Grade levels: PreK - 12

Amplify Education, formerly Desmos Activities, are free for teachers in all content areas to highlight and center student thinking in real-time.  Teachers can facilitate learning using pre-made activities or create activities tailored to their students' individual needs.  Amplify also has a variety of math tools including a graphing calculator, scientific calculator, and four function calculator. 

Access: Teachers access Amplify through the Desmos icon on the Microsoft My Apps Portal. Teachers can preview activities without signing in; however, they must click  Sign-in --> Sign In With Google before pushing any activities to students.  Students sign in through https://learning.amplify.com/home/student/.  They will need to provide the teacher's Join Code and then click the Sign In With Google option. If there is no Join Code, students should Sign In With Google. 

Getting Started with Amplify (Desmos)

Preview teacher and student dashboards and activities by visiting the Getting Started with Amplify support page. Teachers can still access their previous classes and lessons from Desmos by clicking on the Admin Portal: Manage Classes gear icon on the left side of their Amplify landing page. 

For additional learning resources, including how to use the calculators, visit the Scientific Calculator support page. 

• Share student thinking with the whole class anonymously

• Pace the learning for the class

• Monitor student work in real-time

• Practice using the appropriate calculator for MCAP & MISA testing

• Engage students using multiple select questions, drawing tools, short responses, card sorts, annotated passages, and more

• Build positive academic identities through community building and creative thinking

• Collect actionable data to formatively assess students' understanding