Afficient AcademyReviews of afficienta.com

Honestly, it's fine but I think it can be better! I think the demos could be more clear and in child language but other than that it's really fine.

Thank you Afficient! My daughter has been going into classes outside of school and she said she didn't quite like them, so I thought of finding an app online for her to work on. I found Afficient, Nathan who helped me get through the steps of creating an account, and told me what my daughter needed to approve in. Afficient and Nathan both are very supportive in my situation and I am very thankful for them.

It's very helpful for studying. When I first stared , I was a bit angry because it was kind of hard. I started at grade 3 and now I'm grade 4 but I'm doing grade 6 math!!! I'm truly sorry for being angry at the program because now, I like it!!!

孩子八年级初开始使用学习八年级数学，三个月完成了一年的学习，现在学习代数一，暑假前完成，孩子很喜欢这套程序在于及时反馈和帮助他查漏补缺，家长只需要每周等邮件就可以看到孩子的进步，问题可以在zoom问老师🧑‍🏫解放我们英文一般的父母 谢谢科技改变生活

孩子每天都积极的自己主动去学习

The courses are well organized，and helpful to the boy coming to the United States without enough English training. He started hard and got used to do it everyday, and he loves the challenge day by day. This study also helped his ENL study in the school. Thus he wants to continue.

I want to share my amazing experience of Afficient. I’ve heard about it for quite long time but only tried it recently after getting not very ideal outcome from many other programs. I would say the weekly progress bar, tokens, and ladder board really motivate kids to learn. It’s much better than me yelling at them. The “helping mode” can help parents save ton of time teaching kids by ourselves. The steps are so well illustrated and the kids can easily follow by themselves alone. The course consultant Derrick is also great. He not only cares about the kids progression speed but also pays attention to establishing a good learning habit. So far this program is the one with least effort from parents and best learning result. Up vote with a million stars!

This is from someone who's been using Afficient for 3+ years. While it works and has helped me a bit (hence 2 stars instead of 1), there are some big issues. Afficient uses deceptive advertising and has poor demos/instruction. When you see an ad for Afficient the first thing that it says is "Artificial Learning". There is no artificial learning. I confronted one of the Afficient executives about this and told me that there is AI. No there is not, it's just a simple algorithm. It could barely classify as "machine learning". I can literally draw a picture of how progression and regression of this program works. I can quite literally state it right here, when you join Afficient your child will take a diagnostic test which will test a few skills from each chapter (Afficient structures itself with lessons => chapters => grades) and then depending on whether they answered/answered it on time will they get a check for that. Afficient will then see what skills the child is lacking and then begin their learning there. However this is way worse and slower than an actual teacher as here it's just an algorithm, there are causes for error and the child can easily misclick or misinterpret instructions. After the diagnostic your child will do problems. There are 4 levels but the first one is the learning stage. This is where they will read a "demo" that is not very easy to understand especially in the higher levels. Then it will be the assisted exercise which to be honest I don't think many people actually do, as it's the same thing as the demo and you don't get points for it. Then it is the actual problems. You have to get 5/6 or 3/4 depending on the skill. You can fail as many times as you want as long as you still get 5/6 or 3/4. You cannot move below this level. Then it's proficiency, which has levels 1,2,3 and proficient. This is basically you do 2 review questions (one from this grade, one from a previous one) and 4 questions from the lessons in the chapter in order (and you cannot skip the order or gain proficiency in a specific lesson). If you get it wrong it used to go to learning immediately but they realized that it was horrible for learning and not efficient, they added a "level 1- make up level", which if you do will go to level 2. This goes on until level 3 which is timed. You can always go down even from doing review questions and after you complete all the lessons to proficient do you move on to the next lesson. Now that I've laid it all out, you realize it's not actually AI. You could probably code this in Scratch. There's no LLMs, it's not training a model for each student that can see where they can improve. It's just a script (no pun intended) that tells you what (out of the predefined skills) are you not "proficient" in. Now moving on to demos, they are a giant paragraph that "explain" the concept but don't do it well. You have to read it over a few times as it's such a big chunk of text for some chapters. Afficient doesn't take in mind that some people learn by watching a video. When kids need help they need to connect to a Zoom advisor or in person, but at this point why not just go to an in person math class that gives homework? They should at least put an real AI powered chat bot, but I guess they're pretending their algorithm is AI. But to be honest, your child will still learn the skill, just not as easily and happily as advertised. I've seen many kids get very frustrated as the demos don't explain anything and the help button for the questions don't tell them how to fix their mistake, just how to do it, and sometimes that doesn't actually help them learn. Overall I think Afficient needs a major restructuring on their program, UI overhaul, fix their advertising or actually add AI elements. So just get a tutor, or wait until Afficient fixes something.