Pearson+

My text book just won’t have the entire chapter a good amount of the time. Person is the worst company to get textbooks from, stone tablets would be better for transmitting information over Pearson textbooks

Gotta love an app that opens its own browser and complains that its own cookie settings are a problem, AND requires you to sign in while using its own internal browser. You have to log into the app to log into the browser to log into the app. Ref: Contact Support link from within the Pearson app.

I got this specifically so i could get the A&P coloring book but you can’t even color or write on it? Now i’m stuck paying $11 a month for at least 4 months for nothing

I’ve put in and restarted my password and I can’t even log into my account

I keep having issues with scrolling when I open this app on my iPad. It affects my entire system and I have to reboot it to be able to click on other apps too.

They make it seem like your only paying for one month, but is actually a 4 month recurring payment. Seems more like a scam.

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