AIU Student Mobile vs CTU Faculty
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AIU Student Mobile
This app helps students manage their education on the go. It provides real-time updates on grades, assignments, and discussions, and allows for easy communication with faculty and classmates. Students can also track their degree progress and financial aid status.
- Real-time notifications
- Access course materials
- Communicate with faculty and peers
- Track degree progress
- Manage financial aid
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AIU MOBILE is designed to help students at American InterContinental University make the most of mobile moments each day. This secure, convenient app helps students fit education into their everyday lives. AIU Mobile offers students studying online and on campus the freedom and flexibility to: STAY UPDATED: with real-time notifications, students are alerted to Discussion Board replies, new grades, assignment due dates, and more BE IN THE CLASSROOM WHILE ON THE GO: Find your course objectives, assignments, intellipath™, class meeting times, grades, and instructor feedback all in one place CONNECT: Read your class announcements, find all your notifications in one place, message with faculty, classmates, and advisors, and connect to your email from one place in the app REVIEW YOUR DEGREE PLAN: Keep track of past courses and grades and plan ahead for upcoming sessions STAY ON TRACK WITH FINANCIAL AID: Track your current status and upload required documents through your device with just a tap On the go or at home, AIU Mobile makes it easy for you to keep up with classes, get homework done, stay connected with timely notifications, and manage your education on the go. We strive to make the app a seamless classroom experience. Your feedback is always welcome. Please email aiumobile@aiuniv.edu with suggestions. Enjoying the app? Leave a rating or review to help your fellow AIU students.
CTU Faculty
This app allows Colorado Technical University faculty to manage course-related tasks on their mobile devices. It provides course overviews, student information, assignment dashboards, and communication tools like announcements and messaging.
- Course overview dashboard
- Student roster and LDA tracking
- Assignment submission management
- Create/remove announcements
- Student messaging capabilities
- Live chat scheduling
- Calendar integration
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Designed to provide faculty at Colorado Technical University the ability to take quick actions in their courses, all from their mobile device. CTU Faculty Mobile offers a secure, convenient way faculty to make the most of mobile moments each day, in a mobile minute. The recently released CTU Faculty Mobile app offers faculty teaching online and on-campus: - An overview of all courses to which they are assigned – including courses in final grading period, courses in current session, and courses in future sessions - A homepage that provides essential information regarding each course, such as number of students registered, and number of students who have not updated their LDA in 96 or more hours - A classroom view with assignments, announcements, meeting times, and roster. - Dashboard views of assignments, including number of submissions, missing assignments, and if there is work which needs grading in an intellipath™ assignment. - The ability to create and/or remove Announcements. - Messaging capabilities, including options to message the entire roster, filtered groups of students, or a single student depending on need. - The ability to create, remove, and edit Live Chat times. - Tablet and smart phone integration with intellipath™, discussion boards, submissions, grades, and instructor feedback. - The option to add Meeting Times/Live Chats to the device calendar. Your feedback is welcome! Email CTUFacultyMobileApp@coloradotech.edu with suggestions. Enjoying the app? Leave a rating or review to help your fellow CTU faculty members.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: AIU Student Mobile at 3.7 against CTU Faculty's 2.8. AIU Student Mobile also leads on review sentiment (45% vs 18%) and ratings volume (127 vs 18). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
AIU Student Mobile holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AIU Student Mobile has 127 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of AIU Student Mobile's written reviews are positive against 18% of CTU Faculty's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AIU Student Mobile | CTU Faculty |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (127 ratings) — better | 2.8 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 44.7% of reviews — better | 18.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 127 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | American Intercontinental University | Perdoceo Education Corporation |
Customer experience
AIU Student Mobile
CTU Faculty
Bugs and requests
AIU Student Mobile
Reported bugs
13 issues- App crashes frequently
- App shows a blank white screen upon opening
- App freezes when accessing classes or Intellipath
- Usernames are reported as invalid
- Notifications do not clear properly
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- App closes when trying to open links from professors
- App requires portrait mode, not compatible with landscape-only keyboards
- Messages not updating
- App does not log into the portal correctly, returns to login screen
- Intellipath opens in a web browser instead of the app
- Cannot edit text within discussion board posts
- Cannot select campus to log in
- App pops off screen with Touch ID feature
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to watch archive chats through the app
- Ability to do Intellipath through the phone
- Show last active time on iPad app
- Add student email access
- Upgrade for Apple devices
CTU Faculty
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
AIU Student Mobile
No in-app purchases
CTU Faculty
No in-app purchases
Questions
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