PBIS Rewards is a schoolwide platform for operating a Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports program. Staff recognize students with digital points tied to school expectations; students redeem those points through stores, events, or raffles; and administrators review usage and outcome data instead of managing paper tickets and disconnected records.

The base platform includes staff, student, and family access and can be expanded with Check-In/Check-Out, behavior referrals, social-emotional status checks, house groups, hall passes, and related intervention products. Districts should distinguish included functions from add-ons when comparing proposals.

Pear Assessment is the current name for Edulastic within Pear Deck Learning. It supports classroom, common, benchmark, and test-practice assessments with technology-enhanced items, item banks, standards alignment, configurable testing settings, accommodations, and district reporting.

Teachers and district teams can collaborate on assessments, use state-released practice content, monitor mastery, and analyze results across students and standards. Districts should align administration, accommodations, score interpretation, data access, and retention with the intended use of the assessment.

Pear Practice is the Pear Deck Learning practice product formerly called Giant Steps. It is intended primarily for K–12 learners completing teacher-created or standards-aligned practice, with students, teachers, interventionists, and instructional coaches using it to support retrieval practice, feedback, differentiation, and collaborative class routines.

Teachers turn existing materials into practice sets, assign independent work, or facilitate collaborative whole-class practice and review results. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Oracle PeopleSoft Human Capital Management is an enterprise HR platform for employee records, positions, recruiting, onboarding, payroll, benefits, time and labor, absence, workforce administration, and reporting. Districts and county offices can configure the suite around complex bargaining units, calendars, compensation structures, and approval processes.

PeopleSoft is modular and frequently integrated with finance, identity, document, and reporting systems. The listing should identify the implemented HCM products and version rather than treating PeopleSoft as one uniform configuration.

Oracle PeopleSoft Financials and Supply Chain Management is an enterprise ERP suite for accounting, budgeting, purchasing, payables, receivables, assets, expenses, grants, projects, cash, and supply-chain operations. Large districts and public agencies use it as a configurable system of record for complex financial and administrative processes.

PeopleSoft can connect finance with the separate PeopleSoft Human Capital Management and Campus Solutions families while supporting workflows, security, approvals, reporting, integrations, and audit trails. It is a broad enterprise platform rather than a K–12-specific finance application, so districts typically configure it around local charts of accounts, bargaining structures, procurement rules, and reporting obligations.

PowerSchool Performance Matters is a K–12 assessment and instructional analytics platform. Educators create or select standards-aligned items, administer online or paper assessments, score student work, and analyze results by item, standard, class, school, subgroup, or student.

The platform can place local assessment results beside state tests, diagnostics, attendance, behavior, grades, and other measures to provide a broader view of student performance. Its primary purpose is assessment management and instructional decision-making rather than enterprise data warehousing, so it overlaps the Assessment category as much as Data and Analytics.

PowerSchool Predictive Enrollment Analytics, formerly DecisionInsite, is a district enrollment-forecasting and geographic planning platform. It combines current and historical enrollment, student locations, school boundaries, capacities, community demographics, and housing trends to project future enrollment and test operational scenarios.

District leaders use the product to inform budgeting, staffing, facility construction or closure, boundary changes, program placement, and board discussions. This is an operational planning system rather than a whole-student instructional dashboard, but it belongs in the analytics landscape because it converts SIS and demographic data into multiyear resource decisions.

PowerSchool BusinessPlus is a K–12 ERP for financial management, budgeting, purchasing, accounts payable, human resources, payroll, position control, and reporting. It supports school-district business operations through an integrated record of accounts, employees, positions, vendors, transactions, and approvals.

Districts can manage budgets and actuals, procure goods and services, process payroll, provide employee and vendor access, and produce financial and compliance reports. PowerSchool offers hosted and on-premises releases, with current product documentation and updates confirming that BusinessPlus remains actively supported.

PowerShell is Microsoft’s cross-platform command-line shell and scripting language for administering Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, devices, servers, directories, and many other systems. District technology teams use scripts and modules to automate repetitive configuration, reporting, account, and deployment work.

It is a technical automation framework rather than a commercial workflow application. Move it to Systems Administration, Automation, or Deployment and Imaging; retain it as a valid tool because districts may rely on locally developed scripts for essential operations.

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.

QuaverEd is a portfolio of digital curricula rather than one uniform program. It is intended primarily for primarily elementary and middle-grade learners, depending on the licensed music, health, SEL, or other program, with specialist teachers, classroom teachers, students, and curriculum leaders using it to support music, health, social-emotional learning, physical education, and related whole-child subjects.

Teachers use sequenced lessons, songs, videos, interactives, creative activities, assessment, and classroom resources tied to the licensed subject. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Raptor is an integrated K–12 school-safety platform spanning visitor and volunteer screening, emergency preparation and response, panic alerting, student and campus movement, accountability, reunification, student wellbeing, threat assessment, and training compliance. Its shared person records and workflows are intended to reduce fragmentation between front-office, safety-team, and emergency operations.

Districts can begin with one Raptor product and add others on the same platform. Because capabilities vary widely—from visitor badges to wearable alerts and behavioral threat assessment—evaluators should identify the exact modules, hardware, 911 and first-responder connections, roster integrations, screening sources, and professional services included in a proposal.

Read Naturally is a family of structured reading-intervention programs delivered in print or online. It is intended primarily for developing readers across elementary, secondary, special-education, and adult settings, with students, reading specialists, interventionists, special educators, and teachers using it to support oral-reading fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, comprehension, and progress monitoring.

Students use modeled reading, repeated reading, vocabulary, comprehension questions, and timed or recorded passages with adult feedback. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.