Kickstart the School Year with Exciting New Tools to Accelerate Student Growth 

As students head back to the classroom in the fall, education leaders are facing many of the same challenges as past years, including how to improve academic results with limited funding and how to address pandemic-related learning loss. They also struggle with personalizing student experiences, making it easier for teachers to do their jobs, getting a complete picture of student progress, and keeping students engaged with topics and content that interest them.  

Just like educators, our digital solutions are always evolving to stay ahead of the curve. Here are four goals educators can prioritize for the new year and new tools to help reach them.    

1. Personalizing the Student Experience  

Because every student has unique goals, needs, and interests, it can be challenging to personalize instruction for each learner. With solutions from McGraw Hill’s Digital Supplemental Team, you can provide personalized learning paths for every student and relevant content that fits their interests, empowering them to take ownership of their learning.  

2. Creating Frictionless Teacher Experiences  

From managing student behavior to making up for learning loss, being a teacher is stressful. That’s why we’re making it easier than ever for teachers to do their jobs. Our solutions help you quickly access data to inform instruction, speed up and automate daily tasks, and ensure student progress towards standards proficiency.  

3. Getting a Complete Picture of Every Student  

Keeping track of student progress means having access to the right data. But when this data is scattered across different applications, it can be overwhelming to make sense of it all. McGraw Hill now makes it easier for you to get the insights you need to inform instruction by bringing data from multiple solutions together. 

4. Innovating to Advance Learning

For more than 20 years, we've been innovating and delivering outstanding outcomes—accelerating student learning and empowering teachers.  We continue our journey of innovation with adaptive solutions to help teachers across grade levels advance learning for every student.  

What’s New for Back to School 2024 

A Literacy Acceleration Solution for Grades 2-12

Achieve3000 Literacy is our differentiated literacy platform that accelerates literacy growth through engaging content and embedded assessments. This year, it features a new teacher dashboard for ease of use and simplified reporting capabilities.

New Teacher Dashboard

Get immediate access to resources needed to support student learning with a redesigned, intuitive dashboard that puts key functions like preferred content, data insights, lesson planning, and grading front and center. Easily search and sort resources, and quickly adjust settings at the classroom and student levels.  

Simplified Reporting

Streamline reporting with new and improved Skills and Standards reports within the Data Center. Get a more complete picture of student progress by accessing metrics from stand-alone reports in the Data Center, which incorporates NWEA RIT, student work reports, and an authentic assessment portfolio. 

A Flexible Curriculum Platform for Grades 3-12 

With a standards-aligned, collaborative curriculum, Actively Learn engages students in deeper learning with core curricular and supplemental resources. This year, we’ve added stronger integrations and higher engagement for multimedia lessons.

More Engaging Multimedia Lessons

Our enhanced multimedia lessons now provide even more engagement for deeper learning. Students can participate with guided questions and activities or take notes while interacting with a multi-media lesson, such as a video.  

Stronger Program Integrations

Speed up onboarding and provide a smoother, consistent experience for teachers and students using multiple McGraw Hill Education solutions. Consolidate Actively Learn grades and assignments in a single location (Open Learning or your LMS), sync assignments and pass grades back from Actively Learn to Open Learning and your LMS, and roster all new users through Open Learning. 

NEW - An Adaptive Math Solution for Grades 1-2

ALEKS Adventure is an all-new AI-driven, adaptive math offering for students in grades 1 and 2. Engaging and personalized, students learn math while interacting with animated characters, connecting with classmates, and discovering new worlds. 

Adapts to Fit Each Student

Using an AI engine that identifies what students are ready to learn, ALEKS Adventure lets students choose from topics within their Zone of Proximal Development, then steps them through direction instruction, guided practice, and independent practice with scaffolding. When students are struggling, their path adjusts so they stay on track.

Makes Learning Fun

Students can customize avatars with coins earned from completed lessons, create their own spaceship, and unlock new worlds to celebrate their progress and mastery. Immersive worlds and stories spark curiosity and keep students engaged as they embark on exciting adventures with each new topic learned.   

Time-Saving Support for Teachers

Because ALEKS Adventure is so fun and easy to use, students can begin working independently from the start and take more ownership of their learning. With built-in breaks to play games and connect with classmates, students stay engaged as they learn and teachers can focus their attention on other pressing needs.  

An Adaptive Math and Science Solution for Grades 3-12

ALEKS provides AI-driven, adaptive math instruction on the topics students are most ready to learn. New for this year, we’ve introduced automated rostering into master templates, new standards-aligned content and modules, and integration with McGraw Hill Plus for teachers using Reveal Math.

Start Learning Sooner with a Shorter Assessment

By incorporating newly-enhanced AI, the Initial Knowledge Check in elementary and middle school courses will have fewer questions while maintaining the accuracy of the results. Grades 3-5 courses will have a maximum of 15 questions and middle school courses will have a maximum of 20. Students can spend less time on the Initial Knowledge Check and more time learning new topics in their personalized path, and teachers can more quickly identify students’ areas of need and direct instruction accordingly.

Roster Students into Master Templates

Administrators can use Master Templates to customize content, settings, and assignments in an ALEKS class for common use across the district or school. Districts using ALEKS on my.MHeducation.com can roster students directly into classes linked to a Master Template, which means teachers spend less time setting up classes and more time focusing on addressing students’ needs.

Direct Learning to Standards

11 new standards-aligned topics will be added to ALEKS Pies in grades 6 through high school, and 52 new standards-aligned question types will be available for teachers to assign in Homework, Test, or Quizzes. With more opportunities for students to practice and master standards-aligned content in ALEKS, teachers can more precisely monitor students’ progress toward state standards. Additionally, teachers can create modules that automatically custom-align to their standards for a low-lift way to direct students’ learning in ALEKS based on standards.

Integration with McGraw Hill Plus

In addition to Reveal Math and Redbird data, students’ learning and Knowledge Check data from ALEKS feeds the Standards and Skills graph in McGraw Hill Plus, providing a complete picture of student progress toward standards and informing personalized enrichment or intervention resource recommendations. McGraw Hill Plus is currently available to teachers using Reveal Math.