Description: Adobe Creative Cloud is a set of applications and services from Adobe Systems that gives subscribers access to a collection of software used for graphic design, video editing, web development, photography, along with a set of mobile applications and also some optional cloud services.

What it is used for: This product contains 9 different apps that are all included under the Adobe Creative Cloud service.

Photoshop: Image editing and compositing 

Lightroom: Digital photo processing and editing

Spark: Easily create stunning social graphics, web pages and short videos

Premiere Rush: A cross-platform, multiple device video editing software aimed at social media content creators looking to process video clips quickly and upload them to their favorite social network

Adobe XD: A vector-based user experience design tool for web apps and mobile apps

Illustrator: Vector graphics software used by designers and artists to create everything from gorgeous web and mobile graphics to logos, icons, book illustrations, product packaging, and billboards.

InDesign: Layout and page design software for print and digital media.

Premiere Pro: Video editing software for film, TV, and the web.

Acrobat DC: create and edit the smartest PDFs, convert PDFs to Microsoft Office formats, and much more

Direct Link (URL): https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html

Teacher/Admin Login - Through Classlink Launchpad

Parent Portal -  None

Student Login - Through Classlink Launchpad

Status/Is it Down Site - https://status.adobe.com/

How teachers/administrators log in: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html and click "Sign In" in the upper right corner or through the Classlink Launchpad. Make sure you use your PLSD account, as the district's is providing premium access to specific PLSD students and staff, but must log in through their PLSD account.

How students log in: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html and click "Sign In" in the upper right corner or through the Classlink Launchpad. Make sure you use your PLSD account, as the district's is providing premium access to specific PLSD students and staff, but must log in through their PLSD account.

Training & Support: https://learning.adobe.com/certification.html

Grade Levels in Use: 9-12

Classlink Availability to Login - Yes

What to do if you have an issue: Please complete a help desk ticket

District Leads: Director of Instructional Technology

Description: Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces is a Web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system. ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what a student knows and doesn't know in a course. ALEKS then instructs the student on the topics she is most ready to learn. As a student works through a course, ALEKS periodically reassesses the student to ensure that topics learned are also retained. ALEKS courses are very complete in their topic coverage and ALEKS avoids multiple-choice questions.

What it is used for: In contrast to standardized tests, which typically result in numerical measures of achievement or “aptitude”, the outcome of an ALEKS assessment consists in (i) the precise and comprehensive delineation of an individual’s competence in a subject in the form of his or her knowledge state describing all the types of problems mastered by that individual, and (ii) a comprehensive list of the topics the individual is ready to learn (referred to in Knowledge Space Theory as the outer fringe of that individual’s knowledge state).

Direct Link (URL): https://www.aleks.com/

Teacher/Admin Login - Classlink Launchpad

Parent Portal - none

Student Login - Classlink Launchpad

Status/Is it Down Site - none

How teachers/administrators log in: https://www.aleks.com/ or through the Classlink Launchpad. Make sure you use your PLSD account, as the district's is providing premium access to specific PLSD students and staff, but must log in through their PLSD account.

How students log in: https://www.aleks.com/ or through the Classlink Launchpad. Make sure you use your PLSD account, as the district's is providing premium access to specific PLSD students and staff, but must log in through their PLSD account.

Training & Support: https://mhedu.force.com/aleks/s/

Grade Levels in Use: 9-12

Classlink Availability to Login - Yes

What to do if you have an issue: Please complete a help desk ticket

District Leads: High School Math Instructional Coach, High School Instructional Technology Coordinator

Description: Provider of digital curriculum to meet a variety of different needs.

What it is used for: Credit Recovery

Direct Link (URL): https://www.apexlearning.com/

Teacher/Admin Login - Classlink Launchpad

Parent Portal - none

Student Login - Through Classlink Launchpad

Status/Is it Down Site - None

System Requirement - https://support.apexlearning.com/node/415

How teachers/administrators log in: Through Classlink Launchpad

How students log in: Through Classlink

Training & Support: 

Grade Levels in Use: 9-12

Classlink Availability to Login - Yes

What to do if you have an issue: Please complete a help desk ticket

District Leads: Jim Campbell

Description: The mission of the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science at the University at Buffalo is to promote the development and dissemination of materials and practices for case teaching in the sciences. Our website provides access to an award-winning collection of peer-reviewed case studies. We offer a five-day summer workshop and a two-day fall conference to train faculty in the case method of teaching science. In addition, we are actively engaged in educational research to assess the impact of the case method on student learning.

What it is used for: A database of case studies to be used for high school sciences courses.

Direct Link (URL): https://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/

Teacher/Admin Login - An account must be created by directly contacting the company. Once the email has been submitted, the company will send instructions to the user via email. 

Parent Portal - None

Student Login - There is no student access. Teachers access the database, download the resources, and share with only their students.

Status/Is it Down Site - none

How teachers/administrators log in: Please click here for instructions.

How students log in: None

Training & Support: https://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/about/contact/

Grade Levels in Use: 9-12

Classlink Availability to Login - Yes, for teachers only.

What to do if you have an issue: Please complete a help desk ticket.

District Leads: High School Instructional Technology Coordinator

Description: A creative program that allows teachers to embed video into EdPuzzle as well as adding text, questions and quizzes throughout the video.

What it is used for: Teachers can add formative questions through the video and get feedback and data from the students time on task for the Edpuzzle document. Students can create EdPuzzles as well.

Direct Link (URL):

Teacher/Admin Login - https://edpuzzle.com/ or through the Classlink Launchpad

Parent Portal - none

Student Login -https://edpuzzle.com/ or through the Classlink Launchpad

Status/Is it Down Site - none

How teachers/administrators log in: https://edpuzzle.com/ or through the Classlink Launchpad. Make sure you use your PLSD account, as the district's is providing premium access to all PLSD students and staff, but must log in through their PLSD account.

How students log in: https://edpuzzle.com/ or through the Classlink Launchpad. Make sure you use your PLSD account, as the district's is providing premium access to all PLSD students and staff, but must log in through their PLSD account.

Training & Support: https://go.edpuzzle.com/certifications

Grade Levels in Use: K-12

Classlink Availability to Login - Yes, Classlink will save your password

What to do if you have an issue: please complete a help desk ticket.

District Leads: All Instructional Technology Coordinators 

Description: EquatIO is an assistive technology program that PLSD is making available to all students.

What it is used for: EquatIO provides tools for students to have text read to them, equation editor, and numerous other tools.

Direct Link (URL): Extension 

Teacher/Admin Login - No login, already installed on all Chromebooks and all Chrome browsers.

Parent Portal - None

Student Login - No login, already installed on all Chromebooks and all Chrome browsers.

Status/Is it Down Site - none

How teachers/administrators log in: No login needed, but need to activate it through the extension in the extension bar.

How students log in: No login needed, but need to activate it through the extension in the extension bar.

Training & Support: https://training.texthelp.com/login/index.php

Grade Levels in Use: K-12

Classlink Availability to Login - Not needed 

What to do if you have an issue: Please complete a Technology Help Desk Ticket

District Leads: High School Instructional Technology Coordinator

Description: A creative program that allows teachers to embed video into EdPuzzle as well as adding text, questions and quizzes throughout the video.

What it is used for: Teachers can add formative questions through the video and get feedback and data from the students time on task for the Edpuzzle document. Students can create EdPuzzles as well.

Direct Link (URL):

     Teacher/Admin Login - https://edpuzzle.com/ or through the Classlink Launchpad

     Parent Portal - none

     Student Login -https://edpuzzle.com/ or through the Classlink Launchpad and login with Google

     Status/Is it Down Site - none

How teachers/administrators log in: https://edpuzzle.com/ or through the Classlink Launchpad. Make sure you use your PLSD account, as the district's is providing premium access to all PLSD students and staff, but must log in through their PLSD account.

How students log in: https://edpuzzle.com/ or through the Classlink Launchpad. Make sure you use your PLSD account, as the district is providing premium access to all PLSD students and staff, but must log in through their PLSD Google account.

Training & Support: https://go.edpuzzle.com/certifications

Grade Levels in Use: K-12

Classlink Availability to Login - Yes, Classlink will save your password

What to do if you have an issue: please complete a help desk ticket.

District Leads: Instructional Technology Coordinator

Description: The G Suite for Education from Google is the backbone and the operating system for the district's Chromebooks. Allowing access to Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and many more options.

What it is used for: G Suite for Education is suite of applications that allows for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, etc.

G Suite includes: Drive, Docs, Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Slides, Sheets, Classroom, Drawings, Forms, YouTube, Keep, Scholar, Maps, Cast, Dictionary, Tasks, Tone, G Suite Training, Photos.

Direct Link (URL):

Teacher/Admin Login - www.google.com or through the Classlink Launchpad

Parent Portal - none, but parents are encouraged to learn their student's Google username and password. 

Student Login - www.google.com or through the Classlink Launchpad

Status/Is it Down Site - https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status

How teachers/administrators log in: www.google.com or through the Classlink Launchpad, staff has been sent their username and password. Please fill out a technology help desk ticket if you need either reset.

How students log in: Students can log in with firstname_lastnameXXX@students.plsd.us and password

Training & Support: Toolkit - 101, Toolkit - 201, Toolkit - 301

Grade Levels in Use: K-12

Classlink Availability to Login - YES

What to do if you have an issue: Please complete a Technology Help Desk Ticket

District Leads: Director of Instructional Technology, District Google Administrator

Description: Our mission is to overcome K-12 technology integration challenges by preparing students to join educators in the school transformation process.

What it is used for: Generation Yes is used to support the Tech Guru program in grades 7-8.

Direct Link (URL): https://www.genyes.com/

Teacher/Admin Login - Classlink Launchpad

Parent Portal - None

Student Login - Classlink Launchpad

Status/Is it Down Site - None

How teachers/administrators log in: Classlink Launchpad

How students log in: Classlink Launchpad

Training & Support: Contact your Instructional Technology Coordinator

Grade Levels in Use: Grades 7-8

Classlink Availability to Login - Yes

What to do if you have an issue: Contact your Instructional Technology Coordinator

District Leads: Director of Instructional Technology

Description: Hundreds of online simulations with lesson materials, supporting research-based strategies to build deep conceptual understanding in science.

What it is used for: Gizmos is used to support inquiry-based science simulations to build conceptual understanding.

Direct Link (URL):

Teacher/Admin Login - Through the Classlink Launchpad

Parent Portal - none

Student Login - Through the Classlink Launchpad

Status/Is it Down Site - none

Training & Support: See an Instructional Technology Coordinator or your Science Coach

Grade Levels in Use: 5-12 

Classlink Availability to Login - Yes 

What to do if you have an issue: Please complete a Technology Help Desk Ticket

District Leads: High School Instructional Technology Coordinator, High School Instructional Technology Coach

GoGuardian teacher

Description: GoGuardian Teacher is a Chromebook monitoring and classroom management tool allowing teachers to manage their One2One classrooms.

What it is used for: Teachers have access to monitor what students are doing on their Chromebooks, push out links, message and lock down Chromebooks.

Direct Link (URL):

     Teacher/Admin Login - https://account.goguardian.com/#/

     Parent Portal - None

     Student Login - None

     Status/Is it Down Site - None

How teachers/administrators log in: Log in with your Google username and password

How students log in: None

Training & Support: https://university.goguardian.com/learn/course/goguardian-teacher-training/getting-started/introduction

Grade Levels in Use: K-12

Classlink Availability to Login - NO

What to do if you have an issue: Please complete a Technology Help Desk Ticket

District Leads: Instructional Technology Coordinator

Description: Built for the Common Core, i-Ready combines a valid and reliable growth measure and individualized instruction in a single online product that saves teachers time.

What it is used for: Support and instruction for students in ELA.

Direct Link (URL):

    Teacher/Admin Login - Through Classlink Launchpad

    Parent Portal - none

    Student Login - Through Classlink Launchpad

    Status/Is it Down Site - none

How teachers/administrators log in: Through Classlink Launchpad

How students log in: Through Classlink Launchpad, students will be individually added as they are added to Tier 2 support.

Training & Support: See an instructional technology coordinator, curriculum and instruction coordinator, instructional coach

Grade Levels in Use: K-12

Classlink Availability to Login - Yes

What to do if you have an issue: Please complete a technology help desk ticket.

District Leads: Director of Instructional Technology, HS Instructional Technology Coordinator

Description: Is a digital content program that provides language and literacy skills through core reading and academic language skills. 

What it is used for: Imagine Learning is used for the 350 EL (english learner) students for PLSD. 

Direct Link (URL):

Teacher/Admin Login - Through the Classlink Launchpad

Parent Portal - None

Student Login - Through the Classlink Launchpad

Status/Is it Down Site - http://status.imaginelearning.com/

How teachers/administrators log in: through Classlink Launchpad

How students log in: through Classlink Launchpad

Training & Support: coming soon

Grade Levels in Use: K-12

Classlink Availability to Login - YES

What to do if you have an issue: Please complete a Technology Help Desk Ticket

District Leads: EL Coordinator, EL Coach

Description: Infinite Campus serves as the District’s SIS (Student Information System) which includes teacher’s grade books, reporting of attendance and student demographics. Infinite Campus (also known as IC) serves as the major reporting tool for the District’s EMIS department in reporting numerous data points to the State Department of Education. Infinite Campus is also used for the District-wide messaging system, including email, text and phone calls.

What it is used for: For educators Infinite Campus is mainly used for gradebooks, attendance, discipline, state and national test scores. District-wide and building-wide messaging system.

Direct Link (URL):

Teacher/Admin Login - https://pickeringtonoh.infinitecampus.org/campus/pickerington.jsp or through the Classlink Launchpad

Parent Portal - https://pickeringtonoh.infinitecampus.org/campus/portal/pickerington.jsp

Student Login - https://pickeringtonoh.infinitecampus.org/campus/portal/pickerington.jsp or through the Classlink Launchpad

Status/Is it Down Site - none available

How teachers/administrators log in: All staff members will receive an email from the data department with their usernames and passwords. 

How students log in: Students in grades K-4 do not have their own student accounts. The elementary school students’ grades can be followed through the Parent Portal. Students in grades 5-12 who have never logged in to the portal account should use the following step-by-step instructions to create student portal accounts:

• Log into the portal 

• Enter the student’s username and password.

• The initial username is the student’s ID number (lunch code)

• The initial password is the student’s first name (as listed in infinite campus with the first letter capitalized) and first three letters of their birth month (first letter is capitalized) and numerical date of the day of their birth and the four digits of their birth year. Please note that at Diley and Harmon middle schools the password is the student’s first name as it is listed in Infinite Campus followed by the student ID number.

• Example – for a student named Billy Smith, formal name William, student ID 123456, and birthday June 5, 1998: Username: 123456 Password: WilliamJun51998. For a Harmon/Diley student, the password would be William123456.

• Once logged in, the students will be forced to change their password and to enter an email address for password retrieval in the event the password is forgotten.

Training & Support: PLSD Infinite Campus Support Page - https://www.pickerington.k12.oh.us/parent-portal/

Grade Levels in Use: K-12

Classlink Availability to Login - YES

What to do if you have an issue: Please complete a Technology Help Desk Ticket

District Leads: Data & Student Information Analyst

Description: Membean is a unique vocabulary learning tool that helps students learn and remember words. In addition, it enables each teacher to monitor and comprehend an individual student's learning.

What it is used for: Tool for ELA personalized vocabulary learning.

Direct Link (URL): https://membean.com/dashboard

Teacher/Admin Login - Log in through Classlink or with "Sign in with Google" 

Parent Portal - None

Student Login - After student has been enrolled in teacher's course, the icon in Classlink will log them into their account.

Status/Is it Down Site - https://status.membean.com/

How teachers/administrators log in: Login is with Google Account or through Classlink once an account has been created.

How students log in: Please click on this link for instructions

Training & Support: Help icons are located in the upper right and lower right corners of the product. Detailed help guides can be found there. Please contact Scott Sommer with any issues or if you would like to schedule a training session.

Grade Levels in Use: 9-12

Classlink Availability to Login - The program does not roster students through Classlink. Students must first be enrolled in the teacher's class and then the Classlink icon will take them to the correct location. Please see the login instructions listed above.

What to do if you have an issue: Please complete a help desk ticket.

District Leads: ELA Instructional Coach, High School Instructional Technology Coordinator

Description: PLSD's online library for all students K-12

What it is used for: online library with fiction and non-fiction books

Direct Link (URL): https://www.overdrive.com/

Teacher/Admin Login - https://pickeringtonoh.libraryreserve.com/ or through Classlink Launchpad

Parent Portal - None

Student Login - https://pickeringtonoh.libraryreserve.com/ or through Classlink Launchpad

Status/Is it Down Site - none

How teachers/administrators log in: All staff use their Staff ID # as their Overdrive Library Card

How students log in: All students use their Student ID # as their Overdrive Library Card

Training & Support: Coming soon

Grade Levels in Use: K-12

Classlink Availability to Login - YES

What to do if you have an issue: Please complete a Technology Help Desk Ticket

District Leads: Director of Instructional Technology, HS Instructional Technology Coordinator

Description: Pear Deck is built to work with G Suite for Education. Even better, Pear Deck is 100% web based and device agnostic—no downloads or updates required. Teachers and students log into Pear Deck with their Gmail address, files are auto-saved in Drive, and everything is integrated with Google Classroom. In short, Pear Deck is a perfect match for schools using G Suite.

What it is used for: Replacing Nearpod, Peardeck allows for interactivity to be added to all Google Slides presentations. All teachers and all students have access to Peardeck.

Direct Link (URL): https://www.peardeck.com/googleslides

Teacher/Admin Login - Using your PLSD Google account, create a new or open an existing Google Slide presentations, then download the Peardeck add-on to use Peardeck.

Parent Portal - None

Student Login -Using your PLSD Google account, create a new or open an existing Google Slide presentations, then download the Peardeck add-on to use Peardeck.

Status/Is it Down Site - none

How teachers/administrators log in: Using your PLSD Google account, create a new or open an existing Google Slide presentations, then download the Peardeck add-on to use Peardeck.

How students log in: Using your PLSD Google account, create a new or open an existing Google Slide presentations, then download the Peardeck add-on to use Peardeck.

Training & Support: https://help.peardeck.com/

Grade Levels in Use: K-12

Classlink Availability to Login - No

What to do if you have an issue: Please complete a help desk ticket.

District Leads: All Instructional Technology Coordinators 

Description: With its blended learning approach, READ 180 gives everyone in the classroom the unique tools they need to thrive anytime, anywhere. Students and teachers can customize the learning experience using informative assessments and a flexible rotation model that combines traditional and online instruction.

What it is used for:

Direct Link (URL): https://www.hmhco.com/programs/read-180-universal

Teacher/Admin Login - Login through Classlink

Parent Portal - No parent portal available

Student Login - Login through Classlink

Status/Is it Down Site - None

How teachers/administrators log in: Login through Classlink

How students log in: Login through Classlink

Training & Support: List of upcoming webinar offered by Read 180.

Grade Levels in Use: 9-12

Classlink Availability to Login - Yes

What to do if you have an issue: Please complete a help desk ticket

District Leads: Director of Instructional Technology

Description: Read and Write for Google is an assistive technology program that PLSD is making available to all students.

What it is used for: Read and Write for Google provides tools for students to have text read to them, text to speech, speech to text, highlight functions and numerous other tools.

Direct Link (URL): https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/read-write/

Teacher/Admin Login - No login, already installed on all Chromebooks and all Chrome browsers.

Parent Portal - None

Student Login - No login, already installed on all Chromebooks and all Chrome browsers.

Status/Is it Down Site - none

How teachers/administrators log in: No login needed, but need to activate it through the extension in the extension bar.

How students log in: No login needed, but need to activate it through the extension in the extension bar.

Training & Support: https://training.texthelp.com/login/index.php

Grade Levels in Use: K-12

Classlink Availability to Login - YES

What to do if you have an issue: Please complete a Technology Help Desk Ticket

District Leads: Director of Instructional Technology, Instructional Technology Coordinator, Special Ed. Technology Specialist.

Description: A complete ELA and Math curriculum for all students in grades 6–12. SpringBoard brings excitement and engagement to the classroom and gives teachers the flexible support they want.

What it is used for: SpringBoard is a Math and ELA instructional program for grades 7-8

Direct Link (URL):

    Teacher/Admin Login - Classlink Launchpad

    Parent Portal - None

    Student Login - Classlink Launchpad

Status/Is it Down Site - None 

How teachers/administrators log in: Classlink Launchpad

How students log in: Classlink Launchpad

Training & Support: Instructional Coaches

Grade Levels in Use: 6-12 

Classlink Availability to Login - Yes

What to do if you have an issue: HelpDesk Ticket

District Leads: Director of Teaching and Learning

Description: The Talking Points multilingual technology platform connects and empowers families and teachers by using human and AI-powered, two-way translated communication and personalized content. This unique approach eliminates barriers including language, time, mindsets, and capacity to foster strong family engagement in the development of students’ academic success.

What it is used for: Communication with families through either an app or through text messages. Messages are automatically translated to the family's native language based on the information listed in Infinite Campus. A text message will be sent to the phone number listed in Infinite Campus or if the parent/student downloads and logs into the iOS or Android app.

Parent Portal - iOS or Android App, app usage is optional.

Student Login - iOS or Android App, app usage is optional.

Status/Is it Down Site - None 

How teachers/administrators log in: Classlink Launchpad

How students log in: iOS or Android App Download, log in not required for students or families.

Training & Support: Contact your building's Instructional Technology Coordinator

Grade Levels in Use: K-12

Classlink Availability to Login - Yes

What to do if you have an issue: HelpDesk Ticket

District Leads: EL Coordinator, Instructional Technology Coordinator

Description: Make and share videos using WeVideo's cloud-based online video editing software. 

What it is used for: Video creation 

Direct Link (URL): https://www.wevideo.com/

Teacher/Admin Login - Through Classlink Launchpad

Parent Portal - None

Student Login - through Classlink Launchpad

Status/Is it Down Site - None

How teachers/administrators log in: through Classlink Launchpad

How students log in: through Classlink Launchpad

Training & Support: https://www.wevideo.com/support

Grade Levels in Use: 5-12 

Classlink Availability to Login - Yes 

What to do if you have an issue: Please complete a Technology Help Desk Ticket

District Leads: Instructional Technology Coordinator