HotChalk was an education technology company founded in September 2004. HotChalk ran an online community application designed for grade school teachers, students, and parents. In August 2007,

McGraw-Hill McGraw Hill is an American educational publishing company and one of the "big three" educational publishers that publishes educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education. The company also publishes referenc ...

partnered with HotChalk to make McGraw-Hill training and certification tools available to HotChalk users.

NBC The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an Television in the United States, American English-language Commercial broadcasting, commercial television network, broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Enterta ...

partnered with HotChalk as well to distribute NBC news archives to supplement educational materials. HotChalk was founded by Edward M. Fields; the company's last CEO was Rob Wrubel. The company drew scrutiny from the

U.S. Department of Education The United States Department of Education is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government. It began operating on May 4, 1980, having been created after the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was split into the Department ...

in the mid-2010s regarding HotChalk's relationship with

Concordia University Concordia University ( French: ''Université Concordia'') is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the t ...

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. A federal prosecutor alleged that the university's $160 million deal with HotChalk violated a law that prohibits incentives for recruitment and outsourcing of more than half an educational program to an unaccredited party. The investigation was settled out-of-court for $1 million with no admissions of wrongdoing. In November 2020, Noodle acquired Hot Chalk.

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* {{Official website, http://www.HotChalk.com Educational technology companies of the United States Companies based in Campbell, California Online advertising services and affiliate networks Marketing companies established in 2004 Education companies established in 2004 Privately held companies based in California Learning management systems