MindTap Reviews

I use Cengage textbooks for several of my courses. I have been using the MindTap/Brightspace integration for several years. The MindTap option allows me to easily choose which material I want to use to reinforce my student's learning, and the chapter quizzes and chapter homeworks help them test their knowledge before exams. It's a simple LTI integration into our LMS, which only has to be done once. Customer support was very helpful when I set up my integration. We use the MindTap integration in many of our courses, and students have had very positive feedback!

I haven't found anything yet about MindTap that I dislike. There are many activity options for the instructor to choose from, and the integration was very simple.

MindTap provides an opportunity for students to test their knowledge and understanding of each chapter of the textbook at their convenience. As the instructor, I could choose which items I required them to complete, but there are multiple other activities which support a variety of learning styles. The immediate feedback allows the learner to focus thier time on what concept they need to study more, and what concepts they understand.

They provide one on one interaction for any questions we have.

Well there's nothing much I like about the mindtap

It helps us to learn about our respective field without investing much time so we can focus on our work as well

I like that in Cengage, Mindtap, we are more engaged and more motivated to finish our assignments. We have everything we need to learn and study the material.

The user interface is kind of cluttered and unorganized when using it. It's also hard to put up different things into different tabs.

We are solving problems like making assignments easy to submit and the assignments that are due, easy to view.

Cengage provides activities from the text that are easy to use for the student and graded automatically for the instructor. The program works well with the LMS and grades are easier transferred.

I would like to add a timed featured to the program that is currently not available (or not easy to find if it is available)

I recommend Mindtap to other instructors. It is easy to easy, has all the necessary activities and quizzes to assist in assessing students.

I am able to assess student's learning with the activities and exams that are provided in Cengage. I am able to assign students work that they are able to access an complete. The program is easy to use. Grades are transferrable to the LMS and I can also run reports within Cengage.

You can integrate your course.create online evaluations and provide instructions and in built the assessments for students

It still has lot of things which it misses out on like differentiated lesson plans, individual assessments

Great educational platform

Structured

I like that we can have a "notebook" and additional learning tools to help better understand the learning materials. I was by no means an economics genius and struggled in my first econ course, but MindTap helped me learn so I didn't struggle with it the second time around.

It's a bit pricey for a student budget. There's also a bit of a learning curve when first starting to use the program. Thankfully, there was a learning tutorial at the start for those unfamiliar with the product.

It will help with retention of key skill sets, thus leading to better management in corporations worldwide. It has helped improve our educational program greatly and we pride ourselves on our students' accomplishments.

It has helped streamline educational goals in order to create more value to the MBA degree by preparing students with more than adequate skills and abilities in a variety of business subjects.

What I like best is that I can get to it right from my school website and it takes me where I need to be automatically.

I'm not on it enough to say what I dislike about it.

It's very useful for those on the go days when you don't physically have a book, just log into your MindTap account and you're good to go!

The problems I a, solving with MindTap is I don't have to carry a book with me to class all the time, I can just take my tablet.

I cover the chapter during class. Then, the students can access "review" materials at any time of the day or night. The material is supplemented with videos and review tools. The students take their assessments on MindTap. Then, we have more time in class to work on projects and activities. The material is helpful also when a student has to be gone from class due to illness or extra curricular involvement.

The materials are affordable, but some students will always complain about the cost. You can get a printed version of the text for students who do better with a physical text, but that option adds to the cost. We are always concerned with academic honesty with any assessment tool. I can't prove that the student actually took the test. Nor can I prevent them from cheating. As the test is "open book" I hope that they will be less likely to do so.

I would try the test-drive the product as it might be somewhat subject specific. In my experience there were more tools associated with one of the subjects I teach versus another subject. By looking over a demo site I was able to determine that this subject had a sufficient depth and rigor.

I want to have more time to teach. MindTap gives me more time. I want my students to get the material from another source (than just listening to a lecture). This tool gives them some interaction and games. Our students do well with material that limits monotony. MindTap is very helpful in providing a variety of tools for assessment that keep students engaged. They come to class with a better understanding of the material than they once did.

There are quite a few things that's great about MindTap, few of them I've listed below:

1. Grading is done automatically, which is a great feature

2. Top in-demand courses. Courses like management, psychology which are most sought after are provided here.

3. Easy to use for instructors

Its a great plaform to enhance online learning. the availability of educational tools provide an ease of implementation.

Its good to use. I don't see any issues.

Helping both the instructors and students.