Supports students and instructors during every step of learning Engages students both inside and out of classBuilt for students of all levels of preparation and motivationAchieve is Macmillan’s next-generation online learning system: a fully mobile, accessible, and flexible learning system that can easily integrate with your school's LMS. Built on the best features of our legacy platforms, Achieve offers powerful assessment tools and content to support students of all levels of preparation in an intuitive and user-friendly system.
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Macmillan has several market-leading software solutions which have served over 20 million students in the past decade. Five years ago we set out to take the best features of each solution and marry them into a platform that is intuitive and flexible.
LaunchPad
LearningCurve
Sapling
WriterKey
iClicker
FlipIt
Writer’s Help
Our Learning Science and Insights team helped guide the design and development process with the latest research and efficacy results from testing. Instructors and students co-designed with Macmillan for several years both in the classroom and in the lab. For more information on how our Learning Science team conducts their research or to check out new findings click here to view more of our Learning Science Research.
Macmillan is also the only publisher to secure two levels of Institutional Review Board approval for *every* study of Achieve—giving us unprecedented access to student performance and perceptions.
We have always developed carefully vetted and respected content, but we proceeded to refine our structure to develop software and implemented best practices such as Common Design Language, User Testing Laboratory, Robust User and Quality Testing Environment.
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Over three semesters (F19-S20-F20), we worked with 3,109 students engaging with more than 1 million unique assignments from 197 courses across 6 subjects. We collected a lot of data from those studies (that we are digging into further with more studies in subsequent semesters), and here’s what we have found so far:
Students using more of their courses’ assignments and having higher grades on those assignments, had higher exam scores. Students with higher grades on their assignments (gradebook average) could expect to be 8 points higher on exams. Students that use or engage with less than the median student in each course can expect to perform 4% to 12% lower on their exams (depending on how much less work the student did), while students that use more than the typical, perform 1.5% to 3% higher on their exams.
87% of the instructors agree that the content in Achieve is valuable.
82% of students rate the adaptive quizzes in Achieve as Excellent (39%) or Good (43%).
Overall, 89% agree that Achieve is better than or equal to their current platform.
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Watch: What is Achieve? Each Achieve course comes with unique, course-specific content that may include our award-winning e-books, pre-built assessments, and multimedia assets as well as support for pre-class preparation, in-class active learning, and post-class work and self-study. LearningCurve Adaptive quizzing provides personalized question sets and clear feedback based on each student’s correct and incorrect answers--offering an easy way for students to prepare for class by reviewing the e-book and then assessing their understanding of the key concepts. There are five surveys in Achieve designed to get students to set goals for themselves and reflect on their learning throughout the semester. For each survey you assign, you will receive insights on the strategies students are using, how they think the semester is going, and how you can target interventions and support based on your class. Each course provides practice for students through auto-graded assignments including those that focus on critical thinking, understanding, and skill-building. Instructors can assign pre-built assessments or create their own questions and assignments as well. With Achieve’s seamless integration with iClicker, included at no additional cost in some Achieve courses, you can bring any classroom - in person or virtual - to life with attendance, polling and quizzing options. iClicker also allows students to participate using laptops and mobile devices all in the same classroom. Additionally, take advantage of In-Class Activity Guides and book-specific iClicker questions within Achieve to make the most out of your classroom. Macmillan Learning strives to create products that are usable by all learners and meet universally applied accessibility standards. Insights and Reporting provide powerful analytics, viewable in an elegant dashboard, that offer instructors a window into student progress and facilitate lessons that are specifically tailored to students’ needs. Achieve can all be integrated with the tools of your choice--including the iClicker Student Response system or your LMS (Blackboard, Canvas, D2L or Moodle). We take our support seriously, and it is important to us that if you do have questions about any of our products, you get the assistance you need when you need it--through our sales team, our discipline and product specialists, our training teams, our online training and support materials, and our support team.
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Achieve offers an e-book, course- and book-specific resources, gradebook, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, assessment tools, insights and reporting, and integration options. See which features are available for your discipline.
Looking for ideas on how you can use Achieve in your class? Visit our community to connect with our faculty consultants.
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We have had a large number of students and instructors try out Achieve so far. Here's what a few of those users had to say about it.
I found Achieve was readily accessible and was not complicated to pick up or to use anywhere, any time.”
Being able to go over something as many times as you would like till it is ironed into your brain is nice. I like being able to coincide assignments with exams to make sure I understand the content.”
“ As I continue to progress in my position, there are more responsibilities outside of the classroom that require more of my time. Having Achieve relieves some stress for this course as I know it takes less time for me to prepare things on my own.”
Ryan Elsenpeter
“ For some reason, these students worked together far more than is common. Like a lot more. They have long meetings in the library several times a week, and a significant portion of the class goes. It is, in one word, amazing.”
William Griffiths
“The pre-lecture activities helped the students to participate more in the class.”
Harpreet Malhotra
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Achieve can all be integrated with the tools of your choice.
Experience the best in classroom engagement! iClicker has once again been voted as the winner of the Campus Technology Reader's Choice Award for best student response and classroom engagement system.
Inclusive Access is a program that ensures that every student has access to their course materials through their LMS on the first day of class.
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