Now in private beta
One calm workspace for the school day.
EDatHand gives your staff one place for announcements, forms, requests, the calendar and shout-outs, so the work stops hiding in inboxes and hallways.
There is nothing to buy during the beta. A person checks every request with the school first.
One school day, eight parts.
Each school picks the parts it wants. Staff see only what they are allowed to use. Here is how a Tuesday could run at a made-up school.
Morning
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7:35am
Announcements
The staff meeting moves to the library. One post reaches everyone, and a post that needs action shows how many people have acknowledged it.
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8:05am
Calendar
Team planning at 10:00, a fire drill on Thursday. One shared calendar for the whole school.
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9:15am
Requests
The projector in room 12 is out. A request goes in and moves from Open to Claimed to Done.
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10:40am
Resources
A new teacher needs the bell schedule. It is in the shared list of useful links.
Afternoon
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12:10pm
Forms
A field trip request is filled in, approved and signed, each step by the person it belongs to.
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1:20pm
Directory
Need the new counselor's name? The directory shows who is on staff, and their role.
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2:15pm
Newsletter
Third grade adds its note for this week's school newsletter.
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3:05pm
Shout-outs
Jordan covered a duty on short notice. A colleague sends a thank you.
The same workspace, from three seats.
Pick the seat closest to yours.
Teachers
See what needs you, handle it, and get back to your class.
Read the day's updates
New announcements show on your Home. Open the Announcements page to mark each one as read, and to acknowledge the ones that ask for it.
Ask for help or a fix
Send a request and watch it move from Open to Claimed to Done.
Thank a colleague
Send a shout-out to anyone on staff.
Arrange your Home
Move the tiles you use most to the top, when your school leaves the layout open.
Office staff
Run the building's daily work from one place, with the access your principal gives you.
Post the updates
Post, schedule and pin announcements. A post that needs action shows how many people have acknowledged it.
Keep the calendar
Add events one at a time, or upload a calendar file.
Work the fix requests
Claim a request, and close it when the work is done.
Build the forms
Build a form, set who fills it in and who approves it, and publish it.
Principals
Decide how the workspace runs for your school, and change your mind any time.
Choose the parts
Turn on only the parts your school will use.
Bring in your staff
Add people one at a time or import a list, send invitations, and set what each person can do.
Set the Home rules
Let people arrange their own Home, keep required tiles at the top, or give everyone your layout.
Make it your school's
Set the school's colors and add your mascot.
A price you can work out on a napkin.
There is nothing to buy during the beta. This is the standard price once EDatHand opens.
- $1,000a building, each year
- $3a student, for the first 500
- $2a student, for the next 1,000
- $1.50a student, after that
A district with two or more buildings pays $1,000 a building, plus $500 a building for the district layer, plus those same student rates counted once across the whole district. A district never pays more for students than its buildings would pay separately. The district layer is counted for at most 10 buildings, and it is billed at $0 until the district tools ship.
Each building counts as at least 100 students. We use last year's fall enrollment from the Illinois Report Card. We never need student names or student records. Setup help and optional services are quoted separately, and a district gets its exact price in a written quote. A district with more than 40 buildings gets a custom price.
One building with students
$1,900 a year
Founding schools pay half for two years. That is $950 a year for this building. The first 10 buildings pay half the standard price for two years, 75 percent in year three, and the standard price from year four. A district takes the founding rate on all of its buildings or none.
In return, a founding school agrees to be a reference for other schools and to take part in one written case study. Nothing is published until the district approves the text.
A planning number, not a quote. The smallest price is $1,300 a year for one building, and the largest is $7,500.
Four steps from a request to a working school.
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Ask for access
Tell us who you are and where you work. A person checks your current staff role and authority with the school. Sending a request creates no account or trial.
Request school access -
Confirm your email
We send a link to the work email we approved. The school is created only when you press Continue.
Set up your school -
Set up the school
Seven short steps, from school basics to invitations. Every one can be changed later.
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Staff come in
Staff sign in with a link sent to their work email and land on a Home that follows their role.
Staff sign in
Beta email delivery is still being connected. Setup and sign-in cannot be completed from a real inbox yet.
Read how it worksStaff work, not student records.
EDatHand is built for the adults who run a school, with clear lines around who can come in and what they can do.
Read about trust-
A person checks the first account
A school email address alone does not open an account. A person checks the applicant's current staff role and authority with the school or district first.
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Roles set the boundaries
Access follows the signed-in person's school and permissions. Staff only see work their role and its audience allow them to see.
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No place for student records
Do not upload student records or sensitive student information into staff forms, messages, requests or files.
Bring the school day into one place.
EDatHand is in a small private beta. Ask for access, and a person on our team will check with your school first. There is nothing to buy during the beta.
Get a note when EDatHand opens.
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