Words Their Way is Savvas’s developmental spelling, phonics, and vocabulary program. It is intended primarily for elementary and middle-grade readers and spellers, with students, teachers, reading specialists, and interventionists using it to support phonics, spelling patterns, vocabulary, morphology, and differentiated word study.

Educators use spelling inventories to group learners and assign word sorts, pattern study, vocabulary, and transfer activities. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Xello is a K–12 college and career readiness platform that guides students from early self-discovery through career and postsecondary exploration, academic planning, work-based learning, and college applications. Students build a persistent profile of interests, skills, goals, experiences, portfolios, and plans while completing age-appropriate lessons and district-assigned readiness tasks.

Counselors and administrators use Xello to monitor completion, manage four-year plans, coordinate application documents, communicate with students, and report on district readiness requirements. The platform connects with SIS products, SSO and rostering services, Common App, Parchment, National Student Clearinghouse, and other partners so planning work can use current student data and feed real application processes.

YouCanBookMe is a general scheduling service that turns connected calendar availability into public booking pages. District staff can use it for office hours, counseling, interviews, family meetings, training appointments, or other one-to-one scheduling needs.

The product automates confirmations, reminders, rescheduling, and calendar events but does not manage broader district projects or approvals. It belongs with Appointment Scheduling and requires the same district governance attention as Calendly.

Zendesk is a customer-service and support platform that collects requests from email, web forms, messaging, phone, and other configured channels into a shared agent workspace. School districts can use it for family, student, employee, departmental, or technology-support inquiries.

Ticket routing, macros, automation, service targets, knowledge bases, reporting, and integrations help teams respond consistently and maintain a history of each interaction. It is broader customer-service software rather than a K–12-specific IT operations platform.

Zoom Workplace is a communication and collaboration platform for video meetings, webinars, team chat, phone, rooms, whiteboards, scheduling, clips, and related workplace services. Districts use it for virtual instruction, staff meetings, professional learning, family events, interviews, and public presentations.

Education administration features support managed accounts, roles, authentication, meeting policies, reporting, recordings, captions, integrations, and privacy controls. Zoom is primarily a meeting and communications platform rather than a general productivity suite.

Zoom Workplace for Education offers education-oriented packaging and account administration. Meetings, webinars, phone, rooms, recording, and AI capabilities depend on the contracted plan, add-ons, administrator settings, and applicable eligibility requirements; they are not all included in every education account.