Zoomita is a free college essay platform that allows students to create, manage, and access college application essays. It will be most helpful for students who need help organizing, not necessarily writing. Zoomita has a clean easy-to-navigate interface which sets it apart from similar sites. Students begin by selecting colleges of choice which are automatically displayed on a personal dashboard. Clicking on a college name provides the essay requirements and prompts for their application and supplement, deadline, and a document for writing drafts. Writing drafts is conveniently done directly in the site. Students are then able to create multiple drafts which are organized in the dashboard by college. Drafts are easily emailed to teachers or others for review, and students can compare the review side-by-side with their original version. The Essay Graph feature lays out all of the prompts as a single document so students can easily compare requirements. However, reading the summaries may be stressful for some students because of the enormous amount of information crammed on the pages and use of tiny font. Overall, the essay writing process may be generally overwhelming for students applying to multiple schools, and this site provides a helpful tool to organize and keep track of individual school requirements and drafts.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
• Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Has a free or trial version
• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
• Multiple users can save a profile
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can play without sound and not distract others
• Students can save work between sessions
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Requires registration before using the first time
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Visual Discrimination
• Words used during activity can be too small or difficult to read