MY Access!® News

• February 7, 2008 Watertown Schools Receive $57,000 Grant For MY Access! Program

  Schools receive grant to purchase new laptops and MY Access! computer program for ninth graders after positive results seen with program implementation for tenth grade students.

• January 1, 2008 Web Technology Boosts Writing Performance at Alhambra USD

  -Linda L. Briggs, T.H.E Journal Can a computer really grade a composition? Ask the initially skeptical teachers at Alhambra Unified School District just east of Los Angeles. Coordinator of Instructional Technology Linda Benafel introduced Vantage Learning’s online writing program MY Access! in the 2005/2006 school year. Seventh-grade test scores on the California Standards Test writing […]

• January 1, 2008 Technology Rescues At-Risk Middle-Schoolers

  -Dr. Ruth Forrester, Educator’s eZine Students from Escambia County School District in Pensacola, Florida. recently got the chance of a lifetime. Just two years ago I was a principal in that district and decided I needed to do more for my children. I set my mind to saving the children who were slowly falling through […]

• November 26, 2007 Does Text Messaging Hurt Student Writing Skills?
• October 10, 2007 Vantage Learning Launches MY Access!

  -Staff Writer, CBR Vantage Learning, a provider of online assessment and automated essay scoring tools, has released MY Access! School Edition, an online instructional writing program. The upgraded version features an innovative new capability that detects ‘text speak,’ an increasingly popular form of shorthand writing found in text and instant messages. MY Access! School Edition […]

• October 8, 2007 Vantage Learning Launches MY Access! School Edition

  -MultiMedia & Internet @ Schools Vantage Learning has announced the release of MY Access! School Edition , the latest version of the company’s online instructional writing program. The upgraded MY Access! School Edition includes feature enhancements designed to make the program easier to navigate and use in a variety of instructional settings. The upgraded version […]

• September 20, 2007 Hacienda La Puente USD Expands Online Language Arts Program

  -Dave Nagel, T.H.E Journal California’s Hacienda La Puente Unified School District is expanding its implementation of the MY Access! language arts program from Vantage Learning. This district is now making the online writing tool available to more than 13,000 high school, middle school, and fifth-grade students through an expanded, $486,000 license, Vantage reported. “Our high […]

• September 19, 2007 School District Expanding Use Of Online Writing Tool

  -Caroline An, San Gabriel Valley Tribune INDUSTRY – The Hacienda La Puente School District plans to spend nearly half a million dollars for an online writing tool that gives instant feedback to students preparing for state standards tests. The My Access program allows students to submit parts of an essay or the whole thing on […]

• August 20, 2007 Ann Arbor Expands MY Access! Deployment

  -Michelle Rutledge, T.H.E Journal Ann Arbor Public schools recently purchased additional licensing for Vantage Learning’s MY Access, a writing software for K-12 students. With the purchase an additional 5,000 students within the district will gain access to the software. MY Access is designed to track reading and writing competency using AI technology and a rubric-scoring […]

• July 5, 2007 Hi-Tech School Gives Students A Second Chance

  -The Escamba Sun-Press Students from Escambia County School District, Pensacola, Fla. were recently given the chance of a lifetime. Two years ago Dr. Ruth Forrester, a principal in the Escambia School District, set her mind to saving the children who were slowly falling through the cracks of the education system. Performing nearly two years below […]