What Users Love About the App
“MindTap’s Feedback Studio makes essay grading much easier than on my LMS or on Word. Rubrics, text comments, audio comments, and in-line grading with information and textbook links are some of my most used features.”
“MindTap seems to try to integrate quizzes and study guide capabilities to make it as useful as possible for students in learning and memorizing the content of the coursework. It allows a full pdf ebook to be integrated and broken into sections to correlate with the course.”
“Cengage provides activities from the text that are easy to use for the student and graded automatically for the instructor. The program works well with the LMS and grades are easier transferred.”
“I think MindTap works efficiently for its intended purpose. The software is clear and user-friendly. I like how I have the ability to be very interactive with the software which aids in the learning process.”
“I cover the chapter during class. Then, the students can access “review” materials at any time of the day or night. The material is supplemented with videos and review tools. The students take their assessments on MindTap. Then, we have more time in class to work on projects and activities.”
What Users Dislike About the App
“Organizing a course on MindTap is tedious and time-consuming. Adding a drag and drop feature or allowing multiple items to be moved simultaneously would be a good idea.”
“It’s really hard to submit programming assignments, even if they are 100% correct this tool won’t let you. I spent hours trying to figure out what’s wrong with my code and then showed it to my teacher and it’s all was right.”
“The questions are written really vaguely, and clearly aren’t proof read as there are many spelling errors/grammatical errors/missing words that make answering questions difficult. There are also often glitches that make accessing and reviewing grades difficult.”
“Nothing. Users are forced to deviate from instructions in order to achieve their expected output. There are no guarantees that a user can successfully complete all assignments without issues”
“I cannot get immediate feedback regarding the questions I’ve answered – I have to wait until a specific due date to receive the feedback. Reading full books is ridiculous – the searchability function either went away with a recent update or is difficult to find and MindTap doesn’t save my place – each time I log in, I have to search through the chapters again to find the page I left off.”
