Waterford Early Learning provides personalized early reading, math and science instruction for PreK–2 learners. School implementation includes digital learning activities and educator tools. Desktop and laptop access uses supported browsers; the Waterford Early Learning app is for supported iPad and Android tablets, not phones or desktop computers.

Words Their Way is Savvas’s developmental spelling, phonics, and vocabulary program. It is intended primarily for elementary and middle-grade readers and spellers, with students, teachers, reading specialists, and interventionists using it to support phonics, spelling patterns, vocabulary, morphology, and differentiated word study.

Educators use spelling inventories to group learners and assign word sorts, pattern study, vocabulary, and transfer activities. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Writing by Design / Grading by Design is a K–8 writing curriculum and related assessment/grading approach. It is designed primarily for elementary and middle-grade writers, with classroom teachers, instructional coaches, and students using it to support writing process, genres, conventions, revision, feedback, and common expectations.

Teachers use modeled lessons, shared language, rubrics, student practice, conferencing, and feedback to develop writing across genres. The product should be evaluated for the specific learners, instructional setting, and intensity of support a district intends—not simply as another source of digital activities.

Microsoft Viva Engage, formerly Yammer, is an organization-wide community and employee-engagement platform within Microsoft 365. It supports communities, open conversations, announcements, questions, campaigns, events, leadership communication, knowledge sharing, and personalized activity feeds.

The Yammer brand has been retired, but the underlying product and customer networks continued as Viva Engage. Microsoft 365 identity, compliance, moderation, analytics, Teams, Outlook, and SharePoint connections support governed internal communities.

YouScience Brightpath combines tools for aptitude and career discovery, industry certifications and work-based learning. Schools select the components that fit their college and career readiness programs. Aptitude and interest results can inform student pathway planning. The modules licensed and the way results are used vary by district.

Zoom Workplace is a communication and collaboration platform for video meetings, webinars, team chat, phone, rooms, whiteboards, scheduling, clips, and related workplace services. Districts use it for virtual instruction, staff meetings, professional learning, family events, interviews, and public presentations.

Education administration features support managed accounts, roles, authentication, meeting policies, reporting, recordings, captions, integrations, and privacy controls. Zoom is primarily a meeting and communications platform rather than a general productivity suite.

Zoom Workplace for Education offers education-oriented packaging and account administration. Meetings, webinars, phone, rooms, recording, and AI capabilities depend on the contracted plan, add-ons, administrator settings, and applicable eligibility requirements; they are not all included in every education account.