Cengage Mobile

Name: Cengage Mobile
Rating: 1.52763 (959 reviews)

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Cengage Mobile

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User Reviews for Cengage Mobile

Not terribly bad but way under potential

This app can do a few minor things pretty well - read the ebook, view grades, do flash cards, and see upcoming assignments (I’ve never needed assignments or polls). Some of these are not very useful considering most people have the due dates in a calendar and know the grade for each assignment because they see it when they turn them in. Flash cards are a decent feature, and reading the book is ok with decent accessibility features like font sizing and aural reading (although the robot voice is not very pleasing to the ear).However, there is so much more potential here to use an iPad as a educational tool. Apple Pencil could easily be used in the book to highlight and scribble notes in the margins on an iPad, and have it sync between logins/devices. I also feel like viewing lesson videos could be easily implemented. These two things alone would make this a nice supplemental tool.

99Tricks, Feb 16, 2022

It’s Ok, I’m used to Revel

I’m used to a different reading textbook app/online tool for my schoolwork. This app was very hard to use at first until I just kept playing around because I was curious of how I was going to be able to complete my reading assignments and the activity work. This is ok, just slide your finger down to get to the bottom of the page and go on, it can Read for you and highlight which I like. I just wish that I was able to do the activity work on my phone as well. I don’t see a way to notify when an assignment would be due a few days before, that would be very useful as well if the feature isn’t present already, it is a bit adventuring to get around to understanding the gist of how this app works.

A Mob brooski, Oct 13, 2020

Almost Useful

This is so so close to being somewhat useful. It’s almost reasonable to take this app and use it in a pinch (like studying on a plane or something), but it’s just not quite worth it. I downloaded this app on my phone to use the audiobook feature while I drive or travel, but the player is absolute garbage. The voice is choppy and difficult to understand if you’re not reading along, and you can’t even change it to a better voice. You can’t pick a spot to start reading, just like the website reader, but this doesn’t even have a scrub bar! There isn’t even that terrible feature where the reader starts at the top of your screen, it starts at the beginning of THE CHAPTER. You can’t rewind and you can’t jump to a different section. To their credit, you can at least set the reading speed to 2x, but that just makes everything less understandable.I also like the search feature, it’s pretty nifty. Really my only complaint is the absolute garbage reader.

ccccooolllllleeee, Mar 18, 2021

Hey Don’t Be So Mean

I decided to write a review because I feel l need to help defend this app. Maybe it’s because I downloaded it with extremely low expectations that I was more than pleased with how it turned out to be.I downloaded it for one purpose: to read my textbook offline and in a dedicated app. Based on another review, I was pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to. I normally access my book through a link in my Canvas course, and I was afraid it wouldn’t show up when I logged in with the personal email address I used to create a Cengage account with at some point. However, it showed up in my “Books” and gave me the option to download, which I did.I had no expectations of being able to multitask by having pages side by side. I don’t know how anyone could do that on an iPhone screen anyway.As far as the textbook layout, it’s a little different from the browser version, but I don’t find it difficult to use. It’s more like a normal textbook with multiple pages in a section instead of one long screen you scroll through for each section.Anyway, if you just want an app to read your textbook with, here you go.

EmersonTheTaurus, Nov 18, 2020

Find something else.

If you are a professor, find another application/text combination.If you are a student considering taking a class that utilizes this material, don’t.The actual “app” is useless. Most exercises must be done in a browser. Browser access is awkward and not user friendly. The menu is meant to guide you through text with videos, exercises and quizzes to supplement material, which would be great in theory if actually executed properly. The reality is that the text is segmented and difficult to scroll through. Charts are cut off from vision with no easy way to scroll down. Expanding charts pop up in a narrow half screen that can’t be expanded, so you have to scroll back and forth in the narrow little screen to read them. So much for visual aid.Assignments missing in main menu that show up as a zero in grade book. “Memory aid” videos are annoying and create elaborate confusing scenarios for “learning” some terms that I actually already know from other classes. The developers of this program should take a look at studies on learning in electronic apps, specifically pertaining to the concentration loss that results from having to jump back and forth in screens and find where you left off. If I could give this zero stars, I would. If it wasn’t too late to drop the class, and if doing so wouldn’t affect my financial aid, I would.

Just Plain Agnes, Apr 04, 2022

A lot can be improved on

I haven’t been using the app for a long time but some things I’ve noticed that can be improved upon are the following:Syncing highlighted or bookmarked text in books across devices that are logged in on the same account. If I want to read and highlight information on my phone, it would be nice if it showed on my iPad. Being able to do quizzes on my iPad or iPhone would most helpful. At minimum the iPad because if I’m on the go and need to get work I can’t just log into a laptop I don’t have. The same could be said about study cards. If I want extra study time on the go being able to pull the flash cards my phone or iPad would be nice and helpful. I haven’t played around with the auto reader too much but the little bit I did, it sounds bad.

mexican_angel01, Jun 23, 2021

Asking Professors to stop using

I am definitely speaking to my grad school professors about NOT using Cengage next semester if the app for iPad and iPhone doesn’t make some serious improvements. It’s a complete struggle and waste of my money and time. This app could definitely be improved. First, I downloaded on my iPhone. The description indicated you could read OR listen on the app. I see no way to listen. I also cannot rotate my phone to make the text bigger. The A icons at the top suggest you can change text size. That icon does absolutely nothing. I’d love to use this app, but some real improvements are needed. Second semester in a row and it hasn’t gotten any better. The app for my iPad rotates now with the new update but you still cant change text size and now wherever there are apostrophes or quotes, it leaves symbols. Makes it really hard to read. Also, at the bottom of some pages the words get cut of. The update was NOT an improvement. Please get someone to fix these issues. The cost of your digital rentals are insane for such few perks.

Middlegagirl34, Feb 15, 2021

Cengage: Please just stop

Using Cengage’s e-reader, and accessing the associated “MindTap” materials is infuriating. It doesn’t have to be this way. Cengage: if you’re going to create an educational ecosystem and charge and arm and a leg for it, you better actually provide a decent product. This is unfortunately the worst experience I’ve had with an “eBook” to date. Their servers can’t handle the number of students using the service and recently had a massively inconvenient outage. Bookmarks and highlighted passages mysteriously vanish from the app, something that’s unforgivable when I’m trying to research. There’s no obvious way to identify page numbers or paragraph locations, so citing the book as a resource is almost impossible. The UI is unresponsive and occasionally crashes. I got prompted for the app to track my location—why would you need that, Cengage?! I’m taking every possible opportunity to complain about your terrible products. Let me buy the book as a PDF, load it in Acrobat, and stop wasting your engineering resources on gatekeeping knowledge. Your priorities are out of alignment with what students and teachers need, and I hope your shareholders are as ticked off as your users are. I don’t want your MindTap features, I don’t want your “flash cards,” I don’t want your app. Let me learn MY way and stop wasting resources in the pursuit of control. Put it on Kindle, give it to Openstax, let buyers get a PDF, I don’t care. Just stop this.

ResovoltOG, Sep 07, 2021

Very poorly made

I am super disappointed with this app and content itself! Firstly, the whole thing that classes in colleges require students to buy this material, is outrageous! Students are forced to buy this online books ,but not only books, also the assignments included, which adds to the price! Well, ok, I guess that is the reality we live in , and we buy this books with fool access to not only book, but to the assignments as well, but apparently the access is only for 4 months!! So, it’s not even purchase, it’ s a rental!!!! Then, when you open the class , and read the book, the book is not formatted even! Grammar is not followed whatsoever! Hi can not even read and understand the text because of this poorly- poorly made material! I don’t even bring to the attention, that if this company- Cengage forcing colleges to switch to paperless books and provide the access online, supposedly, we live in digital time these days, but their app Cengage doesn’t even support the assignments on the iPad!!! So, what is point?! Why do i even bother to download the app, if this app doesn’t support any activity provided by the course! Very disappointed! Just because of this reason, i search for classes where material is not tight to this company in any way! Horrible experience!

Tirmenovf, Feb 15, 2022

Can’t log in

So I assume that an app made for mobile devices will make reading a text book on said device much easier than trying to use browser controls. The problem I ran into is that I cannot log in to the app at all, I guess because all my courses are concave through blackboard. It’s absolutely absurd that I can take 10+ classes using cengage, but if I want to read on my phone I have to make a new account and pay for something I’ve already paid for. If there is a way to log in using my blackboard credentials then spending a half hour searching forums and the cengage support page should have uncovered something. This app is nothing but a money grab!!! If this is representative of the company’s value system then cengage needs to be replaced by a company that cares about the education of the students they supply! After reading other reviews it seems I’m lucky that I couldn’t log in to see the disaster that the app really is.

whovianelite, Sep 05, 2020

Description

The Cengage Mobile app allows students and instructors to stay engaged with courses, in-class and out. For students, the app offers offline reading, gradebook access, and notifications for key course events. For instructors, the app offers an easy way to check class grades, take attendance, and create polls that keep students engaged.

To use this app, you must have an active Cengage account. You can use the app to access: - Cengage unlimited ebooks - MindTap, CNOWv2, or SAM* courses and ebooks - Any ebooks purchased through cengage.com *(Note that SAM users must be either enrolled in MindTap or use SAM in conjunction with an LMS.) Feature summary: eBooks*: Download your textbook with offline access! Browse between different chapters, search for specific pages and terms, or take notes, highlights and bookmarks. Have the book read aloud using Text-to Speech. Flashcards & Flashcard Quizzes: Study on the go using pre-made flashcard decks. Then check your knowledge with key term-generated quizzes. Activity Lists: Stay on top of all your assignments with to-do lists! Browse all the assignments and activities in your course and view due dates. For World Languages courses, you can even do homework assignments in the app. We plan on rolling this out to more courses in the future. Notifications & Reminders: Easily set up due date reminders and get notified of grade and due date changes. Gradebook: See your overall grade for the course as well as the breakdown of grades by various activities. You can also view instructor comments and grade changes! Access to the gradebook requires additional authentication, by either password, fingerprint, or face ID. In-Class Polling and Attendance: Instructors can check if students are in the classroom using geolocation or by allowing remote check-ins. They can also review and edit attendance records, and export them to their preferred gradebook. Instructors can also author in-class polls, review the results with the whole class, and export those results. *A note on ebooks: We currently support the majority of course-related and Cengage Unlimited ebooks. Textbooks from 2014 and prior as well as international or custom titles are not supported. Annotations do not currently sync with web-based readers.