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Biochemistry

The groundbreaking AktivGrid system with intelligent student feedback and intuitive biomolecule drawing puts you a step ahead in supporting upper-level undergraduate chemistry students, premedical students, or non-majors within the study of Biochemistry.

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Use Any Textbook for Biochemistry

Aktiv Chemistry supports the units and topics covered in a Biochemistry sequence or a one-term Survey of Biochemistry course. Pick and choose problems from our library to build assignments and activities.

  • Review of Chemical and Biological Concepts
  • Review of Aqueous Solutions
  • Amino Acids
  • Peptides and Proteins
  • Techniques in Protein Purification and Characterization
  • Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids
  • Carbohydrates
  • Lipids and Membranes
  • Enzymes
  • Introduction to Metabolism
  • Glycolysis, Gluconeogenesis, and Glycogen Metabolism
  • The Citric Acid Cycle [Tricarboxylic Acid (TCA) Cycle; Krebs Cycle]
  • Electron Transport Chain, Oxidative Phosphorylation, and ATP Synthase
  • The Calvin Cycle and the Pentose Phosphate Pathway
  • Fatty Acid Metabolism
  • Metabolism of Amino Acids and Proteins
  • Nucleoside and Nucleotide Biosynthesis
  • Gene Expression and Protein Synthesis

Meet AktivGrid: A Transformative Molecule Drawing Experience

An entirely new, patent-pending organic molecule drawing experience with chemical intelligence to help students quickly learn from their mistakes.

Mobile-First Design

Designed for use on any student smartphone and to scale up for larger devices like tablets and laptops.

Comprehensive Drawing Tool

Draw and manipulate cyclic and acyclic compounds as well as chair, Newman, and Fischer projections.

Intuitive Interface

AktivGrid’s smart and dynamic interface allows students to focus on chemistry and not cumbersome technology.

Structure Drawing
 and Metabolic
Pathways

Students benefit from a research-based stepping stone approach that helps build a conceptual understanding and supports a wide array of activities from predicting structures, recognizing cofactors, enzymes, and pathway intermediates.

Graphing

Aktiv Chemistry helps students interpret, manipulate, and build interactive graphs powered by Desmos. Students can take a stepping stone approach to building an understanding of individual concepts of enzyme kinetics to developing advanced skills for high-level concepts of calculating catalytic efficiency or determining inhibitor type.

Visualizing Structures and Systems

Instructors can effectively assess students’ ability to identify components of large structures and systems, as well as organize and sequence information to make logical connections in a visual way.

Free Response question type for biochemistry

Free Response

Being able to explain common phenomena and apply the classroom concepts to biomedical applications is critical in preparing students for STEM careers. Our free response question type allows instructors to assess critical thinking from students in their own words. Create your own or choose from the pre-built questions in our catalog.

General and Organic Chemistry Review

Evaluate student’s prior knowledge and preparedness with access to Aktiv Chemistry’s extensive library for General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry courses. Instructors can select topics to use in their biochemistry course that emphasize the most relevant prerequisites, and then build off student strengths and address their weaknesses.

Ice Tables showing equilibrium equation

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 Pool
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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Aktiv support is available via phone, chat, email and SMS.