Basically good but really irritating crashing
The basic marking and task setting functionality is good. It works well with Apple Pencil 2 and is definitely slicker than using on a Microsoft tablet. However, the app crashes every time I try to leave a sticker comment, which as an essay subject, is quite a useful function. I can make quick annotations with the pencil but for more substantive inline commentary, the sticky note comments are far better. The app also occasionally crashes for no apparent reason but this is far less frequent.
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Buggy
Has so much potential but full of bugs, some of which have not be resolved for 6 years. Every updated is guaranteed to bring new bugs that take until the next release to fix. Updates are also very slow, so the wait is often long.
This app crashes
This was an immensely useful app for keeping a mark book and marking submitted work but now the app crashes whenever you try and insert a comment on pupil work. The response from Firefly is that fixing the bug it isn’t a priority. Given how much money our school spends on this system I would hope that it might become a priority in the future.
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Dreadful app. Badly designed.
When marking pupils’ work, the app frequently crashes and you lose what you have done.
When marking, the “Save and move onto next pupil” button is located at the bottom right of the screen - exactly where your hand rests as you write. Consequently, you often end up touching it by accident and moving on before you want to. Who on earth designed that? Probably the person that thought having one pen colour for marking was all you need. If a pupil submits work on blue paper or poorly lit, you blue pen will be invisible and you can’t change it.
If a pupil submits a powerpoint file, Firefly converts it into a pdf before you can mark it. The problem is that the Firefly converter has a very limited colour palette and so it often converts the text and the background to the same colour.
So, the app is only useful for marking on screen, which it does badly, and as a link to the website. Overall, rubbish.
When marking, the “Save and move onto next pupil” button is located at the bottom right of the screen - exactly where your hand rests as you write. Consequently, you often end up touching it by accident and moving on before you want to. Who on earth designed that? Probably the person that thought having one pen colour for marking was all you need. If a pupil submits work on blue paper or poorly lit, you blue pen will be invisible and you can’t change it.
If a pupil submits a powerpoint file, Firefly converts it into a pdf before you can mark it. The problem is that the Firefly converter has a very limited colour palette and so it often converts the text and the background to the same colour.
So, the app is only useful for marking on screen, which it does badly, and as a link to the website. Overall, rubbish.
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Crash - but there is a solution!
Great when it works. Not working at the moment very often at all.
After writing this review, I have now worked out a solution. I’ve switched off background refresh ( in settings on the iPad).
This has stopped the app crashing, happy days - this is one of the better marking apps.
Old iPad (6 years), ios14.4.2.
After writing this review, I have now worked out a solution. I’ve switched off background refresh ( in settings on the iPad).
This has stopped the app crashing, happy days - this is one of the better marking apps.
Old iPad (6 years), ios14.4.2.
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