Ed Tech & Extended Learning Dept.
Classlink, Canvas, and Digital Resources
NEW INFORMATION
Teachers,
Welcome back! Please take a look at the information on these slide decks to support you as you begin the new school year. At the bottom of the SMORE you will see a link to professional development. Ed Tech will be offering Tech Tuesdays and Tech Wednesdays throughout the year. We also have a PD Portal for personalized ed tech training. For more information, visit our Ed Tech Website.
Trouble Accessing Canvas or Classlink?
Teachers new to SAISD and teachers who have had a position or location change should appear in the Frontline data provided to ClassLink. Digital resource accounts should be available to teachers and students within 48 hours of appearing in the Frontline data.
After 48 hours:
If a student or teacher is unable to log in to Google Chrome or ClassLink, please contact the Help Desk at (210) 244-2929 or report the issue at https://saisd-support.saasit.com
If a student or teacher is unable to access a digital resource in ClassLink, please use the SAISD SSO Support icon inside ClassLink or this link to report the issue.
If a student or teacher experiences issues with Canvas, please use the SAISD SSO Support icon inside ClassLink or this link to report the issue.
For questions on how to use a digital resource, please contact the sponsoring department or use the Help features provided by the vendors inside the programs.
Digital Instructional Resources
CANVAS Learning Management System for PK-12Canvas is a robust central hub for curriculum, instruction, assessment and mastery courses.The platform integrates with educational apps such as Google and incorporates dynamic tools including calendars, announcement and discussion boards. It supports the use of assistive technology with Immersive Reader, Closed Caption, video annotation, and language translators. | SeeSaw for PK-3 The Seesaw Digital Portfolio is for student work and activities that provides home learning codes for parents to view student progress and maintain connected to the learning. Teachers can collaborate, design, and share activities with each other and deploy to their students. | BrainPop, Jr. & BrainPop for PK-3 (FREE Pilot for 9-12) BrainPop is a supplemental core content resource with lessons and offline modifications and with built-in productivity tools, games, activities, and assessments. The platform also provides resources for SEL, Digital Citizenship and Filmmaking. The product content is available in English and Spanish. |
CANVAS Learning Management System for PK-12
Canvas is a robust central hub for curriculum, instruction, assessment and mastery courses.The platform integrates with educational apps such as Google and incorporates dynamic tools including calendars, announcement and discussion boards. It supports the use of assistive technology with Immersive Reader, Closed Caption, video annotation, and language translators.
SeeSaw for PK-3
BrainPop, Jr. & BrainPop for PK-3 (FREE Pilot for 9-12)
Actively Learn for HS English & ESOL / MS ESL Actively Learn a digital collection of high interest articles, videos, and popular text sets to support the new high school ELAR TEKS. The resources can be edited to modify instruction; content can be shared; has built-in features such as translation, text-to-speech, dictionary, scaffolding, annotation, and formative assessment. | Newsela for Grades 6-12 Newsela provides thousands of carefully curated, engaging, standards-aligned texts to drive continued learning whether you and your students are together or apart. This product can be accessed by all core content in the grade level span. | No Red Ink for Grades 6-10 NoRedInk builds stronger writers through interest-based curriculum, adaptive exercises, and actionable data. This product can be accessed by all core content in the grade level span. |
Actively Learn for HS English & ESOL / MS ESL
Newsela for Grades 6-12
Pear Deck for PK-12 Pear Deck is an interactive presentation tool used to actively engage students in individual and social learning by incorporating collaboration, conversation with interactive questions, and immediate feedback. Teachers create presentations using their Google Slides and place them into this app. This is a browser extension - see the Google toolbar. | KAMI for PK-12 KAMI is an interactive annotation and editing software. With this app, students can annotate on eBooks, publisher-supplied PDFs, worksheets and more. Teachers can markup, discuss and provide feedback using Kami’s text, audio, and video annotation tools. This is a browser extension - see the Google toolbar. | Screencastify for PK-12 Screencastify is a screen recording app extension that has been added to your Chrome browser to record, edit and share videos. Teachers can record processes, steps, expectations, directions, information, etc. while navigating a Website, software tool, digital resources, documents, etc. The videos save automatically saved to the teachers’ Google Drive. This is a browser extension - see the Google toolbar. |
Pear Deck for PK-12
KAMI for PK-12
Screencastify for PK-12
Eduphoria K-12 Ability to implement TEKS-aligned formative assessments and provide data analytics to inform instructional decision-making. | Lead4ward Heat Maps Data Heat Maps are data visualizations that create color-coded “maps” of student performance on STAAR at the student expectation (SE) level. The Data Heat Maps are designed to help campus leaders identify critical areas for teacher support and professional development. Available to schools who used Heat Maps in 2019-2020. This is a renewal. | Texas Test Maker (Formerly Texas STAAR Maker) 3-11 TEKS-based, STAAR-released assessment item bank. |
Eduphoria K-12
Lead4ward Heat Maps
STEMscopes K-12 STEMscopes is a supplemental science curriculum with engaging TEKS aligned inquiry-based instructional activities. This product includes reading selections and assessments. | Nystrom Active Classroom for Social Studies 6-12 An online inquiry-based learning resource; offers the ability to customize their curriculum while matching each lesson to state standards. It provides a wide variety of content choices, the power to differentiate , and flexibility in tailoring and managing assignments. | HS Social Studies Digital Licenses for Textbooks Digital licenses for current textbook adoptions for World History, World Geography, Government, Economics, Psychology, and Sociology will be available for the 2020-2021 academic year. |
STEMscopes K-12
Nystrom Active Classroom for Social Studies 6-12
Lightsail for Grades 3-5 An adaptive reading program that offers students a personalized ebook library collection and includes Lexile level reading analysis and supports. Available in English and Spanish. | SORA by Overdrive K-12 OverDrive is an ebook library collection available to all students and employees as provided by the San Antonio Public Library. Look for the SORA icon on ClassLink to seamlessly access the collection. | Tumblebooks ebooks K-6 An ebook library collection available for all students via ClassLink. |
Lightsail for Grades 3-5
SORA by Overdrive K-12
Gale Databases (Grades 6-12) Databases available for secondary students for research. This is a wide collection. Available through ClassLink. | National Geographic for Kids A digital collection of the magazine. It includes an archive of prior years collections and has a built-in translator. Available through ClassLink. | Britannica School for K-12 Digital Encyclopedia for students in all grade levels. Available in Spanish through ClassLink. |
Gale Databases (Grades 6-12)
National Geographic for Kids
Britannica School for K-12
iStation K-5 (English & Spanish) Istation will be utilized as Tier 2 and Tier 3 intervention, or as Tier 1 enrichment. Teachers and students may access Istation through ClassLink. | TumbleMath K-6 TumbleMath is a collection of books, quizzes and lesson plans on all of the math categories. | Math Imagine K-Algebra 1 (English & Spanish) Imagine Math will be utilized as Tier 2and Tier 3 intervention, or as Tier 1 enrichment. Teachers and students may access Imagine Math through ClassLink. |
iStation K-5 (English & Spanish)
TumbleMath K-6
TEKS Item Bank 1-12 TEKS-aligned item bank embedded into Eduphoria. | Keyboarding Without Teachers 3-6 NEW and now available. Helps students learn how to type in a fun way. This products include Digital Citizenship lessons. | Tutor.com K-12 Tutoring support on demand anytime, anywhere. Access via ClassLink. |
Keyboarding Without Teachers 3-6
ClassLink
