Learning Platforms & Management Systems

Google Classroom makes teaching more productive and meaningful by streamlining assignments, boosting collaboration, and fostering communication. Educators can create classes, distribute assignments, send feedback, and see everything in one place. Classroom also seamlessly integrates with other Google tools like Google Docs and Drive.

Google Classroom Basics

Google Classroom Rubric

Google Classroom Updates

Student Facing Google Classroom How-To

Microsoft Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, meetings, files, and apps together in one place. Because Teams is built on Office 365, schools benefit from integration with their familiar Office apps and services.

Microsoft Teams How-To

First Steps to teaching with Teams

Remote teaching and learning with teams

Schoology is an all-in-one learning management system that allows students and teachers to effectively communicate from school to home. Schoology uses distinctive features such as Courses, Resources, and Groups to allow for all aspects of classroom activities. i.e. Courses allows for the posting of assignments and sequence of learning, whereas, Resources is a digital filing cabinet, and Groups provides the opportunity for classroom discussion.

Getting Started on Schoology for Instructors

Seesaw creates a powerful learning loop between students, teachers, and families. Students use built-in annotation tools to capture what they know in Seesaw’s digital portfolio. Teachers deeply understand student thinking and progress — enabling them to teach better. Families gain a window into their student’s learning and engage with school happenings.

Seesaw Resource Page

Getting Started with Seesaw (video)

Seesaw for Home Learning

ClassDojo is a school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use every day to build close-knit communities by sharing what’s being learned in the classroom home through photos, videos, and messages.

Class Dojo Introduction

Use Class Dojo to Build Skills

Tips to getting started

An online application to create an online bulletin board that you can use to display information for any topic. Easily create an account and build a new board. You can add images, links, videos, columns for sorting or refining organization, and more. Padlet can be used for exit tickets, collaboration, discussion, sharing of resources (both teacher and student), reflections and much more.

Using Padlet (how-to)

How to Use Padlet (video)

30 ways to use Padlet

Parlay is the future of class discussions. Parlay puts your students and their unique perspectives at the heart of learning, and gives you the data that you need to help them grow. From secret identities to digital hand raises, Parlay is your tool to increase student voice and encourage a diversity of perspectives. Data-driven class discussions increase accountability, encourage reflection, and empower reliable feedback and assessment.

Parlay Step-by-Step Guide