HotChalk was an education technology company founded in September 2004. HotChalk ran an online community application designed for grade school teachers, students, and parents. In August 2007,

McGraw-Hill McGraw Hill is an American education science company that provides educational content, software, and services for students and educators across various levels—from K-12 to higher education and professional settings. They produce textbooks, ...

partnered with HotChalk to make McGraw-Hill training and certification tools available to HotChalk users.

NBC The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. It is one of NBCUniversal's ...

partnered with HotChalk as well to distribute NBC news archives to supplement educational materials. HotChalk was founded by Edward M. Fields; the company's last CEO was Rob Wrubel. The company drew scrutiny from the

U.S. Department of Education The United States Department of Education is a United States Cabinet, cabinet-level department of the federal government of the United States, United States government, originating in 1980. The department began operating on May 4, 1980, havin ...

in the mid-2010s regarding HotChalk's relationship with

Concordia University Concordia University () is a Public university, public English-language research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College (Montreal), Loyola College and Sir George Williams Universit ...

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. A federal prosecutor alleged that the university's $160 million deal with HotChalk violated a law that prohibits incentives for recruitment and outsourcing of more than half an educational program to an unaccredited party. The investigation was settled out-of-court for $1 million with no admissions of wrongdoing. In November 2020, Noodle acquired Hot Chalk.

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* {{Official website, http://www.HotChalk.com Educational technology companies of the United States Companies based in Campbell, California Online advertising services and affiliate networks Marketing companies established in 2004 Education companies established in 2004 Privately held companies based in California Learning management systems