We at Britannica Education had an incredible 2024, and 2025 is already shaping up to be the best yet. Our editorial and product teams have been so hard at work improving our products for students.
Let’s recap the new products that were introduced this year—many are a result of the great feedback we’ve gotten from you, our users!
Britannica School: Early Elementary
We successfully released a new level for Britannica School, geared specifically toward the youngest of learners. Tailored for PreK-2 students, this platform safely enchants and educates with comprehensive, classroom-friendly content for all subjects. Plus, new Early Elementary articles are still consistently being added, with all articles translated into native Spanish.
Britannica School:
Elementary and Middle School
We also introduced a redesign of the user experience for the mid-levels of Britannica School and Britannica Library. The enhanced visual design, new interactives, and in-article navigation tools and accessibility features truly upped the engagement possibilities.
Teach Britannica
Our all-new resource hub built for educators by educators, launched with a splash! This open-access platform contains materials for all Britannica Education products, including toolkits, graphic organizers, lesson plans, and printables galore. We vow to continue adding content in the new year.
Britannica ImageQuest
This year, we added a total of 48,500+ new images and 25 new videos to our visual-learning, rights-cleared media platform! In addition to this content, we added email sharing capabilities, audio description support for videos, and more behind-the-scenes functionality for administrators.
Britannica ImageQuest Jr.
If that wasn’t enough, we unleashed this new, younger version of ImageQuest as well. This product creates a safe space for elementary children to explore hand-selected, age-appropriate media. Between the content, curation tools, LMS integrations, and more, ImageQuest Jr. has proven to fill an educational need.
Britannica Expedition: Learn!
Let’s keep the new releases rolling, shall we? This new instructional platform for Grades 3-8 contains supplementary science and social studies lessons, all standards-aligned and topically relevant! Throughout the year we revamped Expedition: Learn’s teacher materials with answer keys and remediation strategies, and we launched hands-on STEM activity options for NGSS-based lessons.
All that mumbo jumbo is to say—we’ve been busy! And, we’re not done.
The Road Ahead for High School
The road ahead is bright for our high school users too! Within the next few months, we’ll be releasing a new design for this level of Britannica School and the Britannica Library Reference Center, aimed at enhancing the user experience while maintaining the same trusted, high-quality content Britannica is known for.
Here’s what’s coming:
Redesigned Homepage
A more engaging and visually appealing interface for easier navigation.
Revamped Article Layouts
Enhanced visuals, intuitive buttons, and new bulleted lists interspersed with fun facts will all contribute to improved digestibility. Plus, an OpenDyslexic font option will be available for accessibility.
Enhanced Navigator Tool
Based on customer feedback, the new navigator design will consolidate all tools and features into a single panel. This streamlined design will launch at the high school level and will soon after be updated across the elementary and middle school levels too.
Keep an eye on our webinars page and register for our mid-January walkthrough, where our Professional Learning team will explore these updates and their benefits in-depth.
Goodbye 2024, Hello Britannica!
And finally, 2025 brings news of Hello Britannica, our all-new platform for English language practice. Already populated with more than 40,000 questions and thousands of games, we know it will build confidence and cultural awareness for students around the world.
There is plenty more to come! We are so grateful to you, our readers, users, and partners, for helping to shape Britannica Education’s resources to better serve students and educators. We’re excited about these changes and the value they’ll bring to classrooms and communities in 2025.
