TalkingPoints is a multilingual family-engagement platform that helps schools communicate with families through translated text messages, mobile apps, announcements, forms, surveys, and two-way conversations. It is designed to reduce language, technology, and access barriers without requiring families to use English or install an application.

Educators and administrators can message individuals, classes, schools, or groups while the platform translates communication between staff and family languages. District tools support roster synchronization, templates, analytics, family engagement measurement, and coordinated outreach around attendance, learning, services, and school events.

TELL is Pearson’s Test of English Language Learning, a tablet-delivered K–12 assessment for screening, diagnosing, and monitoring listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It uses automated scoring, including speech-recognition-supported tasks, and returns reports shortly after administration.

Districts can use TELL as a local language-proficiency measure to inform placement and instruction, but it does not replace California’s required ELPAC assessments. Districts should align administration, accommodations, score interpretation, data access, and retention with the intended use of the assessment.

Transact Campus ID is a higher-education credential, access, payment, and campus-services platform. Colleges and universities use physical or mobile student IDs for building and residence-hall access, meal plans, stored value, events, printing, vending, laundry, and other services, while administrators issue or revoke credentials and integrate access rights with student and housing data.

Door access and lockdown functions contribute to campus security, but Transact is explicitly focused on higher education and is much broader than a K–12 safety system. Unless SDLA intends to catalog college and university platforms, this listing should be reviewed for audience fit as well as placement under identity, access control, or campus commerce.

Tynker is a coding curriculum and creative programming platform for schools. It is intended primarily for elementary through high-school learners developing coding and computational-thinking skills, with students, classroom teachers, computer-science staff, library/media staff, and families using it to support block and text coding, game design, robotics, web development, and computational thinking.

Students progress from block-based coding to languages such as JavaScript or Python through lessons, puzzles, projects, games, and teacher assignments. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Visitu is a K–12 campus-safety and front-office platform with visitor management, attendance-related workflows, emergency communication, and related school operations. Its visitor module can scan identification, capture photos, check configured offender databases, print badges, notify employees, maintain watch lists, and show who is on campus.

Districts should document which Visitu modules are licensed and how visitor, student, staff, and emergency records connect. The existing Clever roster and SSO values should remain unchanged during this pass while future connector work verifies the actual direction, frequency, identifiers, and scope of each integration.

RethinkEd Vizzle is RethinkEd’s visual learning and special-education curriculum platform. It is intended primarily for students with autism and other significant learning needs who benefit from highly visual, scaffolded instruction, with special educators, related-service providers, paraprofessionals, students, and case managers using it to support academic, functional, social, communication, and individualized skill instruction.

Educators assign standards-aligned visual lessons and activities, adapt materials, collect performance information, and connect instruction to individualized goals. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

VoiceThread is an asynchronous multimedia discussion and presentation platform. Teachers or students assemble slides, images, documents, and video into a shared “VoiceThread,” then participants respond around individual slides using voice, video, text, drawing, or uploaded media.

The product supports discussion, reflection, language practice, feedback, and presentations when participants cannot meet at the same time. Districts should configure student identity, sharing, moderation, retention, captioning, LMS integration, family access, and age-appropriate publishing so media does not become unintentionally public.

Waterford Early Learning provides personalized early reading, math and science instruction for PreK–2 learners. School implementation includes digital learning activities and educator tools. Desktop and laptop access uses supported browsers; the Waterford Early Learning app is for supported iPad and Android tablets, not phones or desktop computers.

Microsoft Viva Engage, formerly Yammer, is an organization-wide community and employee-engagement platform within Microsoft 365. It supports communities, open conversations, announcements, questions, campaigns, events, leadership communication, knowledge sharing, and personalized activity feeds.

The Yammer brand has been retired, but the underlying product and customer networks continued as Viva Engage. Microsoft 365 identity, compliance, moderation, analytics, Teams, Outlook, and SharePoint connections support governed internal communities.

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.