I lost count of how many times I had to reinstall, redownload, reset password, etc. it makes a mess out off connecting directly through the app or website, or linking from Canvas. The ebook interface tries to be fancy but fails on basics that you get from like Kindle

This app is not the student accessibility solution that Pearson seems to think it is, spoken as a student with learning disabilities. Only pro is that your book is in your phone and you can have a dark theme screen. Opening graphs/embedded images is incredibly awkward and causes a lot of random zooming in and out, and opening and closing the image involuntarily. The audio book options are not intuitive. Its incredibly difficult to navigate between audio and highlighting or taking notes. There should be a simple pause, rewind, forward button visible in textbook page while the audio is playing. Often I have to fully pause audio just to highlight things, because the screen and responsiveness will glitch a bit if I try to highlight while audio is playing. Even once audio is paused and I’ve highlighted things, it’ll highlight sentences around my highlighted area that I didn’t want. Sometimes I have to highlight twice to even get the underline to appear. The audiobook option also does not have a sliding scale for speech speed. I hate reading & listening at 1x speed as it’s too slow, but sometimes 1.25 is too fast. This is not true accessibility for disabled learners; a wide variety in reading speeds seems like too important of feature for supposed educational professionals to have skipped over. Another accessibility issue in the read aloud is only having the options to rewind by an entire paragraph or 10 seconds prior. Where is the option for the beginning of a sentence? Again, this is such a simple issue to have passed over. I really think you need more educators, especially classroom teachers and those qualified in the areas of differential learning or honestly any recent pedagogy relating to web accessibility on your coding & design teams for your websites and apps, especially the Pearson+ web & desktop sites and this app. It appears that y’all aren’t comparing your features to programs in other etextbook programs or text & screen reader programs like Spe3chify (censored in case mentioning other brands buries my review). Beyond the learning difficulties, I had to use desktop versions of the Pearson sites to download my book. This alone was insanely difficult on the app and on mobile sites. Even on my desktop browser it still had glitches. It would randomly freeze and send me back to where I started or other irrelevant pages that were being sought out. I entered my payment info almost a dozen times on 3 different platforms (app, mobile safari, desktop chrome)

Overall I like the interface and the overall organization. My only complaint would be possibly some loading lag, but that may be due to my connection on my phone. Highly recommended!

Audio books needs some serious work. I don't need an entire equation read out to me. The app redraws more than Joe Biden giving a speech. I move to a different app for not even a minute, and the app redraws and does not save my reading spot. Also I have an iPhone 15 pro, so it's not my phone

I am so disappointed in this e-book. Whenever I try to access the book's contents, it takes several minutes to load and access the chapter I need. This app is inconvenient, especially during lectures when instructed to go to a specific chapter.

This app has no native reader and is so riddled with DRM that I phones reader won’t pick up the text. Huge disappointment and really shows how Pearson is not committed to inclusive education.

I love using this app on my iPad when I can’t really take out my computer/bring it with me. I like having the ability to access my textbooks, and there’s definitely great features to it like highlighting, commenting, flashcards, etc. That being said, those features definitely could use some refining. When I go to highlight, it’s not always accurate and it just looks funky. It can be pretty frustrating to try to highlight and then also see how weird it looks afterward. I wish there was a more natural swiping action for when you do want to highlight. Also, what’s up with the zooming in and out? Any time I try to zoom in, it takes me to the next page over or so. If I want to zoom in on a specific paragraph that’s like a half inch in size on my iPad screen, the whole app just goes haywire and takes me to the next page. That’s a pain when I’m going over math equations since they’re so tiny and I always need to zoom. Also, once I’m finally zoomed in enough that it the app doesn’t go crazy and look like a wizard turning pages in a spell book with magic, I’ll try to use 2 fingers to slide over to the next problem (from left side to right side of the page), it also thinks I’m trying to turn the page rather than just slide over a bit. I love this app, but I really would like that to get fixed and I’m sure I’m not the only person with these frustrations. Overall, great idea and app minus those few issues.

Mastering is a joke, it’s a website built on bugs and crash reports. I spend more time being randomly logged out than I spend doing my homework. Channels was okay, except a lot of the videos have practice problems where the tutor gets the answer wrong and they just never fix it. But now apparently they’re charging extra for Channels (I assume because they spent a bajillion dollars on a ridiculous AI that no one needed or asked for) and even the decent videos are absolutely not worth paying any amount of money for when you can get the same thing on youtube for free. The etext (they don’t even offer paper textbooks. It’s a publishing company.) is fine but the text to speech is utter garbage. Too cheap to pay someone to read your book aloud but you can charge extra for a handful of videos that were recorded ten years ago and half of which are just straight up wrong? Okay.

Everything is amazing but every time you need to log in it requests an email confirmation that makes a quick action take a while as you have to wait to get the code, then put the code in and every time this happens they ask you if you wanna change your password. I think it’s a measure so you don’t share your account but it gets tiring very quickly. Mainly an issue if you access this on a computer.

It’s been a while since I have been at school but once I downloaded the app to use I was pleasantly surprised. It is very easy to use and so useful for studies. This old dog CAN learn new tricks!