Cengage Mobile

I’ve used this app for two semesters now, it’s not mandatory but is provided this semester. It’s easy to navigate compared to similar products like Pearson’s Mylab, WileyPlus, etc which aren’t even worth installing. I like the ability to easily highlight and then review only highlighted material. Much more practical then highlighting a textbook or notes, bonus I can still use the textbook and resell it as “like new”. I haven’t used it yet but in the past the reading to you function was great. I can’t read my law 201 textbook for long before getting bored and trailing off so it’s a useful source. I do have a problem with the random load times for sections of the text. It’s always been buggy and either sometimes won’t load at all, or just requires you exact the app and reopen it. Sometimes it will be there ready to use, other times I have to try it again, even then it can take several minutes to load up. Other then that I’d give it 5 stars.

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Update: I used Speak Screen all the time to listen to my chapters in the car or on the go. After IOS 12 update, speak screen will not load anymore for MindTap. Now I have to sit at PC in order to listen. Speak Screen works just fine on all my other apps tho. Also the app doesn't sync with the desktop version so when you open the app to finish reading on the go, you tap on the chapter but it opens another chapter entirely so you have to search through all the pages to find where you left off. It just keeps getting better!! Don't download. Read the reviews. You can't do assignments, can't even read the textbook because the ereader is not functional with any version of iOS. I have an iPhone 7 plus and an iPad Pro 10.5 and the app doesn't work on either device. Thousands of dollars go to Cengage for books and the students can't even use the app that professors FORCE them to use. And Cengage's responses in the reviews are just years of apologies but no fixes. Shame on you Cengage. Students: Do yourself a favor and get Chegg. Update: Their response below is to contact support but it's the same prob that all iOS users have reported for years with the e-reader: white screen while attempting to open the book. And no assessment compatibility is ridiculous in 2018. No thanks, Cengage. I'm not wasting more of my limited time with support.

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I am an avid note taker and use many different publishers on split screen to take notes with my Apple Pencil. If you have to do this with this app I feel your pain. Every time you exit the app, wether to grab a title from your design app or look up an image online the app resets to some random page and won’t keep your place at all. The split screen functionality is garbage. If you don’t position the screens just right you’ll be looking at three pages at once all weirdly columned out instead of legibility ordered. What makes it the worst is that it doesn’t keep track of page numbers so a chapter is so long that once you do navigate away from you spot (which is an obvious inevitability the designers should be considering) you then have to scroll and scroll and scroll to re-find your place. Yes you can use the bookmarks to speed that up but only if you first hit the chapter then hit the section you’re on. Really? Taking notes is tedious enough, you would think that a company that specializes in education would take their target market into more consideration. I will be passing on my grievances to the school for making us purchase this overpriced ill considered excuse for an e-reader.

This app offers a great way to learn. I love the Mastery, the Chapters, the Practice Problems, the Problem Sets, and the Practice Exams. My only issue is that it isn’t fully compatible with mobile devices or iPads. I cannot complete my problem sets using my smartphone or iPad, which poses a problem seeing as I do not have a PC or a Mac. Also, using some PC’s, I’ve had issues with being able to submit precise answers. For example, in trying to correctly create a histogram or bar graph in Chapter 2 of Statistics, it did not offer me the ability to place the the bar exactly where I wanted, but instead gave one value below and one value above. I wanted to graph a frequency of .16, but could only place it at .15 or .17. This is an issue considering I was being graded on this problem set. I’m unsure if it is a sensitivity issue or if the program just doesn’t work well with certain devices.

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The ebook experience is just the worst. The app “loads” the chapter you are on, but if you swipe left or right if attempts to “load” the next section/chapter and you lose what you were just working on. Extremely frustrating attempting to go from the lesson and exercise question for math. Try to page through the exercises, sure there are answers but no steps so you can’t actually learn if you aren’t sure what to do in a specific situation. So you try to go back a few pages to the lesson... which has to load. Honesty, this app is a waste of time and energy in its current state. Most of the problems could be fixed with a decent “find” ability because then I could snap to what I wanted to see rather than dealing with laggy and slow loading screen roulette. Which section did you swipe to? Not the one you wanted, guess you can wait another 2 minutes to load what is hopefully the right section!