ClassLink Academy is a comprehensive online training platform designed to provide technical administrators, educational leaders, instructors, and students with top-notch resources. The primary goal is to elevate their proficiency and comprehension in utilizing ClassLink’s suite of products effectively.

All courses are organized by anthologies. The ClassLink product anthologies are organized into fundamental and advanced content. and teach employees and users how to navigate, utilize, and configure ClassLink products like LaunchPad, OneSync, RosterServer, Analytics, Analytics+, and the CMC.

The platform was designed around proven pedagogy and utilizes multimedia to support learners through product simulations, knowledge checks, short voice-over videos, and quizzes to solidify knowledge. It keeps learning light through the use of conversational, friendly tones, emojis, and humor. It’s updated and improved regularly as new products are added or altered so that learners have the best, most accurate information possible.

Thanks to ClassLink Academy, users have comprehensive onboarding and orientation training for students, educators, administrators, and staff. It provides step-by-step guidance on how to navigate and effectively utilize the ClassLink platform, ensuring a smooth transition and minimizing the learning curve for new users.

Additionally, ClassLink Academy empowers users through troubleshooting guides and resources to help them resolve common issues they may encounter while using products. It equips users with the knowledge and skills to independently troubleshoot problems, reducing the reliance on technical support and minimizing disruptions to their workflow. For these reasons and more, ClassLink Academy was named “Best Customer Training Solution” as part of The EdTech Awards 2024 from EdTech Digest. Learn more. 

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The Learning Design Team at ClassLink is the power behind all things educational for internal and external stakeholders. They are the source of all Help Center documentation and ClassLink Academy courses.

ClassLink’s Help Center provides over 450 easy-to-use articles that allow users to find necessary information quickly. Articles are ADA compliant and feature light humor, use of emojis, graphics, videos, and GIFs to illustrate knowledge further.

ClassLink Academy is a comprehensive online training platform designed to provide technical administrators, educational leaders, instructors, and students with top-notch resources. With over 200 micro-courses, the primary goal is to elevate their proficiency and comprehension in utilizing ClassLink’s suite of products effectively.

ClassLink Academy features proven andragogy and pedagogy as well as gamification, multimedia content, certifications, CEUs, and badges.

Both ClassLink Academy and ClassLink’s Help Center have helped users to develop a higher level of proficiency in utilizing ClassLink products. By providing comprehensive training resources, users have gained a deeper understanding of the platform’s features and functionalities, enabling them to navigate and use them more effectively. ClassLink’s Help Desk has also experienced a decrease in help center tickets as users are familiar with how to navigate products on their own effectively.

Due to higher proficiency and confidence powered by knowledge, users have enjoyed improved productivity as they’ve optimized their workflows to streamline their tasks. The increased efficiency has led to more efficient ways to access resources, applications, and data, saving time and effort.

For these reasons and more, ClassLink Learning Design Team has been recognized as The EdTech Trendsetter Awards Winner for “EdTech Group Setting a Trend” as part of The EdTech Awards 2024 from EdTech Digest. Learn more. 

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The Mystery Science service is a K-5 ready-to-use multimedia science and STEM curriculum resource used in more than 50% of United States’ elementary schools each month and 3+ million students to help educators turn the conventional approach of answering children’s questions on its head. This simple student-centered approach, and the services’ ease of use, sets a new trend in science education

Discovery Education acquired Mystery Science in 2020 and the service is now available on the Discovery Education K-12 platform. This puts all the tools needed to create engaging digital learning environments at educators’ fingertips.

Mystery Science provides simple-to-use science lessons that inspire students to love science. Each lesson begins with a question that students find interesting, and students explore these questions through interactive videos of fostering a sense of wonder and actively supporting student engagement in accompanying discussion prompts and labs using simple science supplies.

Mystery Science contains everything teachers need to get students engaged in hands-on science and make that subject the best class of the day. For these reasons and more, Mystery Science from Discovery Education is a Cool Tool Award Winner for “Best Science Solution” as part of The EdTech Awards 2024 from EdTech Digest. Learn more. 

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As 2023 winner of Library of Congress’ Literacy Award, Worldreader unites families through technology on BookSmart. This digital reading solution is device agnostic and delivers a thoughtfully curated library for children, 3-12, encouraging home reading behaviors. Globally, Worldreader has served 22 million readers through digital technology, with BookSmart reaching 239,979 since inception in 2020. A newly imagined BookSmart, unveiled in 2024, empowers even more young readers and families to engage in daily reading.

BookSmart is:

Accessible. Available on any mobile device, reading together can occur when and where it works best for caregivers, incorporating reading as a fun, fulfilling part of everyday life.

Inclusive. Designed to serve all families, especially within communities historically underserved, BookSmart is available in multiple languages with international and BIPOC authors.

Affordable. BookSmart is 100% free. Books can be saved offline for those with limited data access. The light app, optimized for all connection speeds, keeps data costs low.

Engaging. BookSmart’s caregiver tips support home reading best practices. In Spanish or English books feature growing self-awareness and play-based family activites.

Data-Driven. A program data dashboard includes user and reader numbers, content, pages and minutes read. For readers, a dashboard allows caregivers to sets weekly goals. Gamification meets those goals, engages and rewards children.

Effective. “BookSmart is something different – it’s formatted to mimic the experience of a print book closely and has very high quality books. I love the hands-on activities that connect to the stories. This technology is beneficial.” – Joan Spoerl, The Literacy Cooperative

For these reasons and more, BookSmart from Worldreader is a Cool Tool Awards Winner for “Best Open Educational Resource (OER) / Open Learning Solution” as part of The EdTech Awards 2024 from EdTech Digest. Learn more.

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Synergy Education Platform provides the data and insights you need, when and where you need them, to support every student on their individual pathway to success. Synergy lets you manage all your student data in one place to give you unparalleled access and insights across data domains. With this cool tool, there are no data silos; no need to enter data more than once. And no need to sync or integrate data between modules. Your Synergy data is always up to date, everywhere you need it.

Users can understand and respond to the real-time needs of students, classes, school, and district, and communicate with everyone who has a stake in each student’s success. The platform saves teachers time. It gives teachers one place to manage everything – attendance, assignments, course content, learning resources, grading, quizzes and tests, interventions, and more – plus a 360 ° profile for every student.

Parents can see how their child is doing in school, access learning resources to help their child succeed, stay current on what’s happening in the classroom, and communicate with teachers regardless of language spoken at home. With Synergy, student data is easy to access and share when you need to and the way you want to, saving time and frustration while enabling your team to serve students better.

The company behind this product, Edupoint, is 100% focused on K-12 student data management and maintains a 99.5% renewal rate. For these reasons and more, Synergy Education Platform from Edupoint Educational Systems earned a Cool Tool Award for “Best Real-Time Student Success Ecosystem” as part of The EdTech Awards 2024 from EdTech Digest. Learn more.

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