McGraw-HillReviews of aleks.com

I actually hate ALEKS. The explanations are long and dense; I can't focus, and every single time I go through the modules, I end up crying. I even divided my time so I would only need to do 4 modules a day, and that takes me over an hour to complete. If you have ADHD, ALEKS will make you want to blow your brains out. I have learned nothing from the questions, and by the time I finish, I don't have anything memorized despite that being their whole "thing". Practice doesn't make perfect when it's for this god-awful platform.

Explanations are short and confusing and often doesn't have alternative explanations. This program only checks to see if you know the answer, it does nothing for practicing the actual process. Therefore, if you get something wrong, it can't tell you which step you got wrong. This program is incredibly frustrating and does nothing for advancing understanding without outside help.

Absolute god awful UI, worst learning experience ever. Just another way for professors to be lazy.

Worst website ever first of all they can log you out if your inactive even if your in a middle of a topic and the lack of videos makes learning a horrible experience whithout talking about half of these horrible features also for some reason when you get a question wrong you have to go back and do it again on a entirely new question well this might not sound bad but it actually just gives you more questions to do making a topic looking like it will takes seconds turns into hours i’m in school and i’m just saying something for the teachers to hear if you hate mcgraw hill aleks you dont hate math geometry and every subject mcgraw hill aleks you just hate the features

aleks is a stupid website and doesn't teach you anything just makes you mad

It sends you back so much time. And the explanations don't help. I've wasted summers with this bullshit

I'm going to try to give an actual review rather than just blatantly bashing it. The good: Aleks pushes you to actually master topics, you can't guess, it's satisfying to get topics correct, you do actually learn some of the topics. the INITIAL knowledge check is pretty useful and a good benchmark most of the time (note i said initial) the bad: constant knowledge checks force me to spend hours on my computer trying to get aleks topics done. at first the topics are easy, but by the end of the semester, i'm spending sometimes half-hours on topics, and if i get a question wrong, a good 15 minutes progress is reverted because you have to get them correct with no mistakes inbetween. at a glance this might seem good to help students master the topics but it really adds a sense of anxiety and stress that you're never going to get the work done. the topics have multiple question types for each topic. ( for example one topic is "how to add" and you get the problem: 1+2= x, then you get x = 1+2 obviously this was a simple example) and it really throws you off, sometimes causing you to lose a ton of time spent working on the topics. the worst part about this program is the explanations, they are super wordy and laid out terribly to make it extremely hard to understand what happens in between steps. and like I mentioned before, it only shows the explanation for one question, it doesn't elaborate further on that whole topic. so you'll submit a problem and get it right, then the next topic is a different type of problem, so you either have to guess or already know, or read the explanation further losing progress. Youtube videos explain the topics SO MUCH better, and yes it's half because they record and you can hear and see the steps, but they also just know how to explain and teach student rather than throwing a bunch of instructions on a white background that makes it hard to read. This is coming from someone who's been using ALEKS for 5 years and coming up on my his sixth year. the amount of stress and despair from this program is unbelievable. math used to be my favorite subject, aleks actually took the fun out of learning. I actually hope super intendants read this and stop using this program, or the developers read these genuine problems, and fix it.

I feel Incredibly gross about being forced to feed my poor math skills to some AI, over all the user experience is...lacking, the graphing is a mess, and I can't stand having to go an read through wherever the manual for a graphing system is. The topic system completely fails, it progresses you through certain things way to quick and makes you sit there forever on others, the Ai "learning" system doesn't seem to even work, as it has given me all the wrong lessons