General

This update is for Accelerate Education school partners who deliver courses via the Schoology LMS.

As we prepare for the 2025–26 school year, Accelerate Education is pleased to share several important updates to help ensure a smooth start and continued success. We’ve made thoughtful improvements across our Schoology catalog, added teacher-focused supports, and reorganized Group Resources to make content easier to access and implement.

To take advantage of these updates, we kindly recommend that all schools pull fresh copies of their courses from Group Resources before the new school year begins.

🧰 New Student Tools in Grade 6–12 Courses

This Fall we are introducing a suite of new Student Tools that will be embedded directly into lesson activities across grades 6–12. These tools are designed to:

• Support personalized learning
• Boost student engagement
• Offer flexible interaction and remediation opportunities

Watch for additional information on the release of our Student Tools early this summer.

✅ New Course Copies from Group Resources

We strongly encourage schools to import new versions of all courses from Group Resources to ensure access to the most up-to-date content, tools, and improvements for the 2025–26 school year.

🆕 New & Updated Courses

We are releasing a broad set of course updates across Elementary, Middle School, and High School for SY 2025–26. These include redesigned core subjects, new elective offerings, and improvements to both instructional design and assessment flexibility. Highlights include:

• Elementary: Language Arts have been fully redesigned, Math K–1 have been updated with additional learning supports, and our K–5 Science courses fully support NGSS and STEELS standards.
• Middle School: New integrated science offerings and a refreshed Social Studies 7 course.
• High School: Updated versions of all core science courses, new ELA 12, German 2, and World Geography, as well as continued enhancements to Credit Recovery courses.

🧪 Improved Test Banks Available for New Courses

Our newly released courses include enhanced test banks designed to support greater flexibility in assessment. These test banks will be available in Group Resources, nested within each individual course folder. Schools may use these resources to customize quizzes and exams in alignment with local instructional goals.

🗝️ Answer Keys for Essay/Free Response Items

To better support teachers during grading, answer keys and scoring guidance are now available for essay and free-response questions. These resources are located in the Teacher Resources folder of each course.

🎨 Reminder: K–5 Courses Fully Support the Elementary Template

As a reminder, all of our K–5 courses are built to support the Schoology Elementary Experience. The design is fully customized to deliver a fun, interactive, and colorful environment that’s developmentally appropriate and engaging for younger learners.

🛠️ Reminder: Courses Are Pre-Configured for Easy Setup

Our Schoology courses are built to minimize setup time. All graded activities are already mapped to pre-defined grading categories, and assessments are fully enabled for submission.

For a smooth experience, we recommend closely following course import directions. When these steps are followed, the only post-import action is to unpublish the Teacher Resources folder, and then the course will be ready for student use!

🗂️ Updated Group Resources & Retired Courses

To keep your content area organized and current, we’ve refreshed the structure of Group Resources:

• A “Retired 24–25” folder now contains course versions that have been replaced
• All active and updated course versions are available in the main content folders for easy access

🗂️ Release Timeline & Split Deliveries

We expect all updated course to be available in Group Resources by July 1, 2025. Some courses may follow a split release model (e.g., A semester in July, B semester in August).

If you’re planning to use a specific course title and would like to confirm its release timeline, please don’t hesitate to reach out for the expected course delivery date.

As always, thank you for your partnership. If you have questions about course access, updates, or implementation, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We’re here to support you every step of the way.

This update is for Accelerate Education school partners who deliver our courses via the Canvas LMS.

As you prepare for the 2025–26 school year, Accelerate Education is excited to share we have made a number of enhancements to our Canvas course catalog that will provide schools with updated curriculum, enhanced student tools, and a more streamlined Canvas setup process!

🆕 2025–26 Course Cartridge Updates & Guidance

We kindly ask that all schools take a fresh copy of each course cartridge this year. This is essential to ensure your courses include the latest features and improvements described below.

🔄 Assessment Delivery & New Quizzes

While our assessments will continue to be delivered as Classic Quizzes by default (due to Canvas limitations with the Common Cartridge export), we’re excited to share that migration to New Quizzes is now fully supported during course import. The process is simple and seamless, allowing your school to take full advantage of Canvas’s enhanced assessment engine if desired.

🧰 New Student Tools in Grade 6–12 Courses

This Fall we are introducing a suite of new Student Tools that will be embedded directly into lesson activities across grades 6–12. These tools are designed to:

• Support personalized learning
• Boost student engagement
• Offer flexible interaction and remediation opportunities

Watch for additional information on the release of our Student Tools this summer.

🚀 New LTI 1.3 Integration for Select Courses

We’re excited to announce support for LTI 1.3 Integration for the following courses that are currently distributed as Thin Common Cartridges:

• AP Computer Science A & B
• AP Computer Science Principles A & B
• Digital Savvy A & B

The LTI 1.3 standard offers several key advantages for these courses, most notably real-time grading notifications! Teachers can be alerted instantly via Canvas notifications when a student submits any teacher-graded work.

Interested in upgrading to LTI 1.3 for these courses? Reach out and we’ll walk you through next steps.

⚙️ Reminder: Streamlined LTI 1.1 Integration for Courses

As of last year, Accelerate Education has moved away from requiring separate course-level LTI external tool configurations. Within our SY25-26 course exports, applicable course variables have been embedded directly within each lesson activity. Schools taking new cartridges will only need to configure a single, organization-level External Tool to enjoy plug-and-play course imports without additional setup.

💬 Threaded Discussions Now Enabled

Following changes from Instructure that temporarily disabled threaded replies, we’ve updated our entire course catalog to re-enable threaded discussions by default. This ensures students will have access to the full interactive discussion experience as originally designed in our courses.

📁 Updated Dropbox Organization & Retired Courses

To support a smooth transition into the new school year, you’ll notice a new folder structure in our shared Dropbox:

• A new “Retired 24–25” folder now holds cartridges for all courses being deprecated by upcoming new releases.
• All new and active course cartridges will be added to the main folder as they are released.

The full set of SY 25–26 cartridges will be available by July 1, 2025. If any title is delayed or split into parts, we’ll notify you directly.

If you have any questions about these updates, migration steps, new features, or cartridge access, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We’re here to support you every step of the way as you prepare for the year ahead.

Accelerate Education offers schools the opportunity to purchase optional print workbooks for students to accompany K – 5 core courses.

For SY23-24, Accelerate’s workbook order process will remain unchanged. Schools will continue to submit orders via an online submission form and will have the option of having workbooks centrally delivered to a school location or shipped directly to individual student homes.

Schools should be aware that there are 8 workbooks being re-published for SY23-24 on account of new course releases. The updated workbooks include Science 2 A & B, Science 3 A & B, Social Studies 2 A & B, and Social Studies 3 A & B.

For information on the individual ISBN changes for the upcoming school year, please click on the image above to download Accelerate’s full SY23-24 workbook list.

For information on how to place workbook orders and to access links to the order template and submission form, please refer to the K-5 Workbook Orders page in our knowledgebase.

Workbook orders for SY23-24 will begin shipping by July 1st. 

Learn more about which course titles are undergoing changes and which new course titles will be added to Accelerate Education’s course catalog with this summary of planned curriculum updates for SY23-24.

03.06.2023: Updated to reflect that four CTE titles will be renamed in Accelerate Education’s catalog (the content in these CTE courses will remain unchanged).

Accelerate Education is now accepting workbook orders for SY22-23! Fall workbook orders will begin shipping on July 1st.

There are a number of notable changes to our workbook order process for this year. Highlights include the following:

1. Accelerate is working with a new Memphis-based fulfillment partner, Mimeo, for SY22-23. With Mimeo, schools will experience a streamlined order process with specific improvement in overall fulfillment timelines.
2. Schools should anticipate this change in partners will be reflected on any shipping labels, packing slips, and email confirmations associated with their workbook orders. Schools are encouraged to alert stakeholders about this change.
3. Accelerate has published a new, consolidated order form that schools can use to place both bulk (shipped to school) and batch (shipped direct to students) orders. Previously these orders needed to be separated onto different order templates.
4. Authorized individuals may upload completed orders directly via our online submission form for faster processing.
5. If a valid recipient email address is provided on the submitted order form, recipients will receive a confirmation email from help@mimeo.com when their order is shipped. This email will include the individual tracking number(s) and expected delivery date.
6. The previous Workbooks Online portal (www.getworkbooks.com) has been sunset. Beginning July 1, schools will have access to Mimeo’s customer portal where they can query and export detailed order information for their program.

For more information on placing workbook orders, please refer to our K-5 Workbook Orders page. Available SY22-23 Workbook titles include the following: