Mc graw hill

A lot of people just say they hate ALEKS but don't give a reason so I will list the disadvantages of ALEKS:

1)The white blank background in sad and depressing!
2)It's overly complex!
3)There is no sound not even a "YAY!" when you get something right!
4)Almost nothing can be customized!
5)Teachers make kids do it too much!
6)It's hard to learn through all your endless rage!
7)The overall design sucks and is very discouraging!

Here are the advantages:

1)You become dead inside.
2)You get a good weekly ALEKS grade.
3)Through your tears and suffering you learn a little math.

If you can argue with this I would be surprised because I have clear reasons!

Well, firstly, Aleks... is not recommended for basically anything.

First, it doesn't really use a great method of teaching and would give an explanation someone who's in high school could understand to a third grader learning how to multiply. That's not all, even if you do understand, the explanations are similar to a novel's length.

Second, knowledge checks. They don't do anything except make a huge, HUGE roadblock and take much more than 1 hour.

Third, it'll probably make any student kill themselves and or traumatized because of the pain Aleks implemented on them. If you (If you're a student) have the patience of Jesus himself, you can do this. Otherwise, if you're a mortal, just don't buy it.

Fourth, the pricing. It's kinda stupid. 100$ per 6 months. If you don't understand, people in college PAY for this and most likely they're broke enough so please don't make our lives harder, plus you can have another program, or two for that price.

Way too many random "topics" that get thrown your way in one session, each having absolutely nothing to do with the other. Lousy "teaching" explanations, had to try to teach myself everything. Professor was nice, (online class), he emailed me back right away but I'm a busy adult and cannot learn or retain anything by constantly having to email my professor that Aleks isn't explaining something in a meaningful way. Feeling devastated by this crazy, crap program. Oh, the best part? Aleks actually takes earned points AWAY from you if you get a proceeding problem wrong! Cause that's the way real professors grade, right? What an awful, crazy-making waste of my time. Steer clear, unless you're a math whiz.:-(

The only reason my school uses it is because they're locked into a contract with it but they still try to pass it off as "a helpful learning tool for our students". No, stop supporting it with bull$#*! data that you pulled out of your $#*! and admit you made a big mistake. What kind of masochistic person would use this willingly?

It teaches me NOTHING! I like the actual math homework in a book better, because at least you can learn from it. Aleks is just do math with extremely vague explanations, no help it all. It's an excuse for teachers to do other stuff and neglect students. Don't try it.

Don't spend your money on this. It's probably the worst 'success' program anyone has ever invented. I am constantly upset with it, and have learned nothing. The 'explanations' are so difficult, and what I've dubbed, "The ALEKS Way" is sometimes the only way you can solve problems. Not by what you've already learned in the past. Makes you restart completely when you are in a Unit, and begin a new class. I've had that happen 3 times now. Its holding me back from passing my actual required classes I need to graduate college with.It makes me want to cry sometimes. I would give ALEKS no stars if I could.

This program is complete trash and i believe most teachers have even attempted to test it out. The math teacher gives 40+ topics a week, each topic can have between 3 and infinity problems because for some reason getting one wrong moves your progress backwards instead of just letting retry the problem. All and all this program wastes more time punishing you then educating you.

This company praise on students failure in effort to produce sales and profit. The explanations are not helpful, especially when every question is has extra tricks. Maybe if there were video explanations, students would do well on these courses.

I use aleks and i just wanna say that it is absolute dog food. There is absolutely no explanation as to how to do any of the topics given and on top of that it'll give you the exact same question if you got it wrong the first time. Now to whomever made the Aleks program with all due respect (so none) please go screw yourself. There is not a single pro in this program that i can think of. Every part of it is frustratingly difficult and a huge displeasure. I would rather work at a chuck e cheese and have kids constantly bug me all day than spend anymore time on your garbage site. Fix your UI and make something better.

I actually used to enjoy math. It does not always come easy to me but learning the concepts and getting stuff right is rewarding. My university now uses this as a crutch, hiring $#*!ty foreign professors who can barely speak english and making us buy this. ALEKS is now my math professor, my physical professors are just there so the school can point at them when I ask what I'm paying for (because you know... ALEKS is a seperate charge). I would literally pay extra money to take a course that does NOT use this program, even if it meant more class hours or homework. That is how much I hate this program.

My entire Intermediate Algebra class was comprised of this pointless program. The deadlines are borderline impossible to reach. 30-60 different types of problems should not have 2 week deadlines, especially when a student has other classes and life situations going on. Personally, I'm really bad at math, and this program only beats down my belief. My professor simply sat around on her phone and did nothing all day. The worst part is that schools sneak in this program in the lecture category. I walked in expecting a teacher to explain these concepts to me, but instead I got a $#*!ty, time-consuming program that may very well cause me to have to retake this class. Thanks a lot $#*!.

Whoever design this website is the most vile odious disgusting puppy kicking $#*!er in all of history if people see this review know that i only made an account to express my absolute hatred for Aleks if i could give a zero i would