App is a very poor reflection on the ISTE conference’s professionalism
Just in the first few minutes, issues from years past are still very painfully evident, including (1) forced portrait mode on an IPad; (2) no way to see more than 100 characters of a session description (really??); (3) illegible-sized fonts that ignore system settings; and probably worst, (4) when you swipe to another app, you totally lose your place and filters for what you were looking at, and you start entirely over. Even if you swipe out for a few seconds, you waste 10-20 seconds getting back to your schedule … which starts you on Sunday even though it may be Tuesday.
Forget trying to build a schedule on the IPad or IPhone app, impossible as you’re not shown any of the description beyond 100 characters. Do your planning from a desktop, or from your mobile browser, then import it into the app. I guess that’s the way to do it.
Does anyone at ISTE care, or does anyone there use their own app? My school district is bringing fewer people to the conference this year, due to rising prices and diminishing value. Seeing how poor the app experience is, and how poor it’s been for years now, does not reflect good on the organization.
Forget trying to build a schedule on the IPad or IPhone app, impossible as you’re not shown any of the description beyond 100 characters. Do your planning from a desktop, or from your mobile browser, then import it into the app. I guess that’s the way to do it.
Does anyone at ISTE care, or does anyone there use their own app? My school district is bringing fewer people to the conference this year, due to rising prices and diminishing value. Seeing how poor the app experience is, and how poor it’s been for years now, does not reflect good on the organization.
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Really disappointing app
This app is a disappointment and incredibly cumbersome to use. Every time you “open” the app, there is a screen that says “updating app” and then completely refreshes the app. Super annoying when you’re looking at the app, respond to a text, and then switch back to the app and have to go through the whole thing just to get back to where you were.
There also needs to be a better way (like a grid) to visualize the events/sessions that are happening simultaneously.
Again super disappointing for a technology conference. It became either use the app or walk around aimlessly… I chose the latter, thankfully there was plenty of interesting things to find.
This app is a joke.
There also needs to be a better way (like a grid) to visualize the events/sessions that are happening simultaneously.
Again super disappointing for a technology conference. It became either use the app or walk around aimlessly… I chose the latter, thankfully there was plenty of interesting things to find.
This app is a joke.
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The only way I
I’m so happy
Doesn’t work.
The app doesn’t work, can’t sign in, can’t see sessions. You’d think a Technical conference would have an app that actually works. Hope you have paper schedules this year.
Poor app that reflects badly on ISTE and the conference
For the price attendees pay for this conference, this app is a major letdown. Why is it impossible to find on the App Store?
And WHY is the app still a portrait-only app? This has been a problem with last year’s app too — there are IPad users out there, you know. Is it that hard to make it rotate?
Load times are terrible, and the app’s insistence on losing your progress if you so much as open another app is beyond infuriating. One wonders if anyone at ISTE actually tests this app, considering it’s one week before the conference starts and the app is finally released.
It’s the lack of attention to these details that make the conference less and less of a value, and I think that is evident in the reduction of year-over-year attendees. Hopefully ISTE makes some changes.
And WHY is the app still a portrait-only app? This has been a problem with last year’s app too — there are IPad users out there, you know. Is it that hard to make it rotate?
Load times are terrible, and the app’s insistence on losing your progress if you so much as open another app is beyond infuriating. One wonders if anyone at ISTE actually tests this app, considering it’s one week before the conference starts and the app is finally released.
It’s the lack of attention to these details that make the conference less and less of a value, and I think that is evident in the reduction of year-over-year attendees. Hopefully ISTE makes some changes.
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