Savvas Realize has a rating of 1.1 stars from 304 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Savvas Realize most frequently mention khan academy, correct answer, and google classroom problems. Savvas Realize ranks 197th among Kids Educational Resources sites.
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I like how Pearson is so easy to do and finish! It is a great program that i have used for years! It is an amazing program. I am so grateful for Savvas realize!
I can not even get over how bad this curriculum is. I would need way more room to go into full detail. Every aspect of this curriculum is awful. The homeschool bundle comes with ZERO answers to any of the problems or tests. The website is not user friendly at all. I never was able to figure it out despite spending hours of time devoted to it. I feel so bad for teachers or students who are forced to use this. I ended up sucking up the money and ordered a real math curriculum from bju press
Bro. I mean, come on. The e-book takes up to one hour to load. The whole site feels like it's going to crash any second. My e-book is loading while I am writing this. Mind you, refreshing the page makes it start all over again, so don't bother to try.
The website is slow, even with a good computer or internet, the second guess is always wrong, even when correct, and allows people to retake a question without the knowledge of the organizer. It is just strait up horrible. 0/5 if possible
Tip for consumers:
dont use it
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the website
This is coming from a student btw, but the math questions that are made by the company also frequently have mistakes, and the image editing (like during projects) is actual GARBAGE. It's extremely slow and laggy, you can't copy and paste the text, it's also extreme hard to CLICK on the text, and it takes a really long time to load for no reason?
As an 8th grader currently using Savvas in class, I must say that while Savvas does a decent enough job as a tool for teacher review and student work submission, there are some glaring issues.
Primarily, Savvas is excessively slow and sluggish, as it takes a full minute or so to load any given lesson. It slows down even more right after school, which I can only guess is because of increased site traffic. I will often spend a good 7 minutes solving a complicated one-part geometry question, only to hit "Check answer" and get it caught in a buffering loop, forcing me to reload the tab and have to answer a new question.
Savvas is not capable of being the primary learning source. Its "View an example" and "Help me solve this" buttons are great, but only once the student understands the lesson. Our teacher makes sure to go through the lesson and 5 examples of the lesson before assigning homework to us on Savvas.
Overall, while a great improvement from the previous resource my school used, Assistments, Savvas Realize is not a great classroom resource. It is, however, a good way of checking student answers and ensuring understanding of the lesson. I can't help but feel that pencil & paper would be faster, though, with how uselessly slow this website is.
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Algebra 1 & Geometry courses, 7th & 8th grade
Let me first say this. I like math and science. I have always enjoyed these subjects throughout all my years of schooling. However, Savvas ruins this for me. First of all, we do this a ton in science, and everyone hates it, me included. Often, the questions are long and unclear, and just in general not interesting. Additionally, the progress saving is very unreliable. Recently, I had completed an assignment and submitted my work. I come back today to find that all my work has been deleted and I have to start over from scratch. Really? This is really annoying in general, as all assignments on Savvas are like this. Additionally, the E-Texts are really long and boring, The notebook questions are frequent and don't make much sense or are unclear. Sometimes they don't even have anything to do with the topic. I find all the science curriculum useless and aggravating. And don't even get me started on math. I am in honors math, and we had to do a trial of Savvas for math, to see if it was worth buying for the school next year. I think that I can speak for everyone that it was the worst thing ever. The pretests were unhelpful, as it didn't even tell you what you got wrong when you completed them. The lesson was boring and the questions were unclear. Honestly, this deserves less than a 1 star, and I hope nobody else has to suffer. DO NOT think for a second about purchasing this or using it for any reason. I just saved you money and time. Your welcome.
Tip for consumers:
Don't. Buy. It.
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Science and Math lessons, labs, E-Texts, etc.
Literally the worst developed website ever. A dead goldfish could program something better using scratch. Like seriously, how many loading screens are there. Like it takes 5 minutes just to open a text book, and theres ALWAYS errors. Like this is more unstable than the Microsoft store.
Tip for consumers:
It sucked, and its sucks
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Nothing, I just googled the PDF's
It is not good cause it is so laggy, I have to write this review on my sisters computer cause I couldn't handle the lag so I just smashed my PC. It is also impossible to know what is happening because there is stuff everywhere.
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I will explode iin anger f I use this again cause it's so annoying. And I am suggesting that you do not use this site!
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none
I hate it, it has litterarly 30 questions, its off topic on my learning, and doesn't teach me anything.
It does not work Samsung Google Chrome with Google keyboard. I don't know what causes this issue but this site is so bad it won't let me in put an answer on my phone. There is a in built keyboard but that gets cut off so it doesn't work either.And I don't think there are examples on phone either. If I am not using it correctly then that's my fault but it's really hard to use if so.
This is the most un-skibity website in all of Ohio. Its slow like my 90 year old grandma, and it is so hard to understand like I Show Speed raging. It makes me want to throw my computer at my teacher! The graphic's are like the green lantern suit in the Ryan Reynolds movie, and the help they give is like going to Ohio with having no rizz. When I look at the website, it is like getting a poopy diaper thrown at your face. Overall, this is just a bad website with no rizz. Even TestNav and Illuminate is better than this website. Futhermore, a Sloth with no eyes or limbs could make a better website than this monstrosity.
We assigned a writing prompt to our 4th graders. Throughout the entire grade, we had 23 students unexpectedly logged out. All their work was lost. Several cried. We reached out to the Savvas help center. They said we had the Savvas Easy Bridge Easy window open. There was no alert to close it. My question is why is there no auto save on the program? Seems like auto save is an easy feature to add and is so incredibly needed to protect the hard work being put into these essay by our young students.
This piece of absolute filth of a website is WAY too specific when it comes to checking answers, and hell the graphing is absolute $#*!. Even if it looks right, it's wrong! 0/10 wouldn't recommend to a friend. $#*! savvas and $#*! you Pearson!
Tip for consumers:
Close out of this filth immediately.
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website
Bad it makes me sad and I do not like it because it is very mean to me and I would never ever use it again
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no
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nothing
I'm in 5th grade and still don't know how to multiply and divide normally and my school has been using this since I was in 2nd grade. The "assessment practice" is supposed to be a review, but it has stuff that never has a lesson on, and sometimes my teacher doesn't even explain it! Everything about it is very low quality. I can break the front cover easily, and when I erase it hard enough, it erases the printed stuff that came with the book and I didn't write.
This website is pretty bad, from my personal experience with using it. I can never seem to log in even by using the log in with school district feature, as it just sends me back to the regular log in screen, even when I get to log in, I have to log in again, which never works! I would not recommend any district or teachers to use this. I am currently an eleventh grader simply attempting to get my history work done, but it just never seems to work! I tried talking to my teacher about it and not even he could do anything about it. TL;DR, Website is pretty bad at anything it has to offer, and is pretty buggy.
The online textbook has absolutely no way to navigate by page number. There is a search function that returns multiple pages that *mention* the page number, including Table of Contents and Index pages, but no way to actually get to, say, page 158 directly. Instead, students must navigate a Web 1.0 style labyrinth of nested sections with unhelpful labels like "Text sets." People don't use this service by choice, they use this service because Pearson dumped it on them rather than supporting their own product.
I'm really not a fan of the Savvas curriculum. It's been tough for me. Sadly, my uncle passed away due to complications related to it. It's been a challenging time, but I'm trying to stay positive.
Tip for consumers:
$#*! you.
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a coffin for my uncle.
I was just going through and then it explained how jellyfish mate. It said that it sticks its tentacles in the other's mouth and produced sperm. And I just say that another just goes from watching fish grow up to people poisoning the water and killing them. I understand doing that but they showed a picture of the fish dead with pale white eyes. 1 star.
Terrible and too hard, when you get a question wrong it will give you a hint that is just rephrasing the question, doesn't even help. Literally mental abuse
Tip for consumers:
do not use this site
Products used:
the app and books
The questions period don't make sense. They are unclear and annoying- making kids dread schoolwork because of the site. ANYTHING would be better. It makes assignments that are meant to take 30 mins end up taking an hour and a half. Savvas sucks.
Tip for consumers:
Don't.
Educators, do not buy this curriculum program! It is a waste of money. Their online platform rarely works. Links are constantly under construction with promises of teams of people working around the clock to provide a better product that... never comes. The customer/teacher support is severely lacking. (That's putting it kindly.) Once they have your money, they drop you like a hot rock. Trust me, look elsewhere.
The worst! Please note that you must give at least a 1 in order to leave a review and they barely have a score over a 1 on several different review sites. I don't know who chose to use this program for distanced learning during the pandemic but they obviously didn't do any research and therefore should be fired.
This program is such a waste of time! For instance, my son didn't watch the video's because he understood it. Then it took away 57 points away from him! I wish his teachers would switch the program to maybe khan academy where he would actually see how good he did! Never coming back on this!
I dislike this site with such a violent, bloody passion. Never in my life have I met such an impatient, passive aggressive math site. I waste all of my "points" so I am able to understand the one, specific problem. And for what? To have my problem recreated using different numbers. This is completely unacceptable while completing any form of math, which problems are common to eager students. This completely ruins any aspect of enjoyable learning, or at least as enjoyable as it may be.
My class uses this for science, mostly the e-text content. It's a little hard to navigate, but the lessons are OK. I don't really like that you have to "download to complete activity" when the lesson requires drawing or modelling. I'm one of the only students in my class that can actually figure out complete the activity when I download it. I understand that the site is probably being used a lot for distance learning at the moment, but I would really appreciate if they could include a draw function when the lesson includes drawing... I mean they include an annotate and comment function with four different highlighter colors but not a draw function?!
Still a good learning tool.