Create or Customize College Success Resources


Work with our Custom experts to create unique resources and content that equip your students for academic success in their first-year college experience course. Modify an existing Macmillan Learning resource to fit your students’ needs, or create something new, like checklists and campus-specific guidebooks. If you have questions or are ready to get started, contact us below!



How Will You Customize Your Course?

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Customize Macmillan Learning Content

Modify existing College Success materials to better align with your course objectives and students' needs. Adapt Macmillan Learning content to include references to your own campus resources that personalize the student experience.

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Create My Own Content

Embrace the flexibility to create and customize resources based on your own authored content or materials for a truly personalized College Success course. This option enables you to craft unique course materials tailored to your specific curriculum needs, ensuring a more targeted approach and learning experience to College Success.

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Customize Your College Success Class

Macmillan Learning provides endless customization capabilities for both digital and print resources. Below are a few examples of how you can adapt your College Success course with us, but our offerings extend beyond what's listed. If you don't find what you're looking for, contact us to learn how we can bring your vision to life.

How Fellow Instructors Have Customized Their College Success Courses

Creating engaging, interactive teaching materials doesn’t need to be difficult. See how other instructors and institutions have created and customized their unique teaching tools.

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Houston Community College

Houston Community College uses a customized Achieve for Gardner, Understanding Your College Experience 3rd ed. The e-book now opens with information to support students in creating an academic plan at the start of the undergraduate experience and providing details regarding campus clubs, financial aid, veterans affairs, and tutoring locations on all of the HCC campuses. Additionally, throughout the e-book, they've replaced the student profiles in the national edition with profiles of students from across HCC. The customized Achieve course is distributed via Inclusive Access.

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Lone Star College

Lone Star College uses a customized Gardner, Understanding Your College Experience 3rd ed. sold in a paperback + Achieve bundle via traditional bookstore distribution. In the front of the paperback edition and the e-book in Achieve, they've added essential contact information for new students, including advising and counseling, financial aid, bookstores, and student services. The content also supports students with setting goals and planning for success in their academic careers.

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Auburn University

Auburn University uses a customized Achieve of Gore, Connections 3rd ed. The customized Achieve course is distributed via Inclusive Access. In addition to revising the student experience features to highlight students of Auburn University, they've integrated Connect to Auburn resources into the margins of the chapters, providing students with University-specific guidance that helps them to know exactly where to go (links, campus locations, email addresses, department names, phone numbers, etc.) for the details or support they need.

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