Curricular Software Platform and Learning Management System

The Vendor is required to provide for curricular software platform and learning management system.
- Integration with 3rd Party Apps
•    Ability to integrate with Google
•    Ability to integrate with other systems according to IMG Global and industry standards, such as one Roster
•    Ability to integrate with virtual meeting platforms such as Zoom and Google Meet
•    Ability to integrate apps from other platforms, such as Progress Learning and IXL
- Content Management
•    Allows course creators to share content across an institution using the LMS, without leaving the LMS.
•    Offers an option for a storage repository in which course creators have the ability to share and receive content already created from other users based on permission-controlled, shared content repositories (in the platform).
•    Must be able to tag content based on grade level, subject, district and state standards, and resource type.
•    Ability to resync and publish content at any time
•    Ability to import and export courses and content
•    Ability to import content from Google Classroom
•    Offer unlimited storage to the user
•    Ability to have integration with Google for assignments to simulate a workflow similar to Google
•    Classroom. Must allow the teacher to see both items in progress as well as those that are submitted, along with continuous feedback.
•    Ability to have shared repositories of content to share with individuals or groups
•    The system should be able to incorporate Georgia state standards into courses.
•    Georgia state standards should be trackable and reportable as related to assignments and learning objects.
•    Ability to align individual test question items to learning outcomes/standards.
•    Folder scaffolding to support existing teacher classroom management/ lesson planning methods.
•    Ability to set self-paced course conditions such that students must complete a task or receive a specific score before moving forward in the course.
•    Allows instructors to individually assign work to a group or to specific students in a class. A separate class should not be needed in order to deliver content to a specific user group. Within each class, student grouping should be available to allow differentiation to take place without requiring students to enroll in a separate class.
•    Ability for a teacher to see the amount of work a student has across a student’s entire schedule of classes for workload planning.
•    In-line discussion grading with rubrics and comments.
•    Ability to view the course as any student in the course (or as their parent).
•    Built-in read-aloud capability
•    Built-in language translation for EL learners.
•    Built-in closed caption capability
•    Ability to customize a student’s course based on the student’s IEP accommodations, including but not limited to reduced answer choices, time modifications, pass rate adjustments, grade weight adjustments, etc.
- Communication, Collaboration, and Community
•    Ability to create threaded discussions, which can be moderated by the instructor to include pre-approving posts.
•    Discussions can be graded.
•    Ability to require a discussion post before a student can see replies.
•    Provide areas for students to work collaboratively on coursework
•    Provide an area for users to share information about upcoming community events and other academic information. Users should be able to share with a course, a group, the building, or the whole school.
•    Provide the ability to communicate with other users of the system and collaborate on materials and lessons.
•    Must have an aggregated activity feed that aggregates updates and announcements across all courses, groups, school buildings, and the entire district so that the district can use the LMS for both learning and district communication.
•    Students should be able to see all active assignments in a dashboard and not be required to drill down by class to see all active homework/project assignments.
•    Must have the ability to create groups that are specifically not tied to any course. For instance, to create a group that can be used to disseminate information to parents in the district.
•    Must be able to create groups for parents, school activities, etc.
•    Must be able to control group privacy settings so that a group can be completely public (open to anyone without a login), completely private, invite-only, or by request.
•    Built-in faculty community must provide an area to ask questions and solicit answers, feedback, and ideas.
•    Information must be aggregated and displayed within the logged in user's homepage.
•    Customizable notifications of activities in course, e.g., email, text, in-app etc.
•    Calendar with links that auto-populate to assignments and activity due dates.
- Parent Accounts
•    The LMS must provide districts with parental accounts allowing parents to view the contents of the course, check grades, and see messages from teachers.
•    Provides a dedicated parent interface that allows the ability to link to multiple children and provide an aggregated summary view of all children, which is then also filterable to zoom in on any particular child.
•    Parent digest option so parents can receive information on student work, absences, and missing assignments.
•    Provides an SMS option to communicate with parents
•    Parent analytics available.

- Contract Period/Term: 1 year