Useless
Barely functional as an online textbook reader, hardly ever works as an assignment/module interactive app. Fill in the blank assignments don’t show the question, multiple choice and switch boxes don’t show some answers, cant even display the name of the assignment in the assignments dashboard.
Updates Ruined App
Used to be able to do assignments in app, but since I updated it the words for the questions won’t show up. Also, app holds onto old assignments and previous years’ books.
Parts of the books I own don’t load so I literally can’t use it to learn
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Doesn’t work
None of the pages for chapter one pop up. Not easy to use.
It works but super frustratingly
It’s missing basic features like bookmarking and annotation, and the quiz section of books is driving me crazy. There’s questions I can’t see and now my grade is lower because I can’t even see the question I’m supposed to answer.
Please Fix Fill in the Blank Questions
Every fill in the blank question comes up completely blank so it makes it impossible to complete.
Frustrating bug reader loses its reading position.
When I’m reading a book horizontally on my phone and then switch the screen to vertical, the app loses my last reading position and jumps to a different location. It should preserve the exact page or reading position when changing screen orientation.
Definition
Great app it’s just when you try to learn and a click a definition it doesn’t tell you what it means it just a black box and no text about it. But overall great app to read whenever
Inconvenient app
This app’s UI is very confusing and it is not suited for studying. I honestly do not know how this app has high rating (little sus if you ask me). You cannot use the native app support for TTS when minimized. I listen to books and study while i commute to school or go somewhere to make my time useful but the accessibility it offers is horrendous.
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Big downgrade from Pearson
College switched from Pearson to this. It’s a real bummer in comparison. The interface is slow, page switching is not smooth. Worst is the images in app are low res, even if you download the content. Haven’t found a way around it without reading via the website, which rather defeats the point. Clicked on several vocabulary words just to see a blank box with a x. Oh, and videos are not imbedded but links that open externally in a browser. Company needs to do better. Feels like I should’ve just bought the physical book.
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Audio Playback needs improvement
This app allows you read anywhere but you have to constantly download the chapters. Also the audio playback functionality could use improvements such U.S. allow you to touch the screen, select where you want to start the audio, setting to skip foot notes.
downloaded smartbook
I appreciate the ability to do my smartbook assignments on the go while downloaded, however it being downloaded should mean that my concept questions should show up. The fill in the blank questions come up empty with just the text boxes. Not much use.
1/5
I’m using this app because of school. If it was for me I would use the smartbook assignment linked instead of this. Takes long periods to load. Search up words & has trouble loading anything. Can’t skip around because it lags too much. Lets you have a limited amount of chapters before you move onto the chapters. Then after that’s used you have to constantly download the chapters for the smartbook they have. I wouldn’t recommend teachers use this. Needs serious updates. Convenient for the sake of the school material but needs more work.
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Smartbook Assignments Bug
I have to close and open the app multiple times just to open the Smartbook assignment that I want to open
Broken!
I just accepted the most recent update of the app and it now tells me it can’t find any active textbooks for me anymore. I am a professor and have been using a couple of MH textbooks and was highlighting them and reading the chapters in the app. Now I can no longer do anything and I am concerned all of my highlights, etc are gone! How does this happen in 2026?
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Bad in iPad
I am sick with experience in iPad. No page separated, not easy to scroll down and could see those expired books even though I am willing to purchase again. Less functions in iPad.
Where’s my e textbook
Updated app today, now my e textbook is nowhere to be found. What happened?
McGraw Hill sucks, so does this app
App signed me out for some reason and wants me to sign back in without using an email. The Adaptive Assignments are available here but every time you want to open it you need to redownload it. Same with the book chapters. The following is my opinion on McGraw Hill’s connect in general and not just this app. The Adaptive Assignments are the worst. They take like an hour to do and are so boring you forget what you are learning. The professors probably like them because of all the data it collects on your performance. Also in other assignments (not tha adaptive ones) they expected us to know material that wasn’t in the textbook. Overall super frustrating 1/10 would not recommend.
Addition: also, for my book at least, the book was written like ten years after the Adaptive Assignments that go with the book. How do I know that? No one in there right mind thinks that "a sales person physically going to people/offices and showing them how the printer works" is the best way to sell printers in 2025🤦♀️
Addition: also, for my book at least, the book was written like ten years after the Adaptive Assignments that go with the book. How do I know that? No one in there right mind thinks that "a sales person physically going to people/offices and showing them how the printer works" is the best way to sell printers in 2025🤦♀️
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1/5
I’m using this app because of school. If it was for me I would use the smartbook assignment linked instead of this. Takes long periods to load. Search up words & has trouble loading anything. Can’t skip around because it lags too much. Convenient for the sake of the school material but needs more work.
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It’s hasn’t worked correctly since the update
I use the app to read books from my courses and it worked pretty good. Until it got updated, now whenever you click on a highlighted term it doesn’t define it for you anymore. Only a blank white screen pops up and the search doesn’t work correctly anymore. Ive tried it on multiple key terms throughout the book and nothing pops up but a white box. I already deleted the app and installed it again but the same issues keep happening. It wasn’t like this until the update. I even contacted customer service for help, nothing was done and I wasted 42 minutes because then the agent decided to disconnect and do nothing. So I got connected with another agent WHO ALSO DID NOTHING. This is actually makeing me have a very unfavorable view about the brands, its products and definitely useless customer service
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