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PhD Science (National and TEKS Edition) 2025-2026 Digital Updates

For Back-to-School 2025, Great Minds® has undertaken a series of updates to streamline the user experience and improve our digital platform. You can review an overview of these updates below.

⚠️  Action needed: As a result of these updates, teachers and administrators must take specific actions to retain access to the following:

Teachers and administrators must perform these actions prior to July 6, 2025, to avoid losing access to existing data. Rostering data shared with Great Minds via Clever, ClassLink, or OneRoster CSV is not impacted by these updates.


Teacher Edition Annotations (National Edition only)

Going forward, PhD Science® lessons will be available in printable PDF format. Teachers can use in-platform annotation tools to annotate lesson PDFs, and their annotations will be saved in the platform. If teachers return to a lesson PDF, any annotations from their previous session(s) will be visible and can be modified if needed.

The existing Digital Teacher Edition format, with module files housed on Inkling, will be retired as part of these changes. As a result, existing Teacher Edition annotations will not be accessible after July 6, 2025.

Prior to July 6, 2025, teachers should review their existing annotations in each module. To preserve these annotations, they will need to take a screenshot or copy and paste the text into a separate document.

⚠️ Action(s) needed:

  • Screenshot or copy existing annotations prior to July 6, 2025

 
Assignment Submissions

Teachers will not have access to PDF assignment submissions from prior school years after July 6, 2025. Teachers can download student assignment submissions they wish to retain.

⚠️ Action(s) needed:

Updated User Experience

Starting Back-to-School 2025, all Great Minds curriculum products will be accessed from a single, unified digital experience. The updated digital experience features a refreshed and simplified look while maintaining the familiar layout and navigation of the current PhD Science and Phd Science TEKS platform. 

Thank you for your continued partnership and feedback as we work to enhance PhD Science and PhD Science TEKS for your students and classrooms. You can contact us if you have any questions or feedback regarding these updates.