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General Chemistry

Whether you teach in-person or online, using a standard lecture or flipped classroom, Aktiv Chemistry seamlessly integrates with your existing course to support the year-long General Chemistry sequence for STEM majors.

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Use Any Textbook for General Chemistry

Aktiv Chemistry supports all units and topics covered in a traditional General Chemistry course. Pick and choose problems from our library to build assignments and activities. You can also choose to teach with integrated titles from Top Hat and OpenStax.

  • Study of Chemistry
  • Components of Matter
  • Chemical Nomenclature
  • Stoichiometry & Chemical Reactions
  • Aqueous Solutions
  • Gases
  • Thermochemistry
  • Quantum Theory & Atomic Structure
  • Electron Configurations
  • Chemical Periodicity
  • Chemical Bonding & Structure
  • Intermolecular Forces & Solids
  • Physical Properties of Solutions
  • Chemical Kinetics
  • Chemical Equilibrium
  • Acid-Base Equilibria
  • Solubility
  • Chemical Thermodynamics
  • Electrochemistry
  • Nuclear Chemistry
  • Transition Metal Chemistry
  • Introduction to Organic Chemistry
  • Spectroscopy

Choose From Over 20,000 Problems & Activities

Pick and choose problems from an extensive library that supports all topics in General Chemistry. Specialized answer modules target common student pain points throughout the course and provide valuable visualization and scaffolding to improve understanding.

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.

Lower the barrier to practicing nomenclature with a smart suggestion interface that tests students on the difference between ionic and covalent compounds, transition metals and charges, and more.

Students focus on chemistry and not syntax errors by easily writing chemical formulas, reactions, and equations with smart suggestions. Aktiv helps students reach mastery with exercises on balancing reactions, net ionic equations, acid-base reactions, redox reactions, and much more.

Students easily write ground state, excited state, and noble gas core configurations using smart suggestions.

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

Smart Feedback with Chemical Intelligence

Every Aktiv Chemistry question contains targeted instructional feedback that provides students with helpful hints when they submit incorrect answers.

LEWIS STRUCTURES

Find mistakes in the octet rule, valence electron count, formal charges, and skeletal structure.

DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS​

Find inverted conversion factors, wrong units, and calculation errors.

CHEMICAL EQUATIONS

Find mistakes in balancing, states of matter, IUPAC naming, and proportions of atoms.

Q: How many atoms are in 1.28 g of vanadium?

Try Again!
Watch your units! Your conversion factors between grams V and moles V in your first conversion factor needs to be flipped in order to cancel out the appropriate units and get to your desired answer. Invert or "flip" the conversion factor and then try again.

Q: Draw the Lewis structure of formaldehyde (H2CO)

Try Again!
You have submitted an incorrect skeletal structure. The chosen central element in your structure is incorrect.

Q: Write the IUPAC name for TiO2

titanium dioxide

Try Again!
Greek prefixes are unnecessary in ionic compounds because the proportion of the ions in the compound is implied by the charges of the ions.

Build Mastery with Multi-Part & Challenge Questions

Aktiv transitions students from the basics to the most rigorous of questions in General Chemistry. When coming to the end of the unit or preparing for the big exam, Multi-Part and Challenge Questions are there to help students synthesize multiple concepts and apply chemistry to scenarios from real life or the lab.

Seamless Integration with Top Hat and OpenStax

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

Plus, Aktiv’s groundbreaking platform can now be combined with engaging, dynamic Interactive eTexts from Top Hat.

Boost Student Preparedness
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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.

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Designed to Support Your Course

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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
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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
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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.

Success Story

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.

How One Chemistry Department Saved Its Student Population Over $60,000 Per Year

“Aktiv Chemistry is an extremely high-quality product for an extremely great price and everyone seems to love it. I get zero complaints. It’s fun, easy, and [the students] pick it up really quickly.”
Brad Bates
Chandler Gilbert Community College
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¹ This quote was provided at a time where Aktiv Chemistry was named Chem101. We have replaced the use of Chem101 in any direct quotes with Aktiv Chemistry to minimize confusion.

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.