McGraw-Hill Connect

Nothing, I lost my time for more than 2 hours spoke with a incompetent person

Everything change , training the personal that answer the phones

I am not happy when I call for help! I call all day and when answers the phone, the person do not know anything about online Spanish course 101 “Puntos de Partida”

Seriously nothing at this point, has become a huge hassle to do any simple task on there.

If it is not broke please dont fix it. The new update is horrible, I want to be able to read my book under the self assessment tab and it is nearly impossible. Nothing loads correctly and has turned studying into a huge hassle. Please go back to the old version.

I liked connect before the update, was simple to use and was very simple to read the book. Now just terrible.

there was no best part. this is insufferable. my eyes hurt. there is no end in sight.

i would throw the entire thing into the fiery pits of hell. i've never experienced psychological trauma on this level.

i feel like i'm taking a quiz before i actually take the quiz. it is long and monotonous and i am definitely a worse person for having experienced this awful learning tool.

Having an online textbook that you don't have to carry around in paper is nice.

I wish I didn't have to experience it at all. It is such a pain to use and I'm not sure if it's really helping me learn anything anyways.

I'm fine with everything else about my Fitness for Life class and I signed up for it to motivate myself to exercise. What I didn't sign up for was dealing with an obnoxiously slow, busywork online course that makes me really annoyed and feeling like the class is a waste of time. I'm a busy student taking 5 other classes that are more important to me, I don't have time to read through a long chapter 3 times a week and answer 20-30 questions for each chapter. Not to mention, you have to answer 30 questions RIGHT before the assignment is considered 'complete' so that takes about twice as long as it should. So what if it's supposed to help my learning if it were more like a quiz where I was 'allowed' to get a question wrong I'd take a lower score in a heartbeat and move on with my life. It doesn't matter that much to me. And it's so pointless because it brings up new questions instead of allowing you to redo the ones you missed so soon you're looking at content that's not even in the chapter you studied. It's just a headache. I'm stressed out by it and it's not a class I feel I should be stressed about. I'm not sure what the pricing was like for my course because it was just lumped into my fees, but whatever I 'paid' for it I'm sure it was not worth it.

There are good parts to this overpriced dreck? It doesn't even come on a CD that I can use as a coaster.

I would love nothing more than to never have to use this awful, lazy program again.

I don't buy the "helps students" line at all. McGraw-Hill Connect allows lazy instructors to no longer create or grade their own homework assignments. Furthermore, why bother lecturing about class material now that the online component can do that? With the requirement to actually lecture about a given subject (and thus have any knowledge of it at all) having been removed, why bother having requirements to teach college students? Now the geology professor can pick up that evening biology class because he/she no longer needs to know anything about the subject being taught. Face-to-face lecture time can now be used to talk about whatever the instructor wants (class related or not). Just look at those bored, glossed eyes in your captivated audience- they're loving it. As an added bonus to cash-strapped colleges everywhere, McGraw-Hill's "Teaching For Dummies" will easily tack on another $80-$100 to the price of already expensive textbooks. Winning!

Nothing. I could not find anything positive about Connect. Full of mistakes and their customer service is terrible. Definitely not worth what I paid for.

I would change people who are working on solutions. And personally, I would not use them.

My school made us use Connect for one of our courses. For every assignment, students report mistakes on the solutions. It is so expensive for the value we get. Stay away.

Nothing was great or special about this site, only great when I finally didn't have to use it anymore!

Lower pricing, making site easier to use, and having a help tool that actually helps you with problem solving.

A waste of money and time, not easy to get help or directions on site. Over priced and company only wanting to make profit off students. Beware.

Various options to utilize. Easy layout to navigate once oriented to the program. Shows trend of grade.

Many, many little things that are very annoying. Was not expecting to be required to use an online program for this course, really wish that was explained in the course description (not the fault of MH, but the frustration continues to mount with each new discovery of how obtuse the program is)

Many, many little things that are very annoying. Whoever programs the excel sheet answers only allows the formulas in the order they selected, not like excel which allows the cells to be included in whatever order as long as the format is correct. Selecting choices in boxes with drop down menus on assignments often leaves the selection blank, which you hope to discover prior to submitting the answer. Have had assignments that I submitted after completion only to return to discover it shows the assignment not complete, so I have to redo it and submit shortly before the deadline, hoping it works this time or I get a zero.

The only good thing about it was having the textbook online for easy assess when needed.

I would change everything about this system. It was the worst thing I have ever used.

This system needs to b sent back and remade to be user friendly. I know McGraw-Hill had good intentions when they made this but it is just terrible. It made me want to smash my computer. It just needs to be shutdown and remade into a better system. The best way this could be done is if the review questions were organized and there weren't as many of them. It also shouldn't go back and force the same question over and over again.

Honestly, I have yet to find anything positive about MHC as a student. Although I am not a professor, I can definitely see how the set up can make teaching in the classroom far more efficient.

Change the chapter reading. There's something about the chapter reading, highlights, and refreshers, that I simply feel "disconnected" with. The biggest frustration is reading the highlights, getting prompted to review, then getting questions that are in the text, but are 20 pages ahead of where I stopped. I also feel like the question is not "adaptive", but simply lazy. Get rid of so many questions asking to, check all that apply. I could find ways that all the answers are correct, but it doesn't mean they are.

Although my title may seem naive, it was the best way I could describe my views. I do not consider this software a waste of time because it frustrates me; I consider it a waste of time because I end up spending 3x longer attempting to accomplish a task then I should need to. I have to allocate hours worth of time in order to simply make sure I get a score that says "complete" in my professors grade book. This costs me valuable time that I could be reading the way I learn best, taking notes on things I don't understand, and moving forward to come back to it later. This in turn allows me to spend less time while accomplishing more. Instead, the MHC system does not allow me to move on and forces me to answer more questions in order to get credit for one. Overall, this causes a task that should take 45-60 minutes, to take 3+ hours. I can say with confidence, that I will stop taking classes that use the MHC system.