The software is a result of partnering with Summit Public Schools, a nonprofit organization with some of the best ranked schools California. The CEO and Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is happy to have partnered with Summit.

“Don’t just use it because it’s free, use it because you’ve thought strategically how it’s going to tie to your local learning plan”, Lewis said.

Ever since Diane Tavenner, Summit’s chief executive, has asked Mr. Zuckerberg past year to help their lone engineer in developing and improving their educational tools, eight Facebook employees have been appointed to work on the project full time. The approach seems to be working – nearly all Summit graduates are accepted to at least one four-year college or university.

The final version of the updated software presents students and teachers with a clean interface to keep track of and create new short-term and long-term goals.

Last year, 2,000 students and 100 teachers in Summit schools were using the tool. The feedback they receive will help improve the PLP, which would be made available for free for schools in the US.

The software tool, Personalized Learning Plan (PLP), helped teachers to closely monitor students and how they were progressing and to give tailored feedback each day.

The software won’t require a Facebook account to join, and the company promises that the team working with Summit operates independently from the rest of the company. Summit Public Schools have plans to start a small pilot program. The charter school network now includes nine schools in California and Washington, including two in San Jose.

Facebook and Summit alike stated that the project is in line with student privacy practices recommended by the federal government, meaning that any student data that Facebook collects will be off-limits for its other businesses.

The classroom isn’t for lectures but is reserved for teacher-led real-world projects and collaboration, and content and assessments are delivered online. PLP also makes it easier for students to see their upcoming schedule and the various lessons and tasks associated with each subject. It should be noted that the software was not built by Facebook from scratch. Facebook hopes to eventually incorporate the positives from Summit’s training techniques into the new PLP software which will eventually be disseminated to public schools for free.