EdmentumReviews of edmentum.com

The instruction and assignments it provides are developmentally inappropriate, assesses things it hasn't taught, and are filled with grammatical and spelling errors. Moreover, the pace it prescribes violates the guidelines Edmentum gives to parents about how much time students should spend on-line.

There are better ways to learn this takes knowledge out of my brain

I'm a junior in highschool. I'm currently doing a lesson on studying with Edmentum. This would not be a problem with me if there were not for the extensive, tedious amounts of text to read and answers to type. It is so incredibly monotonous to do it over and over and over and over and over and over! Who learns like this? Who does this work best for? Could anyone tell me THE POINT of all of the writing tasks given??

I would begin this review with one main complaint, but where do I even start? The lessons are just walls of text with the occasional question sprinkled in so students can't just spam the "next" arrow, and the following progress checks work off of a bank of questions that have nothing to do with the material from the lessons. On top of that, after the tests, students are given no indication of what they did wrong and are only provided with their percentage of correct answers in each subject. So, after completely redoing the exact same lesson (which often includes extensive writing assignments), If they get below an 80 on the test again, they're sent back to subjects they already know and the lessons repeat. For example, after getting a 60% on my second attempt at a progress check, my course was switched from a unit on understanding and writing memoirs to a tutorial on note-taking. Making students redo material they already know without even telling them their mistakes is a punitive and terribly thought-out way to reteach a lesson. Edmentum's approach to learning teaches students to do the bare minimum, because they won't be using the material they're being taught anyway. Across every subject it attempts to educate in, this website will fail to teach you a thing.

The tutorials teach you nothing about what you are tested on. For example, I was doing graphs in the tutorial then they tested me on algebra. map accelerator is the better alternative and doing edmentum makes me want to die.

As a parent, I cannot say how terrible this curriculum is. My student is taking 9th grade English and it’s actually stressed him out to the point that he isn’t sleeping. The content itself, as far as excerpts and lesson topics go, isn’t an issue. The issue comes in with the structure of the exercises used to teach and with how things are phrased in the form of questions and answers when testing. When a student takes a test, they are given a percentage of what they got correct. They are not shown what they got incorrect and given an explanation as to why. They are redirected to the exercises they failed and have no way to know how to approach them differently. The questions on the tests are, in themselves problematic, because they are vaguely worded, rather than being specific. The multiple choice answers are worded indirectly, which causes further confusion. It seems as if this curriculum was designed with deception and trickery being more of a goal rather than the objective being to teach. It doesn’t seem helpful or productive. That is the case when errors are just counted against you and are not explained. Terrible, terrible program which I would assume causes many kids to feel inadequate due a very flawed design which strips them of any ability to learn in any productive way.

STOP MAKING THIS THING TEACH US!! It is SO BAD and it's teaching me stuff that is either to hard and I didn't learn it, or stuff easy stuff that I already learned. I go to Fort Dorchester Elementary School and they use this monstrosity! I don't learn anything! But I just read during our 25 minute Edmentum time, and my teacher doesn't notice. My teacher even agrees that we should bring back our old app because Edmentum SUCKS!!! And EVERYONE at my school agrees. But for short EDMENTUM SUCKS!!!!

You can’t know what you got wrong on the progress check