Clonezilla is free, open-source disk-imaging and cloning software used to copy partitions or entire drives for deployment, backup, migration, and bare-metal recovery. Clonezilla Live handles one machine at a time, while Clonezilla Server Edition works with DRBL and network services to deploy an image to multiple computers.

The tool is well suited to technician-led imaging where districts can manage boot media, image storage, partition compatibility, encryption, and network configuration. It is not a full endpoint-management platform: application lifecycle, configuration policy, patching, inventory governance, and remote support generally require other systems or local procedures.

Closegap is a school-focused student wellbeing platform built around short, developmentally appropriate check-ins. Students can share how they are doing, ask to connect with an adult, and use brief self-guided social-emotional resources, while authorized staff receive timely signals about students who may need support.

The product helps schools identify concerns earlier, prioritize follow-up, and understand wellbeing patterns without relying only on referrals or periodic surveys. It supports early and crisis-intervention workflows, but it is not a clinical health record and should not be presented as a substitute for professional mental-health assessment or emergency procedures.

Cisco Cloudlock is a cloud access security broker focused on visibility and protection for SaaS applications. It discovers connected applications and risky behavior, identifies sensitive information, evaluates sharing and permissions, and detects compromised accounts or abnormal activity across supported cloud services.

For districts, Cloudlock can help security teams understand where institutional data is exposed in cloud applications and respond to policy violations or account threats. Cisco currently lists the product as available to order, although districts should verify the exact connectors and licensing because some older purchasing-program SKUs have reached end of sale.

Clusive is CAST’s free adaptive and accessible digital reading environment. It is intended primarily for secondary and postsecondary learners, especially students needing reading or accessibility supports, with students, teachers, special educators, accessibility staff, and researchers using it to support accessible reading, annotation, vocabulary, text-to-speech, strategy use, and learner agency.

Learners read imported or assigned texts with configurable display, text-to-speech, vocabulary, annotation, and comprehension supports. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

CodeCombat is a game-based programming curriculum and practice environment. It is designed primarily for upper-elementary through high-school learners beginning or extending computer programming, with computer-science teachers, students, after-school programs, and curriculum leaders using it to support coding syntax, computational thinking, problem solving, and computer-science concepts.

Students write real code to solve progressively structured game challenges while educators assign courses and monitor concept mastery. The product should be evaluated for the specific learners, instructional setting, and intensity of support a district intends—not simply as another source of digital activities.

CodeHS Pro is the paid school edition of CodeHS’s secondary computer-science curriculum and platform. It is intended primarily for middle- and high-school learners in computer science, cybersecurity, web, and technology courses, with students, computer-science teachers, CTE staff, counselors, and curriculum leaders using it to support programming, computational thinking, cybersecurity, web development, and course assessment.

Teachers deliver sequenced courses, coding exercises, projects, quizzes, sandboxes, and feedback while monitoring progress and code submissions. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Code.org is a nonprofit provider of free computer-science curriculum, tools, and professional learning. It is designed primarily for students from early elementary through high school, including beginners and students historically underrepresented in computing, with classroom teachers, computer-science specialists, students, and after-school programs using it to support computational thinking, programming, digital citizenship, ai concepts, and computer science pathways.

Teachers use sequenced courses, unplugged lessons, block or text coding, projects, assessments, and dashboards to introduce computer science or deliver full courses. The product should be evaluated for the specific learners, instructional setting, and intensity of support a district intends—not simply as another source of digital activities.

CollaboratED by IEP&Me is a special education planning and collaboration platform designed to streamline IEP development and communication among educators, families, and students. It brings learning plans, compliance support, shared information, and Medicaid-related tools into a common environment.

The product also describes support for MTSS, Section 504, and gifted planning, with AI-assisted tools intended to help teams create goals and scaffold plans. Because it is a newer platform, districts should verify California form and CALPADS readiness, parent-access workflows, AI data handling, integrations, and the boundaries between assistance and professional judgment.

CommonLit is a nonprofit digital literacy platform offering a full curriculum and supplemental library. It is intended primarily for upper-elementary through high-school readers, including multilingual learners and students needing differentiated access, with ELA teachers, students, literacy specialists, and curriculum leaders using it to support grade-level reading, knowledge building, text evidence, vocabulary, discussion, and writing.

Teachers use text sets, units, paired texts, questions, discussion, writing, assessment, and accessibility supports for whole-class or targeted instruction. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

SAP Concur is a cloud platform for employee travel, expense, invoice, and corporate-card management. Organizations use it to capture receipts and transactions, apply spending policies, route approvals, reimburse employees, and transfer approved expenses and invoices into accounting systems.

Automated feeds, mobile tools, audit rules, reporting, and integrations reduce manual expense reports and improve visibility into organizational spending. It is a specialized spend-management product rather than a district financial ERP and fits better under Expense / Travel Management.

Atlassian Confluence is a collaborative knowledge and documentation platform for creating, organizing, reviewing, and publishing team information. Districts can use spaces and pages for procedures, project documentation, meeting notes, technical knowledge, departmental resources, and internal guidance.

Permissions, templates, comments, version history, search, structured databases, and integrations help teams maintain shared institutional knowledge instead of scattering it across email and files. Its primary category should be Knowledge Management / Documentation rather than general productivity.

Connected Mathematics 4 is the current fourth edition of Michigan State University’s Connected Mathematics curriculum, published by Lab-Aids. It is intended primarily for middle-school mathematics learners, with an Algebra 1 pathway, with students, mathematics teachers, coaches, and curriculum leaders using it to support problem-centered mathematics, reasoning, discourse, modeling, connections, and formative assessment.

Students develop mathematics through contextual problems, collaborative investigation, representations, discussion, reflection, practice, and assessment. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Ademero Content Central is an enterprise document-management system for capturing, organizing, securing, finding, and retaining business records. District departments can use it to replace shared drives and paper files with indexed repositories that support full-text search, document history, permissions, audit trails, and retention rules.

The platform also automates content-centered processes such as invoice review, personnel records, contracts, and other approval workflows. It can receive documents from scanners, uploads, email, and monitored sources, then classify and route them for review while keeping the record and its metadata together.

ContentKeeper provides K–12 web filtering, classroom visibility, and student-safety monitoring across district networks and managed devices. Its platform classifies web content, enforces user and group policies, manages encrypted traffic and applications, and reports student online activity on and off campus.

ContentKeeper was acquired by Impero, but its education filtering products remain separately represented. Districts should identify whether they use ContentKeeper Web Filter, Classroom, student-safety functions, or a combined Impero offering before any future consolidation of the catalog records.

Contentverse by Computhink is an enterprise document-management and workflow platform that centralizes scanned and electronic records in a searchable repository. It helps organizations replace disconnected paper and shared-drive processes with controlled capture, indexing, retrieval, collaboration, and records governance.

District teams can use Contentverse for personnel, finance, contracts, student records, and other administrative content that requires consistent access and auditability. The platform supports cloud and customer-managed deployments, role-based permissions, workflow routing, document history, and integration with other business systems.

CORE Districts' Data Collaborative is a California district membership and research partnership supported by the CORE360 data system. It gives participating districts dashboards and reports that go beyond the California School Dashboard by combining academic growth, postsecondary on-track indicators, school culture and climate, social-emotional learning, and equity measures.

CORE is not simply a software vendor. Members contribute to shared metric development, benchmarking, research with Policy Analysis for California Education, and practitioner learning across more than 100 districts. The technology is one part of a broader continuous-improvement network.

Corgi is CAST’s free accessible digital graphic-organizer suite. It is intended primarily for secondary and postsecondary learners who benefit from structured digital organizers, with students, teachers, special educators, multilingual-learner staff, and accessibility teams using it to support disciplinary reasoning, accessible graphic organization, cause/effect, comparison, and explanation.

Learners organize claims, evidence, sequences, comparisons, and systems thinking in accessible templates that teachers can embed in instruction. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.