Engrade was an educational technology company that provides online

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and

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products to K-12 school districts. Engrade was founded in 2003 and later acquired by

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in January 2014.Empson, Rip (February 9, 2014)
"McGraw-Hill Buys Engrade For ~$50M As It Moves Away From Textbooks, Towards A Future Of SaaS"
''TechCrunch''. As of March 2015, Engrade ranks in the top 5,000 US websites.Alexa
"engrade.com: Site Overview"
(Retrieved 2015-03-24) The service was discontinued on June 30, 2019.

History

Engrade was founded by Bri Holt as a

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in 2003. The company later received 2 rounds of

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funding totaling $8 million from Javelin Venture Partners, Rethink Education, Kapor Capital, New Schools Venture Fund, and Samsung Venture Investment Corp.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''. The company grew to a reported 4.5 million users before being acquired by

in January 2014.

Products

Engrade divides its education products into four groups: *Corebook – a gradebook specifically designed for standards-based grading and

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alignment. *Teach – a school-wide content management system that integrates third-party content providers. *Assess – a

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and SBAC aligned student

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tool. *Improve – processes data from Engrade tools and third parties to provide district-level reports about student performance.

References

External links

''Engrade'' - Official website
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