Hey everyone,
I am a student who uses subject.com. Do not let that factor make this review not matter. These courses are decent and ok at the start, but as you get deeper into the content, it's unbelievable. Answers are incorrectly marked wrong, questions aren't correctly typed, code is left bare on pages with no formatting, and typos are common. I've gotten marked wrong and lost points on questions I knew for a fact I got right. I've also had a few random situations where answers would deselect randomly, and a ton of errors in the website's coding. It's almost as if this website was made by AI.... the way the website looks certainly makes it look like that, and a lot of the mistakes could be considered proof of that. The review they give you after assignments you did badly on is made by AI. I have actually seen teachers use this exact AI in class to create reviews, even though they are supposed to be made by a human. I do not recommend this.
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Ruth M.
I like it
I like it - could have more reading but the videos are great.
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Jen C.
This is a joke
This is a joke. My son is taking PE and he is getting marked down for not writing long enough essays about PE topics that are not covered in the class. The "human reviewers" give LONG WINDED notes with little content to them (AI anyone). There is no accommodation for learning disability or 504/IEP alignment.
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vor
Big corporation that doesn't care about anything.
Whoever had the idea to create this mentally draining slop should burn in hell for all of eternity. They are a soulless corporation and do not care about anything. For example, in trailers, video descriptions, etc, they call gen alpha "consumers of content" and claiming "they want stimulating Netflix-like content" when NONE OF US DO. We want to learn, yet this horrible company replaces all of our lessons with 15 minute long ai generated videos about objectively factually incorrect things that never happened ever. I went into inspect element and the code was written by AI. The code. You can hire a software dev so easily these days, for so cheap, and they decide to use a hallucinating guess the next word machine to make their code for them. they aren't even a homeschooling company, this is LITERALLY A HUSTLER PROJECT. That is not an exaggeration to tell you how bad this company is, I am saying that this is literally a hustler project. Made by a bunch of cybercriminals who are trying to get as much money as possible. Nothing when making this website took effort, as they just made a hallucinating black box do it all for them. Everything is AI generated, everything is factually incorrect, everything is buggy and slow, and the cpu intensive effects make it impossible to work on old laptops specifically meant for school. I have to use a GAMING LAPTOP WITH 32 GIGABYTES OF RAM JUST TO HAVE A CHANCE AT LOADING ANYTHING! And the worst part, the only positive parts about these reviews here are the non ai generated videos that sometimes pop up, but I recently found out THEY ARE MADE BY AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT COMPANY! Subject is stealing all of these videos from another company, putting ai slop over it, and calling it a day. I urge you to not use this trashy slop company that drains the mental health of children on purpose. Subject, unrespectfully, delete your website.
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AIRBORNE_EEvEE
Subject.com is the worst: A student's lament.
Note: I experienced this monstrosity from 2022 to 2023. I'm adding this note here because these dates weren't available under the provided clandaer options for a review
Subject.com is a shitty online learning platform which is only serving to further the phenomenon of American schools becoming daycares.
I went through the 8th and 9th grade with this platform at a STEM charter school in Central California, and I can safely say that it was some of the worst teaching I've ever experienced, and has permanently soured my experience with online learning tools in general. And that was BEFORE it became bloated with what many are saying has become AI-driven curriculum. (though I cannot attest to this personally, as I was being put through this grinder long before this AI BS showed up.)
Imagine nearly failing a critical math exam because the website and curriculum was so rushed that the people doing the maths to prepare the test answers had not only gotten what was supposed to be the CORRECT answer wrong, but had also internally assigned the "correct" choice to one of the THROWAWAY options?
Yeah, that pretty much sums up the whole program. Rushed lessons, badly coded and implemented tests and activities, and don't even get me started on what Spanish was like. Dozens of videos were either poorly cut, or not cut at all and featured every outtake or retake without any aparent form of QA. Asking anybody who jumped highschools with me after the 9th grade about subject will immediately illicit their own laundry list of horror stories, without exception.
Come the end of the 9th grade, we were all so done with the experience that none of us really cared about getting our work done, which is honestly a real tragedy. Again, this was supposed to be a STEM school, but after just two years of this program what was left was a daycare that occasionally had SOME Stem-related assignments in between grueling slog after grueling slog. I'm only as good as I am at Calculus right now because after jumping schools I had some honestly damn fine math teachers who flushed out and recuperate all the riffraff, and because my 8th/9th grade math teacher spent most of his time during "lessons" (Videos) pausing to correct or clarify things the Subject lessons got wrong. We'd all spend a about a quarter of our exam time solving test questions as a class to try and figure out how exactly the Subject.com plebs had messed up their own answers.
Honestly, thanks Mr. 'P. We barely deserved you.
Anyway, that's my two cents. A terrible, lazily managed and assembled curriculi that poisoned what was supposed to my DREAM Stem school, caused it to hemorrhage about two thirds of it's own students in the higher grades, and has left It unable to retain "teaching" (if you can call what the teachers do now "teaching") faculty for more than a single semester on average according to friends who still go there.
F### you Subject. I have to retake a foreign language, missing my college application deadlines for a YEAR as a result of your curriculum being so bad.
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Lillie
This school runs on ai
This school runs on ai. Even when you try to chat with a tutor or anything, it just sends you to ai. Grading is ai, assignments are ai, everything is ai. It really adds insult to injury when you have an issue and you can only talk to ai. The only thing I like about this program is the videos with human actors, that’s why I gave it two stars instead of one. My school switched me MID YEAR in my last semester of high school after having a different program for my whole high school career. This school did nothing to help me adjust to the new system. Ive also had many issues with this system. I’ve spent hours on assignments just for it not be saved and have to redo everything. Rewatching videos over and over again just cause it hadn’t registered that I already watched the video.
I’m just thankful that I don’t have to do it for anymore than a semester.
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Regina P.
Subject is an abysmal company and should be eviscerated
I am a sophomore in a charter high school, and due to my schools funding issues, they had to introduce this program. Overall, this program is abysmal. Absolute GARBAGE. The entire thing can be considered just a hotbed of Artificial Intelligence. Lessons? Created by AI. Quizzes? AI. Assignments? Yep, that’s AI, too. The entire GRADING SYSTEM? Yes, AI as well. The only times this program uses humans are in the videos that were recorded back in 2023. And even then, some of those videos, especially in the ones in the Biology course, for instance, can be at least 15 minute long. My parents were even appalled by the fact that when I was taking the computer science course, the guy in the videos was non-binary. (I am not insinuating that I am against people who don’t believe in their natural-born gender.) when it comes to quizzes and tests, the AI can make simple mistakes that are kind of annoying, such as misspelling Chernobyl as “Chenobly.” When it comes to the writing assignments, you can literally take the prompt, paste it into ChatGPT, and that that response and put it into the text box, and it will give you an automatic 100%. Even in the drawing course, you can have ChatGPT drum up an image, and you can put it into Subject, and it will give you a 100%. That, and when you get a low score for clicking an answer you know you didn’t press on a quiz, are major problems with Subject’s grading system. When it comes to finals and midterms, one of my friends took 5 words that we were tasked to define and give examples of, and put it into the response, and got the question right. One last thing, Subject’s tech support is also AI, and automatically asks for your name, email, and school name, which shouldn’t be allowed if you’re trying to notify Subject to fix a typo or a research error, as it can be interpreted as an invasion of privacy to give a company, and more so, the people working there, your personal information. More on this, the AI will actually start arguing with you if you tell it that you will not give it the information (name, school name, and email) it wants, and it will rarely transfer over to a human tech support person, but even then, their responses are often speculated by my peers to also be AI. Overall, this program shouldn’t exist, and should not be used by schools whatsoever, especially charter schools. Subject is a rather untrustworthy company in my opinion, that drains students’ motivation to do schoolwork, waste hours away at a computer instead of doing actual interactive school work activities/projects, and just doesn’t teach you anything about a topic you’re learning. Subject=bad.
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mister E.
Jesus save me from this hell.
Completely false scores, entire website is written by AI.
You have to spend 3 minutes entering and exiting the activity to get it to work because the code is AI, even if it does work, and you answer all questions correct, even TELLING YOU that they are correct, it gives you a 0%. Leave the activity and time4learning shows its 100. Why does time4learning show the correct score? BECAUSE ITS CODE IS HUMAN. Oh and the essays, they hallucinate you getting a 95, 97, 99, whatever, because students don't usually get a 100% even if they say everything is done perfectly. This is because AI models predict what word comes next, and it is unlikely for a kid to get a 100, so they almost never give a 100%. And one time, they told me that I got a 0% for "submitting the instructions as the content of your essay" WHEN I JUST DIDN'T? Oh, don't forgot the times where I got a 0% from "not submitting any content in your answers" WHEN I LITERALLY DID! This is complete trash and only exists as a money farm, the company doesn't care about you, it probably already forgot it even runs a school program. Probably on to their next ai slop project for something different. They don't care. No one cares. It's all AI. You can put your answer for every question as "Nice work! 100%, you got this question right!" and then the AI will think it said that and just let you pass. HORRIBLE!