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Meet TARA: Your New Teacher Headquarters

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Organizing lesson plans, units, resources, links, IEP’s, and IEP meetings can be cumbersome and stressful. In addition to sharing about the tool, you should also check out their 60+ tools for Student Engagement , and I’ll share about their teacher support quiz which will help you better support teachers.

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New Ownership for an LMS Giant: Private Equity Firm to Buy Instructure for $2 Billion

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when it comes to the LMS software that serves as the virtual classroom, online gradebook and other functions used in just about every college course these days. The company says its tools are used by more than 30 million people across the education and corporate learning markets. Canvas has the largest market share in the U.S.

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Former Blackboard CEO Raises $16M to Bring LMS Features to Zoom Classrooms

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Since March, when the global pandemic accelerated, the stock price of the publicly traded online video company has increased five-fold, to over $500 per share, by Wednesday’s close. As it turns out, other companies building on top of Zoom can attract plenty of capital as well. All of these tools are still in development.

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4 Items on Instructure’s To-Do List After the Sale of the Canvas LMS Provider

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For example, despite increased activity on the platform—concurrent users on the Canvas LMS were up 60 percent from typical use patterns and video submissions are up tenfold from typical use patterns pre-Covid-19—the costs of moving more data and training more educators will keep the company from a short-term windfall, Benson says.

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Better Science: 5 Excellent Ways to Examine Authentic Artifacts from the Natural History Museum of Utah

The CoolCatTeacher

Digital options for Google Classrooms and other LMS are available, too. Now that we’ve looked at the overview of these amazing free tools let’s dig into five ways you can use these resources now. Notice how students will “meet” a real paleontologist named Carrie, who studies dinosaur bones and leads them through the investigation.

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Cool Cat Teacher’s 31 Favorite Everyday Tools I’m Using Right Now #edtech

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A special Valentine's Day Episode of 10MT with Links to Tools and Tech I Use From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. I’m showing love to my dear teacher friends by just sharing all the tools and tips that have me excited right now. They are the Learning Management System (LMS) I use.

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Instructure to Sell Bridge for $50M and Exit Corporate Learning Market

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Where Instructure planned to go with Bridge, its learning management system for corporate and enterprise customers, has been an open question for over a year, when the company was still publicly traded. Goldsmith is no longer CEO, and the Salt Lake City-based company is now privately owned by private equity firm Thoma Bravo.

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