Once your feet are on the ground with the basics, you may want to explore more tools. The trick is that while there are many services and sites on the web, not all of them are “safe” for students and teachers. Some may let unfiltered content through. Others may compromise student data. This page will help to guide you through this often murky landscape.
Highest standard. Certified private by international audit standards. HIPA compliant; personal information can safely be shared within these systems.
Tier 0: Secure Apps (click to expand)
The L4U Online Public Access Catalog serves as a single sign-on, one-stop hub for all education resources.
Division L4U Search: https://l4u.lskysd.ca/4dcgi/gen_2002/Lang=Def
Microsoft Office 365 (often called Microsoft 365 or Office 365) is a Web-based version of Microsoft's Office suite of enterprise-grade productivity applications. Office 365 is delivered to users through the cloud and includes Exchange Online for email, SharePoint Online for collaboration, Lync Online for unified communications, and a suite of Office Web Apps, Web-based versions of the traditional Microsoft Office suite of applications.
Your PaperCut account includes:
- an account summary - dashboard view of your balance and a report on the printing you’ve done at your school
- a transaction history - a detailed log of all print credits, debits and transfers
- a list of recent print jobs - a detailed log of all you've printed
Tier 1: TrustedUsually access using your Living Sky School Division username and password.
Tier 1: Trusted (click to expand)
Creative Cloud is a collection of 20+ desktop and mobile apps and services for photography, design, video, web, UX and more. Adobe products are available via the software installer on your desktop. You can also sign into the website by choosing to sign in as a "Company or School Account" to see more information on each of the apps.
Support - Sign In to Adobe Products
Callysto is a free, interactive, curriculum-based learning and skills development tool — think “interactive textbook” — that can be accessed from any device with an internet connection. It was created to help students strengthen their computational thinking, coding, and data science skills.
ClassDojo is an educational technology communication app and website. It connects primary school teachers, students and families through communication features, such as a feed for photos and videos from the school day, and messaging that can be translated into more than 35 languages and has been used in 180 countries.
Clever single sign-on(SSO) is an online student portal, or landing page, that provides a single location for students to access digital content needed for their classes.
Help students take ownership of their digital lives. Common Sense digital citizenship topics include media balance, cyberbullying, news and media literacy, online privacy, digital footprint, and communication. All students need digital citizenship skills to participate fully in their communities and make smart choices online and in life.
https://www.commonsense.org/education/
Edlio powers websites for K-12 schools and districts with an easy-to-use content management system (CMS) packed with features developed specifically for teachers and school administrators.
Edsby is a cloud-based software application that combines social networking with class and student management features. It is a learning management system with data aggregation and analytics features for K-12 students, teachers, and parents.
Google Meet is a video conferencing app. It is the business-oriented version of Google's Hangouts platform and is suitable for businesses of all sizes. Google Meet integrates with Classroom.
While you teach small groups, Happy Numbers serves as an independent math center, providing individualized instruction for the rest of the class.
Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empowers learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. They tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and moved. Our math missions guide learners from Kindergarten to calculus using state-of-the-art, adaptive technology that identifies strengths and learning gaps.
No SSO but explicitly references BC privacy restrictions, which are some of the strongest in Canada. Effectively trusted.
Some of the benefits Read&Write for Google Chrome offers include:
- An easy to use toolbar that integrates seamlessly with Google Drive and the web
- Text to speech for reading accessible and inaccessible content in Google Docs, PDFs, ePubs and on the web
- Tools like talking and picture dictionaries and a translator to support struggling readers or English Language Learners
- Writing tools like word prediction and voice dictation
- Colored highlighters for researching and extracting information from documents and the web
- Typewriter and post-it annotations for PDFs and ePubs in Google Drive
SketchUp for Schools is the core SketchUp modeler now available in a web browser. Curriculum resources here: https://www.sketchup.com/products/sketchup-for-schools
Tier 2: Use with Consent
Requires a media release or explicit informed consent. These sites may ask for personal information as part of registration terms.
Tier 2: Use with Consent (click to expand)
Creative Cloud is a collection of 20+ desktop and mobile apps and services for photography, design, video, web, UX and more. Adobe products are available via the software installer on your desktop. You can also sign into the website by choosing to sign in as a "Company or School Account" to see more information on each of the apps.
Support - Sign In to Adobe Products
Description: Blogging
Privacy Policy: https://privacy.commonsense.org/evaluation/Edublogs
Supports SSO?: No
Access Data Collected: Name, email, grade, job role
3rd Party Trackiers: Social media and analytics
Grids are the meeting place for your classroom, your school, your department or any learning community to discuss your Topics.
Paid Service
TOS are fair, COPPA, FERPA, and CSPC compliant
Gizmos are interactive math and science simulations for grades 3-12. Over 400 Gizmos aligned to the latest standards help educators bring powerful new learning experiences to the classroom.
It has a free trial, but then a paid account that is quite pricey.
supports SSO with Microsoft, Google, and Clever but still prompts to accept ToS. It does request a separate account for ordering, which is strange. ToS and privacy policy are huge. Use with caution or consent.
https://www.heinemann.com/mathinpractice/covid19-resources.aspx
No SSO and PII needed to “order” the material. ToS is fair. Use with caution or consent.
No SSO, has some 3rd party integration but anonymous access is allowed. No clear ToS but they do expose the API. Use with caution or consent.
Compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledge-base and AI technology.
Zoom is a video conferencing service popular with businesses and individuals. The education version is available until the end of June 2020.
Tier 3: Use with Caution
Sites or software has low technical standards or promote shared accounts.
Sites may require students (under the age of 18) to accept terms of service.
Tier 3: Use with Caution (click to expand)
From calculus to guitar for beginners, we want to help high school students everywhere keep learning. Start learning for free! Offer is subject to change and valid through 5/31/2020
Profit Model: Ad revenue
TOS: Unfavorable terms of services
3rd Party Trackers: Ads, Social media, analytics
Access Data Collected: All available data
JA offers learning opportunities in three key areas – financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship.
Bridges in Mathematics is a comprehensive PK–5 curriculum that equips teachers to fully implement the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics in a manner that is rigorous, coherent, engaging, and accessible to all learners.
Doesn’t look like it supports SSO but the ToS are fair. They do collect some PII and do share with 3rd parties. Safe to use with caution.
TOS hidden behind sign up
Non secure elements on pages
offers a robust set of focused tools to help build capacity in teaching mathematics through professional learning for both teachers and administrators. It empowers teachers and principals with the knowledge and processes to build a successful math learning environment and school math culture.
Media Smarts - MediaSmarts has been developing digital and media literacy programs and resources for Canadian homes, schools and communities since 1996. Through our work we support adults with information and tools so they can help children and teens develop the critical thinking skills they need for interacting with the media they love.
Media Smarts
https://my.mediasmarts.ca/en - Contact your school librarian for information.
Free Resources
No SSL Certificate
picoCTF is a free computer security game targeted at middle and high school students, created by security experts at Carnegie Mellon University. The game consists of a series of challenges centered around a unique storyline where participants must reverse engineer, break, hack, decrypt, or do whatever it takes to solve the challenge.
Pre-K resources for remote teaching.
No SSL, no privacy policy, or ToS, but no sign-in. 3rd party trackers link to social media and analytics tools. Use with Caution for now..
Tier 4: Do Not Use
Site or software is, or has been, compromised.
Tier 4: Do Not Use (click to expand)
