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.

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.

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.

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.

OpenSciEd is a nonprofit open-source science curriculum initiative. It is intended primarily for elementary through high-school science students, with released courses varying by grade band, with science teachers, students, curriculum leaders, and professional-learning staff using it to support phenomena-driven inquiry, modeling, explanation, argumentation, and three-dimensional science learning.

Students investigate coherent phenomena through discussion, hands-on work, data, models, readings, and explanation while teachers facilitate sensemaking rather than deliver isolated facts. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

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.

Ozaria is CodeCombat’s narrative middle-school computer-science curriculum. It is intended primarily for middle-school learners beginning computer science, with students, computer-science teachers, classroom teachers, and curriculum leaders using it to support python programming, computational thinking, problem solving, and digital citizenship.

Students learn Python through story-based coding challenges, projects, collaborative activities, and teacher-led lessons. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Paper Reading is Paper’s speech-enabled reading practice product, formerly Readlee. It is intended primarily for elementary and middle-grade readers practicing oral reading, with students, teachers, reading specialists, interventionists, and administrators using it to support oral-reading practice, phonics, fluency, engagement, and progress information.

Students read assigned or self-selected text aloud, receive automated feedback and rewards, and generate activity information for educators. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

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.

Parlay is a platform for written and verbal academic discussion. It is intended primarily for secondary and postsecondary learners participating in structured discussions, with students, teachers, debate coaches, and content-area educators using it to support discussion, argumentation, evidence, reflection, peer feedback, and participation.

Teachers launch roundtables with prompts and resources, students contribute and respond, and educators use rubrics and participation information. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

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.