Instructure, maker of the popular Canvas LMS, has acquired Certica Solutions, a major assessment provider based in Wakefield, Mass.
Non-Education Companies Jumping Into K-12 Market During Pandemic
New Demands for Online Learning Are Creating Opportunities for Less Familiar Players
Education companies that either weren’t involved in education at all, or had a relatively narrow interest in it, are finding ways to serve the market during COVID-19.
District Leaders’ Biggest Unmet Data Needs
EdWeek Market Brief Surveyed K-12 Administrators On Where the Information Flow Is Failing Them
An EdWeek Market Brief survey asked district administrators to describe the biggest shortcomings they see in data and their ability to use it.
Inside Salesforce’s Ambitions for the Education Market
The Corporate Software Provider Is Ramping Up Efforts to Help K-12 Districts With Attendance, Admissions, and Other Data Management
The corporate software giant Salesforce has put an increasing focus on K-12 education, in helping districts manage attendance, admissions, and other processes that school systems are seeking to streamline.
Data collected by the parent-school communication platform Remind seek to gauge the number of students who disengaged from school when districts were forced to go to remote learning at the end of last academic year.
A Washington, D.C.-based startup is adding learning functionalities to Zoom, and India’s ed-tech industry raised $1 billion during the last six months of the country’s financial year.
The Irving school district in Texas needs fine arts instructors, while the Delaware education department wants one or two data and quality tracking platforms for early childhood.
The Institute of Education Sciences has unveiled ed-tech guides to make educators aware of resources available for virtual teaching amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
4 Big Shifts the Coronavirus Is Bringing to the Assessment Industry
The Effects of COVID-19 and Remote Instruction Are Changing District Demands for Testing
The coronavirus has forced a number of assessment providers to place new emphasis on non-testing product lines.
Salesforce says its Work.com for Schools interface will help give K-12 schools data to help them reopen.
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