Which Achieve product is right for your course?

E-book

An easily accessible ebook with mobile device compatibility, highlighting, note-taking, read aloud, and accessibility options. It can be downloaded for offline reading.

Some titles

Upload Content

Ability to upload own PDF content to Achieve.

E-books with Interactive and Multimedia

Engaging interactive and multimedia assets optimized for the course's ebook, including videos, interactive graphing, 3D interactive models, and more.

Goal-setting and Reflection Surveys

Introductory and Checkpoint Surveys that help students develop, set and recalibrate learning strategies. These surveys provide insights for deeper student-instructor connections.

LearningCurve Adaptive Quizzing

Self-paced individualized formative assessment that adapts questions based on the student's level of understanding. It provides hints, links to the ebook, and the ability to see the correct answer.

Some titles

Assignable Homework with Targeted Feedback

Autograded homework that offers feedback and worked examples to assist students.

Test Banks with Customizable Questions

Pre-built questions aligned with course content. Some questions are editable and instructors can add their own questions.

Limited titles

Academic Integrity Protection (Respondus)

Lockdown browser and monitoring tools available for assessments, independent of Test Bank availability.

iClicker

iClicker, Macmillan Learning's student response system, fosters engagement through features like polling, quizzing, study tools, and other features that empower active and engaged learning. Available for use on mobile or an iClicker remote device for remote or in-person classes.

Academic Integrity Protection

Various features to ensure academic integrity, such as question randomization, compatibility with HonorLock, customizable settings for attempts and time, password protection, variety in question types, and time-on-task reporting. Proctoring solutions are also available.

iClicker

iClicker, Macmillan Learning's student response system, fosters engagement through features like polling, quizzing, study tools, and other features that empower active and engaged learning. Available for use on mobile or an iClicker remote device for remote or in-person classes.

Instructor Activity Guides

Built around the e-book, these guides offer downloadable content such as worksheets, slides, and suggested activities/questions that can be used alongside iClicker.

Gradebook

Easily organize and view student grades in the Achieve gradebook. Customizable options include grade categories, dropping lowest grades, and manual grade editing, and more.

Insights and Reports

User-friendly dashboard that offers visibility into assignments, tracks performance against learning objectives, and provides insights from Goal-Setting and Reflection Surveys — available for both individual student or class level.

LMS Integration

Allows grades and assignments to appear in your learning management system (LMS) and enables access to Achieve from the LMS for students.

iClicker AI Question Creator

Generates polling and quiz questions on demand for instructors inside iClicker; optional, instructor-selected.

(via included iClicker)

(via included iClicker)

Achieve AI Question Generation Tools

"Create More Like This" generates new assessment items from an existing question; Import Tools generate questions from an uploaded file or pasted text. Optional, instructor-selected.

Short-Form Writing Creator

Helps instructors draft short-essay prompts and generate rubric criteria aligned to the prompt's learning goals. Optional, instructor-enabled.

Content Creator for Pages

Conversational assistant inside Achieve's Pages authoring tool that generates content instructors request while building or editing a page. Optional, instructor-selected.

AI Summaries for Goal-Setting and Reflection Surveys (Beta)

Distills open-ended GRS responses into class-wide themes so instructors can spot patterns without reading every response. Optional, instructor-selected.

Labs Assignment Dates Rules (Beta)

Instructors describe due-date cascade rules in plain language and the tool applies them across sections connected via a section manager. Optional, instructor-selected.

(Beta, select section manager courses)

Short-Form Writing Analyzer

Tags open-ended student writing responses against instructor rubrics and criteria like readability and topical relevance, with rationale, to speed up review. Instructor sets the final score. Optional, instructor-enabled.

AI Tutor

Chat-based homework support that helps students work through misconceptions after an incorrect attempt. Instructors must enable per course; students choose whether to use it.

(Some titles — most STEM and economics courses)

(Some titles — most STEM and economics courses)

Guided Quiz Review (Beta)

For multi-take quizzes, generate a personalized review plan and study chatbot from a student's correct/incorrect pattern. Instructors must enable; students choose whether to use the chat.

(Some titles — most biology and psychology courses, ChemReady+ in general chemistry)

(Some titles — most biology and psychology courses, ChemReady+ in general chemistry)

Achieve Course Coach (Beta)

AI learning companion offering review quizzes, guided lessons, and study plans grounded in the course textbook. Instructors must enable; student use is optional.

(General Chemistry courses)

Guided Reading (Beta)

Waypoint-based reading activity where students respond in their own words as they read; the AI assesses each response and credit is based on waypoints completed.

(Some titles)

GoReact Advanced

Third-party video assessment tool for Public Speaking and Human Communication courses. AI partner (AssemblyAI) generates instructor-configured comments, speech analytics (filler words, pacing, hedging), and a timestamped transcript. Instructor opts in; AI comments specifically require separate opt-in, analytics/transcript cannot be disabled once GoReact is used.

(Some titles — Public Speaking, Human Communication)

Selective Translation in VitalSource

On-demand translation of a selected ebook passage (up to 1,500 characters) into a student's preferred language. Processed by Macmillan's own OpenAI-based service, not by VitalSource. Optional, student-selected.

(Some titles)