History

Achieve for History provides tools that help students analyze sources, strengthen content knowledge, and reflect on historical ideas. Key assessments include: 

• Primary Sources & Quizzes provide curated historical sources paired with assignable quizzes that build critical thinking and source analysis skills.
• History Tutorials teach essential skills such as analyzing primary sources, avoiding plagiarism, improving historical writing, and effective note-taking, with auto-graded quizzes for reinforcement.
• LearningCurve Adaptive Quizzing delivers personalized practice that adapts to each student’s understanding level, identifies knowledge gaps, and links directly to readings to reinforce key concepts.
• Short-form Writing Assignments support frequent, low-stakes writing that helps students reflect on readings, ideas, and historical content, allowing instructors to focus on substance rather than mechanics.
• AI Literacy Modules help students understand what AI is, how it works, and how to use it responsibly in historical research and writing, strengthening ethical reasoning and informed decision-making.
• Respondus® LockDown Browser Integration provides a secure and trustworthy exam environment for your history assessments.

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Support student learning and engagement with tools that adapt to individual needs while helping instructors understand how students are progressing.

• LearningCurve Adaptive Quizzing supports independent learning with adaptive practice and feedback that helps students master concepts at their own pace.
• Goal-setting & Reflection Surveys (GRS) help students set learning goals, monitor progress, and reflect on their understanding, while pulse checks give instructors timely insights into student progress.
• iClicker supports discussion and active learning through real-time polling, instant feedback, and more.
• Integrated e-Book tools provide highlighting, note-taking, and text-to-speech features to help students engage with readings in ways that support comprehension and accessibility.

Streamline course setup, feedback, and instruction with flexible tools designed for history courses.

• Ready-to-use instructor resources, such as question banks, classroom activities, and more, make it easier to prepare and teach your History course. Explore resources available in your course with a free Achieve sample course!
• LMS integration simplifies course setup, assignments, and grading.
• Real-time analytics & gradebook tools monitor student progress, identify learning gaps, and track trends across the class.
• Customizable content gives you the flexibility to adapt assignments and resources to match your teaching style and course objectives.

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

• Conversational Content Activity turns reading into active learning at scale. It strengthens comprehension, motivates deeper effort, and gives instructors clear insight into student progress and class-wide misconceptions without adding to their workload.
• Short-form Writing adds AI-powered tools that help instructors create stronger prompts and rubrics (Short-form Writing Creator, Beta) and streamline grading through rubric-aligned evaluations and transparent, reviewable feedback (Short-form Writing Analyzer, Beta).

Explore the full lineup of updates and improvements here.