Learning Management System

The Vendor is required to provide learning management system (LMS) for include:
1. Integration with student information system
•    API based integration with sis for rostering and course creation.
•    API integration must provide grade transfer from LMS to sis
2. Integration with 3rd party apps
•    Ability to integrate with google
•    Ability to integrate with virtual meeting platforms such as google meet
•    Ability to integrate apps from other platforms, such as progress learning and IXL
3. Content management
•    Allows course creators to share content across an institution using the LMS, without leaving the LMS.
•    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
•    Offer unlimited storage to the user
•    Ability to have shared repositories of content to share with individuals or groups
•    The system should be able to incorporate state standards into courses. 
•    State standards should be trackable and reportable as related to assignments and learning objects.
•    Ability to align individual test question items to learning outcomes and standards.
•    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.
•    Ability for teacher to view the course as any student in the course.
•    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.
4. Communication, collaboration, and community
•    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.
•    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 and project assignments.
•    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.
5. Administration
•    Ability to manually create courses and add users.
•    Have the ability to dedicate a specific user role, such as an advisor. 
•    This role would not be of a teacher or student. 
•    The advisor can identify individual student’s total learner profile. 
•    Advisor access should be configurable, permission based.
•    Teacher and student usage analytics tracking, including time spent in specific courses per user.
•    Admins can impersonate all users
•    Ability to customize roles of users such as parapros, academic coaches, and teachers, etc.
•    The LMS must have the ability to provide instance-wide reporting for all users involved. 
•    This includes providing a report for login date, time, and length for every user, including students and teachers.
•    Must the ability for administrators to see assessment, assignment, and other scores for every course in the institution.
•    Should include an internal messaging system that logs all communication
6. Parent accounts
•    The LMS must provide districts with parental accounts allowing parents to view contents of course, check grading, 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
7. Assessment and feedback
•    Must have a gradebook for each course.
•    The ability to weight categories, terms and grading periods must have the option of being weighted. 
•    Ability to create a tiered, hierarchical grading structure such that terms and grading periods can be defined, each with their own weight that is a rollup of the corresponding terms and sub-‐grading periods. 
•    An overall course grade must be able to be applied.
•    Gradebook filtering and section management:
o    By student groups
o    By grading category
o    By grading terms
o    By section
•    Standards-based gradebook to track student performance on learning objectives.
•    Mastery and progress reporting by standard and outcome and assessment.
•    Ability to align the assignment to multiple standards.
•    Ability to align assessment and individual questions to standards.
•    Ability for instructors to provide differentiated instruction directly from a standards-based gradebook based on student performance.
•    Ability to create assessments using technology-enhanced item types.
•    Ability for both teachers and students to include audio, video, images and other media in assessment items.
•    Supports automatic grading of constructed assignments and add scores to the gradebook by the vendor with an option for grade override by the teacher of record.
•    Support automatic grading of objective quizzes, automatically reveal results to students, and add scores to the gradebook by the vendor with an option for grade override by the teacher of record.
•    Ability to associate rubrics with assignments.
•    Ability to share rubrics
•    Ability for instructors to grade student submissions through the LMS, including providing feedback via text, audio, and video
•    Ability for the instructor to have direct communication with a student on the assignment in a logical, cohesive manner.
•    Ability for teachers and students to annotate directly on documents, assignments, etc. To include pdfs
•    Provide both formative and summative assessments to students with common test features such as time limits, randomized question sequence, question grouping, randomized answers, and score reports (item analysis, class, and individual reports)
•    Ability to check for plagiarism and AI assistance at no additional cost
•    Provides progress monitoring data in pdf, excel, csv, doc downloadable files.
8. Mobile access
•    Available app for parents, teachers, students
•    Will define specific tools or features that cannot be accessed through mobile devices.
9. Curriculum maps
•    Allows for any changes to the curriculum maps to be easily seen by collaborators or viewers and linked access to those changes.
•    Quick access to maps that are being leveraged on an ongoing basis
•    Maps can be searched by keyword or by tag
•    Overall maps and various components can be tied to national, state or district standards for analysis
•    Pacing calendars need to be integrated into the overall map
•    Various activity needs to be logged to see changes to the map over time
•    Helpful insights into how teachers in the district are referencing and using the curriculum need to be reported
•    Each map must be able to be printed
•    Each map must be able to be viewed by the parents in the community
•    Editing of the map must be possible over time without affecting "published" versions
•    Horizontal and vertical alignment of maps across grade levels or subject areas needs to be possible within the solution.