History
Origins and Locations
Achieve More!
The Legacy
Cringeworthy
Work-Life Balance
100
This classic work of English children's literature, published by Macmillan in 1865, sent Alexander Macmillan down the rabbit hole.
What is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
100
This product person is originally from Alaska.
Who is Hannah?
100
This platform, formally referred to as "Next Gen," is being built to serve as the central hub of all Macmillan Learning digital products.
What is Achieve?
What is Courseware? also accepted.
100
This picture shows the interface of this Macmillan platform, which still hosts over a million learners each year
What is LaunchPad?
100
The ultimate paradox: there are never enough hours in the day to have all of these necessary group sessions, yet there are always too many of them on our calendars.
What are meetings?
100
This person won a coveted armadillo prize in our Product team bowling tournament.
Who is Merav?
200
James Watson and Francis Crick's great scientific discovery of the double helix structure of DNA was published in this prestigious scientific Macmillan-list magazine.
What is Nature?
200
Tim and Meagan have this state in common.
What is Ohio?
200
This Macmillan group partners with product and editorial teams to create solutions (like learning objectives and dashboards) that learners and instructors can readily incorporate into their lives and that drive improved outcomes.
What is Learning Science?
200
Instructors might choose this legacy product if they wanted their students to engage in a lab activity without actually using chemicals or stepping foot in a lab.
What is Late Nite Labs?
200
"We've created another one of these to keep track of tickets using the new process. Make sure you fill out all of the columns highlighted in yellow by the end of the week!"
What are spreadsheets?
200
This product person is the owner of the infamous and fluffy Battle Cat.
Who is Tom?
300
In 1995, this German private media company bought 70.81% of Macmillan shares, and bought the remaining Macmillan family shares in 1999.
What is Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck?
Who is Holtzbrinck? also accepted.
300
This product person is based in the Hamilton office.
Who is Paul?
300
These six tools are launched from Courseware to create the end-to-end Achieve product
What are Pathfinder, Reading, Learning Curve, NGA, Dashboards, Writing Tools?
300
This flash-based authoring tool is named after a long-legged wading bird.
What is Ibis?
300
You can do almost anything you could possibly imagine in this tracking and ticketing software, if you actually had the permissions and could figure out where that button is to do it.
What is Jira?
300
This product person has a son (pictured here with his sister) named for a two-time Nobel Laureate.
Who is Phil?
400
This science fiction author was the yougest recipient of the Golden Pan (Pan being a Macmillan publishing imprint) and famously said (probably to his editor), "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." He also famously gave us the answer to life, the universe, and everything: 42.
Who is Douglas Adams?
400
This product person is currently based in North Carolina, but is originally from Maryland.
Who is Jenn?
400
The third leg of the three-legged stool that is a successful software team, this group tends to be more hip than all of us combined.
What is the UX team?
400
This company, formerly known as Science Technologies, was acquired by Macmillan Learning in 2012 as part of Macmillan New Ventures.
What is Sapling Learning?
400
The word that you can program Slack to utter aloud when you receive messages, which amusingly disrupts the occasional meeting.
What is "hummus?"
400
This product person has a daughter named Jane, pictured here.
Who is Kelly?
500
In 1946, W. H. Freeman published General Chemistry by this famous chemist and Nobel Laureate, who won Nobel prizes in both chemistry and peace (for his efforts to ban nuclear weapons).
Who is Linus Pauling?
500
This product person recently purchased a home in Denver, Colorado.
Who is Harriet?
500
This process precedes our prioritization and development phases to ensure we're solving important problems and delivering value for our target users.
What is Discovery?
500
The brain child of Tim Stelzer, Mats Selen, and Gary Gladding from the University of Illinois, this legacy product was created to improve learning in physics classrooms by making assignments for students to complete before class to be better prepared for lecture.
What is FlipIt?
500
When an assessment in Achieve looks different from its original "shadow course" counterpart, this is probably what needs to happen.
What is reindexing?
500
This adventurous product person and his family went camping with wolves.
Who is Doug?
