Exciting new product offers software environment for K-6
curriculum activities, assessments, and network storage

For Immediate Release
Petaluma, California, November 7, 2003 - IntelliTools®, Inc. (www.intellitools.com), for over 20 years the pioneer in learning solutions for preK-8 classrooms, is delighted to announce the release of its much-anticipated IntelliTools Classroom Suite. Network-ready and Mac OS X compatible, IntelliTools Classroom Suite is a software platform for delivering K-6 curriculum aligned to content standards. Educators will use IntelliTools Classroom Suite to boost student achievement with:

• Curriculum-Based, Standards-Aligned Activities
• Answer Tracking and Student Record Keeping
• Plus: Multimedia Authoring for Students and Teachers

IntelliTools Classroom is designed to provide schools and districts with a platform for classroom-based activities and assessment, coupled with multimedia authoring, that steps up with their students-from kindergarten to middle school. Powerful yet easy-to-use, it delivers curriculum, creativity, and accountability in one extremely flexible program.

"Schools and districts are concerned with the total cost of technology ownership, as well as the increasing number of age-specific software programs that need to be purchased and supported for preK-8 students," noted Ben Cushman, IntelliTools' President. "We worked hard to make IntelliTools Classroom the one single classroom tool investment needed to take students from early elementary to middle school."

• It is multi-functional: providing age-appropriate, cross-curricular classroom activities for students to practice. It offers answer-tracking and student portfolio reporting for teachers to assess student performance. And it provides powerful authoring capabilities for both students and teachers to practice activities and take quizzes, explore mathematical concepts, or create exciting multimedia projects. Users can access its libraries of over 1,500 images, 200 sounds, 100 movie clips and 16 frame animations, and incorporate animated graphics, digital photos, MP3 Movies, QuickTime videos, and links to the Internet.
  
  
• It is cross-curricular: students can practice the provided age-appropriate and standards-based activities in reading, writing, math, social studies, and science, as well as teacher-created activities aligned to specific curriculum goals. With the authoring tools, students can explore and test math concepts, build critical writing skills, and author their own multimedia storybooks, reports, and presentations.
  
  
• It provides accountability: for the first time, teachers can give students customized cross-curricular classroom activities to practice and track student responses. Teachers can record, report, and print student records for student assessment. Program files and student records can be stored on a network server, alleviating the need to collect student data from individual computers.
  

IntelliTools Classroom Suite begins with the integration of three popular teaching and learning tools:

• IntelliPics® Studio 3-a multimedia presentation tool
• IntelliMathics® 3-a virtual math manipulatives tool
• IntelliTalk® 3-a talking word processor and writing tool
  

More than a toolset, however, IntelliTools Classroom offers for the first time a software platform for developing, administering, and reporting on curriculum activities and assessments. It is designed for district-wide deployment as well as classroom-specific use.

"We are thrilled to have been able to build a new product on the backbone of these tools, offering for the first time answer-tracking and record keeping for classroom activities, as well as network capability for developing and accessing student portfolios by students, teachers, and administrators," explained Arjan Khalsa, co-founder and CEO of IntelliTools.

As an activity application, IntelliTools Classroom is flexible, offering teachers the choice of using predesigned standards-aligned activities or authoring their own. When authoring activities, teachers once again have choice: using predesigned templates and existing graphics libraries or designing their own from scratch.

As an authoring application, IntelliTools Classroom engages young and older students-whether they are creating exciting multimedia presentations using drawing, animations, video, and sound in IntelliPics Studio 3; exploring the magic of math with virtual manipulatives in IntelliMathics 3; or composing with a word processor that combines graphics, text, and speech in IntelliTalk 3.

Finally, IntelliTools Classroom is designed to get users up and running in minutes: its well written Teacher's Guides are filled with helpful hints, lesson plans, and step-by-step tutorials. Dozens of handy templates plus QuickStart Guides are provided, and embedded help offers ongoing and immediate assistance.

Special introductory pricing through June 30, 2004 is available for IntelliTools Classroom for a standalone single copy, five pack, lab pack, site license, district license, and network version. Pricing and purchasing options can be found at the IntelliTools Web site at www.intellitools.com.

About IntelliTools, Inc.
IntelliTools®, Inc., a pioneer in learning solutions for preK-8 classrooms, has been producing award-winning software and adaptive hardware products for over 20 years. Its IntelliTools Classroom is comprised of three fully integrated software programs - IntelliPics® Studio 3, IntelliMathics® 3,and IntelliTalk® 3, providing a network-ready, cross-curricular platform for classroom activities, creativity tools, and student performance tracking and assessment. ReadyMade® Curriculum Activities offer ready-to-use, grade-specific activities in language arts, math, social studies, and science. IntelliTools® Reading: Balanced Literacy, winner of the Technology & Learning Awards in two categories, is a nine-unit supplementary program providing a full year of literacy instruction at a first-grade skill level. All IntelliTools software products are fully accessible for standard keyboard and mouse users as well as its IntelliKeys® adaptive keyboard and switch users.

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For more information contact:¾¾
Paula Irons, Director, Marketing
IntelliTools, Inc.
1720 Corporate Circle, Petaluma, CA 94954
(800) 899-6687; pirons@intellitools.com