Teachers make hundreds of decisions every day – often with limited time and incomplete information. Which learners need support? Who is ready for a challenge? Where are the unseen gaps? Adaptive Learn brings clarity to these questions. Designed for Cambridge Primary and Cambridge Lower Secondary, it is an adaptive digital resource that adapts to every pupil and turns learning data into insights educators can useimmediately, ensuring that teaching decisions are informed, not guessed.
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One of the challenges in classrooms is catching learning gaps before they widen. Traditional assessments often rely on teachers to piece together evidence from classwork, homework and observation to reveal learners’ progress, needs and challenges faced. Adaptive Learn removes that delay. Through adaptive practice and realtime reporting, teachers see instantly where each learner is secure, where misconceptions are forming, and where additional support is needed.
“Through adaptive practice and real-time reporting, teachers see instantly where each learner is secure, where misconceptions are forming, and where additional support is needed.”
As a Cambridge partner with a deep understanding of the needs of Cambridge schools worldwide,has mapped the Adaptive Learn materials to their Learner Books, which have been endorsed for the Cambridge Pathway. This means that you can use these resources alongside physicalbooks, orcan stand alone as independent practice for learners. Either way,
Personalisinglearning atscale
Even when teachers know exactly where learners are struggling, creating truly differentiated pathways for every child can be overwhelming. Adaptive Learn removes this workload by automatically adapting to each learner’s responses,paceand level of confidence. As pupils work through personalised sequences of questions, the resource adjusts in real time–providing stretch where learners are secure and support where they need it most.
“Adaptive Learn was highly impactful in enhancing our teaching and learning approaches. This platform has been invaluable in supporting teachers while actively engaging students in their learning.” – MsAcera-Ducoyan, Bangkok Bilingual School, Thailand
When a learner answers a question correctly or incorrectly, the systemdetermineswhether to provide stretch oradditionalsupport.In addition to this, learners are prompted to rate their confidence level (Know it, Think I know it, Not sure, or Don’t know it) – this measures learner metacognition and indicates to the system whether the learner has guessed the answer, has a misconception, or isn’t confident in their answer (despite getting it right). These two inputs (answer and metacognition), plus time taken, are what prompts new questions to be generated according to the learner’s need. Much like a personal tutor, Adaptive Learn tailors content to the individual learner and provides instant feedback. No two students will take the same learning path.
But all of thisisn’thappening in a vacuum. Teachers can keep up with learners’ homework status in the Reports dashboard. Here, they will also see the learningobjectivesthat learners are struggling with most to help plan their lessons. Metacognition data is also available here, so teachers can see on an individual and class level, what proportion of learners were aware that they knew the right answer and what proportionweren’t.For more information on metacognition, b AnoaraMughal, metacognition specialist.
Making evidence-based decisions
partnered witha number ofschools whotrialedAdaptive Learn through the early phases of development, giving feedback on what they liked anddidn’tlike, and took time to understand customers and worked closely with educators, learners, academics, awarding bodies and partners to develop Adaptive Learn. It is evidence based, and founded on research with real schools, teachers and learners’ needs and aspirations.
“Our teachers are really happy compared to other resources we’ve used before, because of the Cambridge focus… there’s nothing else like this that focusses as much on our curriculum.” – Ms Celiberti, St Constantine’s School, Tanzania
Adaptive Learn delivers content as unique as your learners, combining personalised digital practice with actionable insights for educators.
All ofthe features and benefits above can now be accessed by schools for our Cambridge Primary courses: Computing, English, Maths and Science courses, and more, stages 1 to 6.
Building a full picture of learners’ wellbeing
Learner wellbeing is essential for academic success, yet it can be difficult to measure meaningfully.Without clear insights, schools risk implementing generic strategies thatfail toaddress thereal issueslearners face.
Adaptive Learnincludestwo types of wellbeing questionnaire, weekly ‘Check-ins’ and termly ‘Snapshots’.Wellbeingcheck-insarefor quick ‘temperature’ gauges on whether learners are ready to learn on any given day, and to encourage learners to think about their wellbeing on a regular basis.Wellbeingsnapshots more detailed surveys which look at all aspects of learner wellbeing (social, academic,physicaland emotional) on a termly basis, helping schoolsidentifypatterns over time.
Without clear insights, schools risk implementing generic[wellbeing]strategies that fail to address the real issues learners face.”
Adaptive Learn is built on a secure platform that adheres to strict data protection standards. Learners access it only through their school login, and the environment contains no public chat or unsafe content.
The resourceis designed for focused, short bursts of learning, notprolonged screen time, and weencourage schools to balance digital learning with physical textbooks and manipulatives.providesTeacher’s Guides, Learner’s Books and Workbooksthat complementall ofAdaptive Learn courses.
Andwhat’snext?
Adaptive Learnwill belaunchingfor Lower Secondary(stages 7, 8 and 9)in April 2026,withfurtherfeatures and subjectalready in development.
Discover Adaptive Learn visitingHachette Learning.
By Hamish Baxter
Hamish Baxter is the Senior Lead Product Manager at
