BR Annual Subscriptions
What is Blue Ridge Offering our Families in the Online Subscription World?
When you CLICK ON THE SUBSCRIBE ICON BELOW, you will be able to access the Subscriptions Website. This allows you to see which Online subscriptions your students have for free along with a description of each subscription. You also will be able to get to the document that allows you to access each subscription.
YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION FAMILY ACCESS LETTER - CLICK BELOW
Adobe Cloud (7-12)
Photoshop - Edit, composite, and create beautiful images, graphics, and art on desktop and iPad.
Acrobat DC - The complete PDF solution for a mobile, connected world.
Illustrator - Create stunning illustrations and graphics.
InDesign - Design and publish elegant layouts.
Lightroom - The cloud-based photo service.
Premiere Pro - Edit and craft polished films and video.
And so much more!
Creative Cloud Libraries - save, browse, and share assets from libraries right inside your Creative Cloud apps.
Adobe Fonts - access thousands of fonts for your projects right within your Creative Cloud apps.
Adobe will last for the whole school year but the official expiration date is on June 3, 2022.
BrainPOP & BrainPOP Jr. & ELL (TK-8; includes 9-12 for EL students)
Every student in grades TK-8 will have access to the following three programs:
BrainPop Jr. - geared toward grades TK-3.
BrainPop - geared toward grades 4-8.
BrainPop ELL - for grades K-12.
Every BrainPOP topic is aligned to Common Core (CCSS), US State, and Next Generation Science (NGSS) standards for grades 3-8.
Engaging learning games, animated movies, and activity.
Reflective learning made visible through tools that challenge students to reflect, make connections, and engage in deeper curiosity-driven learning.
Covers universal topics with localization for major world languages like Spanish, French, and Mandarin.
Watch this quick tour highlighting many of the features that make BrainPOP ELL unique! BrainPop ELL Quick Tour
Click here to Create Classes with Class Codes.
BrainPop accounts will expire on June 30, 2022.
Digital Theatre+ (9-12)
Digital Theatre + provides access to productions and English & Drama resources. This subscription enables students the opportunity to access an ever-growing collection of theatre productions from around the world, covering a breadth of genres, periods and forms, and interviews with current, leading practitioners.
A few notes to help you navigate their site:
Plays & Productions page: contains live-capture productions (full productions, audio theater, graphic novels, etc.); about 500 productions on website so you can use the search bar to look for materials or use table of contents; scroll all the way down to use their search filter by performance forms and/or by genre, curriculum, etc.
Practice & Practitioners: interviews with theater professional actors, directors, writer, designer, behind-the-scenes crew, etc; can use search engine or filter section
Theory & Criticism: ~1000s of written resources such as study guides, lesson plans, critical essays, lecture videos, etc., use filter for thematic and style, etc.
Teaching with DT+: materials for lesson planning; materials on the left is for 2nd school and the right is for college level; if student is choosing theater as career path, then use the resources on the right.
Virtual Classroom Toolkits - "Remote learning" --> Drama or ELA --> Remote learning resources; "resources" has lesson plans
Take a tour: Digital Theatre+
Want to know when new content has been released? Sign up for the Digital Theatre+ Newsletter to keep up-to-date!
How DT+ Aligns with California Standards for Drama and Common Core Standards for ELA
Expires June 30, 2022
MobyMax (TK-8)
Differentiated, adaptive learning in all K-8 subjects.
Adaptive placement tests, grade-level benchmarkers, and skills diagnostics to check for understanding and clearly map student progress.
Student motivation and engagement by earning certificates, badges, games, and game time.
Built from the ground up on Common Core standards.
Student games are very engaging and game times are assigned based on lesson results.
If the parent is interested in a teacher account, the parent will need to notify the HST who will email onlinesubscriptions@theblueridgeacademy.com to request the account.
Over 60 curriculum, assessments, and practice modules and subjects.
MobyMax builds fun into learning with The Daily Smile, games, badges, daily challenges, and much, much more.
MobyMax is the only education publisher that offers a results-based guarantee.
MobyMax accounts will expire on June 17, 2022.
NetTutor (7-12)
Professional online tutoring 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
Live tutoring, question drop-off, and writing feedback.
Every tutor is a subject-expert.
Over 150 subjects are offered.
Tutoring services are also open to the student’s learning coach who may need guidance on teaching a particular skill or topic to the student.
NetTutor offers text to speech
Other functions available in the meeting room for sight and hearing impaired.
Video Tutorial on how to use NetTutor (or ===> click HERE<===)
See Resources page > scroll down to Informational for videos and documents.
See Student User Guide for help with your account.
If your student did not receive a login email in the student’s school account, the family will need to go to www.nettutor.com, enter the username (format is blueridge_local id) and click on Forgot Password. A link to reset the password will be sent to the student’s school email.
Expires on June 20, 2022
Touch, Type, Read, Spell (TK-12)
TTRS provides multi-sensory learning where students see, hear, and type each word.
Keyboarding skills introduced followed sequentially with a phonics program.
Repetition, free-writing, and dictation exercises develop writing fluency.
Designed to benefit English learners and students who experience reading, writing, or spelling difficulties.
Learners see, type, and hear text – and can pronounce target words and phrases alongside audio. The combination of diverse sensory input helps material ‘stick’ and the method makes use of modular lessons, repetition, and dictation exercises to reinforce learning.
TTRS accounts will expire on June 5, 2022.