Okay
Overall not bad but very frustrating to use when the application bugs and you can’t access certain material. Generally I find these applications aren’t more reliable than a physical textbook.
Needs IPad Compatibility
The app is locked in landscape mode which makes the textbooks horrible to read. For textbooks to cost as much as they do, having a problem that makes the readability this bad should be fixed immediately.
Apparently textbooks are landscape-only now
Pearson eText was one of the best textbook readers I used on my iPad. Then came Revel.
Want to read your textbook in portrait mode, like an actual book? Absolutely not. Revel has decided books are landscape now.
Full screen? Forced landscape.
Windowed mode? Can’t resize it narrow enough to comfortably read.
Rotation lock? Not the problem.
My iPad? Also not the problem.
Pearson? Pearson is the problem.
The actual textbook is displayed in a narrow column surrounded by acres of wasted screen space, which makes the forced landscape orientation even more baffling.
Please bring back proper portrait reading. I bought an iPad to read textbooks, not to experience them in IMAX.
Want to read your textbook in portrait mode, like an actual book? Absolutely not. Revel has decided books are landscape now.
Full screen? Forced landscape.
Windowed mode? Can’t resize it narrow enough to comfortably read.
Rotation lock? Not the problem.
My iPad? Also not the problem.
Pearson? Pearson is the problem.
The actual textbook is displayed in a narrow column surrounded by acres of wasted screen space, which makes the forced landscape orientation even more baffling.
Please bring back proper portrait reading. I bought an iPad to read textbooks, not to experience them in IMAX.
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Miserable
This app is an absolute nightmare for navigating your textbooks. There is no sidebar or dropdown menu to navigate and quickly change sections/chapters. To make it worse, if you minimize the app or close it and come back, it spits you back out to the home page. So if you’re half way through a chapter, the only way to get back is to go the beginning and grudgingly scroll through each section you’ve read and click through each of them ONE AT A TIME in order to get back to your spot.
The convenience of having your textbooks mobile is completely negated by how long and frustrating it takes to get where you need to. This is such a simple tool that any app in this realm should have.
The convenience of having your textbooks mobile is completely negated by how long and frustrating it takes to get where you need to. This is such a simple tool that any app in this realm should have.
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Buttons not working half the time
No matter what button I push or how many times, they won’t work. This is extremely frustration as I work on school work both at home and while I’m working, I don’t have time to just wait for it to randomly work. It will occasionally work and then I better hope my phone doesn’t turn off or I’ll have to wait another who knows how long for it to work again.
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Functions, but not fun
I find it infuriating that I cannot alter the orientation of the screen, only horizontal orientation is available. The content loads but often doesn’t load the questions that are assigned. At least it’s more user friendly than using the browser version.
A textbook that is only Quizzes
If I use this on anything other than a web browser I have to search for 5-10 minutes to find the textbook. If I want to take quizzes it’s great, but when this is the only option for my textbook I’m left frustrated. If I want to change the orientation it starts only taking up a portion of my screen and I can’t do anything about it. Every time I open the app it asks if I have an account and if I want notifications, I can’t alter notifications to actually help me remember to do assignments either. Nothing about this app feels intuitive and I am left spending money to not use a textbook essentially.
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Leaders in education that suck.
Per normal we find ourselves as students in the capitalist monopoly on textbooks and education with an industry leader who can’t manage to make a simple basic app that functions appropriately. As if university wasn’t enough to deal with now we get textbooks you literally cannot open and read on apps that don’t function but who’s existence is used to justify not just allowing basic functions like viewing the text on a mobile browser. I would say do better Pearson, but we all know you won’t since we all required to throw our money away on your products whether you do or not.
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Horrible
THEE worst app known to man. The AI tool is in the most inconvenient stop and it takes entirely too long for EVERYTHING to load. From account association issues to subscription issues, I will universities would stop using this software as a whole. So many other great and easily accessible and navigable platforms like Google Classroom that also load way fast.
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Portrait mode needed and more
I’m just starting to use this app for school coursework, so I’m sure I’ll have more to say over the semester. I do like the convenience of using Revel on my iPad versus my laptop, however portrait mode would greatly improve the use of this app and is a simple enough addition to the UI, making the user experience so much better.
Highlighting is a pain, I can’t get the right words, it’s hard to really see what I’m even highlighting, and if you want to highlight cross-paragraph, good luck. It changes your highlight to start at the next paragraph and doesn’t let you highlight more. One paragraph at a time.
Please add a voice playback speed of 1.25x!
This app has the potential to be really useful but right now it’s lacking. I’d prefer to use it over my laptop or phone though.
Highlighting is a pain, I can’t get the right words, it’s hard to really see what I’m even highlighting, and if you want to highlight cross-paragraph, good luck. It changes your highlight to start at the next paragraph and doesn’t let you highlight more. One paragraph at a time.
Please add a voice playback speed of 1.25x!
This app has the potential to be really useful but right now it’s lacking. I’d prefer to use it over my laptop or phone though.
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Frustrating to use as primary study textbook
This app functions well enough, but I am constantly frustrated by how poor much of the basic implementation is. The audio playback feature has to be carefully engaged with, and pausing will skip you to a new section—it is far from the standard that should be expected from a professional app such as this. The highlighting feature has often blanked out on me, and the study tools. Suffice to say, I have come to dread Pearson supported courses at my college.
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One issue
Works fine but I really wish when you go to highlight something the pop up wouldn’t block what you need to highlight
App is glitchy
Trading some reviews from 5 years ago- some of the same issues still persist - audio function sometimes plays a single topic and other times keeps playing. Can’t take simple quizzes on the phone app - not sure why they restrict this. Synching across devices is sporadic if it works at all. I’ve had problems completing some tasks even when I’ve read and done the tasks - just won’t change % to 100. I’ve spent hours and even tried online on the website, also on a tablet as well as phone. Nothing changes 89% to 100%.
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Horrible app
This app is just horrible. Super long delays when turning a page. You can’t access a specific page without having to go through each part of a chapter. Search function just causes the app to crash. I hope that all students do not have to use this horrible app.
textbook not displaying?
it allowed me to log in and my courses are showing up, along with my textbook. but when i open to read the contents it is completely blank, kinda disappointing
App is getting stuck
It does not go back to the place were you last finished reading and sometimes my highlighted notes disappear. The reading orientation is fixed in one way and it wont rotate when I move it it up and down, it stays in the sideways view.
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Nice
Poor audio setup
Audio stops when mobile phone screen turns off. Audio slider doesn’t work properly - can’t start at desired position.
1.25x Playback Speed Needed
The IPadOS version does not have 1.25x playback speed
What is the point
Overall, it isn’t horrible but what makes this a 2 is the fact that I can’t seem to understand the point of not allowing the app to be put in split screen, especially considering this is meant for students (most have iPads). I can’t seem to be bothered to switch back and forth between my note app and this app. Considering how expensive textbooks are, I fear this should be a necessity. Because of this, I have to use the website version which is also incredibly slow and glitchy. Please focus on adding this as this has been a problem for my past two semesters of school and likely a problem for other students. We shouldn’t have to use two devices.
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