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WHAT’S NEW
software & onlineuse QR code-enabled QuickCards, facial
recognition, or remote login. ClassLink
Roster Server easily and securely delivers
class rosters to any publisher using open
technology standards.CYPHER LEARNING NEO
LMS
(www.cypherlearning.com)
CYPHER
LEARNING
announced
the launch of
the Windows
app for its
product NEO
LMS. The NEO mobile app for Windows
allows users to access the full feature set
within the platform including creating
and delivering online classes, assessing
students, sharing resources, tracking
student achievement, and collaborating
on projects. Users can also use the NEO
advanced features such as automation,
gamification, learning paths, and
competency-based learning directly from
the Windows App.DISCOVERY EDUCATION
SCIENCE TEXTBOOK
(www.discoveryeducation.ca/)
Discovery
Education
announced
the launch
of a new
edition of the
Discovery
Education Science Techbook for K-9
students aligned to British Columbia’s
New Curriculum. Embracing the New
Curriculum’s “Know-Do-Understand”
model to support a concept-based
competency-driven approach to learning,
the New Curriculum-aligned Science
Techbook includes rich, standards-
aligned content such as video, audio, text,interactives with hands-on activities, and
virtual labs that help educators personalize
instruction and provide a rich and engaging
learning experience for students.EDMODO AND CLEVER
(www.edmodo.com/integrations) & (www.
clever.com)
Edmodo
announced
a new
partnership
with Clever to give teachers, students and
parents immediate access to fully rostered
digital classrooms. Together, Edmodo and
Clever make it easier for teachers to access
Edmodo’s resources, save time planning
lessons, and help students master concepts
even faster. Through Clever, a district can
provide all their teachers pre-rostered
classrooms in Edmodo and can then use
Edmodo to discover the best resources and
deliver them to their classes.CISCO’S NEW NETWORK
(www.cisco.com)
Cisco has announced the release of The
Network, its new intuitive network that
provides a way for schools to manage all the
devices and applications that run on their
networks. It is self-learning, self-repairing,
and features issue correction without
programming, detection, adjustment and
network improvement ad-hoc, a dashboard
monitoring the network’s health – on
campus, via WAN or in the cloud, as well
as “fingerprint” threat identification and
privacy protection.EVOTEXT AND
INSTRUCTURE
(evotext.com) & (partners.instructure.com)
EvoText has partnered with Canvas
by Instructure to integrate Ogment’s
curriculum creation and management
system with Instructure’s learning
platform. This new partnership will
let Canvas users gain a streamlined
process for curriculum mapping, course
building, content collection, and progress
monitoring. Ogment collects alignment,
usage and performance data allowing
educators to analyze course coverage,
usage, and performance against the
curriculum map at any level of granularity
throughout the year.FOLLETT AND LEGO
EDUCATION
(www. follettlearning.com) & (education.
lego.com)
Follett
announced
it will sell a
selection of LEGO Education solutions.
These solutions will be offered to school
librarians in the U.S. who are interested in
establishing a makerspace in their libraries.
Five bundles will be available for purchase:
one each at the preschool, elementary
school, middle and high school levels with
grade-appropriate curricula and resources,
and two with building blocks and related
non-digital materials.FUEL EDUCATION
(www. fueleducation.com)
Fuel Education has expanded its suite of
digital learning solutions for schools and