SCUSD: Not Approved

Approval Decision: The third party marketers may use the personally identifiable information to contact students with advertisements if they opt-in to receive this information.

Description: We ignite student curiosity and inspire educators to reimagine learning with award-winning digital content and powerful professional development.

Discovery Education/Streaming - Not Approved

SCUSD: Not Approved

Approval Decision: The sharing of student drawings with no oversight or permission violates students privacy laws.

Description: Codeable Crafts is an app for kids to create their imaginative stories by drawing and coding.

Codeable Crafts - Not Approved

SCUSD: Not Approved

Approval Decision: Promotional communication is used for marketing purposes. This violates the student online privacy laws.

Description: Take on coding challenges and make your own programs for Dash & Dot using Blockly. Transform Dot into an alarm, play tag with Dash, or use Dot to control Dash. Programming lets you turn your silliest or most ambitious ideas into reality.

Blockly for Dash and Dot Robots - Not Approved

SCUSD: Not Approved


Approval Decision: Adobe Privacy Policy states that they will display ads. This is in direct violation of student online privacy.

Description: Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. We help our customers create, deliver and optimize content and applications.

Adobe - Not Approved

SCUSD: Conditional


Approval Decision: Approved for teacher use only. Not in compliance with
                                                     SOPPIPA.

                                                      Description: The high-quality home to make, share, and watch videos.

Vimeo.com - Conditional

SCUSD: Conditional


Approval Decision: This application requires parent approval before a student can use it.

Description: Math & ELA standards aligned adaptive learning for grades K-8. Loved by students, parents and teachers.

Sumdog - Conditional

SCUSD: Not Approved

Approval Decision: This application targets advertisements to students. This violates the student privacy laws and therefore cannot be approved.

Description: Tinkercad is an easy-to-use 3D CAD design tool. Quickly turn your idea into a CAD model for a 3D printer with Tinkercad.

Tinkercad - Not Approved

SCUSD: Not Approved

Approval Decision: Because some of Nearpod's safety features have the potential of violating federal FERPA laws, this app is not approved until a letter is written regarding the violation of FERPA.

Description: Nearpod is an interactive classroom tool for teachers to engage students with interactive lessons.

Nearpod - Not Approved

SCUSD: Not Approved

Approval Decision: The app is free because they subject the user to advertisements; tracks  IP address and ad choices.

Description:LetterSchool makes handwriting incredibly easy to unravel. Just pick a letter, kick back and enjoy the show.

Letter School - Not Approved

SCUSD: Not Approved


Approval Decision: Recommend our other language program that is already in use with ipads.

Description: LAMP Words for Life is designed to meet the communication needs of children with autism. Furthermore, it was created to use in conjunction with Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP), a proven-therapeutic approach that uses consistent motor plans for accessing vocabulary.

LAMP Words for Life - Not Approved

SCUSD: Not Approved


Approval Decision: Not COPPA/FERPA compliant.

Description: Kidblog provides K-12 teachers with tools to safely publish student writing. Teachers can monitor all activity within a community of authors.

Kidblog - Not Approved

SCUSD: Not Approved


Approval Decision: Denied 9/26/16. Violation of FERPA.

Description: A simple, fun & creative way to capture, edit & share photos, videos & messages with friends & family.

Instagram - Not Approved

SCUSD: Not Approved


Approval Decision: Do not recommend because this is an LMS for a fee. Suggest Google Classroom for now.

Description: Clear and simple visibility into learning. Hapara helps schools make the shift to digital learning by making it easier to view and manage learner work in the cloud.

Hapara - Not Approved

SCUSD: Not Approved


Approval Decision: There is a fee and this is an LMS - our district is researching possibilities for LMS.

Description: Presentations that inspire. Meet Haiku Deck, a completely new kind of presentation software. We make telling your story simple, beautiful, and fun.

Haiku Deck - Not Approved

SCUSD: Not Approved


Approval Decision: Fresh Grade has the potential of allowing student evidence or learning samples that include student identifiable information to be shared with other parents that are not the students' parents - the app is denied. The app does provide public forums and message boards that also reveal student identifiable information. Student content can also be used by third party vendors. The personal data in transit is encrypted but there are no details whether the data is encrypted in storage.

Description: FreshGrade is the digital portfolio & assessment platform that makes learning visible for leaders, teachers, parents, and students. Available on any device.

FreshGrade - Not Approved

SCUSD: Not Approved


Approval Decision: There is a cost to parents to join. We cannot require parents to pay for a subscription to have access to the teacher's classroom activities.

Description: Discover the Leading Digital Library for Kids.

Epic! - Not Approved