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Available offline? Really?
I downloaded this because it said on the website that you could download your book and use it offline. I tried using it,but I would get logged off and if wasn’t on WiFi couldn’t get back in to use the app. I contacted support and went back and forth for 2 weeks only to be told, “Yes, that’s how it works, you have to log in while online and stay logged in when you go offline, then you’ll continue to have access.” that doesn’t sound like the definition of available offline. Also, since I get logged off without notice, it becomes a crapshoot of whether I’ll be able to use the app.
Don’t publicize this as an offline app, if you need WiFi to make it work. I did test out the offline workflow they proposed and it will allow you to see some of the content, but every other page has an error “No internet connection. Reconnect to load content.”
I expect better from McGraw Hill.Show lessJSBlixSix
Bare minimum
As a reader app, it would be great to have more accessible options. (Ie. changing the reading scroll/swipe/tap option, changing the brightness mode for safer eye health, getting rid of the lag/pause after swiping)
At the moment, its doing the bare minimum. For the amount of money being spent on textbooks, the quality is not matching the price.Show lessYuuu12131184849591914
Terrible app, better on computer
On mobile there is a lot of issues. The read aloud function is overall terrible, skips over things, describes photos then skips the actual description under the photo, skips around the page. Sometimes the sections of the book does not work IN THE APP (leaving a blank screen and then skipping to the next section). I contacted customer support and they spent over an hour on it with me saying that it was my device and to trouble shoot it with them. (It wasn’t, and later they admitted it was a problem, and to use a different web browser instead of safari or the actual app.)
Overall that does not give me a good impression. The fact they can not even manage the app well, but expect 55$ for a single electronic book is insane.
I was hoping to use this while commuting to school and work, but was sadly mistaken after using it once on a textbook and it decided to skip around the whole page, the reading finishing it less than 5-10 minutes which should have taken around 20-25.
It works well if you can babysit it and do small sections of text, but overall not impressed.
— however, on computer it works great, rarely any bugs, only complaints is the terrible voice they have for the read aloud function and the inability to copy text and paste it for reference in the class.Show lessJonathan venable