College Success

LearningCurve helps first-year students build confidence from the start with personalized, adaptive question sets that identify knowledge gaps, offer targeted feedback, and link directly to e-book readings. This game-like, low-stakes assessment helps students arrive prepared, engaged, and ready to learn.

For instructors, LearningCurve provides a scalable way to support students with varying levels of preparedness and create more confident, capable classrooms.

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• Goal-setting and Reflection Surveys (GRS) empower first-year students to set meaningful academic goals, reflect on their progress, and develop strategies for success — strengthening personal accountability and self-awareness.
• ACES (Academic and Career Excellence System), exclusive to Connections courses, provides actionable insights by assessing students’ strengths and areas for growth.

Together, these tools help educators foster academic and career readiness, setting students on a path to success from day one.

iClicker creates classrooms where first-year students feel connected, confident, and ready to participate. By lowering barriers and encouraging participation, iClicker supports early academic engagement and a stronger sense of belonging.

• Live Polling to spark discussion and check real-time understanding.
• Group Activities (Groups) to promote collaboration and peer learning.
• Attendance Tracking to encourage consistent habits and accountability.
• Focus Mode to reduce distractions and keep students present.
• Confidence Ratings to help students reflect on their understanding and build metacognitive skills.

The new modules in Understanding Your College Experience deliver the latest research and expanded content on critical topics like test-taking, study strategies, mental health, and learning science. Fully customizable and designed for flexibility, these resources can be integrated into other Achieve College Success courses, helping educators foster academic and personal growth.

Achieve’s assessments give students the practice and support they need to master core concepts while giving instructors clear insight into class performance. Key assessment tools include:

• Formative and summative assessments help students grasp concepts at their own pace and reinforce their understanding, paving the way for deeper learning and long-term success.
• Short-form Writing Assignments encourage students to reflect on First-Year Experience topics such as goal setting, wellness, and learning strategies. These low-stakes assignments support authentic learning and can be graded for participation or used for formative feedback.
• Respondus® LockDown Browser Integration provides a secure and trustworthy exam environment for your assessments.

Achieve is continually improving to meet the needs of today’s classrooms. Here’s a look at what’s coming in Spring 2026:

• Peer Connector helps students get to know each other by responding to short prompts and discovering shared interests or commonalities with peers. These small moments of connection foster community, build inclusive, supportive learning environments, and are correlated with improved learner performance.
• Understanding Your College Experience, 4e (coming soon) integrates new research on learning science, study strategies, AI literacy, and mental health content to address changes in the post-pandemic and AI-influenced classroom.

Explore the full lineup of updates and improvements here.