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.

MidSchoolMath is a middle-school mathematics curriculum and digital learning system. It is intended primarily for middle-grade mathematics learners, with math teachers, students, interventionists, and curriculum leaders using it to support conceptual understanding, problem solving, mathematical discourse, and practice.

Teachers use story-based contexts, classroom discussion, practice, assessment, and reporting to organize middle-grade mathematics instruction. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Minecraft Education is Microsoft’s education edition of Minecraft with classroom controls and lesson resources. It is intended primarily for K–12 learners participating in teacher-designed game-based lessons, with students, teachers, instructional coaches, library/media staff, and technology teams using it to support collaboration, computational thinking, design, simulation, creativity, and cross-curricular problem solving.

Students build models, solve challenges, code agents, collaborate in shared worlds, and document learning within teacher-facilitated activities. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Minga is a school operations, behavior, and engagement platform that combines digital hall passes, tardy management, positive behavior and rewards, negative behavior and consequences, digital student IDs, flex-time scheduling, and school communication. It is designed to replace several separate campus tools with one daily workspace for teachers, students, and administrators.

For behavior management, schools can recognize positive actions, document concerns, assign consequences such as detention, share summaries with families, and review trends alongside hall-pass and tardy information. Because the product spans multiple operational areas, districts should compare plans carefully; some advanced insights, automations, and modules are limited to higher tiers.

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.

Moodle LMS is an open-source learning management system for creating courses, delivering resources and activities, collecting assignments, running quizzes, grading work, discussion, communication, and tracking completion. Districts may self-host it, use a Moodle Certified Service Provider, or obtain it through another hosting arrangement.

Its extensible plugin ecosystem and control over hosting can make Moodle highly adaptable, but districts must plan for configuration, upgrades, security, backups, accessibility review, support, and integration ownership. The actual experience and operating burden depend heavily on the chosen deployment and local administration.

Mosa Mack Science is an inquiry-based digital science curriculum organized into lesson cycles. It is intended primarily for upper-elementary and middle-school science learners, with students, science teachers, interventionists, and curriculum leaders using it to support phenomena, inquiry, argumentation, modeling, and three-dimensional science learning.

Students investigate mysteries through multimedia, discussion, hands-on activities, engineering tasks, and assessment. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Pearson MyLab is Pearson’s family of discipline-specific online courseware products. It is intended primarily for advanced high-school, dual-enrollment, and postsecondary learners, with students, course instructors, dual-enrollment staff, and administrators using it to support publisher course content, homework, assessment, tutorials, and gradebook workflow.

Students use the MyLab associated with a textbook or course for assignments, practice, tutorials, tests, and feedback. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Early childhood assessment tools from Renaissance for identifying preschool learning needs and monitoring development. myIGDIs combines brief measures with data tools that help educators review early literacy, numeracy, and related developmental skills.

Not to be confused with: Renaissance Star assessments and other Renaissance products serve different assessment purposes and age groups.

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.

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.