/Quiz Creation
More features of Edsby
Academic/Education
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Assessment Management
Assignment Management
Asynchronous Learning
Attendance Management
Attendance Tracking
Blended Learning
Breakout Rooms
Built-in Course Authoring
Built-in LMS
Calendar Management
Certification & Licensing
Chat/Messaging
Classroom Management
Class Scheduling
Class Summary
Collaboration Tools
Communication Management
Content Library
Content Management
Course Authoring
Course Management
Course Tracking
Curriculum Management
Curve Scores
Customizable Branding
Customizable Reports
Data Import/Export
Data Storage Management
Discipline Management
eCommerce Management
Enrollments/Onboarding
Event Calendar
File Sharing
For Classroom
For Labs
Gradebook
Grade Calculations
Individualized Assessments
Interactive Content
Interactive Whiteboard
Learner Portal
Learning Management
Lesson Planning
Live Chat
LMS Integration (LTI)
Mobile Learning
Multi-Language
Parent Portal
Performance Metrics
Polls/Voting
Progress Reports
Progress Tracking
Raise Hand
Real-time Broadcasting
Real-Time Chat
Real-Time Notifications
Records Management
Remote Access/Control
Report Cards
Reporting & Statistics
Scheduling
SCORM Compliance
Screen Sharing
Self Service Portal
Session Recording
Single Sign On
Skills Tracking
Skill Testing
Social Learning
Student Information/Records
Student Management
Student Portal
Support Audio/Images/Video
Surveys & Feedback
Synchronous Learning
Teacher Dashboard
Tests/Assessments
Third-Party Integrations
Two Way Audio & Video
Two-Way Audio & Video
Video Call Recording
Video Conferencing
Video Streaming
Video Support
Virtual Classroom
Visual Analytics
Weighted Assignments
Whiteboard

Edsby Integrations

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Entra ID

Webex Suite

Google Calendar

Google Workspace

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Edsby User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

45%

44%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.2

Value for money

4.3

Customer support

4.1

Functionality

4.1

Frances P.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

Edsby Review

Communication opportunities greatly increased between staff and students

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

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

Cons:

- how it syncs with our database - transcripts need fixing

Romil T.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2024

Educational Facebook

All the manual calander work is gone. Everything is posted on Edsby. Just login and find all the information for school. Really good for parents to keep track of everything their kids are doing.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Its the best platform for students. We don't need to provide Mailbox to the users. They can see all school activities on Edbsy. They can communicate with anyone in organization.

Cons:

Sometimes it gets really slow. In general support is great but when we need a timeline to resolve the problem, they don't have it. It takes some times to get the new release out.

Reasons for choosing Edsby

Edsby is easy to manage and good for parents to see overall activities.

John V.

Education Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Great way to communicate with students and parents

Edsby has been wonderful to work with. When we have had questions, they have been quick to answer or solve them. The Edsby feedback on the site is a great way to communicate with them.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Edsby does an incredible job of making it easy to allow students and parents to see what is happening in class as access documents from class while away from school. It is a great place for teachers to be able to record grades, conversations and observations, which is required by the ministry. It is very user friendly and allows for most of the school needs to be in one place.

Cons:

The grade book is wonderful to have, however many of my staff would love to be able to print out individual documents to share with parents or an easy way to print out the grade book.

Verified

Reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

K-12 Social Networking Based LMS

Overall, the Edsby platform excels at social communication and K-12 school management. I wouldn't necessarily call it a proper LMS just yet because it only recently added the functionality to build asynchronous courses and import SCORM based learning modules.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The company is based in Ontario, Canada and focuses on K-12 education which is exactly where my school lands. As a result, many of the changes and customization are geared towards my school. Most the major LMS companies are based in the US so their focus is naturally there.

Cons:

It seems like the number of customer service staff has not grown at a rate that can accommodate the number of clients that Edsby is accumulating. This has resulted in excruciatingly slow response times, especially around September and October.

Reasons for choosing Edsby

Again, Edsby is more K-12 and Ontario focused.

Reasons for switching to Edsby

As mentioned before, Edsby is more K-12 and Ontario focused.

David L.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2021

Best K-12 LMS I've Seen

We run a school of nearly 900 boys. We communicate with parents and students. We run online courses and we managed to remain fully active throughout the COVID 19 pandemic without missing a day of class.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The set up is very easy, the functionality is incredible, and the end user experience is great. Whenever I show new teachers how to use Edsby, they are amazed at how simple it is and just how many features they can use to enhance their classroom experience.

Cons:

There are a few customizations that would be helpful - the messaging feature could be improved with the storing of messages in folders for easier access for example.

Reasons for choosing Edsby

Edsby is the closest thing I have seen to an all in one solution. It's easy to use and affordable. Their only focus is on making the best LMS possible.

Reasons for switching to Edsby

First Class was older and was no longer serving our needs.

Darryl H.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2019

The Best Educational Management Tool Solution

I find Edsby is the ideal all in one classroom management tool. Edsby allows me to present lessons with a variety of image and video formats, evaluate, post results with comments in a way that resonates with students and is accessible to parents.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

1. Intuitive layout 2. Very user-friendly for both teachers and students 3. The ability to incorporate various attachment formats such as .jpeg hyperlinks and .wmv files

Cons:

I wish when accessing assignments for marking in the grade book the list on the right-hand side would show I have marked it and not require I click on the assignment on the list on the right in order to affect the number of unmarked assignments. I open the assignment and add comments by clicking on the assignment from the list on the grade book screen.

Reasons for choosing Edsby

Edsby's willingness to customize the product to our needs and excellent support.

Verified

Reviewer

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

We have had Edsby since its inception. We are pleased with most of what it does and aspires to be.

It connects teachers, students, and administrators together in an effective way. It is a very good student management system and interface that has the potential to be great.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The connections that it allows among families, students, teachers and administrators. The overall look makes sense with grades on one side, the feed in the centre and the courses and libraries on the other side. It is easy to read and fairly intuitive. As an administrator, I like that I can see most everything so with one piece of software, I can get a good sense of what is going on overall but I also can get granularity, as I need. I like the ability to Broadcast messages. I like the ability to get an overview of a student, current as well as past, and a peek into the future re: courses and grades. The Report Card feature works well.

Cons:

NUMBER 1 by far: There are no administrative master switches to do things such as turn off all grades or make them universally the same for all classes. There are certain times of the year that the look for parents and students should be the same. I either have to get each teacher to do it or give someone access to get it done for everyone. This is annoying. The inability for Edsby to change from day to day re: schedules - so attendance is often difficult to get correct. There is not enough flexibility to do so on our end. So the entire product looks shoddy to parents and students because times are rarely correct. It is tough for our attendance person to determine who is at school and who is not. The calendar is cumbersome. It takes too long to enter items and it is no easy to read. We have to use a separate calendar system. Messages are difficult to sort through (though the new sort feature is a great addition). Looking at past semesters is not easy. There are too many clicks. A single screen with all past grades and links from it would be much better.

Vendor Response

Thanks for sharing your views on Edsby. Am pleased to share that your number one concern is unfounded - there IS a way in Edsby to do what you seek: you can push class setup options from a course model. Our head of customer success would like you to contact him so he can describe how to do this so you never have to manually do this again! He'd also like to find out more about your schedule concerns. You can reach him as bob(at)edsby.com or toll-free: +1 (877) 337-0070.

Replied November 2018

Verified

Reviewer

Primary/ Secondary Education

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Everything you need in one place

Edsby has been very easy to work with. They are responsive and work to find compromises where our district may do something different from the norm. The software has grown significantly over last 5 years and includes much more than we originally planned, making Edsby a powerful tool in our district for communicating with students and parents.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

As a parent, I want to be able to see everything my students are doing quickly and easily. Edsby allows easy access to all of my students (I have 4 at 4 different schools!) from one dashboard for any grade level. It doesn't matter if I'm on the mobile app or in the browser, the information is easy to access. I can also reach out directly to their teachers. Recent updates have also enabled push notifications about class updates and messaging. My students enjoy it too as it makes it easy for them to keep up to date on what's going on in their classes - NO MORE SURPRISES! As a district software administrator, Edsby is incredibly easy to manage. The super search feature allows me to quickly and easily access student or teacher information when assisting schools with troubleshooting questions. Granular permissions make sure that the correct people have access to the correct information and not more than they need. EdsbyLink ensures that data imports match our current Student Information System.

Cons:

New features come fast! Its hard to keep teachers informed of new features as they arrive and help them use the features to their fullest capabilities.

Verified

Reviewer

Primary/ Secondary Education

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2018

Edsby from a student's perspective

Having used Edsby for the past 3 1/2 years in high school, it is an incredibly useful tool for staying organizied and being successful. I would highly recommend this tool to other schools for its features and ease of use.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

-Edsby effectively aggregates all my school-related info in one place - the class page is the most useful in showing lesson content, unit plans, daily journals, and upcoming assessments on one page -I can (obsessively) check my current grades for any class at any time -It's easy to keep up with school news and extracurriculars in different groups -Office Online integration enables me to view Word/PowerPoint/Excel documents without having the desktop apps installed

Cons:

-Certain features from the August 2018 update are undeveloped, such as the Emoji confidence indicator and document preview in the Content library -The iOS app feels slow and buggy; it can take several seconds to load some class pages or groups

Aaron S.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

It is exactly what I've been looking for.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ease and familiarity of a social media platform with the security and transparency of educational software. I can respond to my students questions from anywhere in the world at anytime and I know that our interaction is transparent for their security and mine.

Cons:

The gradebook takes some getting used to and doesn't have all of the functionality of a dedicated platform.

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