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Excelsior was founded in Texas in 1986 as a partnership, and incorporated the next year. The company remains privately owned by its founders who initially created one of the first grading software programs called Excelsior Grade. For several years, IBM marketed Excelsior Grade for use with its networking products.
In 1992 a second generation product, Gradebook2, was developed for the Windows and Macintosh platforms. The focus of the new design was to build enough flexibility into the data and configuration aspects of the product to allow for school-wide scalability. The original design work continues to maintain Gradebook2 as the most configurable and flexible computerized grade book product on the market.
In 1994, a joint market research project involving IBM, Excelsior and the local phone company in a south suburb of Chicago provided real time grades to parents via a new networking protocol called ISDN. The software tools created by Excelsior during this project became the basis for the Pinnacle System and optional Viewers. The Pinnacle concept has since been expanded to a fully developed ODBC SQL based client/server technology, and continues to be the only successful way to uniformly distribute and maintain electronic assessment data for teachers, administrators, students, and parents in a large-scale environment.
Today Excelsior is headquartered in Greeley, CO and is home to more than 40 employees.
Pinnacle System
School-level enterprise solution that works with your existing SIS to automate student grading, attendance and behavior data entry and reporting.
Pinnacle Plus
Combines Pinnacle's traditional assessment reporting and communication tools with standards-based grading & reporting at the school and district levels.
Pinnacle Tech
A multi-platform client/ server application designed to meet specialized assessment and student management needs in adult post-secondary programs.
Gradebook2
Combines the ease-of-use of spreadsheet style gradebooks with the customizability and computational power of a relational database application.
Pinnacle Options
Pinnacle Internet Viewer
Provides the timely student classroom information parents need to stay fully involved with their child's learning, with secure access.
Principal Viewer
Gives principals, counselors and other school office staff instant access to group and individual grading, attendance and discipline data.
Student Viewer
Provides students with access to their attendance, grades, assignments and teacher comments, maintaining data automatically from the teacher desktops.
Attendance Manager
Instant access from the school office to individual student, class and school-wide attendance data; print lists, reports, graphs.
District Data Replicator
Multi-year database application designed to track student performance, achievement and demographic data. Relate student outcomes to educational programs.
District Data Analyzer
Maximizes the school’s stored data with minimal time invested in the number search. Your district will be able to swiftly and easily determine what its strengths and weaknesses are and ensure that No Child is Left Behind.
Palm OS Assistant
Give teachers portable, on-demand access to student information while walking around the classroom, from the break room, or home.
Notification Systems
Automatically inform teachers, administrators, coaches and parents when students drop below threshold performance levels, miss classes or receive disciplinary action.
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