College Success

LearningCurve helps first-year students build confidence from the start with personalised, adaptive question sets that identify knowledge gaps, offer targeted feedback, and link directly to eBook 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.

• Goal-setting and Reflection Surveys (GRS) empower first-year students to set meaningful academic goals, reflect on their progress, and develop strategies for success, helping to strengthen 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.
• Confidence Ratings to help students reflect on their understanding and build metacognitive skills.

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 that help students work through concepts at their own pace while reinforcing understanding and supporting deeper learning.
• Short-Form Writing Assignments that encourage students to reflect on first-year experience topics such as goal setting, wellbeing, and learning strategies. These low-stakes activities support authentic learning and can be graded for participation or used for formative feedback.
• Respondus® LockDown Browser integration, which provides a secure and reliable environment for online assessments.