Slow, dated and desperately in need of a serious update.
Frankly, considering the cost of a university education in this day and age, you’d assume you’d at least get a functional app to aid your studies. This is the slowest to load, clunkiest and most anti-user app I have ever attempted to use for education. Things take a solid minute to load on a strong internet connection. Lots of the time, videos just won’t play, meaning I either spend 5 minutes of my very limited study time trying to dig out the relevant page on the website or I just skip over it and hope it wasn’t imperative. In the world we live in, a government backed organisation like the OU could surely have a decent, reliable app made for its students. Unfortunately a pock on the otherwise magnificent work of the Open University.
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Response from developer
Hi there, We're sorry to hear you've been having problems with the app. We have had a few issues recently with videos on iOS devices - if you get in touch at ou-scdhd@open.ac.uk or comment in our user forum https://learn1.open.ac.uk/mod/forumng/view.php?id=22532, we'll get these fixed. Thank you Chris - the study app team
Not good
It doesn’t work properly … some things don’t link to the OU website such as video and some audio resources.
And also the forum part doesn’t seem to work properly either.
And also the forum part doesn’t seem to work properly either.
Needs improvement
I keep trying to use the app it either doesn’t load or when it does get to My modules it is incredibly slow
really wish i had a good word to say
i really wish this app worked, i think it could be so helpful for many things, but the home screen doesn’t even load and i have sat in the app for over an hour with nothing more than a white screen and blue ‘OU study’ banner. really disappointed.
It’s okay.
It’s user friendly. An easy place to view certain areas quicker than you would online. Like navigating from the planner to assessments. But my goodness it’s painfully slow. I have to restart numerous times to get it to work.
