What are Adaptive Practice and Question Banks?
Adaptive Practice is quick to assign and gives you skill-level insights. It’s great when you want students to build procedural fluency and skill mastery without building custom assignments.
Question Banks offer deeper content, more customization in assignment creation, and deeper data analysis. They work well when you want full control over what students practice and how you assess their work and understand their progress.
How are Adaptive Practice and Question Banks different?
Both Adaptive Practice and Albert's Question Banks offer robust, standards-aligned practice for students. However, they are different in several key ways, and each offer a unique practice experience for students.
What subjects are covered?
Question Banks cover close to 400 unique subjects are offered, including middle school and high school core subjects, AP® subjects, ACT® / SAT®, and select state exams.
Dive into a specific subject to view topics and subtopics, or use the Assignment Builder to search across all of Albert's library by standard or topic.
Adaptive Practice currently covers grades 6-12 Grammar and Math. Search skills by standard or topic. Plus, we have more more subjects launching spring of 2026:
Grades 3-12 Science
Spanish Vocabulary
Expanding the Adaptive ELA suite to include Reading, Writing, and Vocabulary & Language
Expanding Adaptive math to include grades 3-5
How can teachers provide practice?
With Albert's Question Banks, teachers can provide practice in one of three modes:
Custom Assignments for the most tailored, flexible practice.
Pre-Made Assessments offer ready-to-go quizzes and exams, perfect for high-stakes testing practice.
Independent Practice provides self-paced practice for students honing their content mastery.
Learn how to customize student assignment settings, including adding timers, due dates, and more.
To provide Adaptive Practice, teachers search across hundreds of standards aligned skills, then share a skill code or link with students. Students will complete four levels of practice that progress in difficulty as they demonstrate proficiency at each challenge level.
Coming Soon: This spring, teachers will be able to send specific skills to students and set an optional start and/or due date.
How can teachers review student performance data?
After providing Question Bank practice, select from six available report types to review data at the classroom, student, assignment, question, standard, or subject/topic level. Use the drilldown feature to further distill data and best understand student performance. Bonus: download CSVs of reports for further analysis.
Note: The Gradebook feature is only available to licensed schools that have purchased the Pro-Upgrade. Reach out to schools@albert.io for details and pricing.
Understand Adaptive Practice performance at a glance: view class-level progress data using the "Compare Class" button, or click “View in Reports” for a detailed view of student time spent, questions answered, and proficiency level. Lean on pre-defined proficiency levels to clearly understand a student's progress on a specific skill.
What standards are covered?
Question Bank content is aligned to CCSS and NGSS as well as standards for all 50 states. Subjects are also aligned to ACT®, SAT®, and PSAT® standards.
Adaptive Practice content is aligned to CCSS and NGSS as well as standards for select states.
When should teachers use each practice type?
Questions Banks are perfect when:
You need complete control over content.
You are creating quizzes, tests, or curated assignments.
You want detailed grading and analytics.
Consider using Question Banks for:
Standards practice
Weekly quizzes
Exit Tickets
Targeted practice
Adaptive Practice is perfect when:
You want fast, targeted skill practice.
You prefer simple mastery insights.
Consider using Adaptive Practice for:
Daily warm ups
Homework
Skills Remediation
How much does each practice type cost?
Our premium Question Banks are accessible only with a license. Explore our teacher, school, and district pricing.
Adaptive Practice is - and will forever be - free for all users!