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No class was as hard as my single trigonometry class that used ALEKS. I am a CS student and math nerd who has taken everything from basic college algebra to calc. III and even discrete math, yet none of those classes were as hard as my trig class. And that is purely thanks to ALEKS.

I don't even know where to begin with this software. Its interface is horribly designed and is confusing and frustrating to navigate. I spent almost ten hours in my trig class trying to get used to it.

I also spent almost 30 hours a week in ALEKS for 7 weeks straight trying to finish my topics and get a good grade. I had to get five questions right in a row in each trig topic, and I had 70 topics along with 10 knowledge checks I needed to finish in 7 weeks. I have never been slammed with homework so hard in any other math class before or after, not even discrete math. I only got an A in my Trig class thanks to doing well on my midterm and final, which were paper and pencil and not in ALEKS, thank the gods. And that's when the damn thing works, which it only does half the time.

ALEKS was constantly crashing and glitching on me. Buttons would appear and disappear for no reason, textboxes and images floated in the ether where I couldn't see them, ALEKS sometimes calculated the wrong answer, and sessions would disconnect for no reason. I lost multiple hours of progress on several occasions thanks to this piece of garbage software disconnecting at the last minute. And all of this costed me an eye-gouging $100. The fact that this software ships in such a broken and buggy state with such a high price tag is insane.

No student should have to go through the hell that is ALEKS. If you are a teacher, professor, or a university or school administrator, please for the sake of your wallets and sanity choose anything else over this. Make your students and staff use pencil and paper if you have to, but don't use this. Stay away from this software. It is not even worth 5$ in the buggy, broken, and immense waste of time that it is, much less the outrageous price tag I had to pay for my college trig class. Your students will suffer needlessly if you make them use this software. I can promise you that.

I HATE this app it is a living nightmare to me and it helped my suicidal thoughts and my intrusive thoughts rise through the roof 10/10

THE ALEKS EXPERIENCE:

Learn a variety of 100 amazing math problems that you never knew existed
Go to the timed quiz because your confident that you know how to do all 100 lessons
Click on the timed quiz
Questions 1-10 are
Proofs
Proofs
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Even More Proofs
Proofs that prove why this course is bad
Proofs that prove why the above proof is proven correct

If this wasn't enough for you to see why ALEKS is a bad program, then let my boy SpongeBob tell you why.

Cast:
SpongeBob - ALEKS student
Mr. Krabs - ALEKS timed test

"But Mr. Krabs, I'm only doing what you SAID!"
"Then you'll say we're not talking about this! (points to how to translate a shape)"
"Or this! (points to how to find the volume of a cube)"
"We're talking about THIS! (points to how to solve polynomials, string theory, cryptography, logarithms, and the unit circle)

-9,000,000/10 would commit seppuku with a ruler, slit my wrists with protractors, and put a compass in both my eyes than do ALEKS math

Also, I have to do 400 something lessons in a month, which is apparently equivalent to a whole YEAR in math class. Imagine going to your school everyday except theres 8 periods and all periods are MATH.

I also listened to some music while doing ALEKS. That was a bad move, because now every time I hear that same music all it just does is invoke the mental image of ALEKS in my MIND

Also almost cried

Trash I need 100 chacters soooo... cookies recipe 1 cup salted butter* softened
1 cup white (granulated) sugar
1 cup light brown sugar packed
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp baking powder
1 tsp sea salt***
2 cups chocolate chips (or chunks, or chopped chocolate)
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking pan with parchment paper and set aside.
In a separate bowl mix flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder. Set aside.
Cream together butter and sugars until combined.
Beat in eggs and vanilla until fluffy.
Mix in the dry ingredients until combined.
Add 12 oz package of chocolate chips and mix well.
Roll 2-3 TBS (depending on how large you like your cookies) of dough at a time into balls and place them evenly spaced on your prepared cookie sheets. (alternately, use a small cookie scoop to make your cookies).
Bake in preheated oven for approximately 8-10 minutes. Take them out when they are just BARELY starting to turn brown.
Let them sit on the baking pan for 2 minutes before removing to cooling rack.
When you remove the cookies from the oven they will still look doughy. THIS is the secret that makes these cookies so absolutely amazing! Please, I beg you, do NOT overbake!
**Butter. I use Kirkland Brand Salted Butter from Costco to make these cookies. I have also used Tillamook salted butter with equally excellent results. Unsalted butter would also be great. I just recommend tasting the dough to ensure that it's salted to your liking.
***Some people have said they think the cookies are too salty. Please be sure to use natural Sea Salt (not iodized table salt). If you are concerned about saltiness start with 1/2 tsp salt and adjust to your tastes. I always make it with salted butter and 1 tsp sea salt.
**Recipe information calculated based on this recipe making 36 cookies - 2 TBS of dough a piece)
All-purpose flour: Many readers have used gluten-free all-purpose flour with excellent results.

This drained my mental health in school and I was going insane plus losing sanity as I was working.

I am a dual-enrolled student that uses Aleks for dummy algebra. Math has always been problematic for me specifically because I always struggle to understand formulas and the complexity of math strategies. Mathematics has never made any sense to me which is why I am taking intermediate algebra instead of precalculus/calculus or trigonometry. From the looks of Aleks, I thought that I would actually learn from this site, but I was wrong, unfortunately. With this program, you do not have access to detailed demonstrations. The "explanation" button just displays a brief once-over of the problem and its' solution. I am grateful that I am at least able to view answers, but this website still isn't any better than an online calculator. I guess the developers of this platform expect students to understand topics after only seeing a 3 sentence "explanation". Of a math problem that actually involves multiple steps that should be thoroughly emphasized.

Additionally, for some reason, the website continues to automatically put me back on topics that I have already completed. I finished topics 1,1a, 2, and about 70% of 3. However, when I logged in, the "start my path" in the home section was set on topic 2. It took me hours of hard work to pass these topics and all of a sudden I was pushed back? I started working on the topics and the numbers seemed to just start over. It went from 240 topics left to 216 topics left and then after logging back into the system, I was set at 240 again. It is so aggravating that I'm not progressing properly in the course. I have completed the same assignments over and over again because the website is not registering all of the work that I did. According to my progress, I haven't even started on topic 3 which is totally untrue, I was almost finished with topic 3 what the hell?

The price of an Aleks subscription is 80$+ for a limited time and even more expensive if you purchase the Aleks code from a campus. If anyone is paying that ridiculous amount for an education program designed to help students achieve goals and actually succeed, then that's what they better $#*!ing receive. It is a huge rip-off to pay that much money for a service that doesn't even work and does the bare minimum for its users. I highly suggest for anyone who is looking for any type of learning website to avoid using Aleks. I put in way too much work, time and effort just to get regressed out of nowhere.

I started using ALEKS since COVID 19 forced us to adopt distance learning. It truly is not exaggeration when you hear students AND PROFESSORS AND HS TEACHERS. It truly does not even "teach" you anything. It gives you problems on problems and when you make the TINIEST. Mistake you have to repeat your hard work and lose a lot of credits. An example of this could be forgetting to put units or even maybe rounding wrong BUT. You have the correct answer. Its just not fair. I curse whatever school adopts this stupid learning assessment tool. It ain't about learning its literally Torture. There is not a day that I log on Aleks I spend at LEAST 7-8 hours doing my College assignment. I am paying more than 80 something bucks for this torture machine. I starve myself I get headaches BECAUSE OF THIS STUPID WEBSITE. I hope the CEO gets sued. I hope they lose all their money and profits. I hope they shut down and go out of business. I wish horrible wishes for this stupid company. I cant believe anyone would really want to be a part of this company. I get so frustrated doing the work and those stupid knowledge checks are so time consuming. We got other $#*! to do with our lives than to sit on a computer screen because we made a HUMAN ERROR?!?!?!?!? Like forgetting a unit symbol. If it was in person I KNOW no teacher will fail you because you forgot such intricate detail. It is so annoying to think this is a legitimate company benefitting off tortuturing students who use their sites. I never ever feel like I am learning I ALWAYS cheat on it because it is so pathetic. I cant imagine someone who doesn't cheat and sits down to do all the assignments by hand like omg Im literally crying rn because its INSANE this site and my stupid professor really still uses this site to assign HW and mandates it to be 10% of our overall grade. I hate this when I get older I am definitely suing and spreading more awareness and drag this stupid company down. If you are reading this you are NOT stupid.

I would rather eat bugs cooked on skewers than do ALEKS.com Topics. Literally.

Okay, I appreciate the effort it took to make this website for kids and students to learn Math. Education if important! We must always stay focused on our education and always strive to learn.

BUT, at the same time, this website is just straight out horrible. It is very time consuming, and I don't learn anything from it. Literally anything. I just do questions over and over and I am not even learning math. Wasting my time for no reason. And if I make one little mistake in my answer, I get the whole thing wrong. This system is just bad. And then there is a Knowledge Check, which can make you further away from your goal (My goal happens to be 500, which is stupid.) You have to do topics over again, until you take another Knowledge Check, and then do them over again. It has literally made my Math grade drastically decrease. I used to get 90s and 100s in Math, but then when we started using this my grade is now 60s and 70s. It literally made me FAIL math. I used to LOVE MATH! I used to be excited to go to math class but not anymore. I hate it! Literally. So please teachers don't use this as a way for us to study or homework.

I rather do worksheets than this. Atleast I can know my mistakes and the teacher can go over them. I mean you could use MathWay.com for the answers, but again, we are not learning. I don't like to cheat and use other websites to solve my problems because I don't learn from it. I want to learn. But since I have so many topics due in a short time, it's the only way to do it the fastest way. And I am not even learning.

Teachers, don't use this. The IDEA is a good idea, but how the website functions and works out, it's not good. At all.

Welp Im back and i have returned to thizz sh1tty Azz website still tha same bullsh1tt on my mommaz tho
Tbh Tho Aleks please update yo sh1t just to make learning math litty af cuz i hate thizz program on my mommaz yall some b1tch azz n199as tho and yo sh1t is boring af and also please change the answer and problem mechanics on thizz sh1tty azz website.