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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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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This app is horrendous.
Want constant pop ups every time you open the app, asking you the same thing every time?
Want the audiobook feature to barely function, and have the skip buttons for example to literally not work?
Want the inability to copy text, or properly highlight or annotate?
Then ig this piece of garbage is for you.
Want the audiobook feature to barely function, and have the skip buttons for example to literally not work?
Want the inability to copy text, or properly highlight or annotate?
Then ig this piece of garbage is for you.
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HORRIBLE BUT I NEED THIS APP PLEASE FIX IT!!!!
i want to actually graduate so i need my textbook to study for my finals i do not need the app taking away my read audio option and not even letting me switch pages, glitching, crashing. AT THIS POINT GIVE ME A PAPER TEXTBOOK PLEASE
good app design
looks nice
Incredibly Frustrating.
As the title says, this app (& the website) is so freaking frustrating to use especially as a student with learning disabilities. Several app and site crashes, the audio won’t play at times, trying to highlight cuts words off, flash cards not flipping right, etc. I would NEVER touch this company again if I didn’t have to use them for accessing the quizzes and exams. I would love to say even more but don’t want my review to go unposted or flagged.
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