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The company's reputation is significantly marred by overwhelmingly negative feedback regarding its educational platform, which customers describe as ineffective and frustrating. Many users express dissatisfaction with the program's design, claiming it induces stress and confusion rather than facilitating learning. Common complaints include poor explanations, a punitive grading system, and a lack of engaging content. Additionally, customer service experiences are often characterized by delays and unprofessionalism, particularly concerning billing issues. Overall, the sentiment reflects a deep frustration with both the product and the support provided, indicating a need for substantial improvements in both areas.
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Doing ALEKS makes me feel like i'm strapped down to a table with some person i hate gouging out my eyeballs with a 60 year old rusty spoon. I have punched my screen so many times doing ALEKS it's unbelievable. This program makes me wan't to die. It is slowly killing me topic by topic. I'm a seventh grader and it is giving me fricking high school stuff. Like how tf am I supposed to know what cosine is at 7th grade math? Negative /
This app is NOT user friendly i will be doing my Aleks and i will press the exponent button and it doesn't work but i don't realize and i submit it and i have to start all over again. No one actually does it everyone just uses photo math and it does not help me learn. My Favorite weeks are when the teacher announces there is no Aleks like amen.
Infuriating to use! I am not effectively learning whatsoever. Over 20 topics a week, ineffective lessons with no exlination when incorrect answers are given, none of the lessons stick, all based on a point system that removes points and makes youredo topics, knowledge checks that I inevitably fail, then following week I end up with twice the ammount of topics because I didnt pass the check.
My teacher does nothing now. We do online work in class that doesnt correlate with where we are each at in aleks. When I reach out to my teacher for help they refer me back to aleks and tell me to spend more time on it because it is adaptive to my knowledge... I spend over 9+ hours a week on just math homework before I end up losing my mind, crying, keeling over from a migraine, or seconds away from punching my computer. I have used this for over a year and feel dumber than I did in high school. I feel like I am getting so confused with Aleks that I am losing knowledge...
Avoid this at all costs. Aleks is the worst way to teach math. I cant believe I have to pay for this. I cant believe my college is using this to teach over three levels of math. I dread the next class, I dread every moment of math.
And thats no way to learn.
This program is so terrible and unfair - it gives you problems where you need to get five different answers and if you get a single decimal point wrong you have to do them all over again. Terrible $#*! program designed by low IQ individuals
I REALLY HAD TO DO 10 ALEKS TOPICS A WEEK! YOU CANNOT SKIP IF YOU CANNOT DO IT! UGH! I SWEAR IF THIS WASN'T APART OF MY GRADE I WOULDN'T DO IT AT ALL!
If I could rate this zero, I would.
I am stuck using this crap program at Arizona State University. I have never been so unmotivated in my life to complete a class. I am a 4.0 student and am struggling with this software. ALEKS gives one brief example, then expects you to complete 5 in a row perfectly which are much more difficult than the example they showed you. Anytime you miss a problem, even for something like a negative sign you miss that problem, AND they take away a previous one that you got right. It. Is. Horrific. To make things worse, I am not actually learning anything. This program relies on rote memorization, but doesn't explain the "why" of anything. I can not believe this is where higher education in math is at.
Aleks is the Wal-Mart "Great Value" of education. It is the absolute laziest form of "teaching" I have ever seen. My professor is now essentially a tutor. This is, by far, the easiest and most worthless A I have ever "earned" considering I haven't been actually learning anything the entire time I have been using this God-forsaken program. Learning: this program will give you ONE example problem before throwing you into a 5-point "check on learning" section where one correct answer equals one point, if you get 3 correct in a row, you will accumulate 5 points. However, it takes ONE curveball to take away 2 CREDITS. You can be stuck in an infinite session of two right, one wrong which will not allow you to move on to another subject. I hate this program with every fiber of my being and I will never sign up for a class-THAT I HAVE TO PAY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO ATTEND-that uses Aleks ever again.
Aleks is an absolute sh*tshow in my opinion. It claims to use positive motivation to keep students going but I can safely say that no game or life experience has had me closer to violently destroying something than Aleks has. It is a pathetic excuse for teachers to not teach and tell students to just do more Aleks if they don't understand the concepts given in class. However, Aleks often does not represent what is actually needed in class and to make matters worse there are "knowledge checks" that throw many old topics at you and if you get one decimal point wrong on a question, then you are doing that topic again; doesn't matter if it was chapter 1 material that is in no way needed.
The program drove me into some sort of insane mental state. I wanted to hang myself with my mouse after it. I want to drop kick this into a grease fire.
I spend the entire weekend doing ALEKS listening to the rest of the family watch TV in the other room. The numbers ALEKS uses are way harder than on my tests. I spent hours trying to finish one topic, and eventually I just gave up and took the bad quiz grade. I do not recommend this to teachers because it will make parents get pisssed at you.
I dont like it at all. First off, when im rotating shapes on a coordinate graph, it doesnt tell me whether to turn right or left, so i have to make a good guess. Second knowledge checks need to be more often. And the fact that I have to do 3 hours and 20 lessons every week of this is just aggravating. Do betterrrrrr
It's a big test grade in my class and I have to do it weekly and I must say it's absolute torture just thinking about it. When it teaches you it will give you the easiest form of it and then when you go to do it it will be totally different. An analogy of this would be teaching a child how to add then expecting him to know how to divide
$#*!ing bull$#*! makes my child fail math class because they spend an average of 15 hours each week doing aleks topics
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It works well, and is amazing! It really helped boost my math grades, and I even excelled into a new level beyond school!
Horrible program, zero out of ten, would throw it out the window if it were a physical object, it causes so much excess stress and needs to be publicly excecuted immediately, through all my schooling, all aleks taught me was a hatred of online math programs.
This site is useless and makes me wanna stab my eye out with a fork, than jump out a window, and if I survive, than jump off a bigger one. I really wanna jump out the window durning my math class bc of this. Please never use it it'll give you brain cancer
This program is definitely for the patient people, and patient people only. I DOES "teach" a lot of math, but in an ineffective way. First, it doesn't show you which parts of a question you got incorrect. Secondly, the lessons may teach how to do it, but a problem may arise that is a different situation than taught. When you get one question or part of a question wrong, it will take off a full point, and won't tell you which part. Additionally, knowledge checks only add more work, and does little to show where a student is. Overall, I wouldn't recommend ALEKS to any teachers that teaches high school or below, as it causes frustrations and has ineffective teaching methods.
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