Desmos Classroom and Polypad Free and Commercial Use Guidelines
If you want to use Amplify’s tools or content in your work, please review these guidelines to determine if your specific use is allowed and whether you need to submit a request for approval.
Overview
Amplify’s Desmos Classroom platform offers free pre-built interactive and print-based lessons, interactive lesson building tools, and Polypad virtual manipulatives. See teacher.desmos.com and polypad.amplify.com for more information.
Desmos Classroom features:
- Activity Builder (Labeled “Custom Activities” in the platform): This content-creating and publishing tool enables educators to create their own interactive lessons and modify existing Desmos Classroom lessons.
- Polypad virtual manipulatives: This mathematical playground allows students to use interactive tools to explore concepts, be creative, and visualize their thinking. Polypad virtual manipulatives can be embedded directly into lessons via Activity Builder or used as a stand-alone, dynamic workspace.
- Computation Layer: This tool enables educators to further customize lessons created with Activity Builder. Computation Layer is the code that allows components within the lessons to “talk” to one another, enabling users to connect representations, customize content, and provide dynamic, interpretive feedback. Computation Layer is accessed through Activity Builder.
Desmos Classroom includes activities and lessons across many subjects created by the thousands of educators on our platform. Content created by Amplify personnel is tagged “By Amplify” or “By Desmos Classroom.”
Amplify also publishes Amplify Desmos Math, a paid core program for grades K–12. Amplify Desmos Math can be reviewed and purchased by schools or districts interested in a comprehensive resource that is aligned to standards and is designed to motivate students. Some of the lessons that are free to use on Desmos Classroom (labeled Try It! lessons) are also part of Amplify’s paid math curriculum. Learn more about Amplify Desmos Math and request a sample.
Desmos Classroom tools and content are free for personal, educational, and non-commercial use, subject to our Acceptable Use Policy, as well as certain permitted commercial uses further detailed on this page. You generally don’t need to submit a request to use our free tools and resources for the permitted purposes covered in these guidelines. As long as you are following our Acceptable Use Policy and these guidelines, as well as attributing properly, go ahead and move forward with your project. But do continue to read these guidelines thoroughly to make sure your use is permitted. If you would like to explore a license for a use not permitted here, please submit this form.
Amplify does not own, but partners with Desmos Studio, the maker of a suite of free math tools, including a graphing calculator used by over 75 million people around the world. See desmos.com for more information. Please contact Desmos Studio for information on using their content or tools.
Usage guidelines
Teaching and education services
Please adhere to the following guidelines for using Desmos Classroom tools and content in teaching and education services. Please follow our General guidelines and Attribution requirements below when making permitted uses.
Uses labeled “PERMITTED USES” don’t require permission, and you don’t need to tell us about them—but we do appreciate hearing from you! Feel free to fill out this form to tell us about how you are using our tools and materials, and the ways in which you are finding them useful.
Uses labeled “CONTACT US” do require permission. If you are interested in such use, please submit this form, and someone from our team will endeavor to follow up with you as soon as possible.
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Educators creating or using Desmos Classroom content as part of classroom teaching in any school |
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Public school districts, charter schools, and networks creating or using Desmos Classroom content | |
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Private tutors using Desmos Classroom in 1:1 or small group tutoring sessions | |
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For-profit school or network of schools implementing Desmos Classroom for the school or network |
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Education publishers and EdTech organizations (for profit and non-profit) using or linking to Desmos Classroom content and tools | |
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Embedding the teaching and learning experience from the Desmos Classroom lessons in your application (except API/iFrames Polypad integrations permitted below) | |
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Individuals authoring lessons for commercial purposes (e.g. to sell on Teachers Pay Teachers) | |
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Instructional/tutoring providers (for profit and non-profit), such as tutoring or asynchronous/synchronous virtual instruction seeking to use Desmos Classroom for its tutors |
Print and presentations
If you would like to distribute materials that include content from Desmos Classroom, such as portions of free lessons or images generated using Polypad virtual manipulatives, please follow these guidelines below, in addition to the General guidelines and Attribution requirements below.
Uses labeled “PERMITTED USES” don’t require permission, and you don’t need to tell us about them—but we do appreciate hearing from you! Feel free to fill out this form to tell us about how you are using our tools and materials and ways in which you are finding them useful.
Uses labeled “CONTACT US” do require permission. If you are interested in such use, please submit this form, and someone from our team will endeavor to follow up with you as soon as possible.
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As content within books, including textbooks (up to two thousand copies) |
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Periodicals (newspapers, magazines, journals, etc.) | |
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Business documents such as company reports, proposals, presentations, etc. | |
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Academic publications, research papers, Ph.D. theses | |
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Conferences, presentations | |
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As content within books (more than two thousand copies) or as cover art for a book |
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As content within slides, PDFs, or other digital resources | |
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Consumer and retail goods or packaging (t-shirts, beach towels, shower curtains, mugs, posters, stationery, etc.) |
Web and apps
If you are interested in exploring embedding Desmos Classroom tools into your platform, please follow these guidelines, in addition to the General guidelines and Attribution requirements below.
Uses labeled “PERMITTED USES” don’t require permission, and you don’t need to tell us about them—but we do appreciate hearing from you! Feel free to fill out this form to tell us about how you are using our tools and materials and ways in which you are finding them useful.
Uses labeled “CONTACT US” do require permission. If you are interested in such use, please submit this form, and someone from our team will endeavor to follow up with you as soon as possible.
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Individuals and schools may embed the Polypad in their materials for instructional use. See information below on integration options. |
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Organizations (for profit and non-profit) offering paid services embedding the Polypad with <10k requests per year | |
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Organizations (for profit and non-profit) offering paid services embedding the Polypad with >10k requests per year |
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Individuals or organizations looking to embed Activity Builder/Computation Layer in their applications | |
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Larger applications, more complex integrations, white-labeling, or hosting Amplify’s JS files on your own infrastructure | |
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Polypad links, screenshots, iFrames, or API uses behind a paywall |
Polypad integration options
There are two integration options for using Polypad within your own applications, including:
- Using iFrames hosted by Amplify.
- As a white-labeled JavaScript API that can be self-hosted and can be embedded in other websites or apps.
Developers can customize the features and behavior through numerous options and event listeners, and interact with the canvas programmatically to build custom functionality.
Complete our online form to generate an API key and accept these terms.
General guidelines
Copyright fair use
Your use of our content may be acceptable under principles of fair use (or other similar concepts in other countries). Under the fair use doctrine of the U.S. copyright statute, it is permissible to use limited portions of a work, including quotes, for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports.
Whether a particular use qualifies as fair use depends on a number of factors. For more information see resources from the U.S. Copyright Office, Circular 21, Reproductions of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians, and Fair Use Index. Amplify can’t tell you if your use of this content would be fair use, so you may wish to obtain your own legal advice.
Use of trademarks
Our trademarks are valuable assets of Amplify and its licensors, and we want to ensure our users and partners use them correctly. These trademarks include the Amplify word mark and logo, Polypad word mark, and Desmos and Desmos Classroom word marks and logos.
Logos
Our logos can only be used if you have an existing partnership, and you’ve reached out to your Amplify contact to secure formal approval from Amplify’s brand team.
Logos must never be used in a way that implies an endorsement or affiliation with Amplify where such a relationship does not exist.
Please contact media@amplify.com if you need to use an Amplify or Desmos Classroom logo.
Please contact Desmos Studio for Desmos Studio calculators branding guidelines and licensing.
Use of product names and features
You may use the Amplify name or one of our product names or features in plain text to indicate that your product or service integrates with, or relates to, an Amplify product or service.
However, all references must be honest and accurate, and you can’t incorporate these names into your own name or imply an endorsement by Amplify.
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Use the complete name “Desmos Classroom” when referencing the platform. |
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Use “Desmos Classroom lessons” when talking about specific lessons authored in the Desmos Classroom platform. | |
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Use “Teacher-created Desmos Classroom lessons” or “[Company name]-authored Desmos Classroom lessons” when talking about a lesson that has been authored by anyone other than Amplify personnel. | |
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Include required attribution and disclaimers. | |
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Do not use the name “Desmos” without “Classroom” attached. |
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Do not imply an endorsement or affiliation with Amplify where such a relationship does not exist. |
Attribution
If using screenshots of Desmos Classroom or Polypad, or linking to Desmos Classroom or Polypad, you are required to include the following attribution in the first place they appear:
Materials created using Desmos Classroom, an Amplify product.
If using Amplify trademarks, such as names or logos, include a legal attribution where applicable:
Amplify is a registered trademark of Amplify Education, Inc.
High-resolution logos:
You are required to include a link to the homepage of Desmos Classroom and a prominent disclaimer of affiliation when making permissible uses described above in at least one place in your materials, preferably the cover page or landing page:
Visit Desmos Classroom for lessons, lesson building tools, and Polypad virtual manipulatives at teacher.desmos.com. [Insert name of your organization or website] is not affiliated, sponsored, or endorsed by Amplify.
Contact us
Desmos Classroom and Polypad Usage Inquiry Form – Uses labeled “Contact us”
Thank you for your interest in using Desmos Classroom and/or Polypad. If your intended use falls into one of the categories labeled “CONTACT US,” please fill out this form, so we can determine the appropriate permissions or licenses:
Desmos Classroom and Polypad Usage Inquiry Form – Uses labeled “Permitted”
Thank you for your interest in using Desmos Classroom and/or Polypad. If your intended use falls under the “PERMITTED” categories outlined in our use guidelines, please let us know by filling out the form below. This helps us understand how our tools are being used.
Note: If your intended use falls under one of the “CONTACT US” categories outlined in our use guidelines, please fill out this form.