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June 11, 2018

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ScootPad releases Pre-Built Benchmark Assessments for NWEA, PARCC, SBAC and 11 US State Standards

San Jose, CA – June 11, 2018 – ScootPad, a leading adaptive learning platform for grades K-8, today announced the availability of pre-built benchmark assessments for Common Core and 11 US State EOY tests including NWEA Map Growth, PARCC, SBAC and more.

Benchmark assessments are administered at key points in the year and are designed to assess student mastery of the taught curriculum over the given time period. Typically, benchmark assessments are not available for preview or practice ahead of administering the real assessment at the specified time during the year.

ScootPad developed the pre-built benchmark assessments with 100% alignment to the blueprints of the respective assessments to mirror or “simulate” the actual benchmark assessment – which helps students practice and prepare for the real tests while offering teachers and administrators valuable data and insights about student performance.

Following benchmark assessments are now available on ScootPad:

Common Core Benchmark Assessments: SBAC, PARCC, CAASPP/CA, GMAS/GA, North Carolina EOY, Ohio State Tests, New York State Tests
Virginia Benchmark Assessments: Virginia SOL Tests
Florida Benchmark Assessments: FSA Tests
NWEA Benchmark Assessments: MAP Growth tests for Common Core, Indiana, Texas, Virginia, Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, Missouri, New Jersey and Florida

These new benchmark assessments offer the following benefits:

Preparing students with a mock test and practice items similar to those given in the real assessments.
Immediate insights at the student, standard, and question level allowing teachers to easily adjust their instruction to ensure no standard is left unaddressed.
Measure longitudinal growth overall, growth by standard, and growth by student

These new benchmark assessments are now available to all users with an active license and don’t require any additional license or setup. To learn more, please read the blog post: New from ScootPad: Pre-Built Benchmark Assessments.

About ScootPad
ScootPad is an intelligent adaptive learning platform that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence and proven learning science techniques to create powerful personalized learning experiences for every student. With its comprehensive design and intuitive user experience, ScootPad has become a classroom staple, providing teachers and students with a full suite of features that are accessible anywhere, any time, on any device. For more information, visit https://www.scootpad.com or follow us on Twitter @ScootPad.

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May 31, 2018

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ScootPad releases new adaptive math facts feature

San Jose, CA – May 31, 2018 – ScootPad, a leading adaptive learning platform for grades K-8, today released the new adaptive math facts feature.

Math fact fluency is foundational for later mathematics education. Students are expected to master the speed and accuracy with simple calculations, so that they are able to understand and manipulate more complex functions in future. Unfortunately, many students continue to struggle with these core skills. Extending its adaptive learning capabilities, ScootPad designed this new adaptive fact fluency module to help students improve their speed and accuracy in the foundational math facts.

Using this new feature, teachers can place students on auto-pilot and let ScootPad adapt to each student while ensuring they are mastering each of the four operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Teachers also have the ability to switch students to the “manual” mode so they can assign and manage each students’ practice rigor and sequence of the operations.

This new feature is now available to all users with an active license and doesn’t require any additional license or setup. To learn more, please read the blog post: New from ScootPad: Math Facts Module.

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April 9, 2018

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ScootPad launches SimplyAdaptive, a super simple and super affordable adaptive learning app

San Jose, CA – Apr 09, 2018. ScootPad, a leading adaptive learning platform, today announced the launch of a new product called SimplyAdaptive which can be accessed online at https://SimplyAdaptive.com.

Available at $30 per account per year, SimplyAdaptive delivers an affordable and impactful adaptive learning experience for up to 50 students. SimplyAdaptive is now available for students in grades K-5 to learn Math and English. With meticulously crafted design, it simplifies the user experience for parents and teachers making it super easy to get students started with concept mastery in no time.

“SimplyAdaptive dramatically simplifies every aspect of delivering continuously personalized learning for each student.” said Bharat Kumar, CEO & Co-Founder of ScootPad. “With this new product, we’ve taken affordability to a whole new level and made adaptive learning equitable and accessible for all students.”

SimplyAdaptive is powered by edNexus.io, ScootPad’s adaptive learning platform recognized for delivering adaptive, mastery-based learning at scale. With a 30 day free trial, new users have access to all features for the first 30 days to evaluate everything obligation free.

Available 24×7, SimplyAdaptive offers online resources and a live chat to help users get started and engage students in their learning. Learn more at https://SimplyAdaptive.com.

About ScootPad
Founded in 2011, ScootPad is a leading adaptive learning platform for grades K-8. Delivering highly personalized and accelerated learning through adaptive algorithms, predictive analytics, data visualization, and gamification, ScootPad has become a “go-to” platform for 40,000+ schools across 9,000+ districts. With its comprehensive design, ScootPad has become a classroom staple, providing teachers and students with a full suite of features that are accessible anywhere, any time, on any device. For more information, visit https://www.scootpad.com or follow us on Twitter @ScootPad.

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March 1, 2018

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ScootPad Partners with Clever to Enable Seamless Single Sign-On and Automatic Rostering

San Jose, CA – March 01, 2018 – ScootPad, a leading adaptive learning platform, today announced a new partnership with Clever to enable seamless integration and automated roster management features that ensure accurate, up-to-the-minute information on every student, allowing teachers more time to focus on instruction and individual student progress and less on administrative technology tasks.

Partnership between ScootPad and Clever enables secure Instant Login so that teachers and students get a seamless single sign-on experience and focus on student learning. With the Secure Sync integration, which only takes a few minutes to set up, all student enrollment rosters are automatically synced with ScootPad.

“We are constantly seeking new and innovative ways to help educators maximize every instructional minute of the school day,” said Bharat Kumar, Co-founder and CEO of ScootPad. “We’re delighted to offer this integration with Clever to our school partners to enable single sign-on and automatic rostering to students and teachers that use ScootPad every day.”

About Clever
Clever was founded in 2012 by educators and technologists who knew that widely available educational apps could improve both teaching and learning, but that tools to deploy and secure the applications were simply unavailable. Today, half of K-12 schools in the U.S. trust Clever to secure their student data as they adopt learning apps in the classroom. In 2014, Clever won the ‘Crystal Clear’ award by the Digital Innovation Learning Awards. It is also the trusted provider of the American Federation of Teachers, who uses Clever to secure its own ‘Share my Lesson’ platform with its teacher members. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Partners, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, and GSV Capital, Clever currently has 100 employees and is based in San Francisco, California. For more information visit www.clever.com.

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October 31, 2017

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ScootPad has been recognized as a leader in the Global Adaptive Learning market

San Jose, CA – Oct 29, 2017 – ScootPad, a leading adaptive learning platform, today announced that ScootPad has been recognized as a leader in the rapidly growing Global Adaptive Learning market by HTF market research.

HTF’s research report Global Adaptive Learning Software Market 2017-2021, has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. HTF’s research also forecasts the global adaptive learning software market to grow at a CAGR of 31.07% during the period 2017-2021.

Key players recognized in this research report include: D2L, Knewton, McGraw-Hill Education, ScootPad and Smart Sparrow. You can learn more about this research and access the report here.

“We’re honored to be recognized by a leading market research group alongside some of the industry’s most groundbreaking companies.” said Bharat Kumar, ScootPad’s Co-Founder & CEO. “We’re also very excited about the growth opportunities over the next 5 years as we continue to enhance our adaptive learning capabilities leveraging recent advances in AI and machine learning coupled with years of research in reinforcement learning.”

About HTF
HTF Market Report, a wholly owned brand of HTF market Intelligence group, provides next-generation service for organizations with a deep focus on market intelligence, data analytics, and social intelligence. HTF is uniquely positioned to not only identify growth opportunities but to also empower and inspire you to create visionary growth strategies for futures, enabled by their extraordinary depth and breadth of thought leadership, research, tools, events and experience that assist you for making goals into a reality.

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August 4, 2017

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ScootPad releases new simplified pricing model

San Jose, CA – Aug 1, 2017 – ScootPad, a leading adaptive learning platform for grades K-8, today released a simplified and transparent pricing model that is now as easy to choose from as the product is to use.

ScootPad 3, which was announced earlier this summer, enabled a totally redesigned user experience to make it easier for schools to meet their student learning needs. Extending that simplicity and intuitiveness to pricing, ScootPad introduced – “all features, one simple license” – a transparent pricing model to help customers know exactly what they’ll pay for ScootPad.

The new pricing model consists of the following licenses, each of which will come with all available features on ScootPad:

At-Home License (for parents)
Classroom License (for individual teachers)
Site License (for schools and districts)

Existing customers with active licenses have been grandfathered to this new license structure – meaning there is no change or impact at all. All new quotes and orders going forward will adopt this new pricing model. For more information about the new pricing model or to get a new price quote, please visit: https://www.scootpad.com/pricing.

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July 30, 2017

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ScootPad announces seamless integration with Google Classroom

San Jose, CA – Jul 31, 2017 – ScootPad, a leading adaptive learning platform for grades K-8, today announced seamless integration with Google Classroom. This integration helps schools and districts to streamline their classroom management and save teachers valuable time.

“Time-to-instruction is greatly reduced with the ability for students to easily login with their Google account and the simple Google Classroom roster sync for teachers.” said Joe Macchia, CIO at Oak Lawn-Hometown School District 123. “Pair that with the natively adaptive and personalized nature of the ScootPad platform and you have a powerhouse tool for educators to include in their instructional toolboxes.”

All schools and districts using Google Classroom can now take advantage of this seamless integration with ScootPad. It’s easy and free. It allows you to create and manage your classes in Google Classroom while eliminating the need to manually create and add students to classrooms again in ScootPad. Integration benefits include:

Easy import of your classes from Google Classroom
Automatic setup and enrollment of your students
Automatic sync of your student roster changes
Single Sign On using Google. No ScootPad credentials needed.

“ScootPad makes learning personalized and easier, and this integration helps us fulfill on that promise by simplifying the classroom roster management, saving time for the things that matter” said Bharat Kumar, Co-Founder & CEO of ScootPad. “With this integration, both students and teachers will be seamlessly logged into ScootPad from their Google accounts.”

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July 18, 2017

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Stanford AI and Machine Learning professor joins ScootPad Advisory Board

San Jose, CA – Jul 18, 2017 – ScootPad, a leading personalized learning platform, today announced the appointment of Dr. Emma Brunskill to its Advisory Board.

Dr. Emma Brunskill is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. Dr. Brunskill’s goal is to increase human potential through advancing interactive machine learning. She has been named a 2015 Young Investigator by the Department of the Navy in 2015 and was awarded $510,000 to support her research regarding online reinforcement learning. Dr. Brunskill completed her PhD in Computer Science from MIT.

“We’re very fortunate to have someone as widely respected and accomplished as Dr. Brunskill on our advisory board,” said Bharat Kumar, ScootPad’s Co-Founder & CEO. “Dr. Brunskill’s guidance and experience are invaluable in helping us transform and scale personalized learning leveraging recent advances in AI and machine learning.”

“I’m very excited about how AI and machine learning can help improve student outcomes,” said Dr. Brunskill. “ScootPad provides an excellent opportunity for me to help radically transform the adaptive learning experience using AI.”

About Dr. Brunskill

Emma Brunskill, Dept. of Computer Science, Stanford University
Brunskill Named 2015 ONR Young Investigator
“Learning to Improve Learning” presentation at World Economic Forum (2014)
PhD Thesis, MIT 2009 and Publications

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May 24, 2017

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ScootPad introduces ScootPad 3, the most advanced adaptive learning solution ever

San Jose, CA – May 24, 2017. ScootPad, a leading adaptive learning platform, today announced the best, most advanced adaptive learning solution ever, packed with unique innovations that improve all the ways ScootPad is used every day.

“ScootPad 3 dramatically improves every aspect of the personalized learning experience, reaching a new level of innovation and user experience to make this the best adaptive learning solution we have ever delivered,” said Bharat Kumar, CEO & Co-Founder of ScootPad. “The completely redesigned user interface makes it engaging and easier for schools to meet their student learning needs at a time when teaching and learning are becoming increasingly collaborative.”

ScootPad 3 comes with 10 major improvements and new features releasing throughout this summer in time and ready for the next school year 2017-2018:

Automatic Intervention with Unlimited Scaffolding. ScootPad knows when a student is struggling and it automatically scaffolds content in real-time (across DOK and grade levels) providing the student with the prerequisite concept knowledge.
Engaging Content built with 50+ Tech-Enhanced Item formats. Brand new practice and assessment content built from the ground up using the 50+ tech-enhanced item formats which offer the psychometric properties that help more accurately measure student knowledge compared to traditional formats.
Just-In-Time Instruction Lessons when students need the most help. Students now have access to launch a lesson during practice (i.e. on-demand lessons), receive automatically pushed lessons when they struggle (i.e. time-out lessons) or when specifically assigned by their teachers.
Automatic Mastery Checks ensuring students retain previously practiced concepts. ScootPad will automatically revisit concepts with strategically spaced quick assessments, also known as Mastery Checks, to ensure students retain knowledge from previously practiced concepts.
Quick Formative Data Using Entry-Exit Tickets and Pre-Built Assessments. Our out-of-the-box assessments save you valuable time while helping you quickly assess what your students know and don’t know, compare the results, and use these insights to adjust your instruction.
Developing a Growth Mindset through student feedback. ScootPad helps students build a growth mindset by providing feedback that reinforces them to embrace challenges and believe in effort as the path to mastery. Additionally, the new Weekly Goals feature encourages students to achieve and exceed their goals.
Predict Concepts Requiring Re-Teaching with the New Intervention Monitor. Driven by student learning data and data-based decision making, you can predict supplementary interventions for students who do not respond to the automatic intervention and scaffolding provided by ScootPad.
Collaborative and Insightful Dashboards and User Experience. Our newly designed user interface helps you easily collaborate with others, get to any feature with 3 or less clicks, find expert advice or answers to your questions and more.
New and improved Personalized Diagnostic Assessment. Powered by our Knowledge Map, the diagnostic assessment is personalized to each student to precisely identify which concepts the student has previous knowledge and which ones need additional practice.
Context sensitive help and on-demand PD resources. With the redesigned help and navigation, finding resources on how to best use a feature is just one-click away. All training videos, free webinars and knowledge base will be available on-demand in one place and easy to find.

To help prepare schools and teachers with these new capabilities, ScootPad will be releasing a 10-part blog series over the next 10 weeks to introduce and explain each of these 10 major improvements. In addition, ScootPad also announced Free Webinars available every week this summer to help train and prepare teachers.

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February 17, 2017

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ScootPad launches edNexus.io platform with advanced adaptive learning capabilities

San Jose, CA – February 16, 2017. ScootPad, a leading adaptive learning platform, today announced the general availability of the edNexus.io platform, offering a truly personalized learning experience powered by advanced adaptive capabilities.

It all started in 2015 when a team of 40+ educators, engineers and curriculum developers got together to re-imagine personalized learning based on research-driven best practices and lessons learnt from their first generation adaptive platform. After a successful development cycle followed by an extensive pilot testing, today ScootPad announced the general availability of their 2.0 features to all users.

“Personalized Learning is a popular edtech buzzword, used by many curriculum and learning management systems alike. They merely offer teachers the data and tools to manually personalize learning for each student. It’s not practical as well as ineffective for a teacher to personalize learning for each student consistently and continuously.” said Bharat Kumar, CEO & Co-Founder of ScootPad. “A true personalized learning tool will respond to a student’s interactions in real-time by automatically providing the student with the most appropriate content. Only data-driven adaptive algorithms can deliver personalized learning effectively, affordably and at scale.”

ScootPad’s newly released 2.0 platform enables a fully-automated adaptive learning process while empowering teachers with insights and tools to adjust instruction and deliver timely interventions. Some of the key capabilities of the 2.0 platform include:

Knowledge Map driven learning progression
Spiraling and Spacing for more robust encoding of information and better long-term retention
Real-Time Content Scaffolding to deeper content and prerequisite concepts
Depth Of Knowledge (DOK) leveled content to more accurately deliver rigor
Technology Enhanced Items (TEI) to more accurately measure student knowledge compared to traditional formats
Just-In-Time instruction with both on-demand and time-out lessons
Truly Personalized Diagnostic to quickly and accurately assess student proficiency in concepts and
Automatic Mastery Checks to ensure students retained knowledge from previously practiced concepts.

“Our adaptive learning platform is now available for our partners to enable personalized learning for their students using the new web service APIs.” said Maya Gadde, CTO & Co-Founder of ScootPad. To learn more, please visit http://edNexus.io.