Microsoft Planner is the task and work-management component within Microsoft 365. Teams create plans, assign tasks, set dates and priorities, attach files, organize work into buckets, and review progress through board, schedule, and reporting views.

For districts already using Microsoft 365, Planner provides a practical way to coordinate departmental projects and recurring work with existing identities, Teams, Outlook, and files. Rename the record from Microsoft Office 365 Planner to Microsoft Planner and move it to Project and Work Management.

Microsoft Power BI is a general-purpose business intelligence platform and a core analytics workload within Microsoft Fabric. District teams can connect files, databases, cloud systems, warehouses, and APIs; transform and model data; build interactive reports; and distribute governed dashboards through Microsoft workspaces and applications.

Power BI can support instructional, enrollment, finance, HR, facilities, compliance, and public reporting, but it does not include a ready-made K–12 data warehouse or common metric definitions. District value depends on the quality of source-system integrations, semantic models, security rules, licensing, and staff or partner capacity to maintain the solution.

Minecraft Education is Microsoft’s education edition of Minecraft with classroom controls and lesson resources. It is intended primarily for K–12 learners participating in teacher-designed game-based lessons, with students, teachers, instructional coaches, library/media staff, and technology teams using it to support collaboration, computational thinking, design, simulation, creativity, and cross-curricular problem solving.

Students build models, solve challenges, code agents, collaborate in shared worlds, and document learning within teacher-facilitated activities. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Minga is a school operations, behavior, and engagement platform that combines digital hall passes, tardy management, positive behavior and rewards, negative behavior and consequences, digital student IDs, flex-time scheduling, and school communication. It is designed to replace several separate campus tools with one daily workspace for teachers, students, and administrators.

For behavior management, schools can recognize positive actions, document concerns, assign consequences such as detention, share summaries with families, and review trends alongside hall-pass and tardy information. Because the product spans multiple operational areas, districts should compare plans carefully; some advanced insights, automations, and modules are limited to higher tiers.

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.

A subject-specific digital content product for English language arts instruction. Newsela ELA provides differentiated fiction and nonfiction texts, instructional collections, and activities that teachers can use alongside core curriculum.

Not to be confused with: Newsela ELA, Social Studies, and STEM have different subject content and subscription scopes.

A digital social studies content product with informational texts, primary sources, maps, and instructional activities. Newsela Social Studies supports differentiated reading and inquiry with subject and state-specific collections, including California resources.

Not to be confused with: Newsela ELA and STEM have different subject content and subscription scopes.

An AI research and study tool from Google that helps users work with sources they provide. NotebookLM supports source-grounded summaries, questions, study materials, and audio overviews. Education access and features depend on account eligibility and administrative settings.

Not to be confused with: Gemini is a broader conversational assistant; NotebookLM is organized around a user’s selected sources.

Pixellot is an automated sports-production and streaming platform that uses fixed or mobile camera systems and software to capture games without a full production crew. Schools and athletic organizations can stream events, create recordings and highlights, and distribute video through supported portals, partners, or team workflows.

The system can reduce the staffing required to cover multiple venues, but it introduces important decisions about student consent, public visibility, monetization, takedowns, archival periods, music rights, and who controls recordings. Districts should also document camera placement, connectivity, score integrations, commentary, and accessibility expectations.

Prodigy Math is a game-based mathematics practice platform. It is intended primarily for elementary and middle-grade mathematics learners, with students, teachers, interventionists, and families using it to support standards-based math practice, motivation, assignment, and adaptive review.

Students answer mathematics questions to progress through a fantasy game while teachers assign skills and review performance reports. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Qualtrics is an experience-management, survey, workflow, and feedback analytics platform. K–12 districts use it to collect and analyze student, family, employee, and community perspectives; manage forms and program evaluations; monitor school climate and engagement; and route concerns or follow-up tasks to responsible teams.

Unlike a student data warehouse, Qualtrics begins with feedback and experience data. Its dashboards, text and statistical analysis, profiles, automation, and integrations can connect those responses with operational or academic context, but districts must design instruments, sampling, identity matching, access rules, and response workflows carefully.

A mobile emergency notification application from Motorola Solutions’ Rave portfolio. Rave Panic Button enables authorized staff to request emergency assistance and notify designated on-site responders. Facility information, drills, and additional integrations depend on the deployment.

Not to be confused with: Rave 911 Suite serves public safety call handling; this record identifies the school-facing panic button application.