How It Works

It’s easy to get started with Thinkwell. Access our course materials anytime, anywhere, from any computer, 24/7.

Begin your course subscription when you’re ready.

Our courses start when you want them to. You’ll have instant access to your online subscription once you’ve purchased your course. Purchase now and start at a later date. It’s up to you. Our course subscriptions are 12-months, but if you need more time you can purchase 1, 3, or 6 month extensions.



Go at your own pace or follow our week-by-week lesson plan.

Most Thinkwell courses are designed to last a full scholastic year. We’ve developed day-by-day, week-by-week lesson plans to keep you on track, but feel free to go at your own pace. Go as quickly or as slowly as you need to suit your student’s preferences.



View the course video lessons.

Each Thinkwell course has a robust collection of complete, rigorous 5-10 minute lesson videos. Stop, start, rewind and replay the lesson videos as many times as you like. Each video has illustrations, synchronized artwork, key ideas, and definitions of important terms. Closed captioning is available for all videos as well as printable transcripts of the lesson. See a sample video.

Practice with automatically graded exercises.

Students learn by doing. Thinkwell has thousands of automatically graded exercises with step-by-step explanations for students to drill and practice the concepts presented in the video lesson. Take the exercise once or as many times as you like.

Review with worksheets and study notes.

Put pencil to paper with our printable worksheets and answer keys for each topic. Download the worksheets from the course website or purchase the printed collection separately. Full-color course study succinctly summarize important concepts and highlight key terms, definitions, and formulas. See a sample worksheet or take a look at a sample study note.

Demonstrate mastery with Quizzes and Chapter Tests.

Showcase your smarts with our online quizzes and tests. Each assessment is automatically graded with step-by-step feedback. Student scores are recorded in our online gradebook. We offer practice exams with to use as a study tool before the test. Need to re-take a test? No problem. Just reach out to our support crew to coordinate another take.



Earn a Course Certificate and celebrate your success!

Upon request, get a course certificate for your transcript, and a printout of your grades. The overall letter grade for the course is up to you, but you'll have access to the grade book scores that are averaged this way: Quizzes: 30%, Chapter tests: 30%, Midterm: 20%, and Final: 20%.