Information Management Systems

There are lots of different types of information management tools that can help students, teachers, schools and districts to navigate competency-based systems.  Here are a few of the different products that are trying to solve some of the issues schools face or support new functions and techniques in competency-based schools. Remember these product are not comparable -- they do not have the same functionality.

• Buzz by Agilix - used by Education Achievement Authority
• Educate - used by Lindsay Unified High School and many districts in Maine
• Empower - the next version will be rolled out to Lindsay in summer/fall 2014.
• Project Foundry (Often used by project-based learning schools)
• Desire2Learn
• Digication (Now part of Google Apps for Schools)
• Pathbrite
• TaskStream
• Three Ring
• Fishtree  https://fishtree.com<https://fishtree.com/>
• Haiku 
• Fronter (Pearson)
• JumpRope - software to support grading

Summit Public Schools is building their own IT platform called Activate Instruction.

Diploma Plus developed their own information system called DiplomaPlusnet