Amco CS vs Spike™ LEGO® Education

Bring Amco’s unique content to life using Classroom Solution. Easily screencast your books right to any screen or projector using the Amco Skybox and call up any of your saved resources, bookmarks, or complementary audio and video clips. All of this without needing a permanent internet connection. Create new and engaging ways of presenting our content to your class. With our interactive teacher tools you can transform your iPad into a smartboard tablet and screencast whatever you draw on your own screen or make annotations right on any content you are projecting. Classroom Solution (CS) also includes powerful tools to help you manage your class. Keep track of your student's attendance and participation, create class engagement using our random student picker, or use our timer tool to create fun new challenges for your class. This application is only available to schools subscribing to Amco Educational Services. Features • Screencast and navigate easily through your Amco books. • Make text or freehand annotations right on the page, visible to students and saved for repeated viewings. • Playback complementary audio and video clips included in our books. • Create and save your own custom PDF, image, audio, video, or URL resources to be used at any time. These can be attached to specific pages in any book to enhance lesson plans. • Use “Sparks” to enrich and enhance your lessons. These are Amco-created multimedia materials included with our books. • Customize your lessons using “Flares” by adding any of your resources to specific book pages. • Create engaging time-based challenges using the included Timer tool. • Use our grid, lined, or blank views to turn your iPad into a smartboard tablet and screencast anything you draw on your screen. • Student pickers give you an easy way to engage specific or random students into participation. • Keep track of your classes attendance and participation. • Stay up to speed by viewing all your Web Solution Activities right in CS. • CS works perfectly without a permanent internet connection to display any books and resources you download ahead of time.

Engage every student in playful STEAM learning with the LEGO® Education SPIKE™ App. Designed for use with the LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Portfolio, the SPIKE App is a powerful tool that helps teachers facilitate engaging, hands-on STEAM learning.      When combined with SPIKE Essential or SPIKE Prime, the SPIKE App allows students to:  - Develop computational thinking skills using a progression of icon-block, word-block, and text-based coding. - Build, tinker, and experiment - progressing from simple creations to complex structures. - Learn to program, test and tweak designs, debug and optimize, create stories with LEGO® Minifigures, prepare for FIRST® LEGO® League competitions, and more! *** IMPORTANT***  This is not a standalone educational app. This app is used to program LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential and LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime, which are sold separately. Please contact your local LEGO Education reseller for further information.    LEARN MORE: LEGOeducation.com/Teacher-resources For app support, contact LEGO® Education at https://support.legoeducation.com. LEGO, the LEGO logo and the SPIKE logo are trademarks and/or copyrights of the LEGO Group. FIRST® LEGO® League is a jointly held trademark of FIRST® and the LEGO Group. ©2026 The LEGO Group. All rights reserved.