Discover the Formula
for
Student Success

Aktiv Chemistry reimagines chemistry courses with an innovative approach that fosters student engagement both during and after class – in-person or online. Better still, our intuitive platform takes only a few minutes to get students set up.

Adopted by faculty at 700+ campuses
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of students believe Aktiv helped them improve their Chemistry grades¹

¹ Source: Aktiv Spring 2024 Student Survey n=6,474

Experience Chemistry
Like
Never Before

Pick and choose problems from an extensive library of over 20,000 problems and activities that support all topics in General Chemistry, Introductory Chemistry, GOB, and Organic Chemistry. Specialized answer modules target common student pain points throughout the course and provide valuable visualization and scaffolding to improve understanding.

General Chemistry

Support chemistry and STEM majors across the year-long sequence.

Intro to Chemistry

Support non-STEM majors or prepare students for General Chemistry.

GOB Chemistry

Support nursing or allied health majors in a 1-term or 2-term format.

Organic Chemistry

Support second-year chemistry students, premedical students, or non-majors.

Boost Student Preparedness
with
Readiness

This groundbreaking new tool identifies and assesses each student’s knowledge gaps — specific to an instructor’s course — and automatically delivers personalized remediation, improving confidence and preparedness from day one.

Transforming the
Learning Experience

Choose from scaffolded, visual, and interactive problems and activities to support learning across General Chemistry, Introductory Chemistry, GOB, and Organic Chemistry courses.

Students draw Lewis structures and visualize VSEPR with an intuitive, game-like interface that makes learning fun.

Students drag-and-drop tiles to set up scaffolded conversions with units, stoichiometry, densities, concentrations, and much more.

Allow students to focus on chemistry and not syntax errors by easily writing chemical nomenclature and equations with smart suggestions. Supports both inorganic and organic compounds.

Scaffolded and step- by-step learning for chemical, weak acid-base, and solubility equilibria problems.

Students draw skeletal and structural formulas with the groundbreaking and intuitive AktivGrid.

The Comprehensive Chemistry Learning Platform

From in-class active learning to homework assignments, to secure online quizzes and exams, Aktiv Chemistry’s all-in-one platform provides a comprehensive set of features for formative and summative assessments.

Readiness

Diagnose each student’s math and chemistry prerequisite knowledge gaps, and automatically deliver personalized remediation.
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In-Class Active
Learning

Take attendance, post polls & quizzes, enhance traditional worksheets, or promote think-pair-share activities.
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Homework
& Practice

Assign interactive problem sets with instant feedback and automatic grading that sync with institutional LMS gradebooks.
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Timed Online
Quizzes & Exams

Create summative assessments with question pools, algorithmic problems, and optional integrated proctoring.
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Designed to
Support
Your Course

Use Any Device
Multiple Devices

Use Any Device

Students and instructors can access the Aktiv Learning app from any iPhone, iPad, or Android device. Plus, the platform is fully accessible online with any Mac, PC, or Chromebook. Aktiv Chemistry’s mobile-first design ensures that students receive the same experience no matter where they are.

Gradebook & LMS Integration

Gradebook & LMS Integration

Aktiv Chemistry’s gradebook can be synced with nearly any LMS such as Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, or D2L. The gradebook and associated columns can be customized to separate the various assignment types, to present individual assignments, or display summary columns for each type.

Every Aktiv Chemistry activity has a multitude of grading policies that can be customized depending on the assignment type. Settings include points per problem, participation credit, late submissions with penalties, variable attempts per problem, penalties for incorrect attempts, and more.

Algorithms & Question Pools
pools

Algorithmic Problems & Question Pools

Aktiv Chemistry offers additional security with both Question Pools and Algorithmic Problems. These features randomize the content that is delivered to each student during homeworks, quizzes, or exams. Instructors can also randomize the order of questions on any assignment.

With Algorithmic Problems, built-in variables create thousands of question variants to be delivered that randomize numbers, words, or compounds within the problem statement. With Question Pools, instructors can group together a set of similar questions and deliver a subset of them at random to students.

Question Authoring

Question Authoring

The authoring tool allows instructors to easily write, save, and assign your own questions with targeted instructional feedback. Input superscripts, subscripts, and special symbols with ease.

Targeted Student Feedback

Targeted Student Feedback

Every Aktiv Chemistry question contains targeted instructional feedback that provides students with helpful hints when they submit incorrect answers. When students run out of attempts, they are presented with a step-by-step detailed solution that fully explains how to solve the problem.

Attendance
attendance

Attendance

Our attendance tool allows instructors to easily take student attendance by randomizing a check in code for each class. Customize timing to have a strict or lenient lateness policy.

Top Hat & OpenStax Integration

Top Hat & OpenStax Textbook Integration

Aktiv is proud to be a partner of OpenStax in order to deliver more affordable course materials for chemistry students. Students now have one button access directly to the OpenStax Chemistry, Chemistry Atoms First, and Organic Chemistry textbooks when working on a problem in the platform.

Plus, Aktiv’s groundbreaking platform can now be combined with engaging, dynamic Interactive eTexts from Top Hatfor General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry.

Multiple Devices

Use Any Device

Students and instructors can access the Aktiv Learning app from any iPhone, iPad, or Android device. Plus, the platform is fully accessible online with any Mac, PC, or Chromebook. Aktiv Chemistry’s mobile-first design ensures that students receive the same experience no matter where they are.

Gradebook & LMS Integration

Aktiv Chemistry’s gradebook can be synced with nearly any LMS such as Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, or D2L. The gradebook and associated columns can be customized to separate the various assignment types, to present individual assignments, or display summary columns for each type.

Every Aktiv Chemistry activity has a multitude of grading policies that can be customized depending on the assignment type. Settings include points per problem, participation credit, late submissions with penalties, variable attempts per problem, penalties for incorrect attempts, and more.

pools

Algorithmic Problems & Question Pools

Aktiv Chemistry offers additional security with both Question Pools and Algorithmic Problems. These features randomize the content that is delivered to each student during homeworks, quizzes, or exams. Instructors can also randomize the order of questions on any assignment.

With Algorithmic Problems, built-in variables create thousands of question variants to be delivered that randomize numbers, words, or compounds within the problem statement. With Question Pools, instructors can group together a set of similar questions and deliver a subset of them at random to students.

attendance

Attendance

Our attendance tool allows instructors to easily take student attendance by randomizing a check in code for each class. Customize timing to have a strict or lenient lateness policy.

Targeted Student Feedback

Every Aktiv Chemistry question contains targeted instructional feedback that provides students with helpful hints when they submit incorrect answers. When students run out of attempts, they are presented with a step-by-step detailed solution that fully explains how to solve the problem.

Question Authoring

The authoring tool allows instructors to easily write, save, and assign your own questions with targeted instructional feedback. Input superscripts, subscripts, and special symbols with ease.

Top Hat & OpenStax Textbook Integration

Aktiv is proud to be a partner of OpenStax in order to deliver more affordable course materials for chemistry students. Students now have one button access directly to the OpenStax Chemistry, Chemistry Atoms First, and Organic Chemistry textbooks when working on a problem in the platform.

Plus, Aktiv’s groundbreaking platform can now be combined with engaging, dynamic Interactive eTexts from Top Hatfor General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry.

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of students recommend their instructor use Aktiv again¹

¹ Source: Aktiv Spring 2024 Student Survey n=6,474

Success Stories

Professors from over 700 colleges and universities use Aktiv Chemistry to engage students inside and outside of the classroom. Learn how some of them have transformed their courses.

There’s this concept that a lot of students bring into the class: ‘It’s a lot of math and just balancing equations and stuff like that.’ Aktiv Chemistry gets a lot of those narratives out of the way. In being able to engage students visually, the platform opens them up to learning more about chemistry.
Elaine Bernal
Elaine Bernal
Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, California State University – Long Beach
It’s a clicker system and an online homework system all-in-one. Aktiv Chemistry is the best buy I’ve run across. You’re getting a multi-dimensional system that can be used in several ways and a huge number of well-constructed problems for General Chemistry.
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Stephanie Dillon
Faculty & Director of Freshman Chemistry Labs, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Florida State University
With Aktiv Chemistry, there has been no learning curve. The students come in with a minimal amount of instruction and have been up and running within five to ten minutes. Then, they can focus more on the content rather than how to use the tool.
Kathleen Kolbet
Professor of Chemistry, Department of Physical Sciences, Truckee Meadows Community College

Industry-Leading Support

Every course using Aktiv Chemistry has access to our industry-leading support featuring extended hours that include late nights and weekends. We are ready to help you by e-mail, live chat, or phone. Plus, every Aktiv Chemistry instructor works with an individual member of our Success Team that helps with initial course set up, gradebook/LMS integrations, and recommendations for best practices.