The Latest Updates for Teaching and Learning

Explore the latest updates in Achieve, designed to streamline course management, enhance assessment security, provide deeper insights with greater gradebook flexibility, and expand personalized learning support. Achieve continually evolves to meet diverse educational needs and prioritize accessibility.

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New for Spring 2026

AI Tutor for High School

PILOT

Following its success in higher education, the AI Tutor will be available for select high school Achieve courses. Students can get real-time, supportive guidance as they work through homework problems. The AI Tutor is designed to guide students through a Socratic approach, helping them build skills and understanding without promoting overreliance on AI.

Interested? High school teachers can opt-in for these Achieve disciplines: Statistics (AP®️ & non-AP®️), AP®️ Biology, AP®️ Calculus, AP®️ Economics, and AP®️ Environmental Science.

Updated Student Assessment Experience

Students will now see a refreshed, mobile-friendly interface when viewing homework and quizzes. Mobile-friendly and accessible, the new interface makes important information easier to find, the layout is cleaner, and navigation feels smoother, especially on smaller screens. This update makes assessments feel more modern and streamlines the overall assessment experience.

Click on the "Switch to New Layout" button at the top to see this new experience!

AI Tutor for High School Updated Student Assessment Experience

LTI 1.3 Functional Improvements

We heard your feedback and made a change to optimize LTI 1.3 integrations! Users will experience a smoother, more intuitive integration with Canvas and Blackboard LTI 1.3. The update removes extra steps and improves iClicker grade syncing while allowing greater customization through grade sync level settings.

Key Canvas improvements include:

Reduced steps in content deployment process for 1.3
Grade Sync Level control
iClicker grades sync directly from Achieve

Key Blackboard improvements include:

Updates to ensure successful content deployments, including Blackboard folders appearing correctly

Copy Assignment to Another Course: Assessment & Writing

Instructors can copy any Assessment or Writing Assignment—whether prebuilt or customized—into other courses or section managers. This update simplifies course setup, especially when teaching multiple sections or reusing content across terms.

iClicker: Web Polling Updates

COMING SOON

The web version of iClicker continues to expand its capabilities. Teachers can now use Reactions, Confidence Ratings, and question types like Target and Multiple Answers without needing to download anything. This helps make live polling easier and more accessible in more teaching environments.

LTI 1.3 Functional Improvements Copy Assignment to Another Course iClicker: Web Polling Updates

Unit View and Trend Indicators in Individual Student Gradebook

The Individual Student Gradebook now includes new viewing options by Unit, Gradebook Category, or Week—so teachers can better understand how students progress over time. Built-in trend indicators call out performance shifts, whether scores are improving, declining, or staying flat. These visual cues help teachers quickly identify when students are improving or may need support, at both the topic and time-based levels.

Individual Student Gradebook Week View Zoom

Student Performance Overview in Individual Student Gradebook

COMING SOON

The Individual Student Gradebook now features a weekly performance graph for each student, alongside the class average for additional comparison. This simple, visual view makes it easier to track progress, spot dips early, and provide timely support.

Unit View and Trend Indicators Student Performance Overview

Achieve Product Release

Check out our previous product releases and explore the past enhancements we've made to Achieve.

Fall 2025
- - Assessments
    - Respondus LockDown Browser: Teachers can require the Respondus LockDown Browser for Achieve assessments at no extra cost, adding an extra layer of security for high-stakes quizzes and exams. Students launch the browser directly from Achieve, which locks down their device during the assessment. A Chromebook-compatible extension will also be available soon, expanding device support.
      
      Exam Builder: Exam Builder allows teachers to automatically generate large, varied exams using question pools based on their chosen chapters, topics, and desired level of variance. This saves time, reduces grading discrepancies, and increases exam fairness by offering a randomized version to each student.
      
      Manage Post-Submission Quiz Access: Teachers can now hide quiz content from students immediately after submission until the due date passes. This supports academic integrity by helping reduce answer-sharing during active assessments and high-stakes tests/quizzes.
  - Personalized Learning
    - Student Practice Mode: This new setting allows students to retake a completed or past-due homework assignment for additional practice—ungraded and with unlimited attempts! Teachers can enable this option to help students prepare for exams and encourage mastery learning through extra practice.
  - Course Management
    - Instructor Pages: Highlights and Annotations: Students can easily highlight and add private notes to content in Instructor Pages, making studying more personal and focused. Teachers can also share their own highlights and notes, creating a more interactive and engaging learning experience.
      
      Schoology: Achieve Section Linking: Teachers using Schoology can now link the correct Achieve section to each Schoology course. This alignment improves usability and makes classroom management easier.
      
      Inactive Student Alerts (beta): A new alert widget highlights students who haven’t launched an activity in the last 7 days, helping teachers proactively identify disengaged learners.
  - Gradebook
    - Access Reports & Insights Tab from LMS: Easily navigate to the Achieve Reports & Insights Tab directly from the Course Tools page in your LMS. This update streamlines your workflow, giving you quicker access to valuable student data and insights directly from your LMS.
      
      Export by Group(s) or Individual(s): Exporting the gradebook by individual or groups simplifies progress tracking and offers greater flexibility, especially for teachers managing exception groups. This feature saves time by eliminating the need to manually edit CSV files after exporting, making grade transfers and tracking more efficient.
      
      Filter for Exception Groups: Teachers using exception groups can now filter their view by exception group(s), making it easier to review large gradebooks—ideal for managing rostered courses, classes, and students.
      
      Pop-out Side Panel: The new pop-out side panel in the Gradebook and Individual Student Gradebook offers a simple way to manage assignment details, student notes, and interventions—all in one place. Teachers can easily grant extensions, reopen assessments, update scores, and add notes directly within the Gradebook. This streamlines tasks and keeps everything organized for a more efficient experience.
      
      Weekly Student Gradebook View: Teachers can view student grades and assignment completions on a weekly basis, aligned with the Course Week view found on the Course Home page. This new feature will make it easier to track student performance and progress week by week. Teachers can also toggle between viewing grades by Course Week or by gradebook categories, offering greater flexibility and control.