Hawkes Learning Systems

Dont always trust technology! Had the the previous section of the course loaded into my account. Was wondering why only three quizzes were listed. Before the system did a refresh, several weeks into the class. Got a big 0, on the missing quiz… 12.5% off the final grade!

Please kick Hawkes Learning Systems and their associated Sales Representatives (disguised to comfort us on our doubts) OUT OF OUR CAMPUS!
Here is a list of frustrations.
1. The software is poorly and lazily programmed. The math problems are inconsiderate of our time restraints (certain sections can take 1.5 to 3 hours or more to complete due to the complexity, in which there are more than 40 of these «sections» a SEMESTER).
2. The software is a RESOURCE HOG. I can’t even complete 4 to 5 sections in my MacBook Pro before it starts to slow down to a crawl and I am forced to restart it.
3. My instructor’s lessons and methods of solving math problems are NOT EVEN CONSISTENT with the solutions that Hawkes is trying to teach me in the first place! Then what the fuck is the use of this software?
4. This software bundle is forced down our throats with us having no option to reject it. It is a REQUIRED software for all courses of Math 95 and 96.
5. Even if you have the RIGHT ANSWER, you are STILL WRONG! Each math problem demands it’s own, and ONLY ITS OWN method of presenting the answer. This is a previous reference to the poor and lazy programming mentioned earlier. However, your living and breathing instructor may have some degree of common sense and will accept your answers on your written tests in class. In fact, he or she might not even accept answers written in the way that Hawkes demands. Which further adds more to the point that this crap software is USELESS.
6. There is a «3 Strikes Rule» for each section of each chapter. I have mentioned previously that Hawkes can only accept answers in a «certain way». However, if you fail to «correctly» answer a question three or more times, you have to restart your Certification homework FROM THE BEGINNING!
One of their slick talking salesmen had managed to convince our college’s math department to completely adopt their shit software in ALL CLASS SECTIONS of both Math 95 and 96. Like literally, in my campus, it is IMPOSSIBLE to find a math class that is FREE from the oppression of this overpriced digital tutor.
When I started Math 95 last Spring Semester, we were introduced to Hawkes Learning Systems by a Sales Representative, or Messenger Girl Pin Cushion I guess. Her job, supposedly, was to report programming bugs back to the company higher ups. Our entire class greeted her with cold, angry, stares (because we already bought all the access keys bundled to our textbooks so we can actually take the class).
When she asked us to report any problems, I immediately piped up and told her that there is a bug where I cannot shut down the software when I am done, as it keeps spitting out error messages at me. She SAID that she will tell her supervisors, and yet a full year later, the bug is STILL THERE!
If any of you are enrolled in a class that FORCED you to buy Hawkes Learning Systems. Drop the class, get your money back, and enroll in a equivalent and transferable class in your local community college instead of your university. This will hopefully will make a noticeable dent on the tuition revenues of the learning institution, which will make them open their ears to us. Then and only then, will your Math Department be rid of this plague!
Within these pictures and screenshots I am submitting, I will show you other negative opinions online about how terrible this software is.