HAIKU LEARNING

Haiku Learning is a Learning Management System designed to streamline the addition of technology

into the classroom. Haiku contains a variety of grading, content creation and administrative features.

Haiku Learning allows teachers to create content and share it quickly with their students. Using

Haiku, teachers can create a class website and develop their own assignments, or curate materials

from other parts of the internet. Students can then work collaboratively on these tasks, and can see

how they fit into the calendar of the overall class. Teachers can also use the tool to send reminders or

announcements to students. Teachers also use Haiku to keep track of grades and other teacher

administrative functions. Teachers can leave feedback on assignments for individual students, and can

present quizzes and polls through the tool. Haiku provides statistics on which students spend time

with which materials. Teachers also take attendance through Haiku, and can use its traditional or

standards-based gradebook. Finally, Haiku’s district-wide features allow administrators to manage

their schools and teachers to improve collaboration. Haiku integrates with many commonly used

SIS’s and coordinates with Google’s Single Sign on. The tool also allows teachers to share content

with each other and to re-use class materials for different sections of the same class.

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NEO LMS

NEO is a world class, award winning LMS for use by schools and universities. The platform is known for its easy-to-use and beautiful user interface, comprehensive set of innovative features, and pricing that provides great value for money. With NEO it’s easy to create great classes that students will enjoy anytime, everywhere.

NEO is a product of CYPHER LEARNING, a company that specializes in providing e-learning platforms for organizations around the world. CYPHER LEARNING provides a similar LMS for use by businesses called MATRIX. Both NEO and MATRIX are used by over 20,000 organizations, support 40+ languages, have over 1 million users, and have won several awards.

NEO was launched in 2007 by Graham Glass, the CEO of CYPHER LEARNING and a serial entrepreneur with a track record of innovation.

 The main reasons that customers select NEO as their school LMS are: 1. An unusually beautiful, modern user interface that works on all mobile devices; 2. A comprehensive, easy-to-use and powerful feature set that is constantly improving; 3. Great value: our Enterprise plan is almost 50% less than our closest competitors; 4. Friendly, professional support staff.

21 CLASSES BLOG

21Classes is a product designed specifically for teachers, provided by 21Publish Inc. 21Publish provides products for the multi-user blogging and publishing needs of classrooms, businesses, communities, clubs, schools & universities, and non-profit organizations. A unique, 2-layer system makes it easy to customize and manage a multi-user blog system with an unlimited number of members.

There are two different types of product offered by 21Classes: Single Teacher Blogs and Classroom BlogPortals.

Single Teacher Blogs

Single Teacher Blogs offer complete blogging functionality for an individual teacher. Similar to any blogging service like WordPress or TypePad, teachers can run their personal blog and post stories and review comments. Using classroom functionality, teachers can create accounts for their students to read and/or comment on those stories. With comprehensive access control functionality, access to such an account can be completely restricted, so that only logged-in students can view the content. Also, students can be divided into multiple groups, where the teacher can allow specific groups to have read access to a particular story - to be defined on a per-story level. Finally, any comments made by students can be moderated.

Classroom BlogPortal

Classroom BlogPortal offer is a blogging community run and controlled by a teacher. The teacher sets up the homepage and specifies all default settings for student blogs as well as functionality available for them. Next, students can either register themselves or have their accounts created by the teacher. Each student then has a full-scale weblog within this community. Functionality for each student blog resembles blogging functionality offered by services such as WordPress or TypePad, yet within the boundaries defined by the teacher. Comprehensive access control functionality allows the teacher to either limit access to logged-in students only, or to the outside world. Teachers can also define whether students can directly publish their stories, or whether they need to be approved first. When approval is required, teachers can review all stories and can decide to send feedback back to the student in case a story may not yet be published.