Mystery Science is Discovery Education’s elementary science lesson program. It is intended primarily for elementary science learners, with elementary teachers, students, curriculum leaders, and families using it to support phenomena, inquiry, discussion, hands-on investigation, and science explanation.

Teachers use short videos, guiding questions, discussion, readings, and low-preparation hands-on activities organized into standards-connected units. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

MyTechDesk is a web-based ticket-management service developed and operated by the Imperial County Office of Education for California K–12 schools. It gives staff a simple place to submit service requests and lets support teams assign, prioritize, update, and close them.

Each ticket records dates, communication, resolution, time spent, and configurable information such as asset tags or budget codes. Workload and progress reporting help school and district teams document completed work and organize limited support capacity.

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.

Naviance is PowerSchool's college, career, and life-readiness platform for middle and high schools. It gives students a structured place to identify interests and strengths, explore careers and postsecondary options, build plans, and manage the work required to move from high school into college, training, military service, or employment.

Counselors and administrators use Naviance to assign readiness activities, monitor student plans, coordinate college applications and supporting documents, and report on progress across schools. Its connection with PowerSchool SIS and Schoology can reduce duplicate data entry and place planning information alongside the district's broader student and learning records.

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.

Nintex is an enterprise process-automation platform for digital forms, routed approvals, document generation, e-signatures, robotic automation, and process mapping. Districts can use it to automate administrative work that spans Microsoft, cloud, and line-of-business systems.

The platform is flexible but requires process ownership, technical administration, testing, security review, and lifecycle maintenance. It fits Forms and Workflow Automation, while individual implementations should be described by the district processes they support rather than by generic automation claims.

NoRedInk is an adaptive writing and language practice platform. It is intended primarily for upper-elementary through high-school writers, with students, ELA teachers, interventionists, and writing instructors using it to support grammar, conventions, sentence structure, revision, writing practice, and diagnostic instruction.

Students complete personalized practice and writing tasks while teachers assign skills, review misconceptions, and use diagnostic information for instruction. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

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.

Nystrom World is Social Studies School Service’s digital platform for Nystrom geography and social-studies resources. It is intended primarily for K–12 social-studies learners using Nystrom maps, atlases, lessons, or digital resources, with students, social-studies teachers, curriculum leaders, and multilingual-learner staff using it to support geography, history, civics, map literacy, spatial reasoning, and inquiry.

Students use interactive maps, atlases, lessons, primary sources, activities, and assessment connected to licensed programs. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

OASIS from Innovative School Solutions is a student information and school-management system used by California education programs. It supports student records and operational workflows, but the public vendor site provides less product detail than major national SIS providers.

The member-reported connection should be preserved while the later reconciliation documents which districts or programs use OASIS, the student populations served, current CALPADS and attendance capabilities, available portals, integrations, hosting model, and whether OASIS is the authoritative SIS or a specialty program system.

OER Commons is ISKME’s public digital library and collaboration platform for open educational resources. It is intended primarily for educators and learners finding openly licensed instructional materials, with teachers, curriculum teams, librarians, students, and professional-learning staff using it to support resource discovery, adaptation, collaboration, open licensing, and curriculum development.

Users search, evaluate, organize, adapt, create, and share resources and collections under varied open licenses. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.