The AI-Powered Study App: Trusted & Verified by Humans
Meet Sharpen Advantage.
The responsible AI academic success app.
Introducing the AI learning solution that students will use and higher ed institutions can trust.
Meet Sharpen Advantage.
The responsible AI study app.
Introducing the personalized AI learning solution that helps students quickly and efficiently improve their grades with content they can trust.
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Valued by institutions.
Trusted by educators. Loved by students.
Valued by institutions.
Trusted by educators.
Loved by students.
Save students 5 hours a week* with this faculty-approved, personalized AI study app they can use anytime, anywhere to help them succeed.
Save students 5 hours a week* with this faculty-approved, personalized AI study app they can use anytime, anywhere to help them succeed.
Supports Institutions in Scaling AI
86% of students use unvetted AI to support their learning
Sharpen Advantage makes integrating responsible AI easy, giving students and faculty an AI solution they can trust. With vetted content from McGraw Hill and your institution, you can ensure students have the support they need to succeed in and out of the classroom.
Identifies Knowledge Gaps
69% of institutions lack real-time insights into student performance
Monitoring students' outcomes in real time can be challenging, and that’s where Sharpen’s AI-enabled dashboard comes in. It gives educators and admins immediate visibility into student knowledge gaps—by course, cohort, and learning objective—so they can deliver tailored interventions before it's too late.
Delivers Measurable Strategic Impact
3% boost in student performance after one semester
Sharpen improves student outcomes and can reduce DFW rates, helping your institution achieve its strategic goals. It enables you and your faculty to scale personalized and verified support that's proven to boost student performance.
Supports Institutions in Scaling AI
86% of students use unvetted AI to support their learning
Sharpen Advantage makes integrating responsible AI easy, giving students and faculty an AI solution they can trust. With vetted content from McGraw Hill and your institution, you can ensure students have the support they need to succeed in and out of the classroom.
Identifies Knowledge Gaps
69% of institutions lack real-time insights into student performance
Monitoring students' outcomes in real time can be challenging, and that’s where Sharpen’s AI-enabled dashboard comes in. It gives educators and admins immediate visibility into student knowledge gaps—by course, cohort, and learning objective—so they can deliver tailored interventions before it's too late.
Delivers Measurable Strategic Impact
3% boost in student performance after one semester
Sharpen improves student outcomes and can reduce DFW rates, helping your institution achieve its strategic goals. It enables you and your faculty to scale personalized and verified support that's proven to boost student performance.
Supports Institutions in Scaling AI
86% of students use unvetted AI to support their learning
Sharpen Advantage makes integrating responsible AI easy, giving students and faculty an AI solution they can trust. With vetted content from McGraw Hill and your institution, you can ensure students have the support they need to succeed in and out of the classroom.
Identifies Knowledge Gaps
69% of institutions lack real-time insights into student performance
Monitoring students' outcomes in real time can be challenging, and that’s where Sharpen’s AI-enabled dashboard comes in. It gives educators and admins immediate visibility into student knowledge gaps—by course, cohort, and learning objective—so they can deliver tailored interventions before it's too late.
Delivers Measurable Strategic Impact
3% boost in student performance after one semester
Sharpen improves student outcomes and can reduce DFW rates, helping your institution achieve its strategic goals. It enables you and your faculty to scale personalized and verified support that's proven to boost student performance.
Supports Institutions in Scaling AI
86% of students use unvetted AI to support their learning
Sharpen Advantage makes integrating responsible AI easy, giving students and faculty an AI solution they can trust. With vetted content from McGraw Hill and your institution, you can ensure students have the support they need to succeed in and out of the classroom.
Identifies Knowledge Gaps
69% of institutions lack real-time insights into student performance
Monitoring students' outcomes in real time can be challenging, and that’s where Sharpen’s AI-enabled dashboard comes in. It gives educators and admins immediate visibility into student knowledge gaps—by course, cohort, and learning objective—so they can deliver tailored interventions before it's too late.
Delivers Measurable Strategic Impact
3% boost in student performance after one semester
Sharpen improves student outcomes and can reduce DFW rates, helping your institution achieve its strategic goals. It enables you and your faculty to scale personalized and verified support that's proven to boost student performance.
Watch & Learn
How Sharpen Advantage Works
Explore the campuswide AI solution that supports student needs and institutional goals.
The Features
Turn guesswork into guided learning with an AI app that gets an A+.
Discover powerful features that are easy for educators and students to use anytime, anywhere.
Turn guesswork into guided learning with an AI app that gets an A+.
Discover powerful features that are easy for educators and students to use anytime, anywhere.
Ask Sharpen is your students' AI-powered study buddy. Students can ask questions and upload notes, their course syllabus, or self-created materials to receive personalized study activities and quizzes that use content verified by your institution or vetted by McGraw Hill—all of which is tailored to their needs based on engagement within Sharpen. Content from all sources is labeled so students know EXACTLY what they can trust.
AI-enabled dashboards give administrators and faculty real-time, actionable insights into student learning so they can intervene early and often. Educators and administrators can track engagement, monitor progress, identify common learning gaps, analyze Sharpen performance, and review predictive analytics for individual students, courses, or cohorts.
Empower faculty and administrators to upload course-specific and institution-specific resources, tailoring the app to meet the unique academic needs of your student body. Faculty and administrators can add their own slides, videos, assessments, and flashcards for students to review or complete before, during, or after class. Address your students’ needs and remediate gaps in their knowledge using content YOU provide.
Use the Radar dashboard to identify knowledge gaps and build a playlist of study activities that can be pushed directly to a student’s phone. Playlists can be customized by faculty and administrators who want to curate content from Sharpen and seamlessly share it with students. Students can then use playlists to prepare for exams and close knowledge gaps.
Within the Sharpen App, students can watch bite-sized videos, review flashcards, read summaries, take quizzes, and tackle multi-step problem sets. As students engage with study activities, Sharpen identifies their individual knowledge gaps and predicts future mastery at the learning objective level.
Educators and students count on Sharpen Advantage
Real story. Real results.
Holly Hapke
Senior Marketing Lecturer University of Kentucky – Gatton College of Business Lexington, Kentucky
Students taking Marketing 300 at the University of Kentucky improved their test performance by nearly 3%, and overall grades increased from a B- to a B thanks to Sharpen.
Real story. Real results.
Holly Hapke
Senior Marketing Lecturer University of Kentucky – Gatton College of Business Lexington, Kentucky
Students taking Marketing 300 at the University of Kentucky improved their test performance by nearly 3%, and overall grades increased from a B- to a B thanks to Sharpen Advantage.
Real story. Real results.
Holly Hapke
Senior Marketing Lecturer University of Kentucky – Gatton College of Business Lexington, Kentucky
Students taking Marketing 300 at the University of Kentucky improved their test performance by nearly 3%, and overall grades increased from a B- to a B thanks to Sharpen Advantage.
Fantastic resource! The study tools are based on my course textbooks. Helps me to study accurate information and what will be on the exam.
Fantastic resource! The study tools are based on my course textbooks. Helps me to study accurate information and what will be on the exam.
Having engaging content that my students can relate to—and I know I can trust—will help them be better prepared.
Having engaging content that my students can relate to—and I know I can trust—will help them be better prepared.
I wish all my classes were in this app. I flew through five chapters without noticing. Way better than going to Google or YouTube.
I wish all my classes were in this app. I flew through five chapters without noticing. Way better than going to Google or YouTube.
I make sure from day one that we have all the tools to help students with their success. So, I really start to push the SHARPEN app and then even use it for flipped learning.
I make sure from day one that we have all the tools to help students with their success. So, I really start to push the SHARPEN app and then even use it for flipped learning.
Fantastic resource! The study tools are based on my course textbooks. Helps me to study accurate information and what will be on the exam.
Fantastic resource! The study tools are based on my course textbooks. Helps me to study accurate information and what will be on the exam.
Having engaging content that my students can relate to—and I know I can trust—will help them be better prepared.
Having engaging content that my students can relate to—and I know I can trust—will help them be better prepared.
I wish all my classes were in this app. I flew through five chapters without noticing. Way better than going to Google or YouTube.
I wish all my classes were in this app. I flew through five chapters without noticing. Way better than going to Google or YouTube.
I make sure from day one that we have all the tools to help students with their success. So, I really start to push the SHARPEN app and then even use it for flipped learning.
I make sure from day one that we have all the tools to help students with their success. So, I really start to push the SHARPEN app and then even use it for flipped learning.
Fantastic resource! The study tools are based on my course textbooks. Helps me to study accurate information and what will be on the exam.
Fantastic resource! The study tools are based on my course textbooks. Helps me to study accurate information and what will be on the exam.
Having engaging content that my students can relate to—and I know I can trust—will help them be better prepared.
Having engaging content that my students can relate to—and I know I can trust—will help them be better prepared.
I wish all my classes were in this app. I flew through five chapters without noticing. Way better than going to Google or YouTube.
I wish all my classes were in this app. I flew through five chapters without noticing. Way better than going to Google or YouTube.
I make sure from day one that we have all the tools to help students with their success. So, I really start to push the SHARPEN app and then even use it for flipped learning.
I make sure from day one that we have all the tools to help students with their success. So, I really start to push the SHARPEN app and then even use it for flipped learning.
Fantastic resource! The study tools are based on my course textbooks. Helps me to study accurate information and what will be on the exam.
Fantastic resource! The study tools are based on my course textbooks. Helps me to study accurate information and what will be on the exam.
Having engaging content that my students can relate to—and I know I can trust—will help them be better prepared.
Having engaging content that my students can relate to—and I know I can trust—will help them be better prepared.
I wish all my classes were in this app. I flew through five chapters without noticing. Way better than going to Google or YouTube.
I wish all my classes were in this app. I flew through five chapters without noticing. Way better than going to Google or YouTube.
I make sure from day one that we have all the tools to help students with their success. So, I really start to push the SHARPEN app and then even use it for flipped learning.
I make sure from day one that we have all the tools to help students with their success. So, I really start to push the SHARPEN app and then even use it for flipped learning.
Sharpen has a 4.7-star rating on the Google Play and Apple App Stores with over 2.5K ratings.
Frequently Asked Questions
Have questions? We have answers!
Have questions?
We have answers!
Institutions own the data in their Sharpen Advantage instance (i.e., “walled garden”). Like all McGraw Hill platforms, Sharpen Advantage is governed by McGraw Hill’s Data Privacy and Security Guidelines.
Ask Sharpen will always prioritize and pull content from Sharpen’s library first. If Sharpen does not have content that aligns with the student’s query, Ask Sharpen will leverage the power of GenAI to create new study sets for the student. Any GenAI study activities are clearly labeled “unverified” as distinct from Sharpen’s trusted study content.
Sharpen has a web platform ACR/VPAT available for review that reflects conformance with WCAG 2.2AA standards as of April 2025. Please contact McGraw Hill for the most recent accessibility credentials.
Sharpen applies the same learning science principles and instructional design best practices as flagship McGraw Hill products. For example, Sharpen’s Quiz Bank contains assessment items aligned with every level of Bloom’s taxonomy, ensuring that students practice material at varying levels of difficulty and complexity.
Absolutely. Unlike many campuswide ed tech providers, McGraw Hill Enterprise Account Managers live and work locally to your institution and travel on campus regularly to support the needs of campus administrators. Reach out to get in touch with your local McGraw Hill Enterprise Account Manager to schedule an on-site demo and experience unparalleled support you can only get from McGraw Hill.
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