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First off, teachers. Don't use this dog-$#*! excuse of a program. It may be easy to assign work using ALEKS, but trust me, those few clicks make such a difference in someone's week. Teachers only give it good reviews because it makes it easier for them. It is awful. Whoever created it should go $#*! themselves. Jean-Claude Falmagne (creator) should shoot himself, then leave a note asking for someone to hand his body where the crows will eat it. Mother$#*!er is 85 years old and still isn't wise. "It's not formal" comes after every problem where you put.[number] instead of 0.[number]. The 9th circle of hell exists only for this mother$#*!ing prune of a man. I used to love math. I don't anymore. ALEKS probably ruined my potential. Thank you for your time.

ALEKS is a "learning tool" that somehow gets you to not learn, but throw away old information you already had. Oh, you're almost done with that set course and you got one question wrong? Back to the beginning, bucko. Don't understand this set course of questions? Who cares? Heres this set of hastily scribbled notes that you can try to understand, but you probably won't. Overall not a recommended website. If you are going to be teaching a class, avoid ALEKS as a website.

I graduated high school nearly 20 years ago and I can safely say if this software was available then my math grades would have been far worse than they already were. In fairness, I've never liked math nor have I ever been good at it outside of basic usage. I can multiply and divide in my head with no problem. But ask me to add variables and that bullsh*t and I'm going to tell you to go dig out your old TI-86 and squat on it.

I went back to school in 2015 to finish my degree. Unfortunately, not all of my previous course credits where accepted so I was required to take a few math courses. The first two where more tedious than anything but now I'm staring down Pre-Calc and an instructor who'd rather let this torture method from Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" do her job for her.

Bluntly speaking: it's utter dog sh*t. You're never taught anything as there is no lessons. NO. LESSONS. You get a paragraph of examples and an explanation that assumes you have previous knowledge of the topic and then it throws you right into a set of problems. You've got three chances to answer all correctly before it implies that you ride a short bus and shuttles you off into a different topic.

Who the h*ll thought this was good design? Do they believe the average person are able to answer questions about complex mathematics after reading what amounts to a note scribbled on a napkin? Who is this software for? I can't see any value here aside automating a portion of the instructor's job so they can f*ck off and play Farmville or whatever boomers are into these days.

Doing ALEKS makes me feel like i'm strapped down to a table with some person i hate gouging out my eyeballs with a 60 year old rusty spoon. I have punched my screen so many times doing ALEKS it's unbelievable. This program makes me wan't to die. It is slowly killing me topic by topic. I'm a seventh grader and it is giving me fricking high school stuff. Like how tf am I supposed to know what cosine is at 7th grade math? Negative /

Infuriating to use! I am not effectively learning whatsoever. Over 20 topics a week, ineffective lessons with no exlination when incorrect answers are given, none of the lessons stick, all based on a point system that removes points and makes youredo topics, knowledge checks that I inevitably fail, then following week I end up with twice the ammount of topics because I didnt pass the check.

My teacher does nothing now. We do online work in class that doesnt correlate with where we are each at in aleks. When I reach out to my teacher for help they refer me back to aleks and tell me to spend more time on it because it is adaptive to my knowledge... I spend over 9+ hours a week on just math homework before I end up losing my mind, crying, keeling over from a migraine, or seconds away from punching my computer. I have used this for over a year and feel dumber than I did in high school. I feel like I am getting so confused with Aleks that I am losing knowledge...
Avoid this at all costs. Aleks is the worst way to teach math. I cant believe I have to pay for this. I cant believe my college is using this to teach over three levels of math. I dread the next class, I dread every moment of math.
And thats no way to learn.

If I could rate this zero, I would.

I am stuck using this crap program at Arizona State University. I have never been so unmotivated in my life to complete a class. I am a 4.0 student and am struggling with this software. ALEKS gives one brief example, then expects you to complete 5 in a row perfectly which are much more difficult than the example they showed you. Anytime you miss a problem, even for something like a negative sign you miss that problem, AND they take away a previous one that you got right. It. Is. Horrific. To make things worse, I am not actually learning anything. This program relies on rote memorization, but doesn't explain the "why" of anything. I can not believe this is where higher education in math is at.

Aleks is the Wal-Mart "Great Value" of education. It is the absolute laziest form of "teaching" I have ever seen. My professor is now essentially a tutor. This is, by far, the easiest and most worthless A I have ever "earned" considering I haven't been actually learning anything the entire time I have been using this God-forsaken program. Learning: this program will give you ONE example problem before throwing you into a 5-point "check on learning" section where one correct answer equals one point, if you get 3 correct in a row, you will accumulate 5 points. However, it takes ONE curveball to take away 2 CREDITS. You can be stuck in an infinite session of two right, one wrong which will not allow you to move on to another subject. I hate this program with every fiber of my being and I will never sign up for a class-THAT I HAVE TO PAY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO ATTEND-that uses Aleks ever again.

Aleks is an absolute sh*tshow in my opinion. It claims to use positive motivation to keep students going but I can safely say that no game or life experience has had me closer to violently destroying something than Aleks has. It is a pathetic excuse for teachers to not teach and tell students to just do more Aleks if they don't understand the concepts given in class. However, Aleks often does not represent what is actually needed in class and to make matters worse there are "knowledge checks" that throw many old topics at you and if you get one decimal point wrong on a question, then you are doing that topic again; doesn't matter if it was chapter 1 material that is in no way needed.

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