Victoria Ruiz

Virtual · Tchr, Combination, ES Grds

Selected teachers

34 applications in use in this classroom.

Brismuth Apps (Bulk Texter Pro) Other

Brismuth Apps (Bulk Texter Pro) is a mobile application designed for sending mass text messages to multiple recipients simultaneously. It enables school staff and administrators to efficiently disseminate important information, such as event reminders, announcements, or emergency alerts, to parents, guardians, or specific student groups. The app's primary educational purpose is to streamline communication workflows for timely and broad outreach within the school community.

Clever, Inc

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Clever, Inc

Clever, Inc. is an educational technology platform that provides K-12 school districts with a secure single sign-on portal and data management system for digital learning applications. It simplifies access for students and teachers to various online educational tools while automating the synchronization of student roster data for administrators, streamlining the integration of learning resources.

Copilot

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Microsoft Other

Microsoft Copilot acts as a versatile AI partner that functions as both a web-based research tool and an assistant deeply integrated into the Microsoft 365 suite (like Word, PowerPoint, and Teams). For teachers, it can draft standards-aligned lesson plans, summarize lengthy email threads in Outlook, or instantly build a PowerPoint presentation from a Word document. For students, it can act as a powerful research partner, help outline and refine essays in Word, or analyze data for a lab report in Excel. Copilot's unique strength is its ability to combine information from the broad web with, when permitted, your own organization's data (like emails, chats, and files) to help you create content, find answers, and manage tasks more efficiently.

DBQ

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DBQ

DBQ is an educational application that provides students with historical documents and prompts, facilitating the practice of source analysis and argumentative essay writing. It helps K-12 students develop critical thinking and historical analysis skills, serving as a key tool for social studies and history teachers to assign and assess document-based questions.

DBQ Project

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DBQ Project Other

The DBQ Project offers a digital platform, DBQ Online, designed to assist teachers in guiding students through historical inquiry, document analysis, and evidence-based argument writing. It features interactive units for analyzing primary and secondary sources across subjects like history, civics, and literature to help educational organizations foster critical thinking skills.

EdInsight

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On Hands Other

We partner with progressive educators to implement a vision for high-performing schools where all students have the opportunity to reach their full academic potential. Teachers need to understand all of the factors affecting student performance. Seeking that information can lead to a frustrating perpetual data hunt. With EdInsight, the information is only a click away.

Newsela

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Newsela Other

Newsela is an instructional content platform that provides educators with high-quality, leveled texts across multiple subjects. It adapts real-world news articles and contemporary non-fiction content to five different reading levels, helping K-12 students improve literacy skills while learning relevant academic content. The platform also includes integrated reading comprehension checks and formative assessments to track student progress.

NotebookLM

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Google Other

NotebookLM acts as a personalized AI partner for both teachers and students, grounded only in the specific documents you provide. Teachers can upload curriculum standards, textbook chapters, or primary sources to instantly generate lesson plans, discussion prompts, and quiz questions based only on that content. Students can upload their class notes, assigned readings, and lecture slides to get instant clarification on complex topics, create personalized study guides, generate practice quizzes, or quickly find key facts for a research paper. NotebookLM becomes your expert on your materials, helping everyone save time and engage more deeply with the course content.

Savvvas Learning

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Savvvas Learning

Savvvas Learning is a comprehensive digital platform providing K-12 curriculum, instructional materials, and assessments across various subjects. It is utilized by teachers for lesson delivery and classroom management, and by students for engaging with content and completing assignments. The application's primary educational purpose is to support and enhance teaching and learning experiences, facilitating progress tracking and personalized instruction.

ScreenPal

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Screencast-O-Matic Other

ScreenPal is an all-in-one screen recording and video editing platform designed to help educators and students easily capture, edit, and share interactive video content. It supports flipped and blended learning, video messaging, student assignments, and video feedback with features like quizzes and polls. The platform also offers secure cloud hosting, AI-assisted translations, and school-wide collaboration tools.

Conditions of use: STAFF USE ONLY

Skyward

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Skyward Other

Skyward Mobile Access provides students, parents, and school staff with intuitive mobile access to their school district's vital information. Users can view grades, attendance, discipline records, payroll, and time-off information directly from their device. The app automatically locates and connects to the user's district portal, supporting Family Access, Student Access, and Employee Access.

UF Lastinger Center

The UF Lastinger Center offers K-12 school districts access to research-based educational programs and professional development for teachers and administrators. Its primary purpose is to enhance instructional quality and improve student learning outcomes by providing evidence-informed resources and training.

Write Score

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Write Score Other

Write Score provides robust tools for formative ELA assessments designed to help schools, teachers, and students improve literacy. With standards-aligned assessments, instructional resources, and historical student data reports, Write Score provides tools to help teachers pinpoint instruction, save time, and meet students’ diverse literacy needs. We pride ourselves on offering only the highest quality in our programs, customer service, and value.

Zoom (No Student Use)

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Zoom Other

Zoom is a video conferencing tool that allows people to launch a video chat with others. Zoom is not to be used with students in Seminole County Public Schools. Webex and Google Meet are approved video conferencing tools for use with SCPS students. Zoom may only be used by SCPS staff when the staff member is joining a third party created conference being hosted on the service.

Conditions of use: STAFF USE ONLY