Activate Learning IQWST is the IQWST middle-school science curriculum from Activate Learning. It is designed primarily for middle-school science students, with science teachers, students, curriculum leaders, and coaches using it to support phenomena-driven inquiry, scientific modeling, explanation, argumentation, and integrated middle-school science.

Students investigate coherent real-world questions through hands-on activities, readings, models, discussion, evidence, and written explanations across physical, life, and Earth science. 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.

Actively Learn is McGraw Hill’s digital reading, annotation, and instructional-content platform. It is intended primarily for upper-elementary through high-school readers across ELA, science, and social studies, with students, teachers, literacy specialists, and curriculum leaders using it to support close reading, annotation, discussion, formative assessment, and disciplinary literacy.

Teachers assign texts or import content, embed questions and notes, provide scaffolds, and review annotations and written responses. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Aeries SIS is a California-focused student information system that manages enrollment, demographics, attendance, scheduling, courses, grades, transcripts, discipline, health information, programs, and state reporting. It serves as the operational student record used by district offices, schools, teachers, students, and families.

California districts use Aeries to support daily school operations and CALPADS reporting while exchanging rosters and records with learning, assessment, communication, nutrition, identity, and other systems. Districts should document which Aeries modules, portals, APIs, and third-party integrations are authoritative for each data domain.

Alma is a cloud-based SIS and learning-management environment for K–12 schools. It combines student records, enrollment, scheduling, attendance, gradebook, standards-based grading, transcripts, communication, portals, reporting, and instructional workflows in one platform.

Schools use Alma to run core student administration while giving educators and families a unified view of academic information. Districts should evaluate its fit for California state reporting, complex district scheduling, specialized-program data, integrations, and scale rather than assuming that features used by individual schools cover every LEA requirement.

Amplify Desmos Math is Amplify’s mathematics curriculum portfolio, increasingly branded around Amplify Desmos Math. It is intended primarily for elementary through high-school mathematics students, depending on the licensed Amplify program, with math teachers, students, coaches, interventionists, and curriculum leaders using it to support mathematical reasoning, discourse, representations, problem solving, fluency, and responsive teaching.

Teachers facilitate problem-based lessons and use interactive digital environments, student thinking, practice, and assessment to guide discussion and differentiation. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Big Ideas Math is Big Ideas Learning’s print and digital mathematics curriculum. It is intended primarily for middle- and high-school mathematics students, with some programs extending to elementary grades, with math teachers, students, coaches, and curriculum leaders using it to support conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, problem solving, modeling, and secondary course sequences.

Teachers use sequenced lessons, examples, explorations, practice, assessment, and digital tools across courses from middle-grade mathematics through advanced high school. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Britannica Education is a suite of digital encyclopedia, media, and instructional-reference resources. It is intended primarily for K–12 learners and educators using age-adjusted reference content, with students, teachers, librarians, multilingual-learner staff, and families using it to support research, background knowledge, informational literacy, media literacy, and cross-curricular inquiry.

Users search vetted articles, images, video, primary sources, biographies, and learning resources at different reading levels and languages. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Cisco’s collaboration platform for online meetings, messaging, and calling. Webex can support school staff collaboration and remote sessions through desktop, mobile, and browser experiences. Calling, webinars, and advanced functions vary by license.

Not to be confused with: Webex collaboration software is distinct from Cisco security products and conferencing hardware.

CK-12 is a free digital learning platform centered on FlexBooks and standards-aligned resources. It is designed primarily for primarily middle- and high-school learners, with content extending into elementary and college-preparatory subjects, with students, teachers, curriculum writers, and families using it to support open textbooks, simulations, practice, adaptive learning, and customizable stem resources.

Teachers can adopt, remix, and assign digital texts, interactives, questions, simulations, and practice while students use them for instruction, reference, or review. 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.

Class Composer is an elementary class-placement tool that helps school teams create balanced classroom rosters for the next school year. Educators enter or import student characteristics, relationships, services, academic information, and placement considerations, then compare proposed class groupings.

The product supports the internal placement of already enrolled students; it does not collect family registration forms or establish SIS enrollment. It belongs under Student Scheduling / Class Placement and should be moved after the district relationships are retained.

ClassLink is a K–12 access, rostering, identity-management, and application-analytics platform. LaunchPad gives students and staff a role-based single sign-on portal; Roster Server distributes SIS roster data to learning applications; OneSync automates account and group changes; and Analytics provides application-use reporting. Analytics+ is an additional offering with deeper analysis.

The products are designed to work as a shared connection layer across a district's technology environment. ClassLink can import SIS and directory data, transform it to the OneRoster standard, send only approved fields to vendors, support SAML, OAuth, and LTI access, and connect cloud storage and other school resources. This lets districts add or change applications without rebuilding a separate login and roster process each time.

LaunchPad is the user-facing application portal. District administrators use the ClassLink Management Console to administer their ClassLink environment. These are related parts of ClassLink, rather than evidence that a district has adopted an unrelated standalone system.