Activate Learning IQWST is the IQWST middle-school science curriculum from Activate Learning. It is designed primarily for middle-school science students, with science teachers, students, curriculum leaders, and coaches using it to support phenomena-driven inquiry, scientific modeling, explanation, argumentation, and integrated middle-school science.

Students investigate coherent real-world questions through hands-on activities, readings, models, discussion, evidence, and written explanations across physical, life, and Earth science. 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.

Actively Learn is McGraw Hill’s digital reading, annotation, and instructional-content platform. It is intended primarily for upper-elementary through high-school readers across ELA, science, and social studies, with students, teachers, literacy specialists, and curriculum leaders using it to support close reading, annotation, discussion, formative assessment, and disciplinary literacy.

Teachers assign texts or import content, embed questions and notes, provide scaffolds, and review annotations and written responses. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

ADAM is Let’s Go Learn’s Adaptive Diagnostic Assessment of Mathematics. It identifies student performance across a progression of mathematics skills and produces detailed instructional profiles rather than only a grade-equivalent or overall score.

Schools use ADAM to locate prerequisite gaps, plan individualized instruction or intervention, group students, and measure progress across administrations. Districts should align administration, accommodations, score interpretation, data access, and retention with the intended use of the assessment.

Adobe Creative Cloud is a collection of professional applications and cloud services for graphic design, photography, video, audio, animation, web content, documents, and digital publishing. Education licensing can provide tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, InDesign, Acrobat, and Adobe Express.

Districts use Creative Cloud for career-technical education, media production, communications, yearbooks, design, and creative coursework. Administrative deployment, identity, storage, licensing, collaboration, and device requirements vary by education plan.

Aeries SIS is a California-focused student information system that manages enrollment, demographics, attendance, scheduling, courses, grades, transcripts, discipline, health information, programs, and state reporting. It serves as the operational student record used by district offices, schools, teachers, students, and families.

California districts use Aeries to support daily school operations and CALPADS reporting while exchanging rosters and records with learning, assessment, communication, nutrition, identity, and other systems. Districts should document which Aeries modules, portals, APIs, and third-party integrations are authoritative for each data domain.

Aeries Enroll Path gives districts a configurable, mobile-first process for new-student enrollment. Families complete guided forms, upload documents, provide signatures, and submit information from a phone, tablet, or computer in supported languages.

Registration staff can monitor applications in real time, return submissions for correction, use role-based access and audit history, and resolve records into Aeries SIS. Districts should document identity matching, duplicate handling, residency review, language access, accessibility, and records-retention procedures.

Not to be confused with Aeries Online Enrollment. Both support enrollment into Aeries SIS, but are distinct offerings; a reference to one should not be treated as confirmation that the district uses the other.

Aeries Payments connects payment and fundraising activity with the Aeries student information environment. It supports fees, fines, tuition programs, online stores, and district-approved crowdfunding while giving families a direct online payment path.

Administrators can track transactions, past-due amounts, student financial activity, donors, and campaign performance. Districts should define approval, reconciliation, refund, waiver, records-retention, and non-card payment procedures before implementation.

aimswebPlus is Pearson’s benchmark screening and progress-monitoring system for reading and mathematics in grades K–12. It combines brief curriculum-based measures, standards-based assessments, norms, benchmarks, risk indicators, and reporting within an online platform.

Districts use aimswebPlus for universal screening, MTSS identification, frequent monitoring of intervention, and evaluation of student growth. Districts should align administration, accommodations, score interpretation, data access, and retention with the intended use of the assessment.

AirServer is a screen-mirroring receiver that turns a supported Windows PC, Mac, Xbox, or dedicated appliance into a destination for AirPlay, Google Cast, Miracast, and related presentation protocols. Teachers and students can show device screens on a classroom display without installing a separate receiver for each ecosystem.

The product solves cross-platform presentation and demonstration needs but is not a learning-management or video-hosting service. Districts should test protocol support on managed devices, isolate guest and instructional networks appropriately, control who may connect, and document audio, resolution, licensing, updates, privacy, and classroom-support procedures.

Airtable is a flexible work-management and low-code database platform that combines relational tables with forms, filtered views, interfaces, automations, and collaboration. District teams may use it to track projects, inventories, requests, renewals, communications, events, or other locally designed processes.

Its adaptability makes the actual district solution dependent on who built and governs each base. It belongs in Low-Code Work Management or Project and Work Management, with careful controls for sensitive records, sharing, integrations, schema changes, and staff turnover.

Airtame is a wireless screen-sharing, digital-signage, and hybrid-meeting platform built around network-connected display devices. Teachers and staff can present from supported computers or mobile devices without passing cables, while technology teams can manage screens and publish room or district information centrally.

In schools, Airtame can support classroom presentation, conference rooms, dashboards, emergency or routine signage, and selected video-meeting workflows. Districts should validate network segmentation, multicast or discovery behavior, guest access, device management, identity settings, accessibility, content approval, and compatibility with existing displays and conferencing systems.

AkitaBox is a facility-management and capital-planning platform built around location-based building and asset data. District facilities teams can use digital floor plans to locate equipment, view maintenance history and documents, manage work orders and preventive maintenance, assess facility condition, and plan renewal or replacement projects.

The platform helps districts move information out of paper files, spreadsheets, and staff memory into a shared building record. Its combination of visual asset mapping, mobile access, condition data, maintenance workflows, and capital forecasting is especially useful for organizations managing large portfolios and deferred-maintenance decisions.

ALEKS is McGraw Hill’s adaptive mathematics and chemistry courseware system. It is intended primarily for upper-elementary through postsecondary learners, depending on the licensed course, with students, math or chemistry teachers, interventionists, dual-enrollment staff, and administrators using it to support knowledge-space assessment, individualized learning, practice, and course mastery.

ALEKS assesses topic knowledge, builds an individualized learning path, assigns practice and assessment, and reports progress across course objectives. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Alexandria Library Automation is a school-focused library management system from COMPanion Corporation. It organizes catalog and copy records, patron accounts, circulation, holds, fines, inventory, reports, and public discovery while supporting centralized catalogs across multiple schools.

The system is designed for day-to-day librarian workflows and can share patron and administrative information with the company’s Textbook Tracker product. Districts should distinguish Alexandria’s library collection functions from the separate textbook and asset module when cataloging their implementation.

Alma is a cloud-based SIS and learning-management environment for K–12 schools. It combines student records, enrollment, scheduling, attendance, gradebook, standards-based grading, transcripts, communication, portals, reporting, and instructional workflows in one platform.

Schools use Alma to run core student administration while giving educators and families a unified view of academic information. Districts should evaluate its fit for California state reporting, complex district scheduling, specialized-program data, integrations, and scale rather than assuming that features used by individual schools cover every LEA requirement.

Symantec Asset Management Suite, historically associated with Altiris, is an IT asset-management platform for discovering, inventorying, tracking, and managing hardware and software throughout its lifecycle. It helps districts maintain ownership, location, contract, license, and cost information for technology resources.

The suite can connect asset records with service and configuration workflows, but ticketing is not its primary identity. It belongs chiefly under Device or IT Asset Management, with Help Desk Ticketing used only as a cross-list when the district has implemented related service-management components.

Amira Learning is an AI-supported reading tutor and assessment platform. It is designed primarily for early and upper-elementary readers, especially students needing oral-reading practice and rapid feedback, with students, classroom teachers, reading specialists, interventionists, and administrators using it to support oral-reading fluency, decoding, comprehension, screening, practice, and progress monitoring.

Students read aloud to the system and receive prompts or practice while educators use assessment and session data to identify patterns and plan human instruction. 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.