Chancery Software Acquires Misty City Software; Purchase of Leading Gradebook Publisher Doubles the Audience for Chancery's Home and School Portal, K12Planet.com.Business Editors VANCOUVER Vancouver, city, Canada Vancouver, city (1991 pop. 471,844), SW British Columbia, Canada, on Burrard Inlet of the Strait of Georgia, opposite Vancouver Island and just N of the Wash. border. , British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography and SEATTLE Seattle (sēăt`əl), city (1990 pop. 516,259), seat of King co., W Wash., built on seven hills, between Elliott Bay of Puget Sound and Lake Washington; inc. 1869. , Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- April 11, 2000 Chancery chancery: see equity. chancery Court of public record and archive of state documents. The chancery system of the Roman Empire served as the model for the royal chanceries of medieval France and Germany. Software, North America's leading publisher of education information management systems, announced today it has acquired gradebook software publisher Misty mist·y adj. mist·i·er, mist·i·est 1. Consisting of or marked by mist: a misty rain; a misty night. 2. City Software, Inc. More than 250,000 teachers who use Misty City's Grade Machine will soon receive Chancery's K12Planet.com. This move expands the K12Planet learning community audience to nearly 600,000 educators worldwide, who manage information on more than 10 million students using Misty City's gradebooks and Chancery's student information systems. "Adding Misty City's customers to our rapidly growing installed base expands our reach to nearly 20 percent of the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. K-12 student market," said Rick Moignard, Chancery's president and chief executive officer. "Misty City customers, already familiar with simple-to-use electronic gradebooks, will quickly become K12Planet users." Acquisition Details The Misty City acquisition is the first in a series of strategic business moves by Chancery, which on March 31 announced it had secured $32.7 million in financing to continue the development of K12Planet. Introduced to select schools in late 1999, the first phase of K12Planet shipping will begin on April 30 to nearly 7,500 schools. Misty City Software was founded in 1986 by Wendell Brown, a high school physics and computer-programming teacher. Today more than 250,000 teachers use Misty City's products to manage the grades of an estimated 4.6 million students. The Misty City facility in Kirkland, Wash., a suburb suburb, a community in an outlying section of a city or, more commonly, a nearby, politically separate municipality with social and economic ties to the central city. In the 20th cent. of Seattle, is Chancery's seventh U.S.-based office. All Misty City employees have been retained and Wendell Brown remains as President of Misty City Software, which will operate as a division of Chancery Software Ltd. Misty City Software's product offerings include Grade Machine, award-winning software for grading and classroom management, and Grade View, a powerful tool that gives administrators a quick, detailed, school-wide picture of any student's performance. Used together, these programs constitute a high performance team for teachers, school administrators, and counselors. "With Chancery's resources behind us, Misty City can quickly bring new and exciting functionality like K12Planet.com to our current customers and a larger marketing presence to reach new prospects," said Brown. The acquisition is a natural evolution of Chancery's long-standing publishing partnership with Misty City. Starting in April 1997, Chancery began licensing and distributing Grade Machine as eClass Grades. The eClass suite of teacher tools is part of Chancery's Mac School, Win School, and Open District student information systems. About Electronic Gradebooks Electronic gradebooks are as easy to use as their pencil-and-paper predecessors, but they automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. the time consuming daily grade-tracking functions and offer greater flexibility and reporting capabilities. Teachers who record student grades in an electronic gradebook can quickly and simply analyze class trends, evaluate individual student performance, and communicate meaningful assessment information to students, parents, and administrators with professional reports, charts, and graphs. About K12Planet K12Planet is the complete home and school community portal that shows parents and students what's happening each day at school and in the classroom. K12Planet is the only portal to offer robust planning tools, detailed information on student goals and progress, rich communication between school and home, and educational resources for teachers, parents and students - all in one easy-to-use website. To protect students' privacy, all information is kept completely secure with password access given to authorized users authorized user Radiation physics A person who, having satisfied the applicable training and experience requirements, is granted authority to order radioactive material and accepts responsibility for its safe receipt, storage, use, transfer and disposal only. The data itself is hosted by Exodus Exodus (ĕk`sədəs), book of the Bible, 2d of the 5 books of the Law (the Pentateuch or Torah) ascribed by tradition to Moses. The book continues the story of the ancestors of Israel in Egypt, now grown in number to a large landless , the company that provides 24/7 security for some of the most prominent sites on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the such as eBay, Amazon and Yahoo! About Chancery Software Founded in 1983, Chancery Software is North America's leading publisher of information management systems and Internet learning communities for districts, schools and homes that empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems parents to become much more involved in their child's education. Information on more than 10 million students is managed by nearly 600,000 educators using Chancery's Win School and Mac School student information systems, Grade Machine and eClass teacher tools, Library Pro library automation, Open District enterprise systems, and K12Planet.com. Chancery's customers are further supported by a network of sales and support personnel across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Chancery is headquartered in Burnaby, a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia. For more information, visit http://www.chancery.com. (c)2000 Chancery Software Ltd. Win School, Mac School and eClass are registered trademarks of Chancery Software. K12Planet, Open District and Grade Machine are trademarks of Chancery Software. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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