NEOnet Attention: Christopher Zolla 700 Graham Road Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221

NEOnet LMS Request for Quote Due December 3, 2014

David Shoots Schoology, Inc. Regional Director of Sales 115 W. 30th St., 10th Floor Phone: 212-213-8333 x 146 New York, NY 10001 Email:[email protected] www.schoology.com 1-800-393-7550 Fax 1-212-643-7586 LMS RFQ

Christopher Zolla NEOnet 700 Graham Road Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221

Dear Christopher, December 3, 2014

Thank you for this opportunity to respond to NEOnet RFQ for a Learning Management System. Based upon the scope of services requested in the RFQ, our experience and proven track record of complex implementations, we’re confident that our SaaS based Learning Management System will meet and exceed your requirements.

Our bottom line is helping teachers improve student outcomes. Schoology is an intuitive, easy to use platform that can be accessed anytime, anywhere, from any device. This solution includes dynamic instructional features, lesson planning tools, course management, personalized & differentiated learning, and professional development capabilities; as well as communication and social networking facilities in a single easy to implement platform. Schoology will also provide robust features for developing and disseminating assessments of all formats, as well as the ability to provide data for analysis that will help guide instruction. Materials can all be stored, shared, and collaborated on in our Learning Object Repository feature sets. We are proud to provide a visionary educational system and we are thrilled at the prospect of partnering with your organization to shift the narrative for online, blended and device driven instruction.

The platform provides a personalized suite of virtual tools: online gradebook, attendance, tests/quizzes, assignments, discussion boards, blogs, course page, standards-aligned educational resources, and seamless access to instructional applications and integrations.

Thank you for the opportunity to present this solution. Schoology states, without qualification, that this proposal represents the services offered. We are ready to dig in and partner with you to leverage our momentum and achieve our mutual goal of successful, statewide blended learning adoption. We look forward to working with NEOnet.

Sincerely,

David Shoots Regional Director of Sales Phone: 212-213-8333 x 146 Email: [email protected]

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Table of Contents

Company Profile ...... 4

References ...... 6

Learning Management System Overview ...... 7

Implementation ...... 41

Price ...... 51

Schoology MSA ...... 53

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Company Profile

Schoology founders Jeremy Friedman, Ryan Hwang, Tim Trinidad, and Bill Kindler teamed up and formed a C-Corporation and began the development of Schoology at the end of 2009. Their mission: To reinvent the way technology is implemented in the classroom. With a goal of improving student outcomes, they realized the need to disrupt the education technology market by making Schoology available for every teacher in every classroom. Schoology not only provides schools and districts with a configurable, scalable, and easy-to-implement solution, but also provides a basic version of its award-winning platform free for teachers. As a result, enterprise adoption is easier for schools and districts. Our Creed: Because of the teachers and students who inspire us, we strive to stay curious, learn something every day, and always be open to new ideas. Headquartered in New York, the Schoology team includes 100 of the industries brightest professionals and growing. Schoology is a private, international company, with over 7 million users and customers in 136 countries. Teaching isn't easy. All too often educators are asked to achieve high goals with meager resources and distracted students. No technology alone can improve learning, but an intimate partnership between educational institutions and technology developers can.

Historically, LMSs have been differentiated through the features and functions they offer, and while this is still true today, we at Schoology believe that it is time to change the conversation, from Learning Management to a focus on creating a Digital Learning Ecosystem, powered by a state-of-the-art Instructional Operating System. The advantages are many, and significant. The Schoology platform allows districts and their sub-systems to come together in a strategic manner to exert greater control and influence over their digital learning infrastructure. It enables each institution, its faculty, and students to draw on an evolving set of native and integrated 3rd party tools to support digital learning for residential, flipped classroom, online and blended learning.

Our cloud-based, SaaS solution is flexible, scalable and highly extensible. Schoology is the epicenter of interoperability and the foundation for instructional integration. It overcomes the challenges that conventional LMSs have integrating new features and technologies by behaving more like your computers operating system rather than an array of disparate software applications and tools struggling to co-exist. Conventional LMSs are inefficient, unmanageable, perpetuate silos of information and lack a user-centric

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focus. In fact, some have argued that the feature/function “arms race” of learning platforms has actually led to systems that are “less usable” and incredibly frustrating for student and faculty end-users:

The course-centered systems built over the last 15 years--and their modern day iterations--place a high priority on features and functions, but often at the expense of usability. As an industry, staying competitive in the LMS marketplace has often meant having the ability to put a check in the feature box of an RFP. This has led to a marketplace consisting of loosely integrated disparate technologies, lackluster faculty adoption and disappointing student outcomes. Schoology’s founders had a much different vision, to build a platform that students would actually want to use and educators would embrace--one that would become the foundation for interoperability and support a digital learning ecosystem. Schoology is a platform focused on usability (UI/UX) and interoperability while incorporating personalized learning tools that enhance the important roles of community, communication and collaboration within education. The results have been profound. The product has become a game changer and new paradigm for online learning. As the 2014 SIIA CODiE 3x award winner, including for Top Overall Education Solution, we believe the Schoology platform has set a new standard for online learning; in fact, we have created a whole new category of technology, the Instructional Operating System. We have moved the conversation from course and learning management to an institutional, enterprise-wide conversation about efficiency, efficacy and student success.

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References

Organization Main Contact Address Phone 645 South Main NOACSC (Northwest Ray Burden Street Ohio Area Computer Executive Director 419-228-7417x112 Lima, Ohio 45804- Services Cooperative) [email protected] 1241 100 DeBartolo Place John LaPlante Suite 222 Executive Director 330-965-2830 ACCESS Boardman, OH [email protected] 44512

Brent Shafer Perrysburg Local 140 East Indiana Technology Coordinator 419-872-8840 School District Ave. Perrysburg, [email protected] Ohio 43551

BJ Thaman Fairbanks Local 11158 Ohio 38 Technology Coordinator 937-349-3731 School District Milford Center, OH [email protected] 43045

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Learning Management System Overview 9.1 Requirements 9.1.1 Ease of Use User friendly for teachers and students

Schoology harnesses the power of social networking to create a dynamic, interactive and community- based learning environment. Because the interface mirrors popular social networking sites, educators are able to quickly and intuitively integrate Schoology into the classroom with little or no training. Students are excited to use Schoology because it’s similar to communication platforms which they use outside the classroom. Additionally, students stay focused on learning because content is delivered in a highly interactive, individualized, and engaging way. Collaboration and connection come easy when technology is always on.

9.1.2 Course Delivery Syllabus

A Course syllabus can be stored and utilized in a Schoology course.

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Rosters

The Schoology Platform and as such receives all roster and schedule in an instantaneous and integrated process. As part of the SIS Integration Platform, or other previously described integration methods, all school buildings, grading periods, users, courses, sections and enrollments are transferred to Schoology automatically. No action on behalf of teachers is required in either methodology.

Ability to record and replay lessons

Using Schoology’s conferencing tool, users can share and record sessions.

Ability to have multiple teachers with full access to lessons

Multiple teachers can be assigned to a single course.

Ability to present courses By module By date Calendar view of assignments

Instructors can easily build learning paths from course elements by organizing content into folders that provide sequential access to material. Content can be released by time/date allowing instructors to provide autonomous learning paths.

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Course Features Courses and content are controlled by access control. Instructors have the ability to designate that only students of a particular course can see material. Subsets of the course can be categorized as well to allow further granular control, preventing access to the course roster while still showing the rest of the material. Students can post discussions which can be graded by the teacher; here a recent activity feed shows which students are participating and a perfect example of how Schoology reaches students by engaging them in discussions.

Templates/Catalogs Course and content templates can be created, managed and shared via the Resources area. This allows users to pick and choose desired material for import into other courses in a single click. Entire courses, or course templates, can be obtained by simply choosing to “Copy section.”

Course Creation Schoology allows for native course creation via several methods: users may manually create courses, import courses from a file or SIS, or programmatically create courses via the Schoology REST-based API. Courses can be created in a number of ways; by an instructor (though this can be disabled via a permission), by an administrator either manually or imported in bulk, or programmatically via the Schoology API. Schoology also offers several optional methods for enrollment creation; by the instructor

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of a course selecting from a list (which can be disabled), by the student using an access code by an instructor (which can be disabled), by an administrator (either manually, or imported in bulk), or programmatically via the Schoology API.

Course Delivery Schoology meets the needs of all different types of teaching styles. For instructors that want to quickly update their online courses, Schoology provides a “Post” feature on the instructor’s homepage that allows a user to create certain material (e.g. assignments, events, and announcements) and instantly post the material to their course(s) and/or group(s), which drastically reduces the amount of time instructors need to spend updating their online environments.

To build out more robust online courses, Schoology allows for courses to be structured using content folders, which can contain any content type. These folders can also provide sequential organization. Students and instructors are informed of new assignments, test/quizzes, and events via a notification system and notification alerts. These alerts can be customized on an individual basis.

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Students and instructors are reminded of assignments and due dates via personal upcoming planners on their homepage and an aggregated calendar. A user calendar can be added to an external provider via a Schoology iCal feed, enabling a user to view Schoology events in a user’s native calendaring application. Schoology offers an internal messaging system where instructors and students can communicate and share files/links. The internal messaging system can be filtered, as well as monitored, from an administrative aspect. Schoology also communicates via Schoology’s digital Drop box. The Dropbox provides an interface for students to submit files for revision and/or grade. It also allows for instructors to return files with comments.

Course Calendar Schoology’s calendars are color-coded, provide automatic updating, and can synchronize with other web- based calendars such as Microsoft Outlook or Google Calendar. Our calendars are associated with every member, group and campus that the user belongs to and can integrate with personal calendars via iCal links. With Google Apps integration, this can be synced to or from Google Calendar as well. This compiles into one incredibly useful calendar with drag and drop functionality. Any time an event with a date is created it is automatically aggregated on the user’s personal Schoology calendar. Syncing your calendar is a simple process that the user chooses during account set up.

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Assignment notification Via Email Via SMS

Announcements can be easily pushed out to the entire district, school, course, or group through the Updates feature. The Updates area is used by administration and instructors to create announcements and brief messages to the designated audience. Updates will appear in the Updates section of your course and/or group as well as on your homepage. Update notifications can reach end users by text message, email, push notification, or native within the platform.

9.1.3 Required Tools Forums

Schoology provides the ability to easily create course or group discussions at any time, which are threaded and neatly organized. Users can reply in-line to one another, attach files, embed links and video, and record video or audio to their posts. In course discussions, teachers have the ability to filter user and see how many comments have been made.

Quiz features Online grading and test results delivery

Schoology includes many automatic processes to save time including automatic grading. Primarily, any assignment, unless otherwise marked by the instructor, will generate a gradebook entry. Furthermore, in terms of assessments, all questions with the exception of short answer/essay questions, can be automatically graded, saving instructors countless hours of time.

Schoology’s grading tools are intuitively placed directly onto grading materials to enable for efficient recording of grades. The integrated gradebook in Schoology compiles all graded materials, including automatically scored assessments. Grading for responses, discussion board participation, learner submitted essays and attendance is available in both the full, browser based Schoology or in the mobile App formats. Schoology’s API will enable real-time and batch data integration with your SIS. Lastly the Gradebook is visible, including all weighting, periods and categories to learners on a permission basis. (Administrators may turn on-off and customize access on a configurable, user-role basis.)

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Ability to highlight text and eliminate answers

Schoology does not currently support this feature. However, in 2015, Schoology plans Enhanced Assessment for improvements specific to Benchmark Assessments, including, but not limited to PARCC/Smarter Balanced item types.

Question types Multiple Choice Multiple select True/False Short answer Extended response Polling

Yes. Schoology offers numerous types of assessments including quizzes, tests, assignments, discussions, and surveys while also supporting all major question types: True/False, Multiple Choice, Short Answer, Ordering, Fill in the Blank, and Matching. Additional formats are currently in development. Schoology’s assessment engine allows for rich-text editing and the input of math formulas. These assessment types can always be offered to entire classes, individual students, or specific groups of students through the “Individually Assigned” feature, making Schoology assessment tools both intuitive and personalized for the instructor, and the learner.

When creating the assessment, the instructor has the ability to change the settings to randomize the order of the questions, as well as the order of answers in question types with multiple options (e.g.

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matching, multiple choice). Question banks can be created to organize test questions. Via the Resources area, these banks can be shared for use both locally and globally. All types of media can be included in questions (e.g. images, video, audio, interactive activities, etc.).

Item Analysis

Schoology includes in the view of any quiz results page a bar graph icon that upon roll over reveals that it provides all of the statistics associated with the individual quiz.

Common Core Tagging

All content can be tagged to the Common Core or State Standards, or custom standards imported by site administrators. Shown here is an example of the teacher adding alignments to a file while adding to their personal resources or LOR:

Visual Grade Import To integrate written assignments

Schoology allows for manual grading of assignments not completed in the platform. This is accomplished by using the “Grade Column” functionality within the Schoology gradebook.

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Math editor

Schoology provides a Rich Text Editor (RTE) that provides users the ability to engage with a full range of characters and symbols. This functionality was enhanced with the help of Cherry Creek School District in order to meet the needs of their math and science courses.

Drag and drop capabilities

Schoology supports drag and drop functionality including reordering course materials, files, and calendar items.

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Interactive Tools

Schoology supports interactive tools in many ways and allows for content authoring with a rich text editor. Creating content is menu driven and logical; Various video, audio text, interactive content and image files can be included, categorized, aligned to standards and shared. Note, loading files also includes video, audio and these other file types.

Schoology uses TinyMCE, www.tinymce.com, as our WYSIWYG editor throughout the entire application. Schoology provides its rich text editor functionality within each area of the platform and can be used from a mobile device.

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Schoology allows you to embed visual, audio and media content from web-based programs and websites.

Ruler Protractor

Currently, Schoology does not offer a ruler or protractor as part of its core functionality but could be considered as a future release or leveraged through a third party tool.

Virtual classroom Ability to chat

Schoology supports chat and virtual classroom functionality.

Ability to whiteboard

Schoology supports whiteboard functionality.

Ability to provide streaming video

Schoology’s App Center - Schoology makes Apps accessible through an iFrame canvas which links to one or more pages on a product’s application server. Simply put, you can fully integrate and pass data back and forth between applications like Blackboard Collaborate and Turnitin. And, you can run any URL from within Schoology. Merely linking to a static URL like google.com or a specific YouTube video is no different than attaching an embed code to a Schoology content type. What makes an embedded application extremely useful is the communication that happens between your linked application and the Schoology API. Because the application processing happens on your server, the developer is able to use any server programming language to output your HTML webpages.

Apps can be configured to run directly within a course, or even right on the user’s homepage. This allows developers to create a highly integrated experience, where users feel as though Schoology and third-party Apps are one in the same. Developing Apps is greatly simplified with the help of Schoology’s publically available developer site (https://developers.schoology.com/app-platform). The developer area provides useful information such as developer resources, Software Developer Kits (SDKs), and additional items that can be helpful when learning about the App Center.

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Schoology links to external content through iframe.

Ability to present material in real-time (document sharing)

Schoology supports real-time document sharing through an integration with Google Apps for Education and Google Drive.

Split Screen view Scroll bars Text on left and questions on the right

Schoology does not currently support this functionality.

E-Portfolio Student build portfolio of all digital content

Schoology currently supports learner e-portfolio functionality, for all users (teachers, too) where users can add files, videos, audio, and any electronic resource throughout their academic career. Schoology plans to release enhanced e-portfolio functionality in early 2015.

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Recording options One year worth of history

Yes. Everything in Schoology is archived and saved.

9.1.4 Device Support Tablets/Phones Chrome Books Pcs MACs

Schoology is a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution and therefore is a web delivered platform that supports any modern web browser, including, but not limited to Internet Explorer 9 and above, Chrome, Safari, Opera and Firefox 3.5+. Schoology’s cloud hosted platform does not require additional hardware configurations or client side plugins.

Schoology platform provides access from iOS (iPhone and iPad), Android/Blackberry, laptops, or any web- enabled devices. Schoology provides these access points not only through traditional browser methodologies but also with cutting edge native applications for iOS and Android.

9.1.5 Content Web portal for teacher Professional Development Classroom lesson resources Videos Documents (teacher provided) Links Uploading documents/videos Student submission of assignments Teacher deliver of assignments

Schoology offers a true Learning Object Repository (Public Resources) that all users can contribute to or access for materials storage and retrieval for their courses. Schoology actively promotes the ability to collect, store and even share resources from peer-to-peer, programs, schools and districts through personal, group or public resources. Personal resources allow the user to save a collection of their own specific content or state aligned item banks for use in their course, assignment, or assessments; the group resources function collects materials for activity, study, education or global Schoology community educator users. The Schoology Public Resources allows (by permissions) all users the ability to contribute store and share resources throughout the school, district, State or global Schoology community.

Adding content to the LOR, or teachers’ resources is menu driven and logical; simply by choosing the type of file or collection and importing it, the resource is saved. Various video, audio text, interactive content

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and image files can be linked, categorized and shared. Note, loading files also includes video, audio and these other file types. Shown here is an example of the teacher adding alignments to a file while adding to their personal resources or LOR:

The Schoology document viewer can convert media nearly 200 hundred file types accessible via a browser. The same hold trues for video. Notice, too, that teachers have the ability to add resource to and from their Google Docs, and other shared resources.

Students can easily submit assignments (via Schoology Assignment drop box) from their Schoology Resources, which includes the integrated Google Drive. They may also select to attach their assignment from their network or computer directory. Students may also compose and submit via the embedded rich text editor. Schoology’s drop box supports over 200 file types including many common types such as Pages, Word, and PDF.

For mobile and tablet devices, Students can create and submit their homework directly through the mobile apps by typing a text submission, taking a photo, or recording video. They can also upload files into Schoology and submit them into the assignment Dropbox.

Importing/conversion content from other content management systems SCORM compliance

Schoology supports the import of SCORM content packages within courses and in resources. SCORM content displays in the Schoology platform as an iFrame and allows for full SCORM functionality and navigation. Schoology is an active member of the IMS Global Learning Consortium. As a member,

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Schoology fully supports IMS standards such as Common Cartridge and Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI).

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Import wish list a) Khan Academy content import b) I-Learn Ohio c) Moodle d) Schoology e) Black Board f) Edmodo g) Plato/Edmentum

Course imports are conducted using a file import wizard or programmatically via the Schoology REST- based API. Courses can be copied as a template for reuse at a later date. Copying will retain all non- enrollment based content. For instance, if a discussion thread existed, only the thread body would be copied, but old user comments would not be, as these users would no longer be in the course. Content can be saved into the Resources area for import into a different area at a later date by simply clicking a “Save to Resources” button. Schoology also supports the import of SCORM content packages. SCORM content displays in the Schoology platform as an IFrame and allows for full SCORM functionality and navigation.

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Resource Apps integrate third-party content, such as Khan Academy, Google Drive, or Dropbox, directly into the Resource Center. This means that all of your personal, shared, public, and external instructional resources are consolidated in one place.

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9.1.6 Cloud Integration Google Drive and Google Apps integration Office 365 integration

Yes. Schoology enables a district to leverage third-party applications within the platform, either through our API or by conforming to IMS Global Standards. A common integration is with Google Apps for Education. For instance, a user might integrate with Blackboard Collaborate or Big Blue Button, so that sessions are created and scheduled within Schoology. The user would then have a link, directly from Schoology, that would log him/her into the conference without ever leaving Schoology. We currently integrate with Google Apps for Education by allowing institutions to register their Google Apps domain with Schoology to provision accounts and establish Single Sign-On. Additionally, Schoology allows for integrations with Google Docs and Google Calendar.

The best educational solutions are built to enhance core competency. For Schoology, that means building a dynamic, easy-to-use learning platform that stands as the operating system for education. The Schoology App Center provides you with access to the most effective educational applications on the market. These apps are seamlessly integrated and installed with the click of a button. Apps can be developed with a “scope” limited to a particular institution which provides users with the ability to develop custom applications only seen by District users and is hosted on your own servers with your own code (in any language). An example of this could be a connection to data warehouse, SIS or any other external service. This allows you to provide a custom and seamless experience that has single-sign-on, direct communication with Schoology, all from an integrated environment. The App Center provides a medium for viewing all Apps that are available to the currently logged in user. In addition to advanced searching techniques, each App has its own custom profile which is created by the App developer, and approved by Schoology.

Schoology makes Apps accessible through an iFrame canvas which links to one or more pages on a product’s application server. Simply put, you can fully integrate and pass data back and forth between

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applications like Blackboard Collaborate and Turnitin. And, you can run any URL from within Schoology. Merely linking to a static URL like google.com or a specific YouTube video is no different than attaching an embed code to a Schoology content type. What makes an embedded application extremely useful is the communication that happens between your linked application and the Schoology API. Because the application processing happens on your server, the developer is able to use any server programming language to output your HTML webpages. Apps can be configured to run directly within a course, or even right on the user’s homepage.

This allows developers to create a highly integrated experience, where users feel as though Schoology and third-party Apps are one in the same. Developing Apps is greatly simplified with the help of Schoology’s publically available developer site (https://developers.schoology.com/app-platform). The developer area provides useful information such as developer resources, Software Developer Kits (SDKs), and additional items that can be helpful when learning about the App Center. Schoology is on the forefront of integration and interoperability, and is fully aware of the K-12 federated search standards currently under development by the IMS global team. Schoology will carefully review the scope of these K-12 federated search standards and consider them for development once they’re published by IMS and available to the public.

Schoology is IMS Certified: http://www.imsglobal.org/cc/detail.cfm?ID=180

Schoology is Compliant with the following standards:

• IMS • IMS Enterprise • Common Cartridge • QTI (Question Test Interoperability)

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• LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) • OSID (Open Service Interface Definition) • LDAP Authentication • SCORM • XML • Web Services (i.e. SOA – Service Oriented Architecture)

9.1.7 Course Bank Ability to save assigned courses to individual teachers Should associate with a course in PB Gradebook so that curriculum and students are assigned after import. This could be a manual process.

All course and course material within Schoology can be saved into Resources for use later. Additionally, template courses can be created, and new courses can be created based upon the template course.

Provided that Schoology has all the necessary API endpoints from PB, a direct integration can be implemented so that users, courses, sections, and enrollments are all automatically provisioned from PB directly to Schoology. This type of integration has already been implemented within Schoology for many SIS, including, but not limited to, Sungard eSchool Plus, TIES, PowerSchool, and others. At the current time, PB does not have all of the necessary endpoints to complete this level of integration. However, if the proper level of API endpoints were available, Schoology would complete this integration at no additional charge to the District.

In the meantime, without API access, Schoology can be provisioned using Automated SFTP. This is a component of our Technical Implementation, and is something that we would assist with. Our technical team has a customized ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool that is used to create an automated script that would pull information from ProgressBook and upload to Schoology via SFTP.

9.1.8 Class List integration with ProgressBook Suite Class list should directly integrate with suite via Vendorlink

Schoology currently supports API integration to third party gradebooks and does not require schools to leave their online gradebook to use Schoology. At this time, the ProgressBook gradebook API (Vendorlink) does not have end points for marking periods, and the relation of teachers to sections and assignments. Therefore, API integration is not available from ProgressBook at this time. Please note that there are multiple instances where schools have elected to opt out of ProgressBook and use the Schoology gradebook exclusively, which does provide a tool to integrate summary reporting grades into DASL SIS for state and gradecard reporting. If ProgressBook were to provide the necessary API endpoints to complete this level of integration, Schoology would implement this functionality at no additional charge.

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Please note that at the current time, given the limitations in the VendorLink API, no LMS can provide this level of integration. However, as mentioned above, Automatic SFTP could be used to accomplish this goal today.

Below is an example of how Schoology integrates with Powerschool for this functionality:

9.1.9 Assignment integration with ProgressBook Suite Assignments created by teachers should directly integrate with suite via Vendorlink

Schoology currently supports API integration to third party gradebooks and does not require schools to leave their online gradebook to use Schoology. At this time, the ProgressBook gradebook API (Vendorlink) does not have end points for marking periods, and the relation of teachers to sections and assignments. Therefore, API integration is not available from ProgressBook at this time. Please note that there are multiple instances where schools have elected to opt out of ProgressBook and use the Schoology gradebook exclusively, which does provide a tool to integrate summary reporting grades into DASL SIS for state and gradecard reporting. If ProgressBook were to provide the necessary API endpoints to complete this level of integration, Schoology would implement this functionality at no additional charge.

Please note that at the current time, given the limitations in the VendorLink API, no LMS can provide this level of integration.

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Below is an example of how Schoology integrates with Powerschool for this functionality.

9.1.10 Grading integration with ProgressBook Suite Marks from assignments taken by students should directly integration with suite via Vendorlink

Schoology currently supports API integration to third party gradebooks and does not require schools to leave their online gradebook to use Schoology. At this time, the ProgressBook gradebook API (Vendorlink) does not have end points for marking periods, and the relation of teachers to sections and assignments. Therefore, API integration is not available from ProgressBook at this time. Please note that there are multiple instances where schools have elected to opt out of ProgressBook and use the Schoology gradebook exclusively, which does provide a tool to integrate summary reporting grades into DASL SIS for state and gradecard reporting.

Please note that at the current time, given the limitations in the VendorLink API, no LMS can provide this level of integration.

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9.1.11 Course Curriculum Bank Purchased and home grown materials

Learning Object Repository (LOR) Unlike other LMS vendors that are course driven, Schoology offers a true Learning Object Repository (Public Resources) that all users can contribute to or access for materials storage and retrieval for their courses. Schoology actively promotes the ability to collect, store and even share resources from peer-to- peer, programs, schools and districts through personal, group or public resources. Personal resources allow the user to save a collection of their own specific content or aligned item banks for use in their course, assignment, or assessments; the group resources function collects materials for activity, study, education or global Schoology community educator users.

Adding content to the LOR, or teachers’ resources is menu driven and logical; simply by choosing the type of file or collection and importing it, the resource is saved. Various video, audio text, interactive content and image files can be linked, categorized and shared. Loading files also includes video, audio and other file types. Shown here is an example of a teacher adding alignments to a file while adding to their personal resources or LOR:

The Schoology document viewer can convert media nearly 200 hundred file types accessible via a browser. The same hold trues for video. Teachers also have the ability to add resource to and from their Google Docs, and other shared resources.

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Schoology’s search functionality allows users to easily search for content and resources within their private, group or public resources area. Searches can be run to look for resources by key word, content type or even by state standard alignment.

Adding, storing and sharing files of all types also extends to Schoology Groups. Here, a Social Studies group has the same functionality as above with the ability to add, store and share content. Monitioring and privacy filters can be intstitued by the teacher.

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Further, Schoology’s Resource Center can provide easy access to sort (and rate) content across a school, district, state, or Global Schoology community. The benefit of the Resource Center is to allow an instructor to upload files and links into a course. The instructor can open or limit access of the posted material to a variety of different levels. In this way, if a user who is not authorized obtains a direct link to the course material, he/she will still remain unable to access the documents. This method of access control provides granular control through an easy-to-use and easy-to-understand interface.

An example with even more granularity involves a user’s personal “Resources” area. The Resources area allows a user to retain files, links, documents, and templates of any material inside a “Collection.” This Collection can then be shared with trusted users on a one-by-one basis. The user who is sharing the material can then further designate whether access is editable, or simply viewable.

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Resource Apps Resource Apps integrate third-party content, such as Khan Academy, Google Drive, or Dropbox, directly into the Resource Center. This means that all of your personal, shared, public, and external instructional resources are consolidated in one place.

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Ability to share home grown material between sites

Yes. See above.

Should be customizable down to the student level (example: hide or show content based on student)

Yes. Schoology supports this functionality through visibility controls.

Content Carryover from year to year

Yes. Content (and Course Templates) can be reused from year to year.

9.1.12 Plagiarism protection integration (example Turn it in)

Schoology has built an integration with the plagiarism product Turnitin by leveraging the API in order to create a seamless workflow between Schoology and Turnitin. This enables an instructor to launch the application in Schoology using the iFrame.

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9.1.13 Reporting Login statistics Audit logging Usage reporting

Schoology has multiple levels of analytics to allow instructors and administrators to view and analyze data within the system. Tracking usage and interactions in the platform can be done on both a course and school/district wide level. On the course level, instructors can see analytics broken out by Course, Users, Assignments, Discussions, and Links. Administrators and instructors will be able to find individualized usage statistics for each student in the course. Summary data such as last login date, last course access, total time in course, and total number of posts can all be seen in the initial view. One more click will reveal more data on their interactions and activity for course items like Assignments, Quizzes, and Discussions. For each of these items, you will find information about first access, last access, total time spent on an item, first submission, last submission, and total action counts.

On a School-wide level, administrators can also track overall usage and adoption of the platform. Using School Analytics, analytics are broken out by School, Users, and System Logs. This information includes total visits, total/average page views, average time per visit, total comments posted, total submissions, and total files uploaded. Each type of data can be individually graphed by clicking on the blocks at the top. This will then allow admins to break down the statistics by role (Faculty, Student, Parent) or by School within the District.

Schoology provides administrators quick and easy access to valuable data with every click of the analytics feature or icon:

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Here, the School analytics tab is simply and intuitively presented allowing users to choose schools or users to view.

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From school data to course data and even student details Administrators can easily continue to click and drill down to see important data:

Detailed Performance Analytics are available for every graded and Assessment item:

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Administrators can utilize analytics transactional reporting and system logs to generate reports and export data from the system. Using the “School Analytics” tab, teachers or administrators have access to a “users” tab where they can track student activity for courses on a course or school-wide basis. This information can be generated for a selected set of users or exported in bulk. With Schoology’s App Center district has the ability to build a proprietary report writer or integrate with a third party tool that is already being used.

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On a School-wide level, administrators can also track overall usage and adoption of the platform. Administrators can go to School Analytics in the left menu to access this area, which contains analytics broken out by School, Users, and System Logs. The School tab displays overall usage statistics for all schools in the district. This information includes total visits, total/average page views, average time per visit, total comments posted, total submissions, and total files uploaded. Each type of data can be individually graphed by clicking on the blocks at the top. This will then allow admins to break down the statistics by role (Faculty, Student, Parent) or by School within the District.

Schoology also provides detailed analytics to assess student performance and attainment on standards alignments and learning outcomes (including state and other custom learning outcomes) in an area within the course called Mastery. This area can be accessed from the Course profile > Gradebook > Mastery left menu. Mastery allows instructors to track and measure each students understanding and mastery of concepts. The initial view has a gradebook-style layout that allows instructors to quickly assess overall

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student Mastery on each alignment. Star icons indicate that Mastery has been achieved on these standards, while a progress bar at the top shows overall class progress towards mastery for all students.

There is a Mastery Settings option in this area that allows instructors to customize how the overall scores for each standard/outcome are calculated (average or highest score). This settings area also allows instructors to set the different thresholds for assessing student attainment: Meets Expectations, Exceeds Expectations, Does Not Meet Expectations. Each of these different attainment levels are colored differently for quick visual reference. Instructors can also set the criteria for Mastery by selecting how many times a student must achieve at least a Meets Expectations score on an individual item aligned to the standard in order to be considered as having mastered their understanding on each concept.

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The Mastery score a student receives on each item for a particular standard/outcome can be different from the scores displayed in the Gradebook. In order to provide to most accurate scoring possible, Schoology will calculate alignment specific sub-scores for each item to ensure that grades for other standards/outcome do not factor in. This means if a quiz has multiple questions each aligned to different standards; the Mastery score for that quiz on a particular standard will only factor in questions that are aligned to the same standard. The same applies for rubric-based scoring on assignments or discussions.

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Implementation 10.1 Requirements 10.1.1 Multi-site implementation Ability to multi-tenant

Schoology supports multiple site implementations within a single district or institution.

Ability to personalize landing page per site

Schoology is free of third-party branding and can be custom branded to match any look and feel. Custom themes can be applied to the School District or each, individual school. Custom front pages can be developed and can include login fields for Single Sign-On. This includes, but is not limited to, background color, logos, icons, format. WCSD6 will have the ability to use a custom domain or sub-domain.

Ability to distribute administration of a site

Yes. Schoology is a blank slate role-based system that allows administrators to develop an infinite number of roles that can be configured to have different levels of access and permissions. District or school administrators have the ability to create designated roles and permissions through the account user management interface. By default, Schoology creates Student (and Parent if required), teacher and Administrator user roles and assigns each role a set of permissions. Both the role names and/or the

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applied permissions can be customized at any time. In addition to default roles, Schoology allows an administrator to define new or customize existing role names and corresponding permission sets.

Within the permission sets, an administrator can define who has the ability to access specific information. This means that a “super-admin” can specify that a “school administrator” can only administer information at his/her specific school building, while the “super-admin” can administer information for all schools within the District. These permissions are broken down per realm (e.g. course, group, and user) and can be defined per building.

A detailed list of permissions is associated with each user including: . Configurable multiple user roles . Roles included within a department (i.e. teacher, administrator, student) Can control what appears on the homepage . Roles include site authority & district authority hierarchies . Administrators can easily change users from one role to another . Accessible inside/outside the Districts firewall . Be assigned by user . Control who can upload content . Allow Observer/Mentor account access . Monitor message boards . Approve of users . Approval of content

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Ability to provide per site templates for testing and curriculum

Course and content templates can be created, managed and shared via the Resources area. This allows users to pick and choose desired material for import into other courses in a single click. Entire courses, or course templates, can be obtained by simply choosing to “Copy section.”

Courses are automatically added to the course catalog upon creation in Schoology. Access to the course catalog can be controlled to only allow users with a specific permission to view the course listings. The respective privacy setting of any particular course controls access to particular courses. Courses can be searched for via a search engine built into Schoology. Search results are ranked and displayed by relevance. For instance, searching for “English” might return 10 results, however, the first result would be the course you are actually enrolled in (if applicable). Search terms can be either partial words or full words.

As the course catalog is always generated, access to the listing can be controlled through an administrative permission. Course access is controlled via course privacy settings. This means that a user browsing the course catalog might see a course, because it exists, but still not have access due to the instructors restricting access.

10.1.2 Training Online self-paced training with Progress tracking and completion Onsite training options

Schoology will provide customized training focused on a train-the-trainer model for NEOnet System Admins and lead instructors. Each training course includes a course description, intended topics and audience criteria. It is recommended that course participants have basic computer skills and an understanding of how to use internet browser based applications.

While we at Schoology recommend a train-the-trainer approach or some combination of train-the-trainer and end user instruction we also recognize that some organizations have certain needs when it comes to

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training and are open to revising training plans to fit the needs of NEOnet. Experience has shown us that creating experts within an organization helps the client achieve continued success using Schoology.

Overall, Schoology is extremely easy and intuitive to implement, utilize, and manage; therefore, the training is designed with a hands-on approach. Schoology offers a variety of ways for delivering professional development for the product: • Onsite Training • Webinars • Synchronous Online Sessions • Instructional Videos There are two required courses that have been developed for all Schoology clients:

Schoology Enterprise Administration – this course is designed for those who will be responsible for configuring the system, managing accounts and maintaining the platform.

Schoology for Master Instructors – this course is designed for those who will be responsible for being the experts on the platform for the client to service as a first line of support and potentially train other instructors.

In addition to the required courses we also have multiple optional courses as well. Courses that might be of particular interest to NEOnet are as follows:

Getting Started with Schoology for Instructors – this course is a video series that will step instructors through how to set up their courses and begin using the basics of Schoology within their classroom.

Getting Started with Schoology for Students – this course is a short video series that will step students through the basics of using Schoology in their classrooms.

Essentials for Leaders – this course is a video series that will show school and district administrators how Schoology can change their learning environment and build a community for their staff, students and parents.

Our Training Plan for NEOnet is based on a Train-the-Trainer model.

Enterprise Administration Team NEOnet will identify 10-15 system administration personnel to make up the organizations Enterprise Administration Team. This team will be responsible for managing users, working with system settings and handling imports and exports. The training will give the team the knowledge to make modifications in Schoology when necessary allowing them to take ownership of the solution being implemented.

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Schoology Scholars Team NEOnet will identify a group of up to 25 personnel to make up their Schoology Scholars team. This Schoology Scholars team will attend the Schoology for Master Instructors course and follow-up webinar sessions. The Schoology Scholars will learn the product from the instructor’s perspective along with best practices and how to best train and support Schoology moving forward.

In addition to the basic, Schoology proposes developing a series of 8 customized videos for teachers to meet the needs of both the Blended Learning aspects of Schoology, as well as how-to use the Schoology tools for students (2 videos).

Sample Training Plan There are many options for training the Schoology solution, Figure 1 outlines the Training Plan we are proposing for NEOnet.

Course Description Audience/Notes

Schoology for During this course you will learn the basics behind 10-15 System Enterprise administering the Schoology solution. Topics will Administrators Administration include: 4 Hours of Webinar Managing User Accounts System Settings 2 Hours of Follow-up

Permissions Grade Settings Integrations School Analytics Importing/Exporting Functions Enterprise Administration training will be conducted during the beginning stages of the implementation process.

Schoology for This course is designed to give the Schoology 2 Schoology Scholar Master Scholar Teams end user expertise on the sessions of 25 Instructors Schoology solution being presented. Topics will 2 Days onsite per include: team Product Overview Managing Courses 4 Hours of Webinar Assignments Sessions per group of 15 Discussions Test/Quiz

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Resources Groups Gradebook Student View Parent View Best Practices Planning End User Training Master Instructor training will be conducted towards the end of implementation prior to the Go Live date.

A certified Schoology trainer will administer all trainings. The training sessions can be tailored around specific client requests. Ultimately, the staff will have a full understanding of how to use Schoology and will then be able to train the end users in Schoology and help support them with guidance from Schoology staff every step of the way.

Web based documentation with per page help

Conveniently accessible on every page, the “Help” button is just a click for the user to access the very helpful Schoology Support/Help Center. When the user has a question about the operation of the system while they are using it, online and context help is found on all screens for administrators, Teachers, and students. Clicking “Help” will take them to the Schoology Help Center, where students, Teachers and administrators can browse and search through materials, and watch videos about topics they have questions about. Or if that isn’t enough assistance or “Help”, users can access the Community Support Forum and pose their questions to the user community (which is monitored by Schoology support personnel).

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10.1.3 Security Role based security

Schoology is a blank slate role-based system that allows administrators to develop an infinite number of roles that can be configured to have different levels of access and permissions. Administrators have the ability to create designated roles and permissions through the account user management interface. By default, Schoology creates Student (and Parent if required), teacher and Administrator, user roles and assigns each role a set of permissions. Both the role names and/or the applied permissions can be customized at any time. In addition to default roles, Schoology allows an administrator to define new or customize existing role names and corresponding permission sets.

Within the permission sets, an administrator can define who has the ability to access specific information. This means that a “super-admin” can specify that a “district or school administrator” can only administer information at his/her specific district or school building, while the “super-admin” can administer information for all the State, regional, county or schools within the District. These permissions are broken down per realm (e.g. course, group, and user) and can be defined per location.

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A detailed list of permissions is associated with each user including:

Configurable multiple user roles Allow Observer/Mentor account access Roles included within a department (i.e. teacher, Can control what appears on the homepage administrator, student) Roles include site authority & district authority Monitor message boards hierarchies Administrators can easily change users from one role Accessible inside/outside the Districts to another firewall Be assigned by user Approve of users Control who can upload content Approval of content

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Schoology’s easy to use system is created in part by the flexibility and ability to customize infinite roles for each school within the district and the organization as a whole.

SSL version 3 or greater

Schoology does not support SSL version 3, as SSLv3 is susceptible to a major vulnerability knows as POODLE (https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/OpenSSL+SSLv3+POODLE+Vulnerability+Official+Release/18827).

For security purposes, Schoology supports secure connections (HTTPS) via TLS.

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private and integral. SSL is an industry standard and is used by millions of websites in the protection of their online transactions with their customers.

To be able to create an SSL connection a web server requires an SSL Certificate. The complexities of the SSL protocol remain invisible to end-users. Instead, browsers provide them with a key indicator to let them know they are currently protected by an SSL encrypted session by displaying a lock near the URL; clicking on the lock icon displays details about the site’s SSL Certificate. SSL Certificates are issued to verified owners of domains.

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Typically an SSL Certificate will contain the domain name, company name, address, city, state, and country. It will also contain the expiration date of the Certificate and details of the Certification Authority responsible for the issuance of the Certificate. When a browser connects to a secure site it will retrieve the site's SSL Certificate and check that it has not expired, that it has been issued by a Certification Authority the browser trusts, and that it is being used by the website for which it has been issued. If it fails on any one of these checks the browser will display a warning to the end user letting them know that the site is not secured by SSL. Schoology makes use of an extra secure extended validation certificate, which can be determined when visiting https://www.schoology.com and noticing the green URL bar.

Applications make varying and different uses of SSL depending on use case. For websites that collect credit card information, any form collecting data would be served from a page behind SSL. With Schoology, pages involving sensitive user information are served through SSL. Login Credential Security

Session based security

Every action performed on Schoology is logged in an advanced logging system. The logging system records the acting user, their IP address, the timestamp, the browser type, and the type of action. This data is stored indefinitely and provides a complete audit trail of system activity. These logs act not only as a troubleshooting mechanism for school administrators, but also as a robust security tool.

10.1.4 LDAP integration The product should have the ability to integration with multiple LDAP Sources

Schoology can establish Single Sign-On (Remote Authentication) with third-party systems and integrate with LDAP/AD or any third-party authentication service.

10.1.5 Access The product should have 24-7 access for teachers and students to use anytime, anywhere, and any device

Schoology is an intuitive, easy to use platform that can be accessed anytime, anywhere, from any web enabled device.

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Price Enterprise Services (annual subscription)

Premium Subscription License: NEOnet pricing, includes participation District students; with all site- related teachers, administrators, faculty, staff and parents included with subscription fees. Enterprise Licensing fees are calculated by school enrollment multiplied by “rate per student”. School enrollments are defined as Ohio Department of Education ADM (average daily membership.) Includes Enterprise

Administration per District.

Student Count Tier Rate Total Charge (For the entire tier) (Minimum 2,000) First 15,000 students 15,000 $6.50 per student $ 97,500 Total Next 10,000 students 25,000 $6.00 per student $ 97,500 + $60,000 = $157,500 Next 15,000 students 40,000 $ 97,500 + $60,000 + $75,000 = $5.00 per student $232,500

Subscription Includes:  Schoology LMS Features  Enterprise Administrator Management Interface  Advanced User Management  Site Branding / Domain Customization  Support Services (Priority SLA + Phone/Email Support)  Premium API Access & Single Sign-On (SSO) Integration Enterprise Implementation (non-recurring services) Schoology partners with district technology teams in support of centralized roll-outs of tasks including, at a minimum, System Configuration Consultation, Initial Setup per District participating, Admin Training, SSO configuration, SIS integration support as available, the facilitation of artwork/branding and domain customization. NEOnet will provide Schoology with an authorized contact at each member district entered into Schoology Enterprise.

District Size Implementation Fee (Number of Students) Under 1,000 $1,500.00 1,000-2,500 $2,500.00 2,500-5,000 $4,000.00 5000-10,000 $5,000.00 10,000 + $.5o per student

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Professional Development (non-recurring services) Professional Development: Our goal is to work with you and your ESC partners to create an instructional development plan incorporating a “train-the-trainer” model to develop a capacity for Schoology orientation evaluation and best practices coaching via your professional development teams.

Service Fee Basic Training (Train-the-trainer)* $1,200 Additional Hour(s), web delivered $150 Onsite Training Day (includes T&E) $2,500

Additional Services, Optional (non-recurring services)

ITEM PRICE / RATE

Custom Development Services

API Configuration $2,000 per day / remote services only

Custom Programming Services $250 per hour / project based

Additional Training

Train the trainer onsite $2,500 per day (6 hours

Train the trainer web delivered $150 per 1 hour Session

Note on Additional Services: Please be advised that these are standard bench rates and may not always be available. Please contact your representative to discuss the scope of any additional services you wish to explore. We will be happy to work with you in determining a project plan best suited to your needs.

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THIS MASTER SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is entered into effective as of the last date set forth on the signature page (the “Effective Date”) by and between Schoology, Inc., a Delaware Corporation (“Schoology”), and ______(“Subscriber”) in ______(City), ______(State). The term “Subscriber” shall also refer to a school or group of schools constituting an educational entity or any individual persons using or accessing the Schoology System (as defined in Section 1 below) on behalf of the school or educational entity.

Schoology is a corporation that reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the provides and operates a collaborative learning Schoology System and accompanying Software. management system and secure academic 5. Ownership. The Schoology System is owned social network that are comprised of some or by Schoology and is copyrighted and offered through a all of the items described on Schedule A subscription and not sold to Subscriber. All rights, title, (“Services”). The Schedule A is provided as a and interest in the Schoology System, all source code, separate attachment to the same email that this and all updates, enhancements, modifications, and improvements, along with all intellectual property Agreement is sent from. The parties agree as rights related thereto, shall remain with Schoology, follows: regardless of the source giving rise to the intellectual property and despite any modifications or adaptations 1. Subscription. Subscriber affirms its made for the benefit of Subscriber. The Schoology subscription to the Services for the term specified in System and all updates, enhancements, modifications, Schedule A (the “Term”). In connection with this and improvements are protected by United States and Agreement, Schoology grants to Subscriber a limited international trademark laws and treaties, as well as license to use the software and materials other intellectual property laws. Subscriber is not (“Schoology System”) that implement the delivery of granted any license to use any of Schoology’s trade or the Services. service marks and Schoology retains all right, title, and interest in its trade and service marks. Subscriber Subscriber accepts the subscription to the agrees that Schoology may use, without restriction or Services as described in Schedule A (the royalty obligation, any comments, suggestions or “Subscription”). contributions provided by Subscriber with respect to the Schoology System during the course of Subscriber’s 2. Definition. The Schoology System use. Subscriber hereby grants and assigns to Schoology includes the enterprise level learning management any intellectual property rights that Subscriber may system and configurable social network for students incidentally obtain or have with respect to any such teachers, faculty, and parents to manage and facilitate comments, suggestions or contributions. classroom communication and collaboration. The Schoology system includes gradebooks, attendance 6. Confidential Information. Subscriber modules, course pages, school pages, user pages, group acknowledges that underlying ideas, algorithms, item pages, blogs, discussion boards, messaging, and other calibrations, test scripts, concepts, procedures, features to promote communication and collaboration. processes, principles, know-how, and methods of operation that comprise the Schoology System, 3. Grant of License. Schoology hereby including updates, enhancements, modifications, and grants to Subscriber a nonexclusive, nontransferable improvements are confidential and contain trade secrets license to access, use, and display the Schoology (collectively, “Schoology Confidential Information”), System for Subscriber’s use only for the Term of this and Subscriber will respect such confidentiality, and Agreement. shall keep all such information confidential. Subscriber agrees not to use, disclose, or distribute any Schoology 4. Protection from Unauthorized Use or Confidential Information, directly or indirectly, without Access. Subscriber shall not (a) permit use of the the prior written consent of Schoology, except that Schoology System by anyone not employed or in Schoology authorizes Subscriber to disclose Schoology contract with Subscriber; or (b) modify, adapt, translate,

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This permission shall survive termination time, provide to Subscriber support, updates, or expiration of this Agreement. enhancements, modifications, improvements, and maintenance services. All such support, updates, 8. Fees and Taxes. Subscriber agrees to pay enhancements, modifications, improvements, and the fees for the Subscription to the Services as set forth maintenance services are subject to the terms and in Exhibit A during the Term. Subscriber shall be conditions of this Agreement. solely responsible for any personal property taxes or local licensing fees resulting from Subscriber’s 13. Scheduled Maintenance. Schoology has Subscription or in connection with Schoology’s system maintenance periods throughout the year that delivery of Services under this Agreement. will affect Subscriber’s ability to interact with any of Schoology’s websites. Schoology will use 9. Billing and Payment. Subscriber agrees to commercially reasonable efforts to notify Subscriber in pay 100 % of the amount due upon signing this advance of such disruptions. Agreement. Schoology will send an invoice to Subscriber, and Subscriber shall pay the amount due 14. Limited Warranty. Schoology warrants within 30 days of the invoice date by mailing a check or to Subscriber that: (a) Schoology will comply with depositing the amount due via a wire transfer. all applicable laws, rules and regulations, and (b) Subscriber must contact Schoology at the Schoology System, when properly installed [email protected] for wire transfer instructions. and used, will perform substantially in accordance If Subscriber overestimated usage, Schoology shall not be obligated to refund any fees paid hereunder. If, with its specifications. The Schoology System however, Subscriber experiences more usage than the may include open source software components and number of Subscribers originally estimated and paid use of such components may be subject to for, Schoology may submit an amended invoice to additional terms and conditions, including capture the additional students and/or schools, and warranties. The limited warranties provided in Subscriber agrees to pay the variance within 30 days of this Section are void if the failure of Schoology the invoice date. Schoology’s Subscription Fee System results from (a) use of the Schoology referenced in Schedule A is subject to change by System in connection with software or hardware Schoology without notice and in its sole discretion. not compatible with the Schoology System or not 10. Publicity. Subscriber consents to meeting the technical specifications provided by Schoology’s use and/or references to Subscriber’s Schoology; (b) improper or inadequate name, directly or indirectly, in Schoology’s marketing maintenance of Subscriber’s equipment or and training materials. Subscriber may not use software; (c) accident, abuse, misapplication, or Schoology’s name or trademark without Schoology’s use by Subscriber of the Schoology System other prior written consent. than as described in the documentation provided by Schoology; or (d) inadequate internet 11. Termination and Remedies. This connectivity bandwidth. Subscriber is responsible Agreement shall automatically renew at the end of the for the results obtained and decisions made from Term unless Subscriber provides 30 days written notice to Schoology before the end of the applicable Term. its use of the Schoology System. Schoology Notwithstanding, this Agreement may be terminated assumes no responsibility for the operating before the end of the applicable Term, upon any breach environment or for Subscriber’s security programs

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in which the Schoology System functions. BENEFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO DATA, Schoology will, at its sole option, either replace or COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, OR ANY AND ALL use its best efforts to correct the Schoology OTHER DIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL System should it fail to conform to the warranties DAMAGES, OR PECUNIARY LOSS, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF THE provided in this Section. If Schoology is unable to USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SCHOOLOGY SYSTEM, correct the error after using its best efforts, EVEN IF SCHOOLOGY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN ANY CASE, Schoology will, at its sole option, either replace SCHOOLOGY’S, ITS DEVELOPERS’, AND ITS SUPPLIERS’ the Schoology System with a functionally ENTIRE LIABILITY UNDER THIS SUBSCRIPTION SHALL BE equivalent software program or refund the unused LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT ACTUALLY PAID BY SUBSCRIBER FOR THE RIGHT TO USE THE SCHOOLOGY subscription fees paid, as depreciated over the SYSTEM IN THE TWELVE MONTHS PRECEDING THE subscription term on a straight line basis, and INCIDENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY. terminate this Agreement. 18. Indemnification. Subscriber agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Schoology and 15. Disclaimer. EXCEPT FOR THE EXPRESS Schoology’s officers, directors, employees, agents, and LIMITED WARRANTY PROVIDED IN SECTION 17, TO THE representatives, from and against any and all claims, MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE damages, expenses, judgments, fines, and amounts paid SCHOOLOGY SYSTEM IS PROVIDED “AS-IS” WITHOUT in settlement in connection any proceeding arising from WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED Subscriber’s breach of this Agreement or its use of the WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A Schoology System and Software. PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE, QUALITY, PRODUCTIVENESS OR CAPACITY, OR THAT THE 19. Miscellaneous OPERATION OF THE SOFTWARE INCLUDED WITHIN THE SCHOOLOGY SYSTEM WILL BE ERROR FREE. EXCEPT AS 19.1 Force Majeure. Neither party shall be PROVIDED HEREIN, THE ENTIRE RISK AND LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SCHOOLOGY SYSTEM liable for any delay or failure to perform any obligation REMAINS WITH SUBSCRIBER, INCLUDING, BUT NOT hereunder due to causes beyond its control, including LIMITED TO, WHEN SUBSCRIBER’S PRACTICES ARE without limitation, war, riot, insurrection, civil INCONSISTENT WITH THE STANDARDS FOR EDUCATIONAL commotion, terrorist activity, fire, industrial disputes of AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING (1999) BY THE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION. WITHOUT whatever nature, acts of nature, computer crimes, LIMITING THE FOREGOING, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR epidemics, acts or omissions of third party vendors or PERFORMANCE ISSUES (a) CAUSED BY FACTORS OUTSIDE suppliers, equipment failures, public enemies of OF SCHOOLOGY’S REASONABLE CONTROL; OR (b) THAT government, failure of telecommunications, system RESULTED FROM ANY ACTION OR INACTION OF SUBSCRIBER OR SUBSCRIBER’S THIRD PARTIES; OR (c) malfunctions, fire, or other casualty. RESULTING FROM SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE PERIODS. 19.2 Waiver and Severability. Waiver of any 16. Additional Disclaimer. SCHOOLOGY DOES default or breach under this Agreement by Schoology NOT AND CANNOT CONTROL PERFORMANCE OF SERVICES does not constitute a waiver of any subsequent default BASED ON THE FLOW OF DATA TO OR FROM or a modification of any other provisions of this SCHOOLOGY’S NETWORK AND OTHER PORTIONS OF THE INTERNET, WHICH DEPENDS IN LARGE PART ON THE Agreement. If any part of this Agreement shall be held PERFORMANCE OF INTERNET SERVICES PROVIDED OR invalid, illegal, in conflict with any law, or otherwise CONTROLLED BY THIRD PARTIES. AT TIMES, ACTIONS OR unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the INACTIONS OF SUCH THIRD PARTIES CAN IMPAIR OR remainder of this Agreement will nevertheless remain DISRUPT SUBSCRIBER’S CONNECTIONS TO THE INTERNET (OR PORTIONS THEREOF). ALTHOUGH SCHOOLOGY WILL in full force and effect. USE COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE EFFORTS TO REMEDY AND AVOID SUCH EVENTS, SCHOOLOGY CANNOT 19.3 No Third Party Beneficiaries. The parties GUARANTEE THAT SUCH EVENTS WILL NOT OCCUR. do not intend to confer any right or remedy on any third ACCORDINGLY, SCHOOLOGY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL LIABILITY RESULTING FROM OR RELATED TO SUCH party. EVENTS. 19.4 Entire Agreement. This Agreement 17. Limitation. THE REMEDIES PROVIDED contains the entire understanding of the parties UNDER THE LIMITED WARRANTY ARE SUBSCRIBER’S regarding the subject matter of this Agreement and SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDIES. EXCEPT TO THE supersedes all prior and contemporaneous negotiations EXTENT THE FOLLOWING LIABILITY LIMITATION IS PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL and agreements, whether written or oral, between the SCHOOLOGY, ITS DEVELOPERS, OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE parties with respect to the subject matter of this LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OR EXPENSES WHATSOEVER, Agreement. INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST OPPORTUNITY, LOST SAVINGS, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOST BUSINESS, LOSS OF ANTICIPATED

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19.5 Assignment. Subscriber may not assign New York shall be the exclusive forum for any this Agreement to any third party without the prior litigation arising out of this Agreement. Subscriber written consent of the Schoology. Any such purported hereby waives any objections to venue, personal assignment shall be null and void. Subject to the jurisdiction, or forum non conveniens foregoing, this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their respective 19.8 Counterparts. This Agreement may be successors, and permitted assigns, if any. executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, and the counterparts shall together 19.6 Notices. Any notice required under this constitute one and the same instrument, Agreement shall be in writing and effective when notwithstanding that all of the parties are not signatory (a) delivered personally against receipt, (b) deposited in to a single original or the same counterpart. The parties the mail and registered or certified with return receipt may also deliver and accept facsimile or electronically requested, postage prepaid, (c) shipped by a recognized scanned signatures, which shall be binding upon the courier service and addressed to either party as parties as if the signature were an original. designated in this Agreement, (d) delivered by email to an email address designated by the recipient, or (e) 19.9 Independent Contractor. The parties are when delivered via any of the foregoing at the acting and shall act as independent contractors. Neither addresses specified on the signature pages hereto or party is, nor will be deemed to be, an agent, legal such other address as may be provided by the recipient representative, joint venturer or partner of the other in accordance with this Section 19.6. party for any purpose. Neither party will be entitled to (a) enter into any contracts in the name of or on behalf 19.7 Controlling Law and Venue. This of the other party; (b) pledge the credit of the other Agreement shall be construed and controlled by the party in any way or hold itself out as having authority laws of the State of New York, U.S.A., without giving to do so; or (c) make commitments or incur any charges effect to principles of conflict of laws. The United or expenses for or in the name of the other party. Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Neither party's personnel are, nor shall they be deemed Sale of Goods is specifically disclaimed and shall not to be at any time during the term of this Agreement, apply to this Agreement. Courts located in New York, employees of the other party.

SCHOOLOGY: SUBSCRIBER NAME: (Please print)

SCHOOLOGY ______(Subscriber)

By______By: Jeremy Friedman, CEO Printed Name: Title: ______Date: ______Date: ______

Address: Address:

115 W 30th Street – Suite 602 New York, NY 10001 Email: [email protected]

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Exhibit A: Fee Structure

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