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Horrible excuse for educational tech
This app is the biggest scam on the whole entire App Store. How or why would you ever need to pay a subscription for a service to answer questions in a classroom???? I honestly cannot wrap my head around the fact that this app barely does anything besides let you push a button and you still have to pay 15$ to do that for half a year???? So dumb. Also thanks for screwing up my gradeShow lessShea Lax14
I HATE this app
Don’t waste you money on this stupid app. You will lose money and your attendance points. It will not let you sign in the class which is why you can’t be even answer the clicker questions, resulting in a fat zero for your participation grade. And your professors will then tell you to go buy and actual clicker because it’s not their problem if your app doesn’t work they will say, “It’s not recommended to have this app so it’s better if you get the clicker.” Like seriously somebody could have told me before I spend my money on this dumb app. I HATE this app and my professor is really bogus.Show lessim mad asl rn
Developer Response
I'm sorry to hear about the inconvenience you've experienced thus far using iClicker Reef. It would be helpful to know more details about your issues so that we can work towards a solution. At your convenience, please email us at support@iclicker.com with what is happening for you when attempting to use the app.Waste of money
The most I’ve ever spent on apps is $2, and those provide a variety of useful features and information. iClicker is only used to answer a few questions for one class a couple times each week and is not worth a $14 subscription. I would much rather buy a movie or go out for dinner with that money. It’s worth $0.99 at most.Show lessI am the senate
Terrible invasion of privacy
This app tracks how many times you leave the app and reports usage to your teacher, I can’t even google words the professor asks me to. Email notification for campus invader, blocked. Clearly me not leaving an app I use for 2 seconds a day is more important than me getting campus safety notifications. Hey maybe it would be better if the machete man came for me, as long as he doesn’t close my app. The reference text that is online? Well no more referring to the text.Show lessRinas P
Developer Response
Hello, thank you for your feedback. We do have a feature, if enabled by your instructor, that's designed to help support on-task behavior, but it does not block notifications, restrict you from navigating away from the app, nor track your activity if you leave the app. We'd love to learn more about what you're experiencing in order to help resolve the issue, so please contact us at support@iclicker.com at your convenience.Unoptimized mess.
This app is overall just a mess. The app doesn’t stay in the background for more than 1 minute, consistently relaunching when I use any other app. The iPad version is an absolute joke when much less substantial apps have iPad support. I’m just really glad I only have to use this for a few minutes a day because it’s a horrible mess that I’m forced to pay for.Show lessastressedmedstudent
Never works properly
Questions do not pop up even when I am in the session the whole class, sometimes it will only gives me 5 seconds to answer and it won’t register. Do not buy this, missed so many points in class due to this service. Should at the very least vibrate when a question is up because I never know if it is actually working. Do not spend the $15 like I did.Show lessdrevvvvvvvvv
Issues
Half the time it wouldn’t work and just said “Error” but didn’t tell me what was wrong. I came to find out that my free trial was overdue- would’ve been nice to have been told instead of missing questions for class. It also logs me out and takes forever to load when coming back and missing questions do to that. When it does work, however, it’s great.Show lessbrooklynnnnicole
Waste of Money
This is a scheme intended to milk poor college students of what money they have. Given the existence of free apps like TopHat which do the same thing, there is no point to dropping so much money on an iClicker subscription. In fact, TopHat probably has better quality just because of iClicker’s occasional glitchiness.
Although iClicker usually gets the job done, albeit sometimes with frustration, I was very annoyed that my professor had his students use this app. Alas, not my choice though. If you’re a student like me, you probably have no choice but to buy this app. If you’re a professor though, I beg you, please do not make your students waste money on this app. They’re already paying enough for college and TopHat will do a better job for you.
If the developer reads this, please seriously consider reducing the price of this app or make it free. I would give the app 4 or 5 stars if that wish is granted.Show lessMW91385378
Failure of location feature
The location feature was a good idea to keep absent students from marking themselves present...BUT, it does not work. The location tracker is frequently wrong-egregiously so, and won’t let me or my classmates sign in to class. This is a PAID app that is required for courses. Talk to your professor if they want you to use it-it will steak your points and give you much grief. The app is also slow. The developers need to fix their broken systems if they want anyone to pay for this hot mess.Show lessMunichFan9
Answers & time
Reef needs to not just show “your answer”, but it should show “correct answer” as well once the poll is over. This would help with studying.
Reef needs to also show the count down timer so we know when a poll will be over. Sometime the question ends before getting the chance to respond simply because I didn’t know it was ending.Show lesswishfulstudent
Developer Response
Hi wishfulstudent -- thank you for the feedback! If your instructor chooses to grade the question, you'll see a "correct answer" displayed . If your instructor grades the questions after class, make sure to check back on the session. You can even add those questions to your study tools.
