EdApp vs. Edsby

EdApp is great if you want to have internal training and do not want to waste time for the agency to understand your business, you do it yourself. It’s great for field structures as it’s built for mobile and built to be snappy - great time saver! It’s not yet great in the area of Power BI dashboards and customizable reports for usage.

Incentivized

Edsby is well-suited for day-to-day communication with students, either in the classroom, or at home. It makes planning course progression easier because of the built in day-by-day calendar for the semester. It is transferable, so the work one does in one semester can be copied over to the next, and modified as needed. Students can see the Lesson Plan which is projected onto the SmartBoard, but the font is quite small so they cannot read it from where they are sitting, so I use SmartNotes which has a larger font and then, if needed, attach that note to the Edsby day lesson planner.

• It’s quick and easy to set up and build contend
• It has a great support team
• It’s massively customizable
• It keeps adding features
• It monitors progress of all users

Incentivized

• Edsby is extremely easy to learn and use.
• Students love the "social media" feel to Edsby.

• Some operations on a big list of users (2000) are complicated
• Database setup has to be done tagged manually
• It does not provide an option to send newsletters for selected accounts
• It would be nice to have more options to manage unused accounts

Incentivized

• Edsby shows the last time a user logged on. Unfortunately, if someone doesn't log out you have no way of knowing if someone has seen a recent post or is really using Edsby to its potential.

It’s really easy! After the onboarding with the app I’m able to ‘spit out’ a course within 1hr. That means I can now do pre-work for any meeting and see who did it and also shorten meeting time that usually was wasted on explanation of the topic. The mobile access made it simple for everyone and lead to our field force employees finding time for development between client visits.

Incentivized

Everything is easy to use and well as being overly user-friendly to your average student.

They have a live person on the line. Easy going and responsive. Problem was resolved within 17mins when I anticipated it would take hours!

Incentivized

EdApp has an easier interface. It allows you to start building whole courses with many lessons within first hours of use. It’s design looks more professional which results in a better fit for business environment. Unlike Kahoot!, it’s not recognised as ‘the thing my kids have at school’ - important factor in terms of user approach to content provided in lessons.

Incentivized

EDSBY was piloted at the school last semester, and I found it made my job easier, which is a boon since time is fleeting and I could get more done with less effort with Edsby. After the pilot the entire school district was signed up to use Edsby. I like it very much. I did use a blog on First Class which was extremely difficult to learn, and a blog on WordPress which was easier to learn how to use but not interactive like Edsby is. To my mind, Edsby is far superior to the former.

• It started ‘binge learning’ thanks to 8min average time needed to complete a lesson
• It allowed a 93% completion rate for field force training materials (up from 47%)
• It allowed for easy and attractive implementation of mandatory content (compliance/lex)

Incentivized

• For the most part, teachers, parents and students love the system. It provides easy access to the information that they need when they need it.