Kyte Learning is an online professional-learning platform focused on practical technology and classroom-implementation training for educators. Teachers choose short, self-paced video courses and collections, allowing districts to provide on-demand learning without relying entirely on scheduled in-service sessions.

Administrators can assign or recommend content, organize district-created training, monitor participation, and recognize completed professional-development credit. The platform is most useful for differentiated, asynchronous skill development; districts should confirm how locally required hours, approvals, and transcript records are handled.

Learning Explorer is a standards-aligned instructional-resource search and lesson-building platform. It is intended primarily for K–12 educators finding and organizing instructional resources, with teachers, coaches, curriculum leaders, and students using it to support resource discovery, lesson planning, curriculum mapping, and differentiated assignment.

Educators find, curate, adapt, and assign lessons and digital resources from multiple providers. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Learning Explorer and Educational Leadership Solutions (ELS) merged in January 2024. The publisher now presents Pathways Learning Studio as a connected environment for learning, assessment, analytics and instructional resources, with a phased rollout announced for 2026. Learning Explorer, Lesson Planet, ScootPad and the Pathways assessment products retain distinct product histories; a company merger does not establish that a district uses every component.

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Pearson Mastering is Pearson’s discipline-specific Mastering courseware family. It is intended primarily for advanced high-school, AP, dual-enrollment, and postsecondary STEM learners, with students, science instructors, dual-enrollment staff, and administrators using it to support stem homework, tutorials, simulations, assessment, and course management.

Learners complete publisher assignments, interactive tutorials, simulations, problem sets, and tests linked to a course text. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Mastery Connect is Instructure’s standards-based formative and benchmark assessment platform. Educators create or select assessments, align items to standards, administer checks, and view mastery information by student, class, standard, and assessment.

Professional learning communities and district teams use shared trackers, common assessments, item banks, and reports to coordinate pacing, reteaching, intervention, and enrichment. Districts should align administration, accommodations, score interpretation, data access, and retention with the intended use of the assessment.

Math 180 is HMH’s blended intensive mathematics-intervention program. It is intended primarily for middle- and high-school students needing intensive mathematics intervention, with intervention teachers, students, special educators, coaches, and administrators using it to support foundational numeracy, proportional reasoning, algebra readiness, and mathematical confidence.

Students rotate among teacher-led instruction, collaborative work, and adaptive software within a structured intervention period. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

McGraw Hill ConnectED is a legacy or ambiguously named McGraw Hill digital curriculum platform. It is designed primarily for students and educators using older McGraw Hill K–12 digital programs; the linked page currently points to higher education, with teachers, students, curriculum staff, and technology administrators using it to support access to mcgraw hill digital textbooks, assignments, and program resources.

Historically, ConnectED provided sign-in and delivery for adopted K–12 programs; current product identity and successor platform must be confirmed locally. 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.

McGraw Hill StudySync is a secondary English language arts curriculum with print and digital resources. It is designed primarily for middle- and high-school English language arts students, including learners needing differentiated access, with ELA teachers, students, curriculum leaders, and intervention/support staff using it to support literature, informational text, writing, language, discussion, and media literacy.

Teachers use thematic units, close reading, collaborative discussion, writing tasks, grammar, assessment, and scaffolds to build grade-level literacy. 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.

Pearson MyLab is Pearson’s family of discipline-specific online courseware products. It is intended primarily for advanced high-school, dual-enrollment, and postsecondary learners, with students, course instructors, dual-enrollment staff, and administrators using it to support publisher course content, homework, assessment, tutorials, and gradebook workflow.

Students use the MyLab associated with a textbook or course for assignments, practice, tutorials, tests, and feedback. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

myWorld Interactive is Savvas’s interactive elementary and middle-grades social-studies curriculum. It is intended primarily for elementary and middle-grade social-studies learners, depending on the adopted course, with students, social-studies teachers, multilingual-learner staff, and curriculum leaders using it to support history, geography, civics, economics, inquiry, reading, and source analysis.

Students use print and digital lessons, maps, primary sources, videos, activities, writing, and assessment within a grade-level course. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Nearpod is an interactive lesson-delivery platform that embeds formative questions, polls, quizzes, drawing, matching, collaboration, and other checks within teacher-led or student-paced instruction. Educators receive response information while a lesson is underway.

Nearpod is useful for immediate checks for understanding and lesson adjustment, but it is primarily an instructional-engagement platform rather than a district benchmark or standardized assessment system. Districts should align administration, accommodations, score interpretation, data access, and retention with the intended use of the assessment.