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Educational technology company
Engrade was an educational technology company that provides online
learning management system and
educational assessment products to K-12 school districts. Engrade was founded in 2003 and later acquired by
McGraw-Hill Education in January 2014.
[1] As of March 2015, Engrade ranks in the top 5,000 US websites.
[2] The service was discontinued on June 30, 2019.
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History
Engrade was founded by
Bri Holt as a
high school student in 2003. The company later received 2 rounds of
venture capital funding totaling $8 million from Javelin Venture Partners, Rethink Education,
Kapor Capital , New Schools Venture Fund, and
Samsung Venture Investment Corp .
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[7] The company grew to a reported 4.5 million users before being acquired by
McGraw-Hill Education in January 2014.
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Products
Engrade divides its education products into four groups:
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Corebook — a gradebook specifically designed for
standards-based grading and
Common Core alignment.
Teach — a school-wide content management system that integrates third-party content providers.
Assess — a
PARCC and
SBAC aligned student
assessment tool.
Improve — processes data from Engrade tools and third parties to provide district-level reports about student performance.
References
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b Empson, Rip (February 9, 2014).
"McGraw-Hill Buys Engrade For ~$50M As It Moves Away From Textbooks, Towards A Future Of SaaS" . TechCrunch .
^ Alexa.
"engrade.com: Site Overview"
Archived 2016-03-05 at the
Wayback Machine (Retrieved 2015-03-24)
^
"Transition Out of Engrade" . blog.dsstpublicschools.org . Retrieved 2023-02-11 .
^ Kolodny, Lora (July 5, 2013).
"Engrade Racks Up $5M to Help Schools Use Data for Improved Learning" . WSJ .
^ Isaac, Mike (July 3, 2013).
"EdTech Startup Engrade Raises $5 Million" . All Things D .
^ Beltran, Luisa (July 3, 2013).
"Engrade Raises $5 Mln" . PE Hub .
^ Mitroff, Sarah (May 2, 2012).
"High school coder gets $3M for his gradebook software, 10-years later" . VentureBeat .
^ Empson, Rip (July 3, 2014).
"Engrade Lands $5M From Javelin, Samsung And Others To Help Schools Unify Learning Data, Systems In One Platform" . TechCrunch .
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"McGraw-Hill Education to Acquire Engrade - EdSurge News" . EdSurge . 2014-02-03. Retrieved 2020-04-17 .
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"Engrade Website" . Archived from
the original on 2015-03-22. Retrieved 2015-03-25 .
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