Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Mindtap feels like the academic equivalent of sitting in traffic, at least for this subject. I strongly recommend that professors not use this resource for their class in the interest of their students' (and probably institution's) time and money. Buy a textbook you can keep for life if you can help it. I also feel that Mindtap is overpriced for what it is you pay around 90$ and only get access to whatever ebooks you buy and Mindtap itself for 6 months, and the layout of Cengage in general is designed to trick college students who haven't navigated sites like it before into paying more money for their "unlimited" shenanigan, which is very much time-limited and way more than what one would need to learn what is necessary for their course. For instance, during an investigate-development activity there were three several-minute videos to watch (which could or couldn't contain vital information, but there was no way for me to know that without sacrificing time to them or reading the transcript) which basically just told me to click buttons I could've found in two seconds by myself to progress the assignment. Some videos incorporated into the activities are very redundant and time-wasting as well. I can't remember what parts of the embryo develop into what any better because this software asked me if I know someone who experiences pregnancy symptoms for points. They're just prompts for personal experiences with the material and reinforce nothing. The reflect and relate activities are also a waste of time. For example, in Chapter 3, one of the test questions was on the precise percentage of babies who are infected with HIV when born to an infected mother rather than on the critical periods of development, teratogen vulnerability changes in each trimester, and related. Single sign-on provides easy and immediate access to a wealth of Cengage digital content. As for the content of the curriculum (I'm using Cengage for Childhood Developmental Psychology) the test questions do not adequately reflect the most important information from each chapter of the book, but instead ask for useless statistics and facts that are significantly less crucial than technical knowledge of the brain, etc. The Cengage MindLinks Building Block & iLrn Partner Cloud integration provide seamless access to Cengage’s rich digital solutions & content directly within Blackboard Learn, creating a simpler & more intuitive experience for both instructors & students. The interface when short answer questions paired with videos cuts off a lot of your text while you're typing, and it's a pain to review your work, too. Download link appears on My Home for iOS and Android. 2 Free Cengage Mobile App: Highlight, read, listen to textbooks and moreonline and off. Save as many as you wantthey’re all includedand access them here. 1 My Home: Add Cengage online textbooks, courses and more to your dashboard. Additionally, the program hides the question it gives you multiple choice answers for during quizzing (a mild inconvenience in earnest), and punishes you for wrong answers with loss of points despite said quizzes being practice. It also appears in the Cengage Mobile App. That's great and all, but to people like me who have to work on my days off and have a very limited amount of time to study between sleeping and eating, it's an insult and waste of time. Its rationale for this feature is based in the idea that breaks between periods of study lead to better recall of the information in question. For more information about curriculumspecific apps, visit the Computer Concepts CourseMate Web site at com, navigate to the Chapter 6 Web. Compliance with student privacy standards such as the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) ensures student data is protected and secure.Mindtap forces you to take breaks when completing Mastery Activities, and punishes you by forcing you to spend more time on the material for the same amount of points if you choose to continue.Cengage MindLinks Tools and Partner Cloud Tools within Blackboard Learn enable users to access and efficiently manage all content and tools in one place.Access to Cengage content and tools directly within the course content area makes it easy for instructors to find and integrate content into their courses within their normal workflow.Grade synchronization ensures grades from Cengage assignments automatically appear in the Blackboard Learn grade book, allowing instructors to focus on teaching and learning instead of manual grade entries.Single sign-on provides easy and immediate access to a wealth of Cengage digital content and tools.The Cengage MindLinks Building Block & iLrn Partner Cloud integration provide seamless access to Cengage’s rich digital solutions & content directly within Blackboard Learn, creating a simpler & more intuitive experience for both instructors & students. Blackboard Ally for Web Community Manager.
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