McGraw-Hill Connect

I liked that I had access to the textbook most of the time. Well, at least when the site was working.

I can't describe the hours and hours of frustration I have had with this software. We use it for my accounting class and it has been such a disaster that my professor apologized to us for making us buy it and started creating his own homework. The textbook is chaotic and out of order. When I say the homework does not teach you anything, I mean it actually doesn't. The lecture videos are 30+ minute long lectures from Microsoft Sam just repeating what the textbook says back to you. The homework does not tell you what you got wrong unless you are being graded on it, and then it does not explain to you why it's wrong so you can practice the problem using the correct concept. It just says it's incomplete and you are expected to go back through the textbook for hours, looking at problems that have nothing to do with the one you are working on in an attempt to uncover the great mystery. McGraw-Hill even has a nice little cartoon video that boasts about substantially higher exam scores when I can tell you that the class average on our first exam was a C-.

Please do not make your students buy this. Your reputation as a great professor will remain intact and your students will thank you for not making them pay $480 for this giant scam (yes, you are reading that correctly. $480).