AI Usage at a Glance
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Apr 13, 2023
RecommendationPractice documented: McGraw Hill deployed ALEKS, an AI-powered adaptive learning platform for math and chemistry, which assesses each student's knowledge and builds a personalized learning path to fill gaps and guide mastery.
Practice DocumentedView practice →Aug 21, 2024
OtherPractice documented: McGraw Hill deployed Writing Assistant, a generative AI tool embedded in its K–12 literacy programs, which takes students' short-form writing as input and produces targeted, real-time guidance and feedback during the writing process.
Practice DocumentedView practice →Aug 21, 2024
Customer SvcPractice documented: McGraw Hill deployed AI Reader, a generative AI tool embedded in its higher education eBooks, which takes highlighted text from students and produces alternative explanations, simplified summaries, or practice quiz questions on demand.
Practice DocumentedView practice →Jan 1, 2025
RecommendationNew evidence: ALEKS | Learning Solutions | McGraw Hill Higher Education
Evidence AddedView practice →Jan 1, 2025
OtherPractice documented: McGraw Hill deployed Clinical Reasoning, an AI-powered tool that presents medical students with lifelike simulated patient conversations, taking student inputs such as history questions and lab orders and producing dynamic patient responses plus an expert-benchmarked diagnostic feedback report.
Practice DocumentedView practice →Jan 1, 2025
ProductivityPractice documented: McGraw Hill deployed Teacher Assistant, a generative AI chatbot embedded in its K–12 math curriculum, which takes teacher questions in plain language and produces lesson planning support, unit summaries, and pacing recommendations.
Practice DocumentedView practice →Sep 15, 2025
RecommendationNew evidence: McGraw Hill Releases AI-Powered ALEKS for Calculus
Evidence AddedView practice →Sep 30, 2025
Data AnalysisPractice documented: McGraw Hill deployed Sharpen Advantage, an AI-powered enterprise study platform for higher education institutions, which analyzes student engagement and performance data to identify learning gaps, flag at-risk students, and predict individual academic outcomes.
Practice DocumentedView practice →Oct 22, 2025
OtherNew evidence: McGraw Hill Introduces New AI-Powered Tools within Medical Education Solutions
Evidence AddedView practice →Oct 22, 2025
Customer SvcNew evidence: McGraw Hill Introduces New AI-Powered Tools within Medical Education Solutions
Evidence AddedView practice →Oct 30, 2025
Customer SvcNew evidence: How McGraw Hill built, piloted and scaled its first GenAI solution—then showed that it works
Evidence AddedView practice →Nov 17, 2025
OtherNew evidence: New GenAI Assistants Add Personalized Experiences and Support to McGraw Hill's K-12 Programs
Evidence AddedView practice →Nov 17, 2025
ProductivityNew evidence: New GenAI Assistants Add Personalized Experiences and Support to McGraw Hill's K-12 Programs
Evidence AddedView practice →Nov 21, 2025
OtherNew evidence: A new tool lets medical students practice on AI-powered patients
Evidence AddedView practice →Dec 2, 2025
ProductivityNew evidence: McGraw Hill Expands Gen AI Tools for Teaching and Learning
Evidence AddedView practice →Feb 12, 2026
Data AnalysisNew evidence: From Study App to Enterprise Platform: The Builders Powering Sharpen Advantage
Evidence AddedView practice →Apr 7, 2026
Customer SvcNew evidence: McGraw Hill Introduces New AI Capabilities in Its Connect Digital Course Solution for Higher Education
Evidence AddedView practice →Apr 7, 2026
Customer SvcPractice documented: McGraw Hill announced Learning Coach, a conversational AI tutor launching in select higher education courses within its Connect platform, which takes student questions about difficult course concepts and produces real-time explanations and guided step-by-step support via video and text.
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McGraw Hill deployed AI Reader, a generative AI tool embedded in its higher education eBooks, which takes highlighted text from students and produces alternative explanations, simplified summaries, or practice quiz questions on demand.
AI Reader launched in fall 2024 within select eBook titles on McGraw Hill Connect and McGraw Hill GO, and was later expanded into the First Aid Forward medical education platform. Students highlight a word or passage and the AI generates multiple alternative explanations or comprehension checks until the concept clicks. As of April 2026, students had interacted with AI Reader more than 45 million times since launch. The tool uses McGraw Hill's own content as a guardrail to ensure accuracy, and subject-matter experts reviewed AI outputs by discipline before each rollout. It is the company's first generative AI product.
McGraw Hill deployed ALEKS, an AI-powered adaptive learning platform for math and chemistry, which assesses each student's knowledge and builds a personalized learning path to fill gaps and guide mastery.
ALEKS (Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces) is built on Knowledge Space Theory and has used AI, including machine learning, for over 25 years. It assigns students periodic mini-assessments called Knowledge Checks to determine exactly what they know and what they are ready to learn next, then delivers a dynamic, individualized content path. In 2023, McGraw Hill added deep learning neural networks to ALEKS, reducing time students spend on assessments by more than 20% while improving learning outcomes. ALEKS serves K–12 through higher education in math and chemistry subjects, with ALEKS for Calculus released in September 2025.
McGraw Hill deployed Sharpen Advantage, an AI-powered enterprise study platform for higher education institutions, which analyzes student engagement and performance data to identify learning gaps, flag at-risk students, and predict individual academic outcomes.
Sharpen Advantage launched in September 2025 as an enterprise expansion of the Sharpen study app, which had been downloaded by over 1 million learners since its 2022 introduction. The platform includes Radar, an AI-enabled dashboard that gives faculty and administrators real-time visibility into student knowledge gaps by course, cohort, and learning objective. Machine learning engines identify engagement and knowledge gaps, proactively flag struggling students, and recommend targeted study activities. A generative AI feature called Ask Sharpen allows students to ask questions or upload notes and receive personalized study support grounded in vetted McGraw Hill content. Institutional data is not used to train external AI models.
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McGraw Hill deployed AI Reader, a generative AI tool embedded in its higher education eBooks, which takes highlighted text from students and produces alternative explanations, simplified summaries, or practice quiz questions on demand.
McGraw Hill announced Learning Coach, a conversational AI tutor launching in select higher education courses within its Connect platform, which takes student questions about difficult course concepts and produces real-time explanations and guided step-by-step support via video and text.
McGraw Hill deployed Clinical Reasoning, an AI-powered tool that presents medical students with lifelike simulated patient conversations, taking student inputs such as history questions and lab orders and producing dynamic patient responses plus an expert-benchmarked diagnostic feedback report.
McGraw Hill deployed Writing Assistant, a generative AI tool embedded in its K–12 literacy programs, which takes students' short-form writing as input and produces targeted, real-time guidance and feedback during the writing process.
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Trace Foundation. (2026). McGraw Hill: documented AI practices (data as of 2026-04-22) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/company/1a5d414f-c20b-489a-8fa3-c4d140fcd6cb. Accessed September 8, 2026.
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- https://www.aitrace.org/r/company/1a5d414f-c20b-489a-8fa3-c4d140fcd6cb
- Data as of
- April 22, 2026
- Last verified
- April 22, 2026
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