OU Study

This app is handy and wonderful, you can download the workload for offline viewing which is really useful. But, it’s held back by a lack of zooming in on texts or increasing the font size. My eyes get tired easily trying to read the small text on an ipad mini, can’t imagine how mobile users handle it. So due to that issue I’m ignoring this app and sticking to the web version where I can zoom to my hearts content.

After finding the OU web based interface really annoying to use especially recently, I thought this app would be better. On my iPad the text was quite small, so I used the text size option in settings. This changed the menu text but not the course material text. I tried the iOS built in text resize / dynamic text, and that isn’t supported by this app either. Very disappointed overall, I need bigger text. Still haven’t found a solution that works for me for OU mobile study.

This is basically the same as if you were to load up the website. That’s it. Pretty poor to be honest.

This app has helped me through my three years so far, I don’t think I would have done so well without it. With this app on my phone and my iPad, I have been able to access it everywhere I go. Thanks for keeping this app running so well, I’m a very grateful student.

App notifications are broken 💀

Keeps login you out and than u have to mess around logging back in everyday. Not the best experience but its free so I appreciate it

As a visually impaired student, I have tools accessible to me, like GoodNotes to be able to zoom in and take notes comfortably, or iOS text settings such as making text bold to read easier. Sadly, although there is a function to enlarge text within the app, this doesn’t appear to make any difference to the course material. Therefore, if you’re viewing on an iPad, this can become uncomfortable after a while due to the small text size and inability to zoom in. It would be great to get this fixed to improve the experience of the app.

Obviously, I do my main studying the website on my laptop, but the app is a really great add-on while out and about. Particularly the option to download the content for offline use.

Students pay a lot of money to study. The least the OU could do is make a app that’s not slow and have better functionalities. If not all links on the app take you to an external site. The planner is very buggy. The app itself need improving as a whole. Considering they’ve been developing it for a few years, not much difference has been made and I don’t know how this has not been a priority especially in the tech world we live in currently. The app is very disappointing. My initial thoughts were OU would have this covered considering they have been in business pre covid so they theoretically be experts at this, however the app say otherwise. This isn’t money well spent at all.

Deleted the app after an hour of studying when I noticed that notes I made in text boxes were not saved either in the app or browser, so I’ve lost work and time.