Engrade

Engrade
Type of site
 Learning management system, Educational assessment
Owner McGraw-Hill Education
Website engrade.com
Commercial Yes
Launched 2003
Current status Active

Engrade is 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]

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.[3][4][5][6][7] The company grew to a reported 4.5 million users before being acquired by McGraw-Hill Education in January 2014.[8][1]

Products

Engrade divides its education products into four groups:[9]

  • 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

  1. 1 2 Empson, Rip (February 9, 2014). "McGraw-Hill Buys Engrade For ~$50M As It Moves Away From Textbooks, Towards A Future Of SaaS". TechCrunch.
  2. ↑ Alexa. "engrade.com: Site Overview" (Retrieved 2015-03-24)
  3. ↑ Kolodny, Lora (July 5, 2013). "Engrade Racks Up $5M to Help Schools Use Data for Improved Learning". WSJ.
  4. ↑ "Engrade: New Schools Venture Fund Portfolio"
  5. ↑ Isaac, Mike (July 3, 2013). "EdTech Startup Engrade Raises $5 Million". All Things D.
  6. ↑ Beltran, Luisa (July 3, 2013). "Engrade Raises $5 Mln". PE Hub.
  7. ↑ Mitroff, Sarah (May 2, 2012). "High school coder gets $3M for his gradebook software, 10-years later". VentureBeat.
  8. ↑ Empson, Rip (July 3, 2014). "Engrade Lands $5M From Javelin, Samsung And Others To Help Schools Unify Learning Data, Systems In One Platform". TechCrunch.
  9. ↑ Engrade Website


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