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User Reviews for Pearson+
FINALLY!!
Pearson, your apps have always been utterly disappointing semester after semester. Upon downloading this app, my expectations were low from the numerous letdowns in the past. However, this app is AMAZING!! I had to pause my exploring in this app to post a review!! I’ve been waiting for years for an app that was worthy of not just the price but of the content of your products! I will be graduating this semester, which also means that my time with this app will be limited. It is bittersweet since this app is a huge transition from the other terrible apps. I LOVE the features, such as being able to transform the text to nice sounding audio and the overall sleek design makes studying more enjoyable. Thank you and FINALLY!!
Needs Improvement, almost great.
Pearson has great functions like being able to write flash cards or take notes. It also has audio so you can listen to the text. But they really need to improve the programmed voice to not say things like “underscore” over twenty times when reciting end of chapter questions that have five blanks in it for answers. She (the voice) also fails to pronounce the phonetic pronunciations of terms offered in the book. It’s very awkward with her saying one syllable then spelling the next. She’s clearly an automated voice that they turned loose on the text with no edits. For auditory learners this is problematic. Her tone however, with the exception of some oddly pronounced words, is rather decent. They do need to program her to pause after a dash but over all it’s tolerable between her fumbling through headings, outlines and bulleted lists. Forget about hitting to enter to start a new line with flash cards. When you save it it will smash all the words together anyway so if you need to make a list of things, you’re screwed. I still like the lady and her intonation, but she’s not a replacement for the texts and a big company like Pearson should really work on the accessibility for people who need the audio. One last thing, it needs a button to go full screen with the interface so you aren’t on dark mode with your toolbar and tabs headlighting you.
Please listen :(
I like being able to have all my textbooks in one place, and to have such easy access to them at all times. However, this app is actually driving me insane. 1) it took me 4 days to even figure out how to open my textbooks on my iPad. The app looks like there is a better layout, but for some reason it defaults my app to a page with just textbook names. 2) I love to highlight important information as I read, but every time I try to, it takes me to the next page or the page before!!!! It is so annoying! I wish there was a way to lock my page so I don’t have to reload the page over and over. Also, why do I have to even select text? I want to be able to select a highlighter and just highlight the text without having to select the words. I wish there was a better way to annotate. 3) when I read my book along side of my notes with split screen, I cannot scroll without it going to previous or future pages. A lock feature would help with this as well! 4) I often have to site page numbers for my homework, and there are no page numbers in the app. Why….? Overall, I kind of wish I would’ve just invested in paper textbooks instead of an iPad specifically for this app. Oh well.
Wish it was better
I love the fact that there is an app. As a student, the lack of learning tools through Pearson+ is frustrating. Sure you get audio text and the ability to make your own flash cards, but having hundreds, or thousands of questions with answers and rationales available to practice the content would be ideal. It would also benefit students to have an app that will play a single chapter without the freezing. When it freezes, it jumps back to where I started the audio text at that session. That could be one sub section of content, or it could be a whole chapter! My whole point is subscribing and paying additional money for Pearson+ is to better manage my study time, not increase the time and frustration. In all honesty, I believe the audio text should be included in the purchase of the text anyways, like every other text book I have used!
Frustrating Experience
This app is not very usable. Controls frequently conflict with each other and make the app a frustrating experience. These small issues pop up frequently. Just trying to highlight text becomes frustrating because the app registers a left or right movement as a movement to read the next section of a text book. Sometimes the highlight options disappears because the app doesn’t think you’re trying to highlight. This means that sometimes you need to use two hands to simply highlight text which is dumb.Reading itself can be annoying because the app is incredibly sensitive in terms of it’s touch controls. Often it will interpret slight side movements as a gesture which results in it going to the next chapter/section.The developers really need to rethink how features should implemented. I would recommend they look at apps such as Pdf Expert implement their controls. Dedicated buttons for features such as highlight or copying text is much less frustrating because the app requires you to be deliberate in what you are attempting to do instead of trying to guess your intentions.Overall this app is the most frustrating experience I have had when it comes to reading text books. Pearson needs to change their approach to how features are implemented.
Unwieldy, inconvenient, and finicky
I had to download the app because the ebook features weren’t supported in my browser. That’s fine. But the app doesn’t really work either. If I accidentally rotate my screen, the text automatically scrolls all the way back to the top of the section instead of saving my place. It also resets to the top of the section any time I accidentally touch anything that I didn’t mean to, so I have to be very careful. This causes a lot of unnecessary scrolling. Also the highlighter function sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t, depending on the amount of text I’d like to highlight and the location on the page. Every once in awhile I’m trying to highlight something important and I accidentally switch to a whole different section, causing the above problem again. Using this book has been a very frustrating experience. If I could use the browser version I would, but unfortunately I’m stuck with this janky app. Luckily I found a really cheap used copy of the print textbook on Abe books, and it’s only one edition older than the required edition for my class. I definitely recommend any student go the used book route rather than attempt to navigate this fail of an ebook. One star.
Not enough practice problems
Overall, I like the format of Pearson plus and the tools that it gives you within the application. The embedded concept videos are great and I like the quizzes at the end of most sections. I was envisioning when I purchased this program however that I would be able to answer the questions in the back of the book digitally and receive feedback whether I was right or wrong. Unfortunately you have to refer to the eText to find the answer to some of the questions but even then the answers are not available for all of them. This to me is a severe weakness of the program. Performing practice questions is by far the best way to cement a grasp on a topic in physics however, not having the correct answer means that there is no way to know if I got the right result.
It’s Perfect
So there are some books that will be the text to you and others that you can read the text it’s easy to navigate especially on the phone for those late night studies where you don’t wanna be sitting on your desk and you’re really tired or if you can’t sleep and you just wanna get a little bit of work and it’s super conventional and it’s easy to take with you everywhere so anywhere you go you can always study in case if you’re really busy and you’re afraid that you might turn in stuff late it’s really helpful resource full it keeps all your P just bookmarked has really nice highlighters that you can highlight texts with and then on highlight them if you’re done with them easy to navigate and if you’re ever looking up for a specific sentence that your teacher wants you to look at you can type in the words and it will look it up for you fast making it super easy to find anything
Decent reading app
Pros - search function, access to videos, adjustable text size, hyperlinks to other pertinent sections of the book, cost (subscription $9.99/mo) is much less than renting or buying the book.Cons - navigation could use some improvements - sometimes swiping up causes it to move to the next section. Also, it doesn’t return you to where you left off in a section. When you leave the app briefly (ex: to access calculator), it automatically scrolls back to the top of the section instead of staying where you left off. Or if you click a hyperlink to briefly read another section and go back, you are not where you left off. Annoying, but not a deal-breaker. I will likely use again with future classes that require texts published by Pearson as it is pretty easy to use and less costly than other options. Ideally there would be a subscription service covering multiple publishers.I will likely use it again with future courses where the text is published by Pearson. My alternative is Ideally, would love a similar subscription service covering multiple publishers.
Please make it easier to actually read the textbook
I hate etextbooks because of this app. It’s beyond infuriating. It’s impossible to focus and learn any of the material when every five seconds it either jumps to the top of the page, or goes to the next or previous page. When it’s not doing either of those, it’s randomly showing the sidebar that blocks a third of the text and makes it impossible to read the book without tapping to get rid of it, and of course when you try to get rid of it the book then switches to a different page of takes you to the top. Then, you can’t scroll down without it switching. Stop trying to make it so overly user friendly!! People know how to turn book pages, they know how to open up a menu to see the sidebar, all these extra stupid features are making the function of the app as a textbook impossible. But it’s mandatory, and there are no physical textbooks, so we’re forced to suffer through it anyways. This is what you pay for in a college course, and somehow it’s supposed to be on the same level as a physical book that lets you actually read it. If I could rate zero stars I would.
Description
The Pearson+ mobile app provides you access to all your Pearson eTextbooks in one place, as well as curated bite-sized video explanations of complex topics for your toughest college courses. Get started by logging in with the same username and password you created via the web-based version of Pearson+. Feature highlights: -- Anytime, anywhere access to eTextbook content and embedded media assets -- Short video explanations of complex topics to help you succeed in the classroom -- Ability to easily create and refer to your notes and highlights within the eTextbook -- Have your eTextbook read aloud to you with our audiobook feature (available for most eTextbooks) -- Search across all the content in the eTextbook to easily find exactly what you need -- Create your own flashcards or use pre-built ones to help you study -- Personalize the reading experience to best meet your needs For bug reports or general feedback, please reach out to us at [email protected].
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