Five Exciting Enhancements for Fishtank Student 2026-27

Does this sound familiar?

Your class has been working on transition words, and there’s a small group of students who are still struggling. What you want to do is give them a new assignment with instructions tailored to their needs. You also want to track their progress on assigned work while providing them feedback to further develop their writing and comprehension skills.

And you want to do all of this from a single platform.

With Fishtank Student, teachers can do that and more. 

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Missed the live event? Watch it here.

A look inside how Fishtank Student works

Our user-friendly digital interface allows teachers, students, and administrators to access a wide range of functions within a single platform.

Teachers can:

• Sync class rosters

• Access 6-12th-grade ELA coursework and assessments and assign them to students directly (individually or in groups)

• Customize assignments and assessments, such as the instructions, the questions, or the points

• Monitor progress and efficiently grade assignments and assessments

• Ensure accessibility tools are available to students as they work, as needed

• Provide feedback, including targeted comments on writing assignments

• Assess individual student, group, and class progress on single or multiple skills

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Students can:

• View upcoming assignments and assessments

• Complete assigned work, including short and long-form writing tasks

• Utilize accessibility tools like translation and text-to-speech, when enabled

• See teacher feedback on completed work

• View real-time teacher comments while completing their work, receiving immediate guidance to strengthen their writing and comprehension skills

Administrators can: 

• Gather data across educators, sections, assignments, and classes

• View detailed assessment insights for schools and teams

• Review teacher and student engagement data

• Create custom assignments and assessments across schools and districts to maintain consistency

• Identify data patterns to use for coaching, celebration, and customization

• Manage team permissions, like teacher editing for assignments and student accessibility tools

Expanding and Strengthening the Fishtank Student Platform for 2026-27

Currently, Fishtank Student includes the ELA lessons, assignments, and assessments for grades 6-12. However, for the 2026-27 school year, we’re adding grades 3-5. That means educators and students will more easily be able to engage with and benefit from our high-quality curriculum designed to help your students develop into critical readers, writers, and thinkers.

Beyond including grades 3-5 ELA, all classrooms using Fishtank Student for the 2026–27 school year will have access to these updated tools.

1. Live assignments: Through the teacher’s assignment page, teachers can see when students are actively working on an assignment. In addition, student responses are saved automatically, so teachers can monitor work in progress. Using this real-time visibility into how students are engaging with an assignment, teachers can provide instant feedback that will appear on the student’s page.

2. Expanded writing functionality: The upgraded student interface will include enhanced writing and formatting tools. Students will be able to draft, revise, and format their work without needing to switch programs. Moreover, the experience will be similar to writing in familiar programs, like Google Docs, while keeping the data sharing and teacher feedback elements.

3. Canvas integration: Schools and districts that use Canvas can now integrate Fishtank Student with their LMS. Not only will students be able to see and complete their assignments in Canvas, but grades and teacher feedback will automatically sync back to Canvas as well, requiring less data entry for teachers.

4. Quill integrations: Our new partnership and integration with Quill.org will allow 6th–8th-grade students to access interactive writing practice directly within the platform. This creates more opportunities for targeted skill development without needing to leave the platform and helps students independently revise and improve their writing.

5. Performance analysis: Teachers and admins will be able to export assessment results as a spreadsheet for more detailed data analysis. This new functionality will make it simple to track performance across standards, units, or even classrooms.

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Whether you’ve been using the Fishtank curriculum on your own, have a school-wide adoption, or are new to us entirely, we want to help you understand the features and benefits of Fishtank Student. Learn more about our K-12 ELA scope and sequence, explore the features of Fishtank Student, and contact us about curriculum adoption.

Live Event FAQs

• Q. With which platforms does Fishtank Student integrate?
  A. Clever, Google Classroom, and Canvas.

• Q. Will you be integrating with any other platforms? Can I request an integration?
  A. We are always investigating and considering additional integrations, but we don’t have any announcements at this time. Please feel free to reach out to [email protected] and make a suggestion.

• Q. Can I export data from Fishtank Student to a different platform?
  A. Yes, you can export the data as a CSV file.

• Q. What does it mean when a lesson/unit is archived?
  A. We’re constantly reviewing units and assignments to ensure the best fit for our scope and sequence, including updating and removing materials. We do this during the summer so as not to disrupt teaching and learning during the school year.

• Q. Can we share modified assignment and assessment templates across our district?
  A. Yes, admins may share these with any of their schools that have adopted Fishtank Student.

• Q. Can admins see all of their district’s schools in one view?
  A. While admins may toggle between the schools, they currently cannot compare school data from a single view.

• Q. How much will it cost for my school/district to adopt Fishtank Student or to add the grades 3-5 ELA expansion?
  A. Current school partners should contact their partnership manager for pricing information. New school partners should visit our Curriculum Adoption page to request a demo and start the adoption conversation.

• Q. Can we create a pencil and paper assignment and then upload it to Fishtank Student?
  A. At this time, we don’t support pencil and paper assignments.

• Q. Do you offer typing lessons in Fishtank Student?
  A. We don’t offer typing lessons at this time.