Help Underprepared Students Bridge Knowledge Gaps and Develop Critical Skills

Your students come to you with unique strengths and areas for growth. With Achieve, Macmillan Learning’s digital learning platform, you’ll have the tools you need to assess students’ understanding of concepts, foster personalised learning, and encourage the development of lifelong learning skills.
 
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How to Build Student Trust Early: 10 First-Week Teaching Strategies

Eleven university educators share 10 first-week teaching strategies for building student trust through presence, names, support, and course design.


How to Build Student Trust Early:
10 First-Week Teaching Strategies

Eleven university educators share 10 first-week teaching strategies for building student trust through presence, names, support, and course design.
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Achieve: A Comprehensive Approach to Addressing Student Preparedness

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Student preparedness is complex. Students need to be ready to engage academically as well as socially and emotionally, but often aren't. Achieve can help with both sides of preparedness through easy-to-use, customisable assessments that are simple to implement and manage.

  • Assess and Improve Academic Readiness: You have an important role to play in addressing preparedness. Achieve has the tools to help you assess where students stand, differentiate your teaching, engage students in course material, and use active learning to improve outcomes.
  • Nurture Socially and Emotionally Adept Learners: By creating a supportive and inclusive learning environment, you can help students become better learners. Achieve helps you foster lifelong learning skills with research-backed tools focused on metacognition, motivation, and instructor-student relationship building.

More Strategies for Supporting Varying Levels of Student Preparedness

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Supporting Students with Diverse Levels of Student Preparedness

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Addressing deficiencies in student preparedness is crucial for creating inclusive and effective learning environments. Learn more about the factors that influence under-preparedness and get practical tips on how to support students with varying levels of readiness.
 

7 Signs Your Students Might Be Struggling

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Academic struggles don’t always look like failing grades or skipped classes. The signs can be much more subtle. Here are 7 ways that your students are hinting that they might be struggling and what you can do to help them.

 
 

Why Instructors like you choose Achieve



1. See Your Students Show Up, Step Up, and Succeed

You want a classroom where students don't just show up, but actually dial in. Built on proven learning science, Achieve helps your students grasp tough concepts faster, retain information longer, and boost their grades.

2. Real-Time Insights That Inform Your Teaching

No more waiting for exam day to spot who is falling behind. Your intuitive analytics dashboard gives you an instant window into student progress, so you can adjust your next lesson and offer help right when it's needed most.

3. Turn Passive Observers into Active Learners

Every classroom is different, and you need tools that adapt to your style. Easily customise Achieve to create an active, collaborative space where students dive into the material, work together, and put their knowledge to the test.

4. Create a Culture of Academic Integrity

When students feel supported, they don't look for shortcuts. Achieve helps you cultivate genuine engagement and self-belief, giving students the tools and confidence they need to do their own best work.

Addressing the Challenge of Student Preparedness with Achieve


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Use Assessments to Check Knowledge and Cultivate Understanding

LearningCurve Adaptive Quizzing: By identifying areas where individual students are struggling, adaptive quizzing provides personalised practice problems to improve comprehension and retention. This tool helps students reinforce their understanding of the material at their own pace, ensuring they are fully prepared for class.

Goal-setting & Reflection Surveys:These surveys are designed to foster a culture of self-awareness and proactive learning among students. By setting their own academic goals, students take an active role in their learning journey.

Navigate the Active Learning Maze with Easy-to-Use, Research-Based Tools


Educator Empowering: From vetting resources to planning activities, implementing active learning into a course can be time-consuming and challenging. Achieve makes it easy with thoughtfully designed tools, ready-made resources, and support.

Student-Centric: Many educators want to provide students with active learning opportunities both in and outside of the classroom. Achieve has tools to boost in-class participation and engage students as they work through assignments. 


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Meet students exactly where they are with the AI Tutor

 

Achieve's AI Tutor provides personalised, real-time support to underprepared students, guiding them step-by-step through challenging concepts and offering instant feedback. By adapting to individual learning needs, the AI Tutor helps bridge preparedness gaps, boosting confidence, promoting self-directed learning, and ensuring every student stays on track

3 Simple Steps to Get Started with Achieve


Discover how Achieve can transform your teaching.

Take an Interactive Product Tour

Discover Achieve’s features through an engaging, guided product tour. Explore its tools and capabilities at your own pace to see how it can support teaching and learning.

Try a Free Sample Course

Explore Achieve with a free instructor sample course in your discipline. Explore assignments, assessments, and interactive tools.

Book a Personalised Demo

Get a one-on-one walk-through with an Achieve expert to see how it can support your teaching and student success.

Join thousands of instructors and millions of students worldwide using Achieve


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