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Its main benefit is in its openness to adaptability. Programmers can incorporate their own tools into Sakai, allowing more room to integrate individual school programs. The Sakai software includes many of the features common to course management systems, including document distribution, a gradebook, discussion, live chat, assignment uploads, and online testing.

No downloads are required. Take all your notes directly using UberNote--there's no limit on the number of notes or amount of space you can use. The notes are then saved automatically, and accessible from any computer.

Record you voice on anything! Great product.

Great site very easy way for the students to make their own comic.

This product is fabulous! If I dealt with elementary students I would use this!!! It is so cute; you just go to the web site and drag your story to the book. Way Cool!!

This product will be useful to share with parents. There is not a need for it in my schooling environment because we have security plans in place already. It protects the students on the internet.

School must register but it provides TAKs based questions to make tests to print or do online.

Parents and students can search for access school content through this site or create a free My.HomeworkNOW account to create shortcuts to their school/class pages and subscribe to receive school content by email, mobile device, Facebook and more.

May be useful but you will have to figure it out.This is not idiot proof.The site allows you to build everything from personal blogs to enterprise applications. Thousands of add-on modules and designs let you build any site you can imagine.

This product is fabulous! I cannot say enough cool things about this toolbar. You highlight, put Post Its on it, change the colors of text and after you do all that they make a legend that explains the different colors and what you are trying to do.

NSTEP Study Buddy is a student-to-student math tutoring service that is freely available to students who have been been qualified through their school or after school program to receive the tutoring services, or who qualify under the national school lunch program or whose households receive food stamps. This is a tremendous example of community service that benefits many. The disadvantaged getting the opportunity and support to realize, or even surpass their potential, and the volunteer tutors get the reward of contributing to the success of their fellow world citizen.

Teachers are able to set up blogs for their students in a safe environment so their students can blog about anything.

Dropbox is an easy way to share files and to back them up. You can access your docs on any computer even without the software installed. You can send an invite to share access to specific folders or files to allow collaboration. It works on multiple platforms including iPad/Pod/Phone, PC, MAC, Android, Linux, and Blackberry

A free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily with others.

Final Site is a program used to design web sites for schools that the school has complete control over.

Teachers may go here and use preloaded tests or upload their own for students use.

Zoomerang is an online polling & surveying site. The basic, aka free, account allows you to create an unlimited number of surveys & polls, each having up to 12 questions, and 100 responses. Results can be viewed in real-time. This is ideal for surveying small population like a class or grade level in a school, or even as a virtual testing/quizzing tool!

Parental controls you download on to your computer. You can monitor where your child goes as well as block.

Students are allowed to make their own mini movies.

Mixbook is a free service that allows users to create online photo books, cards and calendars. It comes with a set of design templates, but the user can create their own using the available design tools. Users can invite others to collaborate on the production of these online projects. Mixbook is mashed-up with sites like Facebook, Flickr and Picasa, so users can easily user their photos from these sites too. There's also a Mixbook Education program where students and teachers have free access to collaborative classroom tools, in a secure online environment and receive discounts on printed products.