Microsoft Sway is a web-based authoring tool for creating responsive presentations, reports, newsletters, portfolios, tutorials, and story-style pages. Users combine text, images, video, embeds, and other content while Sway automatically adapts the layout for different screens.

Sway is useful for lightweight digital publishing and sharing but does not replace a full website platform, LMS, or conventional slide application. It is part of Microsoft 365 and fits best under Digital Content Creation / Presentation Tools.

MIDAS Education currently provides Data Forge for secure, role-based education analytics together with professional-development management and microcredential systems. Its public offering focuses on connecting disparate data, producing reproducible insights, managing professional learning, and documenting demonstrated educator skills.

This differs substantially from the catalog’s former description of MIDAS as an all-in-one SIS, LMS, website, compliance, and district-management system. The company remains active, but SDLA should confirm which generation of MIDAS each California district actually uses before treating those relationships as current Data Forge or professional-learning deployments.

My Integrated Student Information System, or MiSiS, is Los Angeles Unified School District’s districtwide environment for student enrollment, demographics, attendance, scheduling, grades, transcripts, discipline, programs, health, and operational reporting. It consolidates student information used by LAUSD schools and central offices.

MiSiS clearly performs the role of an SIS, but it is a locally developed and operated LAUSD system rather than a generally purchasable commercial product. The catalog should retain the historical district relationship while later deciding whether district-built systems belong beside market products or in a separate locally developed systems section.

ML Schedules by MasterLibrary is a K–12 facility scheduling, reservation, and rental platform. It gives district staff and community organizations an online process for requesting spaces while centralizing calendars, approvals, setup requirements, insurance, fees, invoices, payments, and communication.

The product is part of MasterLibrary's broader facilities operations suite and can coordinate reservation activity with calendars and related district systems. It is best suited to districts that need to standardize who may use facilities, prevent conflicts, recover costs, and make event responsibilities visible across schools and support departments.

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.

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.

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.

Oracle APEX is a low-code application-development platform included with Oracle Database. District technology teams can use it to build secure, data-driven web applications, internal portals, forms, dashboards, reports, and workflows around district databases and operational needs.

APEX is a development platform rather than a finished education application, so its value depends entirely on the locally built systems and the staff who maintain them. It can remain under Specialized & Emerging Systems or move to a new Low-Code Development Platforms category.

Otus is a K–12 assessment, data, progress-monitoring, grading, and instructional-management platform. It combines locally created and prebuilt assessments with third-party student data, standards-based reporting, portfolios, classroom tools, and intervention planning so educators can move from evidence to action without switching among separate systems.

Districts can use Otus as an assessment system, a student-data and analytics hub, and selected learning-management or MTSS workspace. It does not replace the district’s authoritative SIS, but it brings roster, demographic, academic, behavioral, attendance, assessment, and intervention information into a shared instructional record.

Panorama Student Success is an MTSS and student-support platform that combines academic, attendance, behavior, assessment, survey, and intervention information. It helps educators identify students who may need support, create plans, coordinate services, and monitor progress from a shared whole-child record.

The platform can surface behavior risks and document related interventions, but it is broader than behavior management. Its primary value is giving multidisciplinary teams a common workflow for early warning, tiered supports, case notes, intervention monitoring, and school- or district-level analysis.

PaperCut is a family of print-management products that helps districts control printing, copying, and scanning across shared printers and multifunction devices. It gives technology and business teams visibility into usage and cost while making printing available from district computers, Chromebooks, mobile devices, and other supported endpoints.

PaperCut can secure print release, deploy queues and drivers, apply quotas or rules, track activity, and route scans to approved destinations. Those functions touch documents, but the product is not a general document repository or records-management system; it belongs in a Print Management category.

Parchment is a digital credential and records-management platform used by K–12 schools to receive, store, send, and track transcripts, diplomas, transfer records, recommendations, verifications, and other academic documents. Students and alumni can request credentials online, while district staff manage fulfillment and confirm delivery through Parchment's exchange network.

The product solves a narrower problem than a full college-and-career planning platform: it replaces paper, fax, email, and disconnected request workflows with secure digital records and tracked delivery to colleges, employers, agencies, and other schools. Parchment became part of Instructure in 2024 and now sits within a broader learning and lifelong-credential ecosystem.