Pearson+ | Study Prep & eTexts

I love using this app on my iPad when I can’t really take out my computer/bring it with me. I like having the ability to access my textbooks, and there’s definitely great features to it like highlighting, commenting, flashcards, etc. That being said, those features definitely could use some refining. When I go to highlight, it’s not always accurate and it just looks funky. It can be pretty frustrating to try to highlight and then also see how weird it looks afterward. I wish there was a more natural swiping action for when you do want to highlight. Also, what’s up with the zooming in and out? Any time I try to zoom in, it takes me to the next page over or so. If I want to zoom in on a specific paragraph that’s like a half inch in size on my iPad screen, the whole app just goes haywire and takes me to the next page. That’s a pain when I’m going over math equations since they’re so tiny and I always need to zoom. Also, once I’m finally zoomed in enough that it the app doesn’t go crazy and look like a wizard turning pages in a spell book with magic, I’ll try to use 2 fingers to slide over to the next problem (from left side to right side of the page), it also thinks I’m trying to turn the page rather than just slide over a bit. I love this app, but I really would like that to get fixed and I’m sure I’m not the only person with these frustrations. Overall, great idea and app minus those few issues.

Pearson has great functions like being able to write flash cards or take notes. It also has audio so you can listen to the text. But they really need to improve the programmed voice to not say things like “underscore” over twenty times when reciting end of chapter questions that have five blanks in it for answers. She (the voice) also fails to pronounce the phonetic pronunciations of terms offered in the book. It’s very awkward with her saying one syllable then spelling the next. She’s clearly an automated voice that they turned loose on the text with no edits. For auditory learners this is problematic. Her tone however, with the exception of some oddly pronounced words, is rather decent. They do need to program her to pause after a dash but over all it’s tolerable between her fumbling through headings, outlines and bulleted lists. Forget about hitting to enter to start a new line with flash cards. When you save it it will smash all the words together anyway so if you need to make a list of things, you’re screwed. I still like the lady and her intonation, but she’s not a replacement for the texts and a big company like Pearson should really work on the accessibility for people who need the audio. One last thing, it needs a button to go full screen with the interface so you aren’t on dark mode with your toolbar and tabs headlighting you.

So there are some books that will be the text to you and others that you can read the text it’s easy to navigate especially on the phone for those late night studies where you don’t wanna be sitting on your desk and you’re really tired or if you can’t sleep and you just wanna get a little bit of work and it’s super conventional and it’s easy to take with you everywhere so anywhere you go you can always study in case if you’re really busy and you’re afraid that you might turn in stuff late it’s really helpful resource full it keeps all your P just bookmarked has really nice highlighters that you can highlight texts with and then on highlight them if you’re done with them easy to navigate and if you’re ever looking up for a specific sentence that your teacher wants you to look at you can type in the words and it will look it up for you fast making it super easy to find anything