Mc graw hill

HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE ALEKS SINCE I BEGAN COLLEGE. IN MY DASHBOARD THERE ARE 260 MODULES WITH HUNDREDS OF LABYRINTHINE QUESTIONS THAT FILL MY ALEKS COURSE. IF I SCRAWLED THE WORD HATE ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF TORTUOS QUOTAS IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR ALEKS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR MCGRAW HILL. HATE. HATE.

I'm just going to put all my complaints into a list:

1. Getting ONE question wrong on a knowledge check erases ALL of your progress on that lesson. Even professionals make mistakes, right? So why the hell does getting a singular question wrong mean I haven't mastered the topic?
2. Getting a question wrong means you have points taken away from you. Imagine you worked an hour and a half to solve some problems in your lesson, then just as you're about to finish it, you make a mistype in your answer, and boom. Half an hour of work is undone.
3. Its explanations are awful.
4. It doesn't even try to engage students in what they're teaching in the lessons, making it boring. It doesn't help that the website's design is very bland and colorless.

My biggest gripe about the site is how it decides at a random to interject other topics into your work. Like, I have 20 topics due this week and we're going over things like binomial or normal probability- so why does ALEKS make me do relative frequency and histograms? We haven't done this in weeks

I will try to remain as rational and calm as possible, but this IS a cry for help.

ALEKS has been stealing my thoughts.

I had an idea that led to a new theory that disproved modern mathematics. And ALEKS did it first, by killing several million children who were forced to use the program. The deaths were ignored because subtraction had been proven false by the process.

I beg you, only use this program as a system to review what was learned in class. Otherwise, it may steal your revolutionary ideas and use them to commit mass murder of children's love of education and mathematics.

Sincerely, a teacher who made a mistake.

This website is the worst thing that happened in the history of mankind. Lazy teachers thought, "wowie! What a dog$#*! website. I certainly hope it doesn't give students suicidal thoughts!" While they sit back and kick their legs up on the table, we endure. Back when ALEKS was all sunshine and rainbows, there were only additions and decimals. I thought, "wow aleks is good website!" I was right. Until I discovered something. The bull$#*! check. (Knowledge check) 20 hard-earned topics? Gone. I mean, what the $#*!? I thought this was supposed to help me with my math not my depression! I don't know how but I made through the whole thing. I thought I survived it but NO! Here comes the proofs! I can't express how much i hate these abominations. Oh and, did i forget about the topics? Mmh, no. Imagine completing a homework question. Then another. But when you submit it to the teacher, they said "This is wrong" then crumple up your paper and give you brand new questions. $#*! that!

If someone prior to using this platform didn't hate mathematics before, they definitely do now. It's impressive how they manage to focus more on increasing the workload and stress of the user instead of prioritizing actual teaching. From the pointless knowledge checks/mastery, to randomly switching the placement of answer boxes, and trying to act understanding by wanting the user to "try something else" when being punished countless of times for getting the wrong answer, the stress isn't worth the "retention".

As a 6th grade student who is skipping a grade, This website is more infuriating than anything i have ever tried. We used this math site over the summer, and matter-of-factly i have gotten nowhere at all. I would rather grow a penis and saw it off with a bone-cutter then use this god-awful math site. Alex's gives non-relevant topics and endless screens of instructions that make no sense at all. The knowledge check makes you take a WEEKS worth of math sessions and compiles them into one session, and you have to pick your brain out of your head to search for whatever the hell the stupid question asks. The Alex teem must have been awfully high when they made this.

Alex's is a great way of torturing your kids or students! If your lucky, they may even commit suicide! Through my life, i have been looking for the most pain inducing way of torture.
This includes:

Thumbscrew.
Tongue tearer.
Tramp chair.
Tucker telephone.
Whip.
Whirligig.
Wicker man (Use disputed)
Wooden horse.

Yet the answer was here all along. Alex's awful website insures: Depression Physical and mental harm.
Asthma.
Autism.
Autoimmune Diseases.
Breast Cancer.
Inflammation.
Kidney Disease.
Lung Diseases.
Obesity.

Overall, i don't recommend.

ALEKS is a disgusting grift that is partially responsible for the degradation of the American education system. It's an evil service that exploits underfunded schools with overworked teachers with the promise of technological innovation. It's a punitive experience that constantly tells students they're wrong with a pedant attitude. You constantly lose progress and work by making a single mistake. Rather than teach the student how to get better, it yells at them and takes away earned points on previous problems and demands you do it again and again. If ALEKS could program a way to virtually hit children, then it would. It's misanthropic and cruel, existing only to leech tax dollars away from institutions. Go out of business.

Horrendous service, incredibly slow and boring to use. One mistyped number adds half an hour to your homework. The knowledge checks are the most infuriating thing on the planet, and unless your final is on this "service" you will be re learning half the stuff in a different way anyway. If your class has this - drop it.

Aleks does a horrible job of explaining the wretched equations it presents, then fully expects you to be able to solve them. If you get one wrong, it takes away a point. The knowledge checks are even worse, every so often it gives you a 30 question knowledge check to "test" how much you know, but it only brings your score down, once you've gotten back to where you were, there's another.

Aleks made my school life terrible. Aleks does a horrible job of explaining how to solve math equations. As a student currently, it would be outstanding to remove Aleks from the schools. As a student in the advanced middle school courses, math is already stressful enough, covering standards for this year, and next year, and pre algebra. It would benefit everything to implement a more basic math learning system. In the photo below, that says 50% took me awhile to complete. We have limited time,and Aleks only gives you 1 percent for every 3 topics.

Aleks is a site that makes students learn how to get passed a problem, but not actually understand it. The problems provide explanations that are not near thorough enough and even if a concept is understood if you make any little mistakes, this could mean you have 10 more minutes on the same problem that you already understand, keeping you from other topics. It is very inefficient and for students with busy schedules that don't have 15 hours for homework each week, it is not a realistic or efficient teaching tool. This makes busy students try to fake their way past problems to get it done quicker, rather than actually being able to understand it. As a student, I have spent 45+ minutes before on one singular topic that I completely understand, but may just make little copying errors. ALEKS does do a really good job increasing stress and frustration though, so if that's what you're looking for ALEKS may be for you.

First of all, the explanations for the questions you get wrong are very crappy, the only thing they do is give you the answer and some extra words in said explanation. When getting a question wrong, it resets your progress making you stuck on that topic even more. I hate Alex.

Unfortunately, I've payed money for this just to have denied access to my class. **** you. Excuse my language. You took my money and I want it back. I had a good amounts of topics but guess what? They added 9 more topics, thank you so much toe infection. This is like a germ that you can't wash off your body, I feel filthy after using this. I had to take shower after writing this. MY mouth has a bad taste from even thinking about ALEKS. The explanations don't work, I have to go somewhere else to learn the material. Whats the point :( I'm disconsolate.

If you get a question wrong, it takes away your progress, so it can take like 20 tries to do a topic that says it requires 5 correct problems to complete. If you have 12 topics per week that can be more than 12 hours of computer work for very minimal learning. Once you finally finish a topic, you have to redo it if you make a small mistake in the knowledge check. Aleks should be taken down; it does not help students learn chemistry it just takes their time and harms their mental health and attitude toward learning.

Would give zero stars if i could. Truly a waste of life. Had to do aleks gen chem first semester of college and i literally changed my major to bio. What a nightmare. Absolute garbage.