Featured in Inside Higher Ed: Achieve’s AI Tutor
As seen in Inside Higher Ed, students and instructors alike have embraced the AI Tutor in Achieve as a powerful learning tool. Here’s what analyzing two million student interactions reveals about how generative AI can positively impact student learning outcomes.
Turn Moments of Struggle into Learning Opportunities
Achieve's AI Tutor engages students during challenging moments, transforming homework into an engaging conversation that fosters genuine understanding, instead of merely providing answers.
Personalized Homework Support
Learning is both dynamic and personal. The AI Tutor provides personalized support, feedback, and practice that caters to each student’s unique needs, available anytime and anywhere.
Socratic Learning Approach
Instead of simply providing answers or directing students to explore resources on their own, the AI Tutor engages and expertly guides students through problem-solving processes. This method significantly improves long-term knowledge retention, nurtures critical thinking abilities, and empowers students to achieve a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of concepts.
Round-the-Clock Student Support
With 24/7 access, your students can receive support anytime, ensuring consistent progress.
Feedback that You Can Trust
Leveraging trusted Achieve content and course materials, the AI Tutor delivers in-context insights and feedback, providing students with reliable assistance directly relevant to their assignments.
Bring the Power of AI to your Course
Experience improved student retention with Achieve's AI Tutor, now available in select courses across the disciplines below. Try the AI Tutor yourself, or schedule a personalized demo.
Astronomy
Available for Astronomy students, the AI Tutor helps students grasp and apply key concepts through a Socratic approach, guiding them with questions that deepen understanding. With instant, personalized feedback, it empowers students to tackle homework confidently, while complementing support from instructors and TAs.
Instructors using Achieve where the AI Tutor is available can log in now to see it in action!
Biochemistry
Available for Biochemistry students, the AI Tutor helps students grasp and apply key concepts through a Socratic approach, guiding them with questions that deepen understanding. With instant, personalized feedback, it empowers students to tackle homework confidently, while complementing support from instructors and TAs.
Instructors using Achieve where the AI Tutor is available can log in now to see it in action!
Biology
While biology students work on their homework, the AI Tutor helps them understand and apply important concepts like cellular structures, ecological interactions, and evolutionary theory. Rather than provide students with the answers to homework questions, the AI Tutor reinforces learning and coaches students to support the development of critical thinking.
The AI Tutor will be available for Achieve courses in Majors Biology, Evolution, Genetics, and Non-Majors Biology.
Instructors using Achieve where the AI Tutor is available can log in now to see it in action!
Chemistry
Available for chemistry students, the AI Tutor uses the Socratic method and offers step-by-step explanations of underlying concepts like chemical equations and reactions. It guides students through homework challenges across essential Chemistry topics, ensuring they grasp the concepts and effectively apply them in problem-solving.
The AI Tutor will be available for Achieve courses in Analytical Chemistry, General Chemistry, and Intro Chemistry.
Instructors using Achieve where the AI Tutor is available can log in now to see it in action!
Economics
Available in Principles of Economics, Intermediate Macroeconomics, and Intermediate Microeconomics, the AI Tutor helps students apply economic theory and nurture their economic intuition, empowering them to tackle homework problems accurately. By providing instant, personalized feedback whenever students are working on homework, the AI Tutor complements the support of Economics instructors and TAs.
Instructors using Achieve where the AI Tutor is available can log in now to see it in action!
Environmental Science
Available for Environmental Science students, the AI Tutor helps students grasp and apply key concepts through a Socratic approach, guiding them with questions that deepen understanding. With instant, personalized feedback, it empowers students to tackle homework confidently, while complementing support from instructors and TAs.
Instructors using Achieve where the AI Tutor is available can log in now to see it in action!
Geography
Available for Geography students, the AI Tutor helps students grasp and apply key concepts through a Socratic approach, guiding them with questions that deepen understanding. With instant, personalized feedback, it empowers students to tackle homework confidently, while complementing support from instructors and TAs.
Instructors using Achieve where the AI Tutor is available can log in now to see it in action!
Nutrition
Available for Nutrition students, the AI Tutor helps students grasp and apply key concepts through a Socratic approach, guiding them with questions that deepen understanding. With instant, personalized feedback, it empowers students to tackle homework confidently, while complementing support from instructors and TAs.
Instructors using Achieve where the AI Tutor is available can log in now to see it in action!
Statistics
Available across Statistics courses, the AI Tutor helps students understand and apply important course concepts to homework problems by asking a series of questions that promote critical thinking. The AI Tutor can provide a step-by-step breakdown of the problem while using the Socratic Method to encourage students to solve the problem independently, which builds learners’ confidence.
Instructors using Achieve where the AI Tutor is available can log in now to see it in action!
Discover the Impact: Testimonials from Our Community
Hear directly from students and instructors on how the AI Tutor enhances the way they learn and teach.
“They use the AI tutor to help them when they are stuck solving a problem. I have noticed that students are learning how to solve problems from the Socratic method in which the AI responds to their questions.
-Instructor
What Students Are Saying
This bot has been created in a way that makes me feel as if I'm talking with a human.
It's like a real tutor and asks questions that aid in my comprehension of what I'm answering not just leading me to the right answer.
It also doesn't make me feel dumb for asking a silly question.
I LOVE this feature. I am usually apprehensive when it comes to relying on AI but this bot has been created in a way that makes me feel as if I'm talking with a human. It's beyond helpful.
How to Select the Best AI Tutor for Your Students
When intentionally designed, the power of generative AI chatbots can be used to empower student learning, not impede it. To understand how the underlying design of AI chatbots for students can drive desired learning outcomes and align with your pedagogical values, download the Educators’ Guide to Selecting an AI Tutor.
