<p>...impressions, experiences. How easy is it?</p>
<p>For which courses or instructors did you have it?</p>
<p>I’m using aplia now for econ 1. It sort of sucks. When doing the tutorial, don’t make stupid mistakes. I got 5 points deducted; if you get a question wrong, and redo it, the program takes the average. So now I don’t even have a 100% in hwk. after the 1st tutorial. :[</p>
<p>Your post is 2.5 years old and let me tell you - Aplia is still just a horrible! I have taken tons and tons of online courses and used a lot of software over the years, but I have never been so fed up with a piece of software that I got online to look for “Aplia sucks” and see what I could find.
Aplia is complete JUNK. I will be requesting a formal review of the usage of this software. The questions do not correspond with the material, there are blatantly wrong questions in the coursework, and when you contact “customer service” for Cengage, they are RUDE and provide no solutions. They would not even correct the blatantly incorrect question I provided, even after I sent a scanned in PDF of the exact question, and the location of the exact answer in the book (one of the very few questions which I was able to locate the answer to, and the answer was wrong!).
BEG YOUR PROFESSORS TO NOT USE APLIA. What a waste of money and space. This software is a joke.</p>
<p>Well that’s not good news for me. I have two classes that need it this quarter.</p>
<p>My only knock on it is that it’s so expensive. $40 for one class, $90 for the other. At least we can sell our textbooks so they aren’t too pricey…</p>
Five years later and Aplia is still horrible.
- Their calculations are frequently wrong.
- They make simple things complicated, like listing “False” before “True” on a question that is stated, “True or False:”
- Wording of questions is frequently unclear and requires assumptions to be made, so if you assume incorrectly then your answer will be incorrect.
- Some questions do not align with the textbook, or are worded very different from the text, requiring interpretation or searching online for more information.
- They don’t take responsibility for their mistakes.
- Sometimes the available answers are just a combination of symbols rather than a real possible answer to the question.
- When students submit a case, asking them to correct their mistakes, their response is to have the instructor look into it and identify / verify the mistake, even when it is blatantly wrong.
- Their response time is terrible. Sometimes it takes a week to get a response, typically after the assignment was due, and even then it rarely resolves the issue.
- Their application is not mobile-friendly, so homework is not able to be completed using most tablets.
The concept of Aplia is great, unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be vetted well enough to be of value. 17 years after inception and we are still guinea pigs for a beta software.