# Achieve Reviews **Vendor:** Macmillan Learning **Category:** [Online Learning Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/online-learning-platform) **Average Rating:** 3.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 11 ## About Achieve Achieve is Macmillan’s next-generation online learning system: a fully mobile, accessible, and flexible learning system. Building on the best features of our legacy platforms, Achieve offers powerful assessment tools and content to support students of all levels of preparation in an intuitive and user-friendly system. These tools also easily integrate with your school’s LMS if needed for a seamless experience. ## Achieve Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Achieve to be **easy to use** , with a very intuitive process that enhances their experience. (1 reviews) - Users value the **effective educational resources** of Achieve, enhancing student understanding and enabling timely feedback. (1 reviews) - Users value Achieve's **effective writing tool** for its clarity in teaching the writing process and providing timely feedback. (1 reviews) - Users find the **intuitive process** of Achieve easy to use, enhancing their overall experience and productivity. (1 reviews) - Users value the **high-quality teaching support** provided by Achieve, facilitating effective feedback and a clearer writing process. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Students struggle with **difficult learning** as applying Curve activities to writing can be challenging, despite thorough lesson coverage. (1 reviews) - Users find **customer support lacking** , making it hard for students to navigate and apply the Learning Curve activities effectively. (1 reviews) - Users find the **poor interface design** of Achieve to be messy and lacking intuitiveness, hindering usability. (1 reviews) ## Achieve Reviews ### 1. Achieve Makes the Writing Process Click—and Speeds Up Actionable Feedback **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2026 **What do you like best about Achieve?** As a writing teacher, Achieve's writing tool highlights the recursive process of writing in a way that makes sense for student, helping them to see how each step of the process connects to the project as a whole. It also provides me a way of giving actionable feedback quickly just when students need it. **What do you dislike about Achieve?** Students sometimes have difficulty applying the Learning Curve activities to their actual writing process, but all of the lessons they need to succeed are well-covered. Customer support is not intuitive for students. **What problems is Achieve solving and how is that benefiting you?** Achieve provides active and adaptive lessons that help my students engage with course material that they would simply skip over if it were assigned as textbook reading. ### 2. Sapling User Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2023 **What do you like best about Achieve?** The best part about Sapling is the employee self-service portal and the integration with payroll. **What do you dislike about Achieve?** I really have not found any downsides of Sapling from a user experience yet. **What problems is Achieve solving and how is that benefiting you?** Assisting with the organization of employee onboarding tasks. ### 3. Sampling Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Courtney R. | Senior Service Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Achieve?** The user-friendliness of the system. It is very easy to manage and navigate. **What do you dislike about Achieve?** I think there are differences in each company. I would like to see more interface integration with other systems. **What problems is Achieve solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sampling allows my team to easily navigate to see the hierarchy of the company. Find various other resources needed. ### 4. Easy once you learn how to use, not intuitive **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robby B. | Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Achieve?** I like how once all is set up, the on and offboarding experience is easy. Take longer than expected to learn **What do you dislike about Achieve?** Take longer than expected to learn, not very intuitive **What problems is Achieve solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling helps wiht our onboarding training. Easy to use as a user, hard to learn as a admin. This has helped check boxes for new hire training. ### 5. pretty good app **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lucas A. | Senior Visual Designer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Achieve?** easyfull to use and very intuitive process **What do you dislike about Achieve?** layout is a little messy and could be helpful to become even more intuitive **What problems is Achieve solving and how is that benefiting you?** supporting data-driven decisions ### 6. Sapling - Learning Platform and good Communication **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suman R. | Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Achieve?** Sapling As a learning platform is very interactive with the students and it offers a quality education online with advanced techniques like 3D Diagrams and stuff. It also offer many Assignments to the students so that they can have better understanding of the concept and the subject. **What do you dislike about Achieve?** The main thing I dislike about the sapling is the inital login details as is take more time and also it asks to set three security questions, I mean what the use of three questions. The chat box features need updates as it always remains open and does not provides any means to close it. **Recommendations to others considering Achieve:** yes I recommend using Sapling Learning for education purpose as you can enroll yourself into many courses and learn good stuff online from any corner of the world. It can also be used for on boarding activity and maintaing good communications in the firm between the Co-workers. **What problems is Achieve solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in storing the data of the employees of the newly boarded workers and helps in making good communication between them. ### 7. Sapling Learning for Organic Chemistry Course **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Achieve?** Sapling Learning is useful for completing homework for online courses. I loved the feedback tips that would pop up if you answered a question incorrectly. This helped me keep on track with my homework and tackle the question in a new way. I also appreciated the solutions tab available to view after correctly answering a questions. Within the solutions tab, there's an "explanation" tab that is extremely helpful for solidifying understanding of difficult questions. Their customer support is very helpful and prompt, too. **What do you dislike about Achieve?** Drawing molecules for organic chemistry is far easier to simply do with a pencil and paper. With the sapling learning drawing tools, I seem to spend more time formatting the molecule to ensure the system would recognize it as correct instead of focusing on learning the chemistry. Sapling thankfully provides resources to assist students with drawing nuances. **Recommendations to others considering Achieve:** Remember to enable Adobe Flash player when completing the homework, especially when using Chrome! **What problems is Achieve solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sapling allows me to complete homework for an online course from a university thousands of miles away. This system helps students connect with instructors at distant sites. ### 8. Better educational suite **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2018 **What do you like best about Achieve?** Sapling learning has much more interactive qualities than most other educational suites, including 3-D diagrams, multi-step questions as well as color-coded grades for assignments that update immediately. **What do you dislike about Achieve?** The lack of leniency in question grading often creates a lot of complaints from students. This is frustrating as each question is graded differently, so often getting a multiple-choice question wrong will drop the grade much faster than a synthesis question, or "shot answer" question. **What problems is Achieve solving and how is that benefiting you?** Homework and textbook bundling is much easier than using paper for over 1000 organic chemistry students. ### 9. Good tool to help with learning **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Achieve?** The fact that each question lets you try more than once before not giving you any points at all for the homework. **What do you dislike about Achieve?** How picky some of the answers can be which I understand on an exam a professor would be picky, it's just kind of hard to make arrows exact when using a computer. **Recommendations to others considering Achieve:** Very conveinent for professors to use as it grades the questions right away and students get feedback on homework immediately. **What problems is Achieve solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy homework for students for various classes and a good learning tool for review before exams or topics discussed in class that need further practice. ### 10. Good software for company org **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Achieve?** That you could easily look at organization charts, people working in different groups... **What do you dislike about Achieve?** I saw "Tasks" and "Documents" section on the software but it's not of much use -- they are too simple. **Recommendations to others considering Achieve:** for a nice and clean org chart profile, it is a good choice **What problems is Achieve solving and how is that benefiting you?** Business org charts and company history updates. Helpful for onboarding employees ### 11. Sapling is great **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sunanda N. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Achieve?** It is very user-friendly and easy to implement. Very less learning curve. **What do you dislike about Achieve?** It slows down a bit when there are new updates. This makes workflow rather difficult. Students have complaints about the questions sometimes being very difficult. **Recommendations to others considering Achieve:** User-friendly and easy to navigate tool. Use it. It makes life a lot easier if the class size is very big. **What problems is Achieve solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has made grading really a breeze. It helps students focus on the course materials and build on their concepts. 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