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Pixton is a cartoon creation tool that allows its users to create awesome comics. Pixton has also a growing community that anyone can access to contribute with their own comics. This tool is very easy to use and does not require any artistic skills to work on it. You can introduce it to your students and let them create their own comics and share them with each other.

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* Ministry Software
* Board accounts used for login
* class list and groups available
* Teacher console for grade and comments available
* Web-based

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Mindomo is an online collaborative mind mapping, concept mapping and outlining software for visualizing and organizing information.
Mind mapping is a simple technique for drawing information in diagrams, instead of writing it in sentences. The diagrams always take the same basic format of a tree, with a single starting point in the middle that branches out, and divides again and again

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ExploreLearning Gizmos is the world’s largest library of interactive online simulations for math and science education in grades 3-12.

Over 400 Gizmos gives everyone something to graph, measure, and compare. Even predict and prove. That's hundreds of opportunities where students don't just act like scientists and mathematicians.

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* Ministry Software
* Board accounts used for login
* class list and groups available through the VLE
* Teacher console for grade and comments available
* Web-based

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* Ministry Software (7-12)
* Single sign-on integration available through VLE
* class list and groups available
* Teacher console for grade and comments available
* Web-based
*The Gizmos library of over 400 simulations is now available in HTML5. This makes Gizmos accessible via a web browser on popular platforms like Chromebooks, iPads, and Android devices.

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The world's most popular and easy to use comic and storyboard creator for education.

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ExploreLearning : Get hands-on, minds-on in math and science

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Browse Gizmos by State Standards, Math & Science Subjects, or Textbook

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Delve into the huge library of Gizmos math and science simulations by alignment to state and provincial standards, by correlation of textbooks, or by grade and topic.

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How to create simple comics on Pixton.com

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See how you can create a new Mindomo mind map.

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Use Mindomo for classic Mind-mapping (WWII History Unit)

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Use Mindomo for classic Mind-mapping (WWII History Unit)

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Use Mindomo for Student templates (Essay Outline)

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Use Mindomo for Student templates (Essay Outline)

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Ministry software is increasingly being integrated into the VLE.  This makes it easier for students and teachers to use the products without adding multiple user name and logins to the equation.
If teachers already use the VLE for their classes there are many extra features which make the use of these tools even easier.

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The OSAPAC Mandate is to:

Consult with the publicly funded education system (e.g., annual survey, attendance at conferences, liaison with subject associations) to assess provincial priorities in the areas of required software titles recommended by teachers in support of learning;

Review software titles submitted under the Ministry’s Requests For Proposals (RFP), Request for Tender (RFT) and Request for Qualification (RFQ) processes that meet the indicated needs of all Ontario publicly funded schools and forward the resulting recommendations for province-wide licenses to the Ministry of Education;

Maintain for the Ministry of Education, a web-enabled database, in both official languages of all provincially licensed software;

Inform educators of the OSAPAC process and of the licensed software titles available to all publicly funded schools;

Provide additional support, including professional development opportunities, where appropriate and available for the implementation of provincially licensed software;

Maintain a web site and a conferencing system to keep all interested parties informed of the business of the Committee and to provide a feedback mechanism for software related issues;

Maintain a web-enabled database of Ontario curriculum expectations linked to provincially licensed software titles.

Consult with the publicly funded education system (e.g., annual survey, attendance at conferences, liaison with subject associations) to assess provincial priorities in the areas of required software titles recommended by teachers in support of learning.

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1. Check you board to see if they have enabled the VLE integration option
2. Click below!

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Site web du comité consultatif de programme d'achats de logiciel de l'Ontario