Engrade

Engrade was 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] The service was discontinued on June 30, 2019.^[3]

Engrade

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

Company 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.^[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][9]

Products

Engrade divides its education products into four groups:^[10]

• 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.