From Parent:
Expensive
Alpha quality - missing absolute value signs, auto-marks "1./2" as wrong compared to "1/2", parental controls have bugs, eg you want to pause, then change the date won't update the date you're pausing to.
Uses XP (experience points) as gamified motivator and then doesn't respect their value by docking unnecessarily or due to bugs.
Emailed on sign up to be "personally welcomed and invited to respond with feedback, or any questions" So I did, because I want this kind of effort to succeed. Response totally ignored all content of the email and suggested he could delete the account for me(!)
From student, who is quite a way ahead of his peers in math.
"boring, annoying and stupid"
Account is paused due to the above, if we cancel it I'll be pretty annoyed given the unused portion and expense.
Khan Academy has very similar merit. You can donate a lot less than USD$50 / mth.
Maybe we got unlucky and the good intentions of "personally welcoming and requesting feedback, inviting questions" was lost due to getting snowed under so response LLM happened and totally ignoring follow up rather than being deliberately rude? Could well be.
From Parent: Expensive Alpha quality - missing absolute value signs, auto-marks "1./2" as wrong compared to "1/2", parental controls have bugs, eg you want to pause, then change the date won't update the date you're pausing to. Uses XP (experience points) as gamified motivator and then doesn't respect their value by docking unnecessarily or due to bugs. Emailed on sign up to be "personally welcomed and invited to respond with feedback, or any questions" So I did, because I want this kind of effort to succeed. Response totally ignored all content of the email and suggested he could delete the account for me(!)
From student, who is quite a way ahead of his peers in math. "boring, annoying and stupid"
Account is paused due to the above, if we cancel it I'll be pretty annoyed given the unused portion and expense.
Khan Academy has very similar merit. You can donate a lot less than USD$50 / mth.
Maybe we got unlucky and the good intentions of "personally welcoming and requesting feedback, inviting questions" was lost due to getting snowed under so response LLM happened and totally ignoring follow up rather than being deliberately rude? Could well be.
Lotta hype about it, justified? I didn't see it.