Approved Third Party Programs
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You will find the names, descriptions, and log in details of technology programs approved for use by teachers. Be advised that many free programs offer additional features with paid subscriptions. Technical support is provided by the third party program provider, not district personnel. Users must contact the program's technical support contacts for troubleshooting.
The following programs are approved for use in elementary, middle, and high school programs. Most of these programs do not require the creation of student accounts. In approved programs, any student accounts that are created adhere to the district's student privacy policy.
IMPORTANT: If upgrading to a paid version of a program, you must complete each step of the Instructional Technology Approval process. If a program is not listed below but it is being used in a school, it has been approved as part of a pilot program.
Click on EXPAND ALL to view all programs at once or click the arrow to view more information about each program. Follow the hyperlinks to view support resources for programs, if provided.
Third party programs- approved for school subscriptions
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Accelerated Reader
The Accelerated Reader program has a wide selection of books and comprehension quizzes at every lexile level.
Access via accounts established by your school's AR contact
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Albert
Albert offers comprehensive digital curricula to prepare students for Advanced Placement, SAT and ACT, and other college entrance exams. Additionally, Albert offers resources to strengthen students' performance in ELE, Science and Math courses.
Access via
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ALEKS
ALEKS is a digital math platform through McGraw-Hill. ALEKS stands for Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces. ALEKS provides robust and comprehensive topic coverage and enables students to master all the math skills they need to succeed. This platform can be found when you access McGraw-Hill through Clever. It is available for Algebra 1, Algebra 2, and Geometry.
ALEKS is offered through McGraw-Hill textbooks which are purchased through state funds only until 2024. After 2024, individual schools will purchase licenses for their math courses.
Access via through the McGraw Hill tile
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Braining Camp
Braining Camp offers mathematical manipulatives that make math concepts meaningful to young learners.
Access via the URL
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Breakout EDU
BreakoutEDU offers educational puzzles, games, and challenges. Subscription only.
Access via
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Frax Math
Frax Math helps practice fractions in a way that is both fun and effective.
Access via the URL
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Generation Genius
Generation Genius is a subscription program that offers standards based science and math videos, lessons, teacher guides, reading material, and more.
Access via
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Pure Data
Streamlines data capturing, record keeping, and reporting processes with our custom plugins, integrated completely within PowerSchool and according to specific school needs in areas such as attendance, behavior, and more.
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Rosetta Stone
is a language learning program that specializes in immersive lessons. Units center on authentic tasks from the target culture.
Access through the district's digital resource portal
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Scholastic
Scholastic offers a variety of educational magazines and teaching tool that schools can purchase for classrooms.
Access via
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Turning.com
Turning’s Dojo 360 tool allows teachers to Blend or self-paced assignments with interactive assessment and spaces. 天美传媒 created an integration with Schoology for NJROTC’s Turning Point licensed content in January, 2022.
Access via the URL
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USA Test Prep
USATestprep provides state-aligned curriculum resources including SAT, ACT and EOC practice tests to support student achievement. USATestprep is available to middle and high schools that purchase subscriptions.
Access via rostering
Free third party programs- approved for free use
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Audacity
Audacity is free, open source software that records, converts, cuts, copies, splices, and mixes audio together for use in podcast creation. Additionally, students could use the app “Ditty” or “Garageband” to mix sounds for audio. Podcast can be distributed on anchor.fm. Legally students must be 13 years old or older to create accounts, otherwise, teacher creates account, and students work in the space. Students should generate content first (writing, research, assign roles…etc.) Then they record, add sound, interludes. Use egg cartons in fabric boxes to create small recording studios.
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Blooket
A platform for gamifying quiz-style questions. It offers points, rewards and character progression. Games can be played individually or in teams. Teachers can lead a quiz or can be left for individuals to access as they need.
Access via
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Book Creator
Book Creator is a simple tool for creating awesome digital books. Create your own teaching resources or have your students take the reins. Combine text, images, audio and video to create interactive stories, digital portfolios, research journals, poetry books, science reports, instruction manuals, “About Me” books, and comic adventures.
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Access via URL or SSO
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Boom Cards
Boom Cards are interactive lessons created by teachers and can be used at school or home for the K-12 environment. They are self-grading exercises that are gamified for students and provide the data teachers want.
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Access via the URL
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CK-12
CK-12 provides a library of online textbooks, videos, exercises, flashcards, and real-world applications for over 5,000 concepts including English, Math, Science, Social Studies, and more. K-12 is a free, open education resources (OER) program.
Access via the URL , Schoology integration, and the
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Class Dojo
ClassDojo is a school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use every day to build close-knit communities by sharing what's being learned in the classroom home through photos, videos, and messages.
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Access via , mobile or Clear Touch app or SSO
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Code.org
Code.org® is a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools and increasing participation by young women and students from other underrepresented groups. Our vision is that every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer science as part of their core K-12 education. The leading provider of K-12 computer science curriculum in the largest school districts in the United States, Code.org also created the annual campaign, which has engaged more than 15% of all students in the world. Code.org is supported by generous donors including Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, the Infosys Foundation, Google and .
Access via URL
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Common Lit
CommonLit is a free digital tool that helps students in grades 5-12 make measurable gains in reading and writing. Teachers can access a free library of high-interest, standards-aligned lessons.
Access via SSO
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Conjugemos
Conjuguemos offers a variety of verb learning games in multiple languages. Your students can enjoy multiplayer games and compete with their friends.
Access via URL
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Desmos
Desmos is a free graphing and teaching tool for math available on the web as well as on iOS and Android. In addition to plotting equations, classroom activities are available to help students learn about a variety of math concepts. For example, students can learn how to transform periodic functions by trying to slide marbles through points on a graph. Or they can plug in their own equation and see what kind of graph pops up; sliders allow students to adjust values and see what happens. Users can also click directly on the graph to find the coordinates of points of intersection, maxima, and minima.
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Any content area teacher can benefit from Desmos. Usign the URL teacher.desmos.com, teachers can create and share assessments with students, and they can copy content from premade slide decks. They can search for online communities where links to slide decks are shared among co-creators. (1/27/22)
Access the via the district's digital resource portal ort the URL
Access the interactive learning platform via the URL
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DuoLingo
Duolingo is a platform that includes a language-learning website and app, as well as a digital language proficiency assessment exam. The app and the website are free.
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Access via URL or SSO
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EdPuzzle
Edpuzzle allows teachers to use simple editing tools to create formative videos The process is simple - find a video, add questions and assign it to your class. Watch as they progress and hold them accountable on their learning journey. This program is approved as a school level purchase.
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Access via URL or Schoology integration (Add materials > Ed puzzle)
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Epic! Books
EPIC! Books is the leading digital reading platform-built on a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books from 250+ of the world’s best publishers-that safely fuels curiosity and reading confidence for kids 12 and under.
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Access via the URL or ClearTouch app
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EVERFI
EVERFI
EVERFI provides a free curriculum for real world skills needed for the 21st century learner including financial education, STEM, social and emotional, health and wellness, etc. EVERFI is accessible through the Clever Dashboard.
Teachers will need to create their class and select the section in EVERFI that correlates to the correct section in PowerSchool. Students will then login through Clever and select EVERFI which will populate their name in your EVERFI class roster.
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Access via rostering
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Flipgrid
FlipGrid empowers social learning in PreK to PhD classrooms around the world. Use video the way your students do.
Get a domain error? Follow these steps
In creating the FlipGrid tasks, select "School Email" and type in our email domain acpsd.net. It is under "Access Control" within the FlipGrid Group.
More information on this issue can be
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Access via URL, mobile app, Teams app, Clear Touch app, tile
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Flocabulary
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Generation Genius
Generation Genius gives access to inspiring science lessons. Generation Genius is a teaching resource that brings school science standards to life through fun and educational videos paired with lesson plans, activities, quizzes, reading material and more. Videos are produced in partnership with the National Science Teaching Association, and aligned to standards in all 50 states.30 day free trials available and subscriptions available at the school level.
Access via the URL
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Gimkit
Gimkit is a game show for the classroom that requires knowledge, collaboration, and strategy to win. Students answer questions on their own device at their own pace. Throughout a Kit, each student will get exposure to the questions multiple times to ensure mastery. After every game, Gimkit generates a report detailing what your class needs help on. Individual reports allow you to help specific students.
Access via the URL
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Kahoot!
Kahoot!
Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and makes it fun to learn - any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!
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- Teachers can create games or access prebuilt games at
- Student enter a code shared by their teachers at
- Also available as a Cleartouch app.
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Khan Academy
Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organization created in 2008 by Sal Khan. Its goal is creating a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short lessons in the form of videos. Its website also includes supplementary practice exercises and materials for educators.
Access via the URL
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Nearpod
Nearpod offers interactive slideshows to present content and formatively access student comprehension. Enhance student engagement your lessons.
Access via URL
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Newsela
Newsela is an excellent resource for leveled reading passages. Teachers can assign a passage; Students are able to read the passage about that topic at their individual reading level.
Access via the URLand SSO
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Padlet
A digital space where multi-media content can be shared with an audience. You can allow participants to add content. Padlet links can be shared on web pages or your LMS. Consider using the embed code to load your content directly to your audience.
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Access via the URL
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PearDeck
What if you could instantly see who’s confused and who’s ready for more? That’s the power of Pear Deck. And now, with the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on, You can add the magic of formative assessments and interactive questions to your presentations right from Google Slides.
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Access via URL
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pHet Simulations
PhET Interactive Simulations, a project at the University of Colorado Boulder, is a non-profit open educational resource project that creates and hosts explorable explanations. It was founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman. PhET began with Wieman's vision to improve the way science is taught and learned.
Access via the URL
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PowToon
Make videos in minutes with PowToon. Use a library of styles, characters, backgrounds and video, or upload your own!
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Access via URL
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Quizizz
Free gamified quizzes for every subject to play in class and at home. Pick an existing quiz or create your own for review, formative assessment, and more.
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Access via URL
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Quizlet
Quizlet is a free digital flashcard program that allows teachers and students alike to create flashcards with educational terms or concepts. Users can create their own custom sets or search the community for existing sets.
There are a variety of practice games in Quizlet: flashcards, learn, write, spell, test, match and gravity. There is a team game, Quizlet Live, that spreads the games across teams where team members must help each other match terms.
Flashcards offer opportunities to add sound and images to cards.
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Access via or SSO
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ReadWorks
ReadWorks is thoughtfully designed to provide high-impact instruction that builds better readers by supplying free reading passages that are differentiated based on grade level or lexile with a variety of content topics. These passages can also include question sets with both explicit and inferential questions to build a deeper understanding of important elements of text.
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Access via
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Remind
This site allows teachers to load announcements and homework assignments. Students and parents can subscribe to alerts on their mobile devices.
Access via the URL
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Screencast-o-matic
Screencast-o-matic is a screencasting tool that records your computer screen, mouse movements and audio. Available in a browser and a desktop app, this tool offers a wide variety of functions for video editing: blurring, trimming, and adding text.
Access via the URL
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Screencastify
Screencastify is a screencasting tool available for use as an add-on in the Chrome browser.
Find more information at
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Spelling City
VocabularySpellingCity includes a wide variety of study tools for developing strong vocabulary skills and best practices for effective vocabulary word instruction.
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Access via the URL
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Splash Learn
SplashLearn is an award-winning learning program loved by over 40 million kids for engaging Math and ELA practice.
Access via the URL
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Starfall
On the Starfall website and in Starfall classrooms, children have fun while learning in an environment of collaboration, wonderment, and play. Starfall Education Foundation is a publicly supported nonprofit organization.
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Access via the URL
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Swivl
Swivl is a cloud storage site that hosts videos. When used in conjunction with Swivl devices, users can record live presentations. The device offers mobile mics and the device can track the speaker for optimal recordings.
Access via the URL
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Teachermade
Teachers can convert all paper documents, PDFs, images and Microsoft documents in interactive online worksheets. Many activities can be autograded. 天美传媒 has setup a Schoology integration with Teacher Made to embed assignments and transfer scores to your courses.
Access via URL and Schoology integration
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Xtra Math
XtraMath is a free program that helps students master addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.
Access via the URL