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GlobalScholar

Logo: GlobalScholar, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

GlobalScholar was an operating unit of Scantron based in Bellevue, Washington, that developed, manufactured, licensed, and supported a wide range of products and services related to education. This included products such as an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, Pinnacle Suite, which supported all aspects of managing education at K-12 schools, including a gradebook, learning management system (LMS), and teacher development, analytics and online learning.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

  • Industryeducation1
  • HeadquartersBellevue1

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GlobalScholar was an operating unit of Scantron based in Bellevue, Washington, that developed, manufactured, licensed, and supported a wide range of products and services related to education. This included products such as an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, Pinnacle Suite, which supported all aspects of managing education at K-12 schools, including a gradebook, learning management system (LMS), and teacher development, analytics and online learning.2

The story

GlobalScholar, formally known as InfiLearn, was founded in December 2006 by Kal Raman, a former drugstore.com chief executive and Amazon.com senior vice president.

GlobalScholar.com acquired Central Data Corporation's adaptable learning and educational scaffold assets along with the GlobalScholar name in 2007, using these as the baseline for the initial InfilLearn product. GlobalScholar.com made a strategic decision on January 31, 2008, to acquire Excelsior Software.

In October 2013, Scantron formally retired the GlobalScholar brand and stopped development and support on several products.

From Wikipedia’s article on GlobalScholar, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

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