What is Showbie?
Showbie is the teacher-preferred hybrid learning platform empowering educators to quickly and easily deliver personalized feedback and assessment to students of all learning abilities on any device.
In one easy-to-use platform, Showbie allows you to create a collaborative and interactive classroom so learning can happen in any environment - in class, remotely, or anywhere in between.
Designed for the way teachers work, Showbie makes it easy to manage classroom workflow, saving time for what matters most - teaching and learning. Create and distribute assignments, upload any file type, launch collaborative student groups and discussions, manage all your feedback and keep parents in the loop - all in one app.
With a variety of built-in annotation tools that can be placed on any file type, students can demonstrate their learning, in the way that suits them best. Showbie's assessment and quick marking features keep feedback organized, efficient and impactful so there’s more time to teach your best lesson and engage with students.
Educational Impact
 Company | Business Name: Showbie HQ Location: Canada Founded: 2012 |
| Age Range | 0-4, 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18, 19+ |
 Features | AnnotationGradebookParent SharingCollaborationAssignment SettingPortfoliosVoice NotesVerbal FeedbackClass Discussion |
 Languages | Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish |
 Accessibility | Moderate features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Internet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android Teachers will need an email address and username to set up their accounts. Students only need to sign in and create a unique username; no student email account required. With a progressive web app and our iOS app, Showbie is accessible from any browser and on any device. |
 Set Up | Showbie is easy to use and even faster to set up, so you spend less time managing tech and more time teaching. With just a few clicks, you can have your Showbie classroom set up and be on your way to teaching your first lesson in Showbie. For school or district-wide deployment of Showbie, our team is happy to work with your IT manager to help get you set up quickly and efficiently. Working directly with your IT manager, we can have you up and running within 2 working days. |
 Training | In PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos Training isn't mandatory, but we're committed to making sure that customers feel confident and comfortable using the platform. Our Support and Customer Success teams, as well as our dedicated Learning Specialists, are on hand to help you make the most of your Showbie account. |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge Base24/7 Live Rep |
| Home Learning | Parent Access Teacher must create the account. |
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Showbie PricingPricing Plans Free VersionFreemiumFree TrialPaid Subscription Showbie pricing starts from $199.99 / year Visit our plans page to find the right Showbie package to help you save time, collaborate and give better feedback.  Optimised for a quick response | |
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Showbie Reviews
from 102 Verified Reviews
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May 2021
I use showbie daily for homework, quizzes, and assignments. It is a record of student work and makes it easy to keep track of that work.
jay found Showbie:
- Significantly improves attainment“Vehicle to give translation and sight reading exercises.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“It is an easy way to insure Students do their homework, whether in class or at home.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“More efficient grading of writing and analysis.”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Less time retrieving and handing back student work.”
Apr 2021
håvard found Showbie:
- Slightly improves attainment
- Slightly builds student knowledge
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Moderately reduces teacher workload
Jimmy Nieto
Teacher
Used Showbie for 1-2 years
Apr 2021
I think this is a great application for students as well as teachers. As a teacher, I have all assignments from previous school year on Showbie filed.
Jimmy Nieto found Showbie:
- Moderately improves attainment“The students can focus on finding answers online instead of copying down information on paper.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Knowledge is gained because they can get immediate feedback once assignment is checked and problems can be reworked.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Less printing and also faster grading. Also, I can easily keep track of students who missed assignments or are doing assignments from home due to covid.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Grading and feedback is done much faster. No printing of papers.”
Apr 2021
SB has ben extremely important in my more than one year of teaching my pupils French from home ( due to Corona).
Wenche Hauge found Showbie:
- Significantly improves attainment“Digital teaching”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Delivering works”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Communication with students”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Sharing, structure”
Apr 2021
I find it much easier and am looking into the additional features for next year. I really like how easily you can upload everything and how easy it is to organise the work. I also like the ability to have a personal conversation with a student that can refer back to
Rebecca found Showbie:
- Significantly improves attainment“Use of Socratic, portfolio to keep records of the work produced”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Keeping resources in order, support materials and extension can also be provided. Regular low stakes testing”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“I can repeat resources easily between classes and upload everything I need before the lesson”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Easier to mark and give feedback. Resources easy to upload and much quicker to mark”
Mar 2021
To give a 10 means there is no room for improvement. I'm very happy with Showbie, but there are many things I'd like to change.
Andreas Dybwad found Showbie:
- Moderately improves attainment“The transparency makes it easier to remind the pupils (and send a hint to their parents) when a task hasn't been completed, thus increasing productivity, and thereby improving attainment.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Since all kinds of input can be shared with ease, spreading good examples is just a click away, and pupils learn a lot from their peers (and the opportunity to become a model for others to follow is a great reward and boosts the effort of some).”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Teachers teaching the same subject in different classes give each other access and have the opportinity to copy lessons and tasks.”
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload“Since everything the pupils produce is available to the teacher, some sort of feedback is expected with every input. Even though a lot more time is spent reading and watching what the pupils have handed in, the increased knowledge of their strengths and challenges makes it worth it!”
Mar 2021
Most of the teachers that I would suggest this to would not pay the amount to use it.
Barb found Showbie:
- Moderately improves attainment
- Slightly builds student knowledge
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“I don't have to always run to the copier to make copies. Just scan and send. Love it!”
Mar 2021
I wish that I could load items that could be unlocked at a later point to share with students. This way, when I am planning, I could load these, and when I was ready to share with students, it would be ready.
Jessica found Showbie:
- Moderately improves attainment“Students can annotate, color code, and respond on digital copies in a meaningful way. I can quickly assess their work.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Students can take notes and when you see, hear, and write, you are reaching students on all learning styles.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Easily push out assignments to students”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Less time at copy machine, easier to push out content during distance learning or electronic learning days”
Mar 2021
In my opinion, after 52 years of teaching, no other program comes close to the ease of use, the variety of formats, and the excellent support offered by Showbie. THANK YOU!!!!!
John Corcoran found Showbie:
- Significantly improves attainment“The students enjoy working on Showbie. The platform is very user friendly and offers a number of functionalities.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Showbie enables smooth, clear communication between students and teachers. Therefore, learning results.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“It is extremely easy to post and grade assignments and organize lessons. These lessons may be tweaked and improved from year to year. I actually enjoy using Showbie.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Lessons may be archived and used another year. Improvements in the content and format of the lessons occur frequently for the benefit of both students and teachers.”
Mar 2021
Overall, it is a game changer. We can easily distribute materials, collect, and grade materials in an easy format. We can easily access previous materials distributed.
Marisol found Showbie:
- Significantly improves attainment“Student are able to immediately apply knowledge learned and gained feedback for improvement.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Showbie may explore new topics prior to start of a lesson.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Keeping track of assignments and grading is easier. No loss of paper. Students are held to deadline accountability.”
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“I believe the workload is the same.”
Mar 2021
Because in my opinion Showbie gives all the things i explained before, even teaching in class or on-line. Showbie gives me option to give contents to students and also receive contents from them. We use as well to have conversations between all people who are in the class group. It is also available for parents. I think it is very complete. And more and more and more... Thanks for creating a brilliant application for teachers and students. Congratulations!
Jonan found Showbie:
- Moderately improves attainment“Show and give to students the contents they need to study, do the different projects and everything they need to follow the classes as me and the students need.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“When they send me the works, projects, pictures, comments, exercises... through Showbie.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Giving the students all the material they need, like texts, exercises, pictures, videos, explanations, presentations, links, etc.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Showbie can be (and for me is) the platform that teachers and students can use (and use) to get all the contents they need to work.”
Mar 2021
It is the perfect classroom for the times we are in.
Grete Tandberg found Showbie:
- Significantly improves attainment“It is an interresting classroom.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“They love to work online.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“You reach all of the students, even when you are in lockdown.”
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“You do not have to produce handouts.”
Mar 2021
It's a hugely valuable app during the pandemic because of how many of my students are learning remotely (we are 1/2 remote, 1/2 in-person). In schools that have the ability to lock the screen, I can see it continuing to be a great assessment platform even when all of the students return to in-person.
Kim Hammond found Showbie:
- Significantly improves attainment“Kids don't lose their assignments. It increases accountability”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“It works best as an assessment tool for us because we can't give instant feedback (such as in Classkick)”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“It makes it so easy to grade assignments and provide feedback on assessments.”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“All of the assignments are organized and in one place. And it's an efficient way to grade since we have iPads with Apple Pencils.”
Mar 2021
An excellent tool
Per found Showbie:
- Significantly improves attainment“x”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“x”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“x”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“x”
Dan
English instructor and chair
Used Showbie for 3-4 years
Mar 2021
Intuitive and effective
Dan found Showbie:
- Moderately improves attainment“students have a variety of means by which they can demonstrate their knowledge and skills”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“writing to learn; effective assessments; timely workflow”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“easy-to-assign writing prompts, class discussion, quizzes, exit tickets, etc.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Showbie/socrative quizzes effectively shuffle questions and and answers, compute scores, and distribute scoring reports.”
Mar 2021
Teachers really need the ability to lock or unlock per student. This feature would make Showbie perfect.
Renee Cardenas found Showbie:
- Slightly improves attainment
- Moderately builds student knowledge
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Significantly reduces teacher workload
Mar 2021
I do feel Showbie is a great tool for both teachers and students. Moreover, Showbie takes into account when teacher are asking for certain tools
Laëtitia Boisson found Showbie:
- Moderately improves attainment“To practice speaking or to have their textbooks everywhere the pupils are.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Using the colours, having access on everything all the time...”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“provide everything the students need to practice”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“No need of copy”
Mar 2021
You still have to work! You still have to think! it is a joke.... even someone that had a stroke in August can laugh!
Luz found Showbie:
- Moderately improves attainment“It does allow for individual reach to students and they can feel more in contact with you.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“During the lockdown, all the work has been registered, tested, and followed up by us, the teachers but also allows for group feedback.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Ensuring that students have records of what and when stud and creating personal records”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“some testing can be done via Socrative.”
Mar 2021
I love Showbie but I believe the UI could be improved and made more user friendly
Richard crabtree found Showbie:
- Significantly improves attainment“By enabling the learners to work in their own way in their own time”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Helps them gain confidence with digital tech and allows us to share files and documents of many kinds (audio, visual, film and animation)”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“By the use of a plethora of resourses and student participation in SMART target setting”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“It enables more 1-2-1 communication which increases the work but helps with achievement”
Mar 2021
1) The Canvas dashboard-better 2)The Canvas test bank and features-better 3) the Canvas integration with other systems- better
Sister Mary Avila found Showbie:
- Significantly improves attainment“Live collaboration”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Testing analytics-good scores”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Fast”
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“It does not integrate with the school grades portal-not easy on the teacher”
Mar 2021
I haven't had any issues with it whatsoever and it is fit for purpose. The help pages online are extremely clear and easy to follow and any queries I have raised have been dealt with promptly and efficiently. I attended a training webinar which was extremely useful and well presented and this encouraged me to complete further online training and become a Showbie certified educator and improve my use of Showbie further.
paula atkinson found Showbie:
- Slightly improves attainment“During all lockdowns it has been our online learning platform. The children liked that they could message their teachers directly and get extra help if they needed it. For the children who did engage with the online learning, we found they did go back to see what feedback we had left them, even if it was only to say well done. They also corrected any mistakes they had made. On returning to school, these are the children who are accelerating back to where they were before lockdown”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“not sure”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“More likely to put worksheets directly onto Showbie rather than photocopying. Weekly spellings and homework also go on so less chance of homework being lost or 'eaten by the dog'.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“biggest impact is less time spent stood at the photocopier”
Mar 2021
It was an effective tool to use during this challenging time.
Dawn found Showbie:
- Significantly improves attainment“It allows students to complete assignments and post so that the teacher may review and know how they are doing.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“It is a consistent way to provide work for all students whether in class or digital”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Even if I need to add something to assignment it only takes a few seconds to upload and push out to students.”
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“It does take more time to get everything set up, rather than just having students get out their books from their desks.”
Mar 2021
I am ebullient with all aspects of Showbie. The best thing since sliced bread.
Angela Tillman found Showbie:
- Significantly improves attainment“Students are able to know where to find their assignments that is 1-10 (ten being the highest)”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Students can list important information in their folders.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Organize folders and dates when assignments are completed and when the assignments are due or late there is a date.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“I can grade within the folders and do Socrative as well.”
Mar 2021
You should add a proper grading system to your platform to make it more effective .
Rani found Showbie:
- Moderately improves attainment“It is easy to initiate a formative or summative assessment through showbie using socrative and instant feedback can be given.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Using the folder options on Showbie the resource required for references ,homework, assignment and assessments . This will enable the students to learn concepts in a better manner and enhance their knowledge.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Significantly reduces teacher workload
Mar 2021
Showbie has changed the way that I teach and makes assessment of work so much more productive.
Rhianwen Bedford found Showbie:
- Significantly improves attainment“As students can record their work they can hear it to see how they can improve on a regular basis. They can also see and hear their progress over time.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“As a teacher I can add links and examples of work to individual folders.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“I can add examples of work for the students and can add as folders to different classes, rather than adding everything individually. It also saves on photocopying and storage organisation.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“As above, the ability to copy folders and not have to photocopy endless papers is great.”
