Sapling Learning app is a useful, interactive homework and instruction app, which was established to improve learners’ problem-solving skills. In a study conducted to test the likability of the app, 90 percent of the learners strongly agreed that they would subscribe to the app in the following semester.

Website: https://www.macmillanlearning.com/college/us/digital/sapling

What Users Love About the App

“Sapling As a learning platform is very interactive with the students and it offers a quality education online with advanced techniques like 3D Diagrams and stuff. It also offers many Assignments to the students so that they can have a better understanding of the concept and the subject.”

“Sapling Learning is useful for completing homework for online courses. I loved the feedback tips that would pop up if you answered a question incorrectly. This helped me keep on track with my homework and tackle the question in a new way.”

“I appreciated the solutions tab available to view after correctly answering a question. Within the solutions tab, there’s an “explanation” tab that is extremely helpful for solidifying understanding of difficult questions. Their customer support is very helpful and prompt, too.”

“Sapling learning has much more interactive qualities than most other educational suites, including 3-D diagrams, multi-step questions as well as color-coded grades for assignments that update immediately.”

“The fact that each question lets you try more than once before not giving you any points at all for the homework. It is very user-friendly and easy to implement. Very less learning curve.”

What Users Dislike About the App

“The main thing I dislike about the sapling is the initial login details as is taking more time and also it asks to set three security questions, I mean what the use of three questions. The chatbox features need updates as it always remains open and does not provide any means to close it.”

“Drawing molecules for organic chemistry is far easier to simply do with a pencil and paper. With the sapling learning drawing tools, I seem to spend more time formatting the molecule to ensure the system would recognize it as correct instead of focusing on learning chemistry.”

“The lack of leniency in question grading often creates a lot of complaints from students. This is frustrating as each question is graded differently, so often getting a multiple-choice question wrong will drop the grade much faster than a synthesis question, or “shot answer” question.”

“How picky some of the answers can be which I understand on an exam a professor would be picky, it’s just kind of hard to make arrows exact when using a computer.”

“It slows down a bit when there are new updates. This makes workflow rather difficult. Students have complaints about the questions sometimes being very difficult.”