Mc graw hillReviews 1,887

Aleks is so stupid as an advanced algebra kid the topics in Aleks are harder then what we are doing in class and I end up getting to the hard topics in aleks before I get there in class and Aleks does a horrible job explaining how to do a problem so if you want to have your students to kill themselves this is the way so I beg you as someone who loves math don't give your students aleks. Please like I beg of you this program making me suicidal.

I have used this website all throughout this school year and haven't leaned a single thing

The explanations are confusing

Is extremely hard for people that are struggling

You're not allowed to use a calculator on questions that would be borderline impossible without one

This is a lame website not worth the time. Would not recomend ruined my milk completely. Hate milk now.

I HATE ALEKS AND EVERYONE WHO FORCES THEIR STUDENTS TO DO IT! It is such B.S.! I used ALEKS in high school and it sucked! It is so stupid because I know math. I got passed associates in Science in mathematics in college, but ALEKS just completely brain boggles you and Makes you fricken RAGE!. I hate it. All of the depressed students reading this I will give advice on how to complete an ALEKS topic. Plug the problem into chatGBT or some other A.I. Website. I hope I have helped some of you students who are struggling to keep life and ALEKS with them at the same time. P.S honestly the creator of ALEKS should just kill himself.

Whoever made this app went to the deepest darkest pits of hell to find out how to make the worst app possible and make it be in several schools whoever made this will be personally dragged to hell by satan himself and be whipped for all of eternity in the pit that is hell. Whoever made this is app is doomed to eternal damnation.

I am in freshman year chemistry in college and this website makes me want to unalive myself. It's explanations for chemistry are inconsistent and confusing, the progress check doesn't help anyone, and the site itself becomes impatient with you when it tells you to work on something else. I would like to tell the other students who are reading this this that unfortunately, ALEKS will follow you into college.

(from a student's perspective)
This is a learning system that is geared towards students that can learn by just reading a textbook, and who don't need much of an explanation. The system works well with review topics learned in the past and highlights key concepts each time, but for new material, learning with Aleks is painful, and infuriating. If you leave out one little negative sign in a long, drawn-out answer, you get the whole thing wrong, and your progress made thus far on that topic is deleted. There is no feedback, you're just wrong. There's no "did you mean...(blank)?" No, your progress needs to be flawless, and there is no room for error, and you're left helpless without a professor or resource. Much of the time, they skip over steps and don't have a good explanation, which is very hard for me as a visual learner, especially with my math course. This is my worst grade this semester.
The tests for Aleks are also frustrating. The system, with each "knowledge check" gives you problems that you haven't learned on purpose, which makes me feel stupid, because that gets in my head when I'm taking my test, when "tests" traditionally are to make sure the learner is taking in the previously covered information adequately.
The test scores are solely dependent on the work done up to that point in the course and aren't weighed based on answers correct, or incorrect. If you've done 60% of the work up to a certain point in the class, that is your test grade, even if you get every single question on the test correct.
If you're behind for the first part of the semester in your homework, your tests for the rest of the course are going to be low, because the homework completed is only spreading out from that 60% for the rest of the semester.
The best part: you cannot go back and work on previously due homework. This system creates lazy professors that don't know the material, and are of no help whatsoever. This system needs to die in my opinion, or be dramatically modified.
I can't in good continence give more than one star for this program.

I LOVE ALEKS IT HELPS SO MUCH WITH MY MATH
I dont know what everyone is talking about aleks is the best

I am taking a single college algebra class, for the credit, to return to school as a Post-Bacc science major. I was so excited about taking an algebra class again because I remember loving it in high school. However, using ALEKS makes me want to tear my hair out, break my computer, and yell at someone every single time I sign on. I'm not learning anything. There are topics that take me HOURS to complete, and by the end I am still more confused than when I started about WHY I was supposed to set up the equations that way. The explanations don't explain anything! Why am I being punished for getting a problem wrong, when I was never taught how to do the problem in the first place?

This is the only class I am taking, it should be an incredibly easy class, and I spend HOURS every week trying to complete the assignments and learn the material. Using outside sources to teach myself the material makes this all the more time consuming. I cannot imagine having a course that uses ALEKS and having other classes on the side. It's mental torture. It doesn't make any sense. It's SO time consuming. It's the worst program for learning that ever could have been invented. 0/5 stars.

First off, i've learned nothing since i've started using this app. Absolutely nothing. This app has taught not taught me nor my friends a single thing. There is nothing stimulating, it 100% kills creativity, and is dull. To put it simply, Aleks is boring. I've grown weary of the repetitive topics, the underwhelming knowledge checks, and most importantly, Aleks doesn't teach. I've yet to learn a single thing. Me, a young girl with ADHD, find this a very discreditable application compared to various other mathematics-teaching software. In conclusion, this program is definitely not worth the purchase. If you're looking for a good math app for school or personal use, I advise you to seek another one.

This program is the single most frustrating software ive ever seen. It makes me hate whatever subject i am forced to redo hundreds of times. $#*! aleks, $#*! McGraw hill llc

This website is an absolute nightmare. It is ruining my mental health. I spend hours every day doing aleks topics. The fact that it makes you start over if you get a problem wrong makes me want to just bang my head against the wall. The explanations dont even make any sense and there is just so many topics due in such short time. My teachers are saying they care about my mental health while they are making us do this website every night. Whoever made this website burn in hell

Aleks does a horrible job of explaining the wretched equations it presents, then fully expects you to be able to solve them. If you get one wrong, it takes away a point. The knowledge checks are even worse, every so often it gives you a 30 question knowledge check to "test" how much you know, but it only brings your score down, once you've gotten back to where you were, there's another.

I love how it takes forever to get one freaking topic, they way it ruins my tuesdays, and how the topics get way to hard, how i dont learn sh!t, how i cry before and after i do it, how i have to do it every week, they way you have to cheat on it or its way to hard, and the way all my teachers think its great. Its so PrEPpY!

Aleks is so bad I want to actually throw the tablet across the room I have to do 20 aleks topics every week and my teacher doesn't teach us at all and gives us pdfs as homework and gives us less than a day to do it while she plays cookie clicker at her desk and literally got aleks questions wrong for students. If I find out where the company that made aleks is at they will end up like the people from no Russian in CoD and if you like doing aleks or you have students do aleks you are off coke and the magic blue crystals made in Walter whites labratory.

You know, as a algebra kid I gotta say this sucks butt. The problems are definetly not for 8th grade algebra kids and are more like high schooler stuff. Plus Aleks doesn't fully explain and renders you confused abut how to solve a simple problem. Then the answer doesn't make any sense. Also the knowledge checks like to give you unreasonably hard questions and failure to get them right results in redoing the SAME. GOD DARN. LESSONS.

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING is worse for learning than Aleks. I've used Aleks throughout all of my college years (Intro to Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry & Biochem) and it only gets worse as time passes. They gatekeep information on how to perform certain equations as well as SEND YOU BACK questions if you get them wrong, instead of just letting you retry said question with help. Most of the time problems within Aleks do not correlate with what the professor has taught on the subject, and its all just filler work. Aleks is singlehandedly the worst waste of time I have ever experienced in my life, it doesn't even teach anything.
The only thing I learned with Aleks is how to emulate problems the same way Aleks teaches it so that I can finish the 6 hours or so of work I have to do on this website- all just to forget how to do it the next day. That's the thing too, depending on how many modules of work you get and how well you understand the information, finishing the topics for a week can take literal DAYS, which is terrible for a Biomed student like myself.
I really, truly pray that Aleks dies someday so nobody else has to endure the pain that the bain of my existence known as Aleks has caused me. Hope this service gets shut down, and schools wake up and decide to ditch it.