For Back-to-School 2025, Great Minds has undertaken a series of updates to streamline the user experience and improve our digital platform. These updates were informed by extensive product feedback, user testing, and thoughtful considerations around lesson preparation.
Updated Digital Experience
All Great Minds curriculum products are now accessed from a single, unified digital experience. The updated PhD Science Texas digital experience features a refreshed and simplified layout and design.
PhD Science Texas Teacher Edition
PhD Science Texas lessons are now 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.
Presentation Slides
Teachers now have the flexibility to download and edit lesson slides as PowerPoint files, allowing for greater customization. As an alternative to downloading the files, teachers can preview and display the full PowerPoint file in the platform and use the annotation tools provided to annotate the slides.
⚠️ For the best viewing experience, we recommend downloading the PowerPoint file to your device.
Sending slides to students while presenting is longer available. However, the PowerPoint files can be uploaded elsewhere to allow for student access.
Administrator Reports
The updated digital experience includes visual and design updates to administrator reports to simplify navigation and provide a consistent reporting experience across Great Minds curricula. See the Administrator Reports section of the Help Center for more information on reporting updates.
Coming soon! Administrators will have access to a visual assessment report for assessments completed by two or more classes.
Teacher Reports
The updated digital experience includes visual and design changes to teacher reports that simplify navigation and provide a consistent reporting experience across Great Minds curricula.
See the below articles for more information on teacher reports:
Thank you for your continued partnership and feedback as we work to enhance PhD Science Texas for your students and classrooms. You can contact us if you have any questions or feedback regarding these updates.