Create your Perfect Lab Course

Assignments and Assessments

More easily assess students whether prelab, in-lab, or post-lab. Reporting and analytics from assessments will help you identify student strengths and gaps in understanding.

Prelab Assignments

Prelab assignments ensure students have read their background information and procedures prior to entering the lab.

Post-Lab Assessments

Achieve’s assessment feature for lab courses provides a robust question bank mapped to students’ lab activities. Instructors can accommodate individual learning needs and promote academic integrity with customization options like extended testing time, number of retake attempts, and question randomization. As they go, students receive personalized feedback that deepens their understanding.

Data-driven Smart Worksheets

Students can use Smart Worksheets to gather data from their lab assignment, complete multistage calculations, and perform meaningful data analysis. Smart Worksheets support students by providing specific, targeted feedback, using adaptive hints, real-time checks, and interactive graphing. Smart Worksheets’ autograding feature eliminates the need for instructors and TAs to manually grade reports, saving them time and providing students with consistent, timely grades.

Goal-Setting and Reflection

The Goal-Setting and Reflection Surveys are a series of quick, pre-built surveys designed to get students to set goals for themselves and reflect on what they’re learning. For each survey that you assign, you will gain insight into the strategies students are using, how they think the course is going, and how you can target interventions and support based on your class’s needs.

Interactive eBooks and e-manuals

Give students access to lab resources wherever they are. With interactive eBooks, students can highlight, take notes, and download their eBook and e-manual for offline access. Our e-manuals also allow you to embed your own media or create custom media to include. Visit our Custom Lab Solutions page to learn more about creating your custom media.

Lab Simulations

Lab simulations are excellent options for lab preparation, make-up lab assignments, remote lab options, individualized education plans, or to practice procedures too dangerous for a live lab. Lab Solutions puts over 100 lab simulations at your fingertips.

Student Engagement with iClicker

Use diverse question types (including target, short answer, and numeric) to engage students and easily check understanding of key concepts before, during, and after lab.

iClicker can also gather feedback from students, assess student understanding levels, and generate study materials based on questions asked in class.

The iClicker student engagement system is included at no added expense for most Achieve courses. Contact us if you have questions about iClicker for your Achieve course.