Case Study: Community High School District 99 achieves greater student engagement and collaboration with Explain Everything

Community High School District 99 - Customer Case Study

Community High School District 99 in Downers Grove, Illinois — serving Downers Grove North and South with over 5,000 students and 400 teachers — struggled to let students easily share interactive, multimedia work and to make student thinking visible beyond traditional lab reports. To expand collaborative, reflective learning after issuing Chromebooks district‑wide in 2015–16, the district subscribed to the Explain Everything app to give students a simple way to create and share rich explanations.

Explain Everything delivered an interactive, collaborative workspace (integrated with the district’s Discover Portal) that let students combine video, images, voiceovers, live writing, and slides in one project. The result was higher engagement and confidence — students who recorded at home progressed to public presentations, teachers could rewatch and link student work for assessment and parent access, and students even led professional development for staff — producing measurable, district‑wide impact across 5,000+ students and 400+ educators.

Community High School District 99

Chris Nauss