Top 10 Worst Websites Schools Use

IXL

This is the worst website ever. My mum makes me use it, but really, what is the point of even doing this? Why does it give you 2 points when your SmartScore is 90, but when you get it wrong, it takes 20 percent?
I hate this website. It's so annoying, and schools use this without knowing what pain that causes to the students. It teaches nothing to you. If I could erase this website, I would.

I'm supposed to be doing it now, but it's so depressing. My mom is wondering why I don't want to study. It is because of how stressful and annoying it is.
Oh, and I have to use it 1 hour a day every day. I use this because I have a tutor that put me up to it (by the way, my mom is forcing me to do IXL). Lucky you if your parents don't know about this website. If they do, say goodbye to your fun life.

XtraMath

I had to do XtraMath in second grade, and since it was a long time ago, I don't remember much.
However, I do remember that it was tough. They always timed us on all the questions, making each problem more about how fast you could answer rather than how well you did.

This website is very boring, and the feature where you have to answer the questions in just a few seconds to pass is probably really stressful for many students.

I had to do XtraMath back in 4th grade (2015-2016 school year), and I always hated the "race the teacher" thing that would always stress me out as I was terrible at math.

BrainPOP

The videos don't make much sense, and the quizzes are very off-topic. You really need to listen to pass these assignments.

Sometimes the videos are weird, and the quizzes can be off-topic.

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GoGuardian

It is kind of helpful for teachers to monitor students, but it needs a tool where it disables after school hours. It also blocks a lot of sites.

It's not really a website, but I added this anyway because it's spyware that some schools (like mine) install on the computers. It basically blocks most websites (including ones that actually are appropriate for school) and it spies on you even when you're in your own home.
Whoever created this extension deserves to be held accountable someday.

I freaking hate this thing. The teachers literally control what we do, and it feels like they are spying on us. They should never use this website.

GoNoodle

1. Stupid videos
2. For babies
3. Not even educational
Never ever going to use this again!

GoNoodle is so boring and annoying.

I-Ready

It's not great because some of the lessons they give you are very easy, and then you advance to another grade level and it gets progressively harder.

I-Ready is the worst of them all. Even worse is the fact that my 8th grade math teacher made the class do I-Ready for 2 hours per week in addition to MobyMax for an additional 1 hour, plus assigning us physical homework on paper all 5 days of the week. This was the 2019-2020 school year for those wondering.
As if going to school wasn't already physically and mentally draining enough. Also, I hate how it makes you repeat lessons even if you learn nothing from repeating them.

Amplify

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Kahoot!

It's sucks because it gives me stress.

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Study Island

ABCya.com

I've used this in 6th grade, and it is not great.

Raz-Kids

Takes forever to complete. The books are so boring, the quiz at the end is hard, and if you do not get a 100 percent score, it makes you redo the entire thing and reread it.

The books weren't exciting, and the quizzes were very annoying. Didn't teach me anything.

Books are boring and fake. They put ghost books in the nonfiction section.

MobyMax

MobyMax is kind of fun and kind of stupid.
You can earn game time for doing work. The more work you do, the more game time you get. You can also buy games from the game shop, but you gotta work!

I had to do MobyMax for an hour per week from August 2019 to June 2020 when I was only 13 and in the 8th grade. Boy, did I hate it. The website is lame and is only slightly better than stupid I-Ready.

Achieve3000

I will never forget when my 7th grade history teacher assigned the class homework on Achieve 3000 for Thanksgiving Break 2018, Christmas Break 2018-19, and Spring Break 2019.
I hope I don't get her again next year because she now teaches at my current high school for 11th grade history, and I'm already in the 10th grade. She's that one teacher who assigns homework over the break.

My geometry teacher makes the class use this, and it sucks.

Apex Learning

I had to do this again during my senior year of high school to improve my grade for US History, Semester 1. It was even worse than the first time around because I had to complete every assignment. Previously, I could do just some of the assignments, and the teacher would grade based on the percentage completed. This time, it took me until early May to finally finish, and that was only for a one-semester course.

I had to use this website last year in 9th grade, and it sucked. At least my teacher didn't actually make sure we did the assignments and based our grades on the scores we got. This meant that I didn't have to do any work for months on end after I did chapter 2 and got an 80% score overall.

Prodigy Math Game

Really boring, does not teach me anything, and it's frustrating!

McGraw Hill

The website won't let you log in, and it has online textbooks that your teachers don't even make you use once, so it's pretty pointless.

The games are so poorly coded, and teachers don't even use the other 50% of this so-called app. It's more like rotten trash.

Illuminate Education

My elementary school made us do boring tests on this website.

DeltaMath

It is not fast-paced, but it is easy if you understand math class too.

DreamBox Learning

Terrible. The quests were boring.

CAASPP

If you don't know what this is, it's basically the state testing website for California students.

Blocksi

I hate this thing. Many teachers in my school use it, and they block all the good stuff, even games and resources that can be important for some projects! Do not use it. I am lucky it may not be supported on the Chrome Web Store anymore.

The staff members of my school use this stupid website to block basically anything video-game-related. The only exceptions I've found are most Wikia Fandom pages and a website called Yandex Games. Everything on YouTube relating to video games is blocked.

Big Ideas Math

It's trash. There are spelling errors everywhere, the math can be wrong, and worst of all, it came from a book, so a lot of the text from the book gets cut off. I remember one time the instructions on the website said, "In exercises 13-1." It got cut off! It was ridiculously dumb.

Coolmath Games

Does not even teach you anything! It's just games, games, games!

Reading Plus

You had to read at a certain pace, and you couldn't put it higher or lower sometimes. Also, the stories don't help you, and the vocabulary is very difficult as most of the time all of the options are wrong. Even my teacher struggled with some.