Approved Digital Tools & Apps for SFUSD Students

SFUSD Core Suite of Apps

Licenses have been purchased centrally for the 2025-2026 school year for Clever, Google Enterprise, and Zoom, along with other apps listed below.

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Google Classroom

Teachers can post assignments and resources, collect work, facilitate collaboration, & provide feedback. Classroom is SFUSD's official Learning Management System (LMS) for grades 3-12

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Google Suite

The Google Suite supports student communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking with apps like Google Drive, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms, Drawing, and more!

Learn More about the Google Suite

Seesaw

Teachers can post activities and provide feedback. Students can respond using text, drawing, video, voice, etc. Seesaw is SFUSD’s official Learning Management System (LMS) for grades PK-2.

Learn More About Seesaw

Data Privacy at SFUSD Link to this section

Apps that are not on the approved app list should not be used to protect student privacy as per board policy.

If you are interested in submitting an app for approval, please visit our App Approval process webpage.

SFUSD takes student data privacy and is in compliance with regard to state and federal requirements including COPPA, CIPA, FERPA, and SOPIPA with our district-approved online applications. Learn more about Data Privacy in SFUSD.

Approved Apps with Active Contracts List Link to this section

Applications below have active contracts. If you have an app request that has been recently approved, it will appear on the list below once there is an active contract.

Previously Approved Apps
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Applications requested and approved in SY 23/24 and 24/25 are listed below. Once they have an active contract they will appear on the table above. You do not need to re-request an application that already went through the apps approval process.

Previously approved apps

Adobe
Amazon Business Services
Amira/HMH
Amplify
Amplify Desmos Math
ArbiterPay (ArbiterSports)
ArborPro
Ava
AVID
BBC Microbit
Beauty and Joy of Computing
Benchmark (Communications)
Benchmark (Education)
Bilingual Grammar
Blinktag
Blue-Bots
Bluebeam
BMI Imaging Systems
BoardDocs
BrainPOP
BrainTrust
CaliforniaColleges.edu
Carnegie Learning
Caspio
CELTX
Chapter One
City Span
Clever
Code HS
Code.org
Common Sense Education
Core/Panorama
Creative Curriculum / Teaching Strategies
CS First
DnA (Illuminate)
Drupal
Edia
Edpuzzle
Electude
Enome Inc (Goalbook)
Exploringcs.org
Exploros/iSPIRE/EPS
Freckle
Get More Math/Front Porch
Google Apps for Education
HealthSmart
HMH Ed
Home Campus
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (app)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Into Reading)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Read 180)
Ignite Reading
Imagine Language & Literacy
Imagine Learning IM (Illustrative Math)
Imagine Math (Adaptive Practice Companion)
iManage
InquirED
iSpire
IXL
IXL Math
Kiddom
Lexia
Liminex (GoGuardian)
Livescribe
LoiloNote
McGraw Hill
My CS
N2Y
NCS Pearson Inc (Certiport)
Nearpod (Renaissance)
Octostudio
Padlet (free version)
Parchment
Python.org
Renaissance (Star & DnA)
Scratch
Scratch Jr.
Second Step
Seesaw
SEIS
SIPPS
Skysite
Soundtrap
Special Needs Ware DBA Ori Learning
Sprocket Powered by Educurious
STAMP Assessment
Synergy
TeachTown
TenStrands
TextHelp (Read&Write) (Everway)
Tobii Dynavox
Tuva
Typing Club
VFA.facility
Voices
WPS Online Evaluation
Zum

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Reviewed but not approved

The following applications have been reviewed for student data privacy and educational effectiveness, and do not meet the District's standards.

The Legal, Technology, and Curriculum & Instruction Departments have strict requirements for student data privacy and curriculum compliance. We are also subject to various Federal and State laws, and Board of Education policies. Because of these requirements, we ask that you ONLY use the approved applications listed above. This list is only here to communicate that these apps are frequently requested, but have not met our requirements. Please help us protect student privacy by not using these apps, or any other unapproved app:

Chegg
Class Dojo
EPIC
Flipgrid
Kami
Kidblog
LiveSchool
Minecraft / Minecraft Education Edition
Parent Square
PLT4m
Prodigy
Quizlet
Quizlet Live
Quizziz
Remind
Zearn

Please choose approved applications. Please do not submit emails or help tickets about these applications - we have conducted rigorous reviews of these applications and they are not safe or appropriate for student use.