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According to Gartner, 87 percent of senior business leaders consider digitalization as a company priority, but only 40 percent of organizations have brought digital initiatives to scale. This implies that digitalization in the education sector is certainly way less as schools are still heavily reliant on paper to manage critical tasks and workflows. Often, MS Word forms are filled out and mailed to the concerned authorities or parents, which is again as good as paper. Post-it-note systems are still in place; people fill out a paper form and leave a post-it note on it requesting a signature by the appropriate authority. And this paper goes into someone’s in-tray. Manual paper-based processes are hard to track, maintain an audit trail for, and lack the security to safeguard sensitive information. This paperbased system of managing critical admin operations clashes with the growing demands for compliance and regulation imposed on schools today. “Photo permissions are a great example proving this. These days, we've seen photo or media permission forms sent out by schools with a dozen options on them, such as ‘my child's photo can/cannot be used for promo purposes,’ or ‘my child's video or audio can/ cannot be used,’” explains David Eedle, CTO of EdSmart. If a child's photo is used for a purpose that the parent hasn't permitted, it becomes a compliance issue for the school.
This is where companies like EdSmart make a difference. EdSmart is a premier provider of marketleading enterprise solutions for streamlining educational operations and improving productivity for individual and multi-campus schools, school bodies, and school networks. “EdSmart sits at the nexus of these pain points to digitize administration and communication in schools. We deliver robust workflow and permission controls around critical information so that schools gain more confidence in their compliance with stringent regulations,” shares Eedle.
EdSmart was founded by Eedle and Fiona Boyd, the CEO of the company, who grew tired of filling out endless school paperwork for their three children. Eedle’s technology background, mostly around online management systems, became extremely applicable to what is now EdSmart, which at its heart is online forms, designed, built, and shaped to suit K-12 schools. “When we started out, we primarily targeted paper forms— typically, permission slips—sent home to parents by schools,” he says. By talking to schools to understand their workflows and identifying more use cases for how digitization could improve school administration, the company has been building on its platform to suit and serve schools’ diverse needs.
Following a modular approach, EdSmart groups the functionalities of its platform into modules, which allows it to present different product levels to schools.
We deliver robust workflow and permission controls around critical information so that schools gain more confidence in their compliance with stringent regulations
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