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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

OMS is a K–12 event-registration and professional-development tracking system used by education agencies to publish courses, manage enrollments, and maintain staff learning records. Participants browse offerings, register, receive communications, and review their professional-learning history through an organization-specific portal.

Program staff can manage sessions, capacity, attendance, approvals, presenters, evaluations, credit, certificates, and reports. The product addresses the administrative workflow around district or county professional learning rather than supplying a broad commercial course library.

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.

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.

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.

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.