Achieve supports educators and students throughout the full range of instruction, including assets suitable for pre-class preparation, in-class active learning, and post-class study and assessment. The pairing of a powerful new platform with outstanding biology content provides an unrivaled learning experience.

Features of Achieve include:

• A design guided by learning science research. Co-designed through extensive collaboration and testing by both students and faculty including two levels of Institutional Review Board approval for every study of Achieve
• A learning path of powerful content including pre-class, in-class, and post-class activities and assessments.
• A detailed gradebook with insights for just-in-time teaching and reporting on student achievement by learning objective.
• Easy integration and gradebook sync with iClicker classroom engagement solutions.
• Simple integration with your campus LMS and availability through Inclusive Access programs.

New media and assessment features in Achieve include:

• Simulation activities focus on the most challenging concepts in a non-majors biology course. These scaffolded, interactive lessons help students apply the principles they learned from the text or lecture in the context of a relevant "real life" question or familiar scenario.
• Tutorials give students an opportunity to work through a concept step-by-step, with support through visuals, hints, feedback, and links to the ebook. The tutorials can be assigned standalone, but they were also developed as a way to prepare students for the simulations.
• Pre-built and curated homework assignments are simple and easy to assign to students and can be customized by the instructor. They include homework questions featuring hints, error-specific feedback, and solutions to provide a powerful formative assessment experience for students.
• Animations are embedded directly with associated assessment problems to help students easily access these powerful visualization tools as they work through their assignments. These animations are also available to instructors in Powerpoint slides for use in the classroom.

Features of the text include:

• Each chapter of Biology for a Changing World is written in the style of a Scientific American article. This story-based approach grabs student interest and teaches the relevance of biology and why it matters to students.
• Engaging and informative Infographics are used throughout the book. These powerful pieces of art teach students how to learn from charts, graphs, and images, and add visual appeal to the science. Many of the infographics are animated with corresponding quiz questions in Achieve.
• Milestone mini-chapters highlight historically important discoveries in biology. These present biology as a living science by teaching students how we know what we know, and prompting them to consider how future research will expand our understanding of biology.
• Driving Questions provide the pedagogical framework for the chapter material by prompting students to consider the questions they need to be able to answer to have a full understanding of the material.
• End-of-chapter questions, each written by Michele Shuster, are framed around the chapter’s Driving Questions; each EOC set includes Interpreting Data, Mini-Case, and Bring It Home questions to help students develop higher-order thinking skills.