Technology
Webtools and Data Protection
Excellence in education requires that technology is seamlessly integrated throughout the educational curricula. Increasing access to technology enriches the curriculum and empowers students to maximize their full potential and prepares them for college and the workplace.
In many classes at Columbine, students are a part of a 1:1 Chromebook environment where Chromebooks are available for each student to use in the classroom. Columbine also has computer labs for engineering, digital photography and other classroom projects.
Digital tools are used to supplement instruction and enrich learning. When evaluating tools for classroom use, student data privacy is a prime concern. CHS follows the Student and Data Privacy guidelines put forth by the Jeffco School Board and the Colorado Department of Education.
Digital Learning Applications at Columbine High School
To learn more about these digital learning applications, please contact the digital teacher librarian.
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Literacy, ELA |
Literacy platform to activate, support, and reveal student thinking so every student can read for depth. |
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Creativity |
Creative Cloud gives you the entire collection of Adobe desktop and mobile apps, from essentials like Photoshop to innovative new tools like Adobe XD |
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Math, Science, Social Studies, Art, Personalized Learning, ELA |
AP Classroom is an online platform where students can access free practice resources and instructional videos for every topic and skill that will be covered in their course and assessed on the AP Exam. |
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Stem, Robotics, Coding |
Arduino - STEM software to help students learn to write code. |
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World Language |
Students practice world language vocabulary, grammar and verbs. Spanish, French, German and more. |
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Creativity, Presentation |
Enables students to create and read multimodal digital books. |
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Art, Design |
Graphic design platform for making invitations, business cards, social media posts, resumes, posters. |
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Math, Science |
Open-source STEM content that allows teachers to compile and share custom digital textbooks. |
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Computer Science |
Code.org® is an education innovation nonprofit dedicated to the vision that every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer science as part of their core K-12 education. |
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ELA |
Collection of texts, vocab. and assessments. |
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World Language |
Students practice world language vocabulary, grammar and verbs. Spanish, French, German and more. |
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DeltaMath |
Math |
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Math |
Desmos is a free online graphing calculator. Desmos allows you to graph functions, plot tables of data, evaluate equations and explore transformations. |
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Art |
eDesign is a web-based application that allows the yearbook staff to create one of a kind pages and design effortlessly. eDesign allows students can work anywhere they have access to Wi-Fi and on nearly any sized screen. |
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Credit Recovery |
Courses are built using an instructional model grounded in research and are Common Core, NGSS, and state-standards aligned. They combine direct-instruction videos featuring expert, on-screen teachers with rigorous assignments, performances tasks, and assessments to engage students and ensure subject-area mastery. |
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Formative Assessment |
Empowers teachers by taking videos to the next level and creating engaging lessons for students. |
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ELA |
ESL Library helps students with grammar, writing, speaking, reading, and listening. |
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Presentation |
Create video responses and ignite presentations. |
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STEM |
Fusion 360 is a 3D CAD, CAM, and CAE tool. |
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Formative Assessment |
A formative assessment, live quiz tool similar to Kahoot and Quizizz, but with additional features. Allows players to earn money, review questions individually multiple times, and provides a student report with detailed information (how many attempts, which wrong answers most common etc). |
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Math, Science |
Interactive math and science simulations. Over 400 Gizmos aligned to the latest standards help educators bring powerful new learning experiences to the classroom. |
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Virtual Reality |
Cardboard puts virtual reality on your iPhone. The Google Cardboard app helps you set up a Cardboard viewer. |
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Learning Management System |
Google Classroom - A blended learning platform for schools that aims to simplify creating, distributing and grading assignments in a paperless way. |
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Art, Presentation |
Google Drawings allows users to collaborate and work together in real time to create flowcharts, organisational charts, website wireframes, mind maps, concept maps, and other types of diagrams. |
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World Languages |
Google Translate - Translate text, speech, images, sites, or real-time video from one language into another. |
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(Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Meet, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Chat, Forms, Sites, Keep, Jamboard) |
Digital Workflow, Google |
web-based applications in which documents can be created, edited and stored online. Sharing options enable real-time collaboration with others. Files can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection and a full-featured Web browser. |
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Review |
Teachers can create digital scavenger hunts for student groups to complete. Works at any grade level and with any content area. |
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Math |
Helps complete algebra work step by step |
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Grades and communication |
Infinite Campus is a comprehensive, web-based student information system (SIS) with real-time access to administration, instruction, communication, curriculum, reporting and more. |
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Formative Assessments |
Kahoot allows users to create game based formative assessments using multiple choice questions. Kahoot provides a fun interactive platform for students which includes avatars, leaderboards, themes, and music. Teachers are provided with detailed class and student-level data. |
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Math, Science, Social Studies, Art, Personalized Learning, ELA |
Khan Academy is a personalized learning resource for all ages. The website offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empowers learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. |
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ELA, Math |
MobyMax is an online resource that offers free math, language, and reading resources for K-8 teachers. |
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Communication, College & Career |
College and career readiness tool for middle/high school students. |
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Presentation Tools, Formative Assessment |
Nearpod is an interactive presentation and assessment tool that can be used in the classroom. A teacher can create presentations that can contain quiz's, polls, videos, images, drawing-boards, web content and so on. Pre made presentations are available for purchase. |
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Literacy |
Newsela is a website that allows students to access news stories from several sources that match their reading level (measured by Lexile score) as well as age appropriateness. Teachers have access to hundreds of leveled news articles and Common Core-aligned quizzes, with new articles every day. Articles can be translated into Spanish. |
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ELA |
Grammer lessons and activities. |
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Classroom Management, Creativity, Digital Workflow, ELA |
Padlet is like a digital notepad that can be used for student responses or for teachers to house resources. |
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Formative Assessment |
Pear Deck is an interactive presentation tool used to actively engage students in individual and social learning. Teachers create presentations using their Google Drive account and check for understanding throughout the presentation. |
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STEM |
Online STEM curriculum pathways in computer science, engineering, and biomedical science, students learn technical skills, to solve problems, think critically and creatively, communicate, and collaborate. |
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Presentation |
Prezi is a presentation tool that can be used as an alternative to traditional slide making programs such as PowerPoint. Instead of slides, Prezi makes use of one large canvas that allows you to pan and zoom to various parts of the canvas and emphasize the ideas presented there. |
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Formative Assessment |
Allows users to create game based formative assessments using multiple choice questions. Quizizz provides a fun interactive platform for students which includes avatars, leaderboards, themes, music and memes. Teachers are provided with detailed class and student-level data. |
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Formative Assessment |
A free resource providing learning tools for students, including flashcards, study and game modes. It contains over 400 million user-generated study sets. Use a pre made study set or create your own. |
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Reading |
Reading Plus is an adaptive literacy solution that improves fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, stamina, and motivation. |
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Communication |
A communication tool that helps teachers connect instantly with students and parents. Send quick, simple messages to any device without disclosing your phone number. |
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Literacy, Social Studies |
Games, a news section, book blogs, election information, printables, lesson plans, message boards, and videos. |
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Digital Workflow, Communication, Learning Management System |
Schoology is our district supported online course management system. It allows teachers to create and manage academic courses for their students online in a flipped clasroom environment. It provides teachers with a platform for managing lessons, engaging students, sharing content, and connecting with other educators. |
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Computer Science |
Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations. |
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Instruction, Presentation |
Record your screen activity for creating tutorials, etc. |
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Classroom Management |
Securely allows the teacher to see all of the computer or Chromebook screens that are being used in the class. The teacher also has the ability to send messages to specific learners, freeze all screens, etc. |
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World Language |
Contains videos with music that tell a story in Spanish. You can assign students a video and they watch and listen and answer questions about the content and vocabulary of the video. |
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Formative Assessment |
Socrative is a free digital assessment tool which allows teachers to recieve feedback from students in real time. Teachers can build quizzes ahead of time or ask questions on-the-fly. Live data and reports can be collected in Google Drive and Socrative can be accessed on any device including Smart Phones. |
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Podcasting |
Record voice and music for digital composition and podcasting. |
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Instructional |
A plagiarism detection tool |
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Data aquisition and analysis |
Interfaces with various Vernier sensors in order to collect and analyze data. |
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Instructional, World Language |
Online textbook series with integrated audio and video. |
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Math, Science, Instructional |
Allows students to recieve instant feedback on their problem solving. Students can instantly see if they are getting answers right or wrong. The software can give tips/hints and link to textbooks and videos depending on students' answers. Problems can be randomized so that not every students has the same numbers and helps to ensure students take ownership over their own work. |
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Photos and Video |
WeVideo is an online video creation program/website for video editing. You can use WeVideo any device. |
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World Lang./ Instructional |
Random name picker |
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Photos and Video |
YouTube is a video-sharing website owned by Google. The site allows users to upload, view, and share videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, and movie trailers. Students have access to content that is approved for Jeffco. |
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Instructional |
ZipGrade turns your phone or tablet into an optical grading machine similar to a Scantron. It reads free-to-download answer sheets in multiple sizes. Provide instant feedback to students by grading exit tickets, quizzes, and formative assessments as soon as they finish. |
Digital Learning Applications in Jeffco
All students and teachers have access to premium digital learning applications with their Jeffco log-in credentials. A consistent core set of applications allows for student data privacy aligned to state legislation and seamless access for personalized learning. This includes single sign-on (SSO) and integration of applications.
TechForEd
Students can access a Jeffco-purchased and managed Chromebook to personalize their learning.
Tech Support
Jeffco families and students can get support for device troubleshooting, password resets, system questions and more.
Data Privacy & Security
Jeffco has adopted safeguards for student data privacy and security.
Digital Citizenship & Wellness
Jeffco prioritizes digital citizenship and promotes the safe, responsible use of technology.
Tech for Ed in Jeffco
Jeffco Public School’s 1:1 program provides first- through 12th-grade students in neighborhood and option schools a district Chromebook. This creates an equitable and sustainable model for technology-enabled classrooms that prepares students to thrive in a connected, digital world in alignment with the Jeffco Thrives Strategic Plan.
All students can access a district-purchased and managed Chromebook to personalize their learning. This closes the digital device divide and addresses the inequities in classrooms to transform learning.
Students in grades K-12 can also access a variety of digital applications and consistent tools that give them opportunities to demonstrate learning in creative and challenging ways. Each of the technology tools supports students as creators, collaborators and innovative problem solvers rather than as consumers of information.
The program also allows for professional development and learning for teachers to use the provided tools and devices to transform student learning experiences. Having consistent tools and opportunities for teacher training allows for more challenging learning and student engagement and deeper technology integration.