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Organic
Chemistry

The groundbreaking AktivGrid system with intuitive molecule drawing and intelligent student feedback puts you a step ahead in supporting second-year chemistry students, premedical students, or non-majors with the study of Organic Chemistry.

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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.

Use Any Textbook for Organic Chemistry

Aktiv Chemistry supports all units and topics covered in a year-long Organic Chemistry sequence or a one-term Survey of Organic 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, including McMurry’s Organic Chemistry.

  • General Chemistry Review (Select Topics)
  • Representing Organic Molecules (Structure and Bonding)
  • Introduction to Organic Reactions and Mechanisms (Structure and Reactivity)
  • Alkanes and Cycloalkanes
  • Chirality and Isomerism
  • Haloalkanes (Alkyl Halides)
  • Nucleophilic Substitutions and Elimination Reactions
  • Alkenes: Structure and Properties
  • Reactions of Alkenes
  • Alkynes: Structure, Properties, and Synthesis
  • Conjugated Pi Systems, Dienes, and Resonance
  • Aromaticity and Benzene
  • Reactions of Benzene and its Derivatives
  • Pericyclic Reactions and Orbital Interactions
  • Alcohols and Phenols
  • Ethers, Epoxides, Thiols, and Sulfides
  • Aldehydes and Ketones
  • Enols, Enolates, Enamines: Alpha-Carbon Chemistry
  • Introduction to Organometallic Chemistry
  • Carboxylic Acids
  • Carboxylic Acid Derivatives and Nitriles
  • Amines and Heterocycles
  • Synthetic Polymers (Organic Polymers)
  • Structure Determination: UV-Vis Spectroscopy
  • Infrared (IR) Spectroscopy and Mass Spectrometry (MS)
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopy
  • Combined Spectroscopy Problems
  • Biomolecules: Carbohydrates
  • Biomolecules: Lipids
  • Biomolecules: Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins
  • Biomolecules: Enzymes
  • Biomolecules: Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis

Arrow Drawing Mechanisms & Resonance

In addition to drawing structures, the AktivGrid supports a wide array of activities to help students learn and master electron pushing in Organic Chemistry. Students benefit from a research-based stepping stone approach that helps build a conceptual understanding and allows them to draw accurate mechanisms.

Chiral Center

You have incorrectly assigned the configuration. Evaluate the 4 atoms directly attached to the stereocenter using the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog (CIP) rules to determine the configuration of the stereocenter and try again.

Chain Length

The total number of carbons in the parent chain of your product is incorrect. Consider how the the presence of the nitrile group in reaction step 1 modifies to the original parent carbon chain.

Functional Group

Remember, oxidation reagents have differing oxidizing ability and can typically be considered “weak” or “strong”. Reconsider the oxidation state of your product under these reaction conditions.

Smart Feedback with Chemical Intelligence

Automatic student feedback recognizes student drawing mistakes to help them learn in the moment.

Structure

Find mistakes in carbon chain lengths, missing or incorrect functional groups, and regiochemistry.

CONFORMATION

Find mistakes for R/S, E/Z, cis/trans, and cylcohexane chair conformations.

SYNTHESIS

Grading and feedback on each synthesis step as well as reagents, major/minor products, and more.

Organic Nomenclature with Smart Suggestions

Help students master both IUPAC and common naming of every functional group in Organic Chemistry.

Assign nomenclature problems outside of class to save more class time for higher order topics like synthesis and mechanisms.

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Design 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.

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.

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.