Aktiv Learning

101 Edu, Inc.

About this app

Aktiv Learning is an active learning platform built specifically for college-level chemistry and mathematics. Say goodbye to static content and generic multiple choice questions and hello to dynamic problems that are designed to help students learn and visualize abstract concepts in STEM.

Aktiv Learning allows chemistry instructors to ask students engaging questions, such as drawing Lewis structures, and receive real-time information on what structures the class is drawing. The app features a custom-built tool that allows students and instructors to quickly and intuitively draw Lewis structures on mobile devices. Additionally, both students and instructors have access to over 250 built-in questions related to Lewis structures, resonance, molecular geometries, VSEPR, hybridization, sigma and pi bonding, and molecular polarity.

Features:

• Intuitive Lewis structures drawing tool built specifically for mobile devices - Use as engaging demonstration for your students to show example Lewis structures and reinforce concepts such as the octet rule, formal charge, and VSEPR. Students can take advantage of the drawing tool to visualize the relationship between Lewis structures and molecular shapes.

• Create in-class or homework assignments - Perfect for clicker, recitation, or review problems. Students receive push notifications to alert and remind them of pending assignments.

• Assign or practice with over 250 built-in questions related to Lewis structures, resonance, molecular geometries, VSEPR, hybridization, sigma and pi bonding, and molecular polarity.

• Real-time class results - Quickly find common incorrect structures to address student misunderstanding before exams.

• Isoform recognition - Aktiv’s technology recognizes correct answers independent of the drawn structure orientation.

• Export student activity - Student participation and performance exported in a tap of a button.

• Easy sign-up - Students and instructors can create accounts and join courses all within the app in a few steps.

• School IT and device independent - Assign, work, and review from any mobile device and over any network connection.

More content and features coming soon!

Ratings and reviews

Absolutely infuriating app. I wish I could give it zero stars. Ridiculous that it's required for school and costs $30. To any professors that see this, please please please do not use this in your classes anymore. Homework that should take me minutes is eating up hours of my time, dealing with glitches and lagging. Solving for variable questions feel almost impossible to do with the "actions" button. Doesn't feel like I'm learning at all, I'd much rather do a worksheet then deal with this.

Some of the molecule building tools are nice, when they work, but the app is incredibly buggy and crashes after nearly every question. So far today I have completed 19 questions, had 25 minutes of screen time and have opened the app 16 times. If this were a free platform, or if it were exclusively the organization that paid for it, I would be more fine with it, but when I am forced to pay out of pocket for an app with such a poor user experience, I really don't like that.

The app is designed and organized fine but my main problem that ruins the entire thing is how slow it is. It takes 2 minutes to get to the homework questions from opening the app because it's so slow. The wait time for typing in answers and it telling you if you're right or not is ridiculous. Plus it freezes up if you even think about changing your answer quickly then submitting it again.

What’s new

- Bug Fixes