Name: Acellus
Rating: 4.5 (26885 reviews)

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Acellus

GoldKey Security Corporation

Released: 2015-11-01

Free 0%

Version 2.6

Free 0%

Version 2.6

Released: 2015-11-01

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Description

Acellus is the fastest growing learning system in America. The program is used by over one million students at schools in every U.S. state. It works by showing short video lessons followed by practice problems to assess understanding of the concept taught. Acellus creates a dynamic and interactive learning experience to meet the specialized needs of every student.

Self-paced Learning

Students can work independently and receive personalized instruction to help them master each concept.

Live Monitoring

Watch your student's progress real-time from any mobile device or computer.

Automatic Record-keeping

Acellus automatically compiles scores, progress, and hours worked into printable reports.

Research-Based Data Driven Instruction

Acellus utilizes statistical data on how students learn to customize the learning process to the individual needs of each student.

Dynamic Course Updates

Student responses are analyzed and course enhancements are made, further improving the effectiveness of Acellus courses. Courses are updated daily.

Comprehensive Curriculum

Acellus courses cover all core content areas K-12, as well as courses for Advanced Placement (AP), Exceptional Education, Career & Technical Education, & Exam Preparation.

Universally Internet Accessible

Acellus uses the newest standards in web applications and video streaming to deliver the ultimate learning experience - at school or at home. Students can login anywhere Internet is available, and Acellus picks up right where they left off.

What's New in Version 2.6

This version has backend fixes.

Seller

Name

GoldKey Security Corporation

URL

http://acellus.com

Information

Developer

GoldKey Security Corporation

Version

2.6

Size

7 MB

Game Center

VPP Device Licensing

Yes

Rating

Rated: 4+

Compatibility

iOS 12.0 or later

Devices

iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (10th generation), iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)

Languages

English

App Store: Customer Ratings

Ratings & Reviews

4.5 of 5 (26,885 Ratings)

App Store: Customer Reviews

2023-09-23

Title

Y’all people giving it one star are tripping because it will make you enter recovery mode and DEEP recovery mode until you learn something and get good at it and there is no bugs or glitches it’s just y’all’s internet or electronics messing up and complaining you don’t have the patience to watch a video without it letting you skip… what the heck do you think happens in real school?!

2023-09-22

Dont get it its bad

I have been on this dang thing for 3+ years and i have not learned anything

2023-09-21

meh

they are trying to be like a social media 🤦‍♀️ like instagram or TikTok or YouTube and on and on 🤷‍♀️ it’s cringe to be honest, I think they should stop this “social media” thing 🤷‍♀️

2023-09-21

Expected More

Used several online learning platforms and this app has bugs and limitations of parental involvement. A parent paying tuition should also be able to call with any issue and not only have options of bot chat and email support. I received an email from the school and at the bottom of the email you see an address and not even the phone number. So they teach coding but their app has bugs and they teach language arts and can’t write a proper letter??? Concerned

2023-09-21

SLOW, KICKING, AND OVERALL IRRITATING!

I hate this school app I’m trying to get the stuff I’ve missed done but I don’t have the patience to wait for 40 minutes so it can load or kick me out just to load another 40 minutes It’s not even the app it’s the stupid update that makes everything slow I have spent 2 hours on this app and I have only taken a test that took 24 mins and did ONE ☝️ day of work that takes me 12 minutes I can’t comprehend how I have spent so much time on this dumb app just to get NOTHING DONE

2023-09-20

IT DOES NOT WORK WELL ANYMORE

THE SAME VIDEO REPEATS OVER AND OVER AGAIN FIX IT NOW

2023-09-19

Ehhh

I have been using this app for quite awhile but my problem is that the Ai doesn’t grade well, when I pause a video IT STARTS OVER which is very annoying for a 14min video , I don’t really remember what I learned which is bad because I have to take tests on it, the coding program is not good which is a shame, also when I get a question right it sometimes says it is wrong, and so much more is wrong with this app so that is all thanks for reading have a good day or night.

2023-09-16

Portuguese

I have a class in Portuguese and my class video isn’t loading properly; so when the video finishes, it won’t let me progress with my course.

2023-09-15

Was a good app until glitches kicked in

I use to really like this app, I still do like this app. However, 80% of the time my 8th grade social studies videos restart. Can you please fix this issue, that would be great.

2023-09-15

New version UI is buggy

The UI app update doesn’t work well on iPads, often cannot scroll pages to see all questions. No font resize in app. No zoom/shrink ability. Frustrating.

AppStore link to Support is broken, only leads to marketing pages.

2023-09-15

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Can anybody help me, I absolutely love acellus but since this new update it’s been a little confusing lol. One minute it says that I did the lesson and the other it shows that I absolutely nothing. Can someone please help and explain to me why it’s doing this.

2023-09-14

Fix your app

There’s way too many bugs with this

2023-09-12

Honest Student Review

(I’m currently a 10th grade student using Acellus) my parents have used many different programs for me and were looking for one that was the most user friendly. We new other students using Acellus and so we decided to go with this one when I was in 7th grade. This was a mistake. This program has so many flaws.

1. The lesson videos are insanely long. Nobody wants to sit through 30 minutes of Mark Rogers (if you know you know)

2. The pre test questions usually have little to do with what is actually on the test.

3. YOU CANT SKIP A QUESTION AND COME BACK TO IT LATER. This is the biggest issue for me. In public school- from day one of kindergarten you are taught that if you are stuck on a question, to move on and return to it later. But in Acellus you can’t do that and it’s extremely frustrating. This also makes having a math tutor impossible, because if you have a tutor once a week, you can’t do your schoolwork in between. You’d have to wait, and that’s not a realistic situation because we have to finish the course at some point.

4. The lessons aren’t engaging. I know for a fact that I learn more with groups of people and a real teacher that you can raise your hand and ask questions to. All the videos from this program were filmed before I was born.

5. You’re required to earn 27 credits to graduate. Since the high school one is actually an “online private school.” Most regular schools only need you to have 21-24. To some people this is a con, to some it’s a pro. It’s up to you to decide what you want on your diploma.

6. Each unit has like 20 ~different~ subject areas within the unit. This means at the beginning you’re learning about JFK’s speech and the next lesson after is about poetry and after that it’s about World War 2. Your test has questions on lessons you forgot about because the test isn’t on one subject. I don’t know if that makes sense or not, but if you’ve done any of these courses you’ll know what I’m talking about :)

I could point out more but this review would be far too long. I’m going to recommend that if you use this program that you have photomath with you at all times! Very important. The ELA is pretty easy to guess through. And the Collaborative theatre is a waste of time cause it’s to difficult(the lessons are sometimes 40+ minutes and the tests are LONG)

Happy schooling!!

2023-09-11

Really like it 🙂🙂

You guys are so so great and this is a very good app please don’t change okay 👍😁. And i really want Mr. Rogers to know he’s a very good teacher. i don’t know why people say the worst in the bad reviews, but i think he’s the best. i’m very happy learning on this app, that’s all i have to say thank you bye!!😋😁

2023-09-11

The new update is tresh

Even before the update this app was still tresh. I definitely do not recommend especially for people new to the app. It’s very confusing and if you miss a day (no matter how or if it was an emergency) you can’t go back and do it, it just says that you missed it.

2023-09-09

Update App

The app needs to be updated since you changed the way it looks because it constantly freezes and isn’t user friendly.

2023-09-07

Go back to normal

I woke up a few days ago and the app looked completely different. It’s a good program but ever since this “update” I’ve been having nonstop problems with the app. If I finish a video it will log me out. When I log back in it starts the video from the beginning. When I click on a subject it logs me out. I can’t have my time wasted like that. Like I said, it’s a good app, but it has been having damaging problems. I’ll change the rating when this is fixed. The loading times are so long. This is throwing me further behind and I’m already behind. Fix it.

2023-09-06

It was better till gold.

So acellus made this new thing called acellus gold. This made it so my iPad couldn’t run it, you can’t do the stuff you missed, and it’s unorganized. There’s even no orientation! This honestly ruined acellus from its simple and easy to grasp learning system to a thing that tries to be more than itself. I’m disappointed about the small amount of consideration given for an update that we didn’t need. This became IXL, which we left before because it was just like aces gold, I hope that we don’t do this next year.

If you’re reading this, DONT GET ACELLUS!!!!

2023-09-06

Loved it until the UPDATE!!

WE HATE THE UPDATE!! ---We've used Acellus for a year but they just updated it to the Gold version and there are SO many things my kids (and I) don't like! They haven't made it easy to give parent feedback and you can't switch back to the old version, which was much more streamlined and less flashy. They made this site fluffed with earning coins and games, competition (which is what they are really advertising now), and we joined Acellus for learning, not all that extra fluff. My kids are older and just want to do their schoolwork-- not have flashy distractions. The layout is so different it's hard to find things, even in the parent section.

From a technical standpoint, there are glitches like videos can no longer go full screen because they have created a flashy background that they want to show during the middle of a lesson video trying to be played (why??), and you cannot scroll down to even see the rest of the contents of a page when you click on it so only half the information is displayed (no idea how you were supposed to fix that because tech-support will not respond even after I called them?!).... it's just a mess. On top of all they invested to make this flashy new interface, they didn't even update all their old videos!? If anything should have changed it should have been that because some videos are very old and not in HD.

Parents should be given an easy option to give feedback and the option to keep the old version especially-- for children who struggle with overstimulation ---because this new layout has A LOT going on visually, which could be very distracting to some children! My rating went from 4stars to 2 because of this new change. We definitely aren't a fan and it's super disappointing.

2023-09-06

Terrible new update

I’m not sure if you didn’t release the new update in its entirety or what, but there are missing classes now (only showing now) and no access to most of the old features…that are actually needed. Had we known this was going to happen, we would probably have chosen a different online school because whatever this is is not going to work.

2023-09-05

buggy

app is very qlitchy and looks completely different. every time i click on math it kicks me out. i cant find my writing assignments either.

2023-08-31

Recent update is terrible.

I’m unable to access my AP Computer Science A class on my computer, most likely due to me having horrible reception. Before the update, however, I was able to access it. It was terribly slow, and the videos restarted after 7/8 of the way through them, but at least I was making progress.

I have one class left before I graduate high-school, and it’s 83% done. The fact that I cannot access this class is making me indescribably furious. 1 Star until this is fixed.

2023-08-30

Why??

This new update is horrible, i cant describe how much i hate it

2023-08-30

MAKE THE SCREEN AROUND THE VIDEOS AND LESSONS WHITE AGAIN

BRING BACK THE WHITE SCREEN I HATE THE NEW TECH ONE

2023-08-29

This is NOT A Adequate Educational System

I tried this program for homeschooling my 7 yr Old for a year and I am not pleased to PAY for a homeschool program that the app does not work properly you cannot contact anyone for assistance and the layout and format are poorly designed ,Accellus is not a adequate educational service.I do not recommend at all k-12 is free and is a better program

2023-08-26

i would die with slaps without this

at my old school i got showerd with slaps and then my mum came in and signed me in i love this😁

2023-08-22

Ai grades writing.

So far I’ve enjoyed this, as it’s helping me graduate early as I’m more advanced then my peers and in person schooling slowed me down. But my worst nightmare on this app AND the website is the written assignments. If a quote is written with slang, or using dialect that Americans don’t use, it will count it wrong. It ranks my grade.

Second of all, there is no way that I got a 106 in a history special lesson, but in a regular English one had a “sixth grade writing level”. I’ve had the highest writing grades in my whole school, there is no way if suddenly dropped so low.

Some of the teachers are annoying, and you NEED TO TAKE NOTES. this is NOT a listen and learn type class, and the people who think that are stupid. If a lesson is giving you terms, write them down. It’s that simple.

Also, AP classes assume you have taken the course before. I never took physics before AP Physics, quit bringing up “you should have learned this in a previous class”. Speaking of AP physics, half of the questions aren’t things talked about! My teacher will go on and on about formula for 13 minutes, but my questions are all theory based. It doesn’t make sense.

Same with APChem. Granted I took Adv Chem when I was doing in person learning, but the way she teaches is almost worse the. That. She’ll give you a standard problem, solve it, and that’s it. No different problems, or way to solve them, or what you’d do if you use Liters instead of grams or moles. Not worth it tbh.

2023-08-16

Dated Curriculum

Some of the curriculum is out of date, and i’ve noticed that a majority of the curriculum was published in 2012. Other than that, I love the app!

2023-08-14

Im 8 and I’m in 5th grade

I’ve been in homeschool for my entire life, and I me very successful, I’m in 5th grade and 4th, I recommend this program; oh and also I make comics and story’s, unlike normal eight year olds

2023-08-07

Bad

It glitches and if your wifi is bad it will glitches and restart the lesson

2023-08-06

Doesn’t load all the time

I love having this app on my iPhone when it’s working. I can check my child’s progress with ease. However, it’s been my experience within the last week that it doesn’t load all the way to the parent portal it just comes up with a blank screen. Please fix.

2023-07-24

Great

Balls

2023-07-21

PLEASE CHANGE THIS

3 stars because when i use this if u go back you can't go back to where you were, and something it happens when i'm all the way at the end then i have to rewatch it, it's very annoying and time consuming.

2023-07-16

Acellus

This is the best learning app that I have used.

From,

Katya Caslin (A student)

2023-07-11

This is amazing I love acellus!!!!!!!!!!!!!😍😍😍

I’ve been using acellus since 2019 and it is awesome and fun

2023-07-08

Good learning app/website!

2023-07-07

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I am going to go ahead and do it now because it is not in the best shape of

2023-06-16

Great if you can stay focused

I like it

2023-06-15

It’s… good?

Don’t get me wrong it’s a good schooling system. It’s only my first years using it but I didn’t feel I understood the lessons, they either explain it to complicated or to the point it feels like you’re not learning anything. Plus some of the tests are way to long for the short amount of time you learned something. You could learn something then go onto something completely different. You could get easily bored or confused using this app. Could just be me but it’s complicated.

2023-06-13

Captions

Got this program because it advertised itself to have captions. It turns out the captions are auto-generated (worse than YouTube caption quality) & impossible to follow. Deaf & HoH people beware!

2023-06-12

A great learning app

It’s good they have some games for the subject you’re on but their is one problem the grammar in the reading/writing needs some work

2023-06-09

Ref

I don’t like it

2023-05-30

Awesome program!

This is an awesome program I’ve used for almost 4 years now and it is awesome! As a student I can say I am learning so much and it’s so easy to fit other things in my life now that I can make my own schedule. It is a little hard for those who can’t read yet if they don’t have access to sound but besides that it’s a very great program. 9/10 would recommend!

2023-05-25

So good school

10/10🫶🫶

2023-05-24

Ok…

It’s ok I use it for my kiddos but sometimes they can’t do schoolwork because it’s won’t let them log on but if they fix that then five stars definitely

2023-05-22

I hate school

I hate school this app should just help me after I’m done with a test if I fail it will say would you like a help video if I say yes it will say sorry no vids available at this time so I’m stuck with test and no help

2023-05-16

Whoever wrote bad ratings are immature

Most of the bad rarings are “I hate school” “school is boring I’m so happy Im done with acellus.” There are some reviews that are somewhat genuine but don’t make sense. I have been using acellus for about 1.5 months and am already half done with 8th grade in real school it would’ve took like 4.5. I enjoy acellus and learn way better then I ever could in public school

2023-05-13

school

i hate school!!!!

2023-05-11

I love this app

It is absolutely wonderful, it has helped my child a lot, who has adhd and autism, to actually focus and get things done!, I love this school, 10/10 would recommend for other fathers.

2023-05-10

Definitely recommend it!

I have been using Acellus for about A year now, and I love it! The only thing is that I wish they made some tests without multiple choice questions, because it gets kinda easy sometimes.

2023-04-20

Highly recommend

I believe this was the best option for my daughter because she got held back in public school. And this school has actually gotten her to her grade level and she is happy to get on it every day. It has also improved her reading and writing. Once she ready to go to public school again she will be prepared. And I would recommend downloading it on your computer because it doesn’t have any glitches.

2023-04-08

Solid educational experience for 3 of my 5 children!

As a mom of 5, I cannot say enough about how amazing Acellus has been for our 3 younger children. Our children had always attended private school as did their two older sibling who both received honors college scholarships to two different top notch universities. After Covid we needed something to better suit our family and competing on the national level for swimming, Acellus was the perfect fit. I have two accelerated students and one who learns differently as she is dyslexic. Acellus Academy has been so easy to modify and adapt to each of my children’s learning styles, abilities, and needs. So thankful this was created and is being evaluated and perfected routinely.

2023-04-08

Billings makes changes and deletes kids work.

Acellus Power Homeschool was a really great tool for homeschooling my special needs child. We used this CURRICULUM in “Tutoring” mode which allowed my daughter to rewatch videos and retake the quizzes in order to master the subject. Suddenly, with NO WARNING, Mr. Billings turned off the tutoring mode and erased all hard-earned progress. He then proceeded to gaslight parents and accused our children of cheating. He doesn’t understand what homeschooling is. Homeschooling does not wish to have “accredited” schooling. We need school to tailor to our child’s needs. If my child has mastered an area, I see no need for them to watch a video. They should be able to skip ahead and take the quizzes. Parents give credit, not the curriculum. I have no issues with Billings changing things in the summer prior to beginning a new year. Making unnecessary changes toward the end of the school year, is cruel and irresponsible. Unfortunately, after 5 years of using this program, it will come to an end for us. If you don’t want control over your child’s education, this might be okay for you.

2023-04-06

Great app!!!

I’d have to say this app really helps me focus I have it all in my face so I don’t need to worry where I am in class and if I can’t see it’s very clear no distractions it works well for me my only problem is not having one it keeps consistent in just being clear and direct i wish I could talk with the teachers so I can ask questions but that’s a small price to pay all in all great app 5 stars

2023-03-20

Great app for learning but some things could be changed

I started using the app for school this year and it’s great, however there are some things that need to be changed like sometimes if you miss 3 questions it puts you in recovery mode where you have to do multiple lessons just to redo it, and to get a discount on it you have to watch a science video on Wednesdays which I think is completely unfair because if I miss one they could stop giving me a discount and on some Wednesday’s I’m busy and can’t do the video. Other than that the app is great and I would recommend it if you’re tired of real school

2023-03-08

Warning

For anyone considering using this program if you haven’t already, please, please, please, reconsider. What attracts people most to this program is the price, unfortunately in this case you get what you pay for. You can definitely tell everything is of low quality and the app is even worse. They didn’t even try to fit it to a phone they just imported the pc website into the app. The lessons don’t really teach you much at all and the teachers for some classes just aren’t that good at explaining these topics in any sort of depth in a way that someone who is learning it can understand. If there is any errors or questions you can forget about getting those dealt with, they will never be looked at (and there’s quite a bit of errors in answers as well as typos that have been there for years and will continue to be there). Do not sacrifice your child’s education for the price, if you read some of the other reviews they go a bit more in depth about it but I really do not recommend this program for anyone middle school+ at all.

2023-03-06

Math

In the math classes you watch a video and then answer questions, like everything else. There is one issue I have with the math setup. There is a lesson manual with an example equation. I really wish that there was more than one example. Sometimes there are a few different ways that you have to do an equation, or equations with things like decimals and fractions. There should be an example involving all of the things like fractions and decimals, as well as the typical one in case a student is needed to do equations with fractions and decimals.

2023-02-24

Printing special lessons

The curriculum is excellent but the app freezes up when I try to print off special lessons. Was able to get some of the lessons printed but after a few successful attempts the app just freezes up. Tried several times, reset my phone, checked for updates, and reset the app. Still will not print the science lesson. Kind of frustrating after a solid week of flawless connectivity. Very pleased with all the curriculums but the freezing is possibly a deal breaker.

2023-01-18

Better than a previous learning program that I was using.

I rate this 4/5 stars. You don’t have the option to skip any content (which prevents missed information) and the app works well.

But I don’t give it a full 5 stars because for one, you can’t start special assignments over when you ATTEMPT to write something for it and end up failing miserably instead. I had this problem. So I had to re-write the entire assignment all while the “recheck” button was staring me in the face, and it wouldn’t let me save until every required word was used.

And that’s another thing. Required words. I really don’t like them. They really just seem like they’re forcing you to create a specific context to use them, and sometimes it’s extremely difficult to do that.

For another reason, after tapping the Science L!ve thing, you can’t exit back to the Home Screen without force-quitting the app.

And for ANOTHER, there’s a bug that makes it so that if you leave the app (put it in the background) it makes it impossible for you to exit back to the Home Screen anyway, and disables the Help and Resources tab for some reason.

Also. Can you please add a setting place to use, say, dark mode!? I really want dark mode.

You’re lucky I’m rating this 4 stars instead of 3. Sometimes this app really makes me go crazy.

2022-12-27

Best Schooling!

Acellus has been amazing for me, I’m a sophomore in high school and i’ve struggled with school for a few years now. The classes are much easier for me to follow along with and I’ve noticed a drastic improvement in my overall well-being since i’ve started this a few months ago. I have adhd and anxiety, so i really like the self paced classes and that you can choose them! 10/10 recommend

2022-12-27

It’s… Okay

Acellus gets the job done, but barely. Videos are played in 144p, learning is done through video>quiz>video>quiz over and over and over again. Exams are sprinkled in there very often as well, and an AI grades writing lessons, making it hard to actually write anything that sounds good as it performs pretty badly. It’s a good start, but it is very boring and the low quality of video makes it hard to see text on screen. Recovery lessons are often either too hard, too easy, or no at all helpful. If a child is stuck on a problem, they can message the Acellus staff directly. Except… they, don’t actually help you. Instead, they paste in a pre-made message to watch the videos and read the manual instead. Some courses don’t have lesson manuals, and the videos are sometimes not enough to get the point. Some lessons are outdated, there quite consistently incorrect answers set to be correct (which you can report, although nobody will ever see it), typos, and all around just a painful experience. I would recommend homeschooling your child in another way, especially if they are older, i.e. high school age. If you do want to use this program, I would suggest using it up to middle school and then transferring to another program.

2022-11-08

I didn’t know what to put for the title

I love how you can speed up the videos just a little bit, but I don’t love how some of the not final exams are over 75 questions. Acellus has really been good to me and my siblings who are also doing it, I think that Acellus is doing really well and improving because these days Acellus has been getting more and more students joining. I honestly never thought I would say this but I am going to, … I am proud of you Acellus congratulation’s 🙌🏽👍🏽

2022-09-24

my review

I am currently a student of Acellus, I am in high school and I really like the app I definitely prefer virtual rather in person. I always seem to have issues the app never loads, i’ve switched Wi-Fi providers two times in case that was the issue and it still doesn’t seem to work and now I have deleted the app to try and reinstall it and it won’t work it won’t let me re-download the app. Rather than all that, the app itself the set up is really good, I do wish that they had more interaction during the videos because they are very easy but tiring because you’re not doing anything for the whole video of your one class and it’s a little boring.

2022-09-23

I don’t know how I feel about this

So it’s a really good app and it usually works pretty well, but when you try to send one of the teachers a message they don’t usually answer you for a few days whereas with public school you can just email your teacher and they answer right away or you can just ask them the question face to face. I hate how when I have to watch a help video because I failed the exam it won’t let me skip to the part I actually need to understand, and the lessons are all over the place, like in language arts I’m learning stuff that I learned in third grade but then in math I’m learning things my freshman friends haven’t even learned yet and I’m in 7th grade. They don’t let you know when their going to be updating the app or how long it will take, so you can’t always access everything no matter how bad you may need to. So while it’s got a few major, major flaws overall it’s a pretty good app and it doesn’t cost to much.

2022-05-26

Good and bad!

I really do enjoy this, but I think it’s more of me liking homeschooling than liking this. It is very hard for me to learn as someone who needs hands on stuff, but I’ve also learned more than I would have in public school. School was difficult and hard to deal with, and I never learned anything there. But it is still hard to learn stuff from, I’ve gotten the hang of how to get myself to pay attention since I’ve been doing it for a little over a year but it still isn’t the best option for sure. For example spanish is taught just by showing a picture and saying the word and it’s hard to hold the information in my head like that.

2022-04-17

Here’s my take

I am now almost finished with my tenth grade year. I’ve been a student at Acellus Academy since eighth grade right before the pandemic. I’m rating it four stars because I mostly like the school but there definitely could be some updates. For one, the interface is very outdated and I’m sure it would be easy to update. I think the special lessons should be graded by actual people and not a robot because I feel like it’s not accurate grading. Some special lessons don’t make much sense. You have to figure things out by yourself usually if you’re struggling or get a parent to help. The majority of questions are multiple choice which isn’t that difficult. It depends though. I just can’t give them five stars because there is a lot to be improved.

2022-03-01

Absolutely incredible!

My 13 yr old in 8th grade was having a serve time with anxiety manifesting itself as many various physical symptoms. It was advised that we remove her from physical school and switch her to virtual. I didn’t like the schools virtual platform cause I know way to track what she actually did for the day. And we were at the mercy of the teachers to eventually grade an assignment and post the grade. In the past she has learned to cheat the system and I needed something that was more fluid. Started searching national options and came across Acellus. We thank our lucky stars everyday that I stumbled across it. My daughter loves it. And grades and assignments happen instantaneously. It’s really quite fabulous. The best part is that if she isn’t grasping a concept she isn’t just left in the dust while moving on to the next lesson. This system adapts to her to assure she is proficient in each task/lesson before moving forward to the next task. She can’t cheat and she absolutely loves it. She loves how fast she has been able to go through her classes. We are 3 weeks in and 2 of her classes she has already done more than 1 semester’s worth. I’ve never seen her this excited about school. Worth every penny. Looking forward to rolling into her freshman year classes in a matter of months at the rate she is going. If she is having fun and learning I’ll happily let her go as fast as she wants through her classes. She will for sure graduate early at this rate.

2022-02-23

My parents are mean

I’m doing all the sessions and stuff like I’m supposed to but my parents say this app is to short and they want me to do like 7 hours when your only supposed to do 2 or 4 hours and when I finish 2 lessons in 1 class in like 15 they tell me to do more they want me to do extra work than I'm supposed to it’s so annoying I would LOVE if you said a reminder for parents that this app is supposed to be used 2-4 hours a day so my parents would not yell at me for doing it to short so PLEASE ADD THAT SUGGESTION

2022-01-17

Acellus… Good or Bad?

This is a good App for school at a pretty decent price compared to other online schools. I do have to say that I don’t love there math and science considering that they go threw it so fast on each lesson that some times it is hard grasp what they are trying to teach you, but there side classes are great for learning in the fact that they have so many to choose from and do a good job teaching the SMALL lessons.

IN conclusion I think it is good long as you are doing another program with it to ensure that you grasping what they teach you.

2021-12-14

Love how convenient it is !!!

I really enjoy learning at my own pace I think it’s very revolutionary, it helps me get more things done. Acellus is nice because it is a very flexible way to do school being able to finish it fast and easy because they are already pre recorded videos, and since it’s on a device you can just watch them wherever you are, making it easy to get work done whenever you want.

2021-11-27

Wouldn’t recommend

This is my third year of using this app and I hope it’s my last. I’m taking one class on the app and it’s only because we had a hard time ordering my Course work from the other school we switched to. To be honest, I was a little disappointed about it.

The lessons are either too easy and boring that I can’t focus on what they are saying or way too complex. They give you questions after each lesson that are random and aren’t based on the key topics of each lesson. When you take a complex lesson, the skills you learned aren’t reinforced with the right questions. I always had passing grades, but never felt like I was getting it.

When taking the exam and practice exams, the questions are random too. Sure they have to do with the topics you learned but the questions on the pretest are entirely different from the questions on the actual exam. Isn’t the practice test supposed to help you know what to expect on the exam? How is it practicing for the exam if the questions aren’t related? If you do well on the pretest, you can still fail the exam because of this. Sometimes the questions are something that wasn’t even taught in any lessons. And when teaching the lessons, they never say “this is very important as it could be on the exam.” Like most teachers everywhere else do.

While it may seem like a amazing program at first, it isn’t the greatest out there for its price. Your child will end up bored, annoyed, and with no knowledge of the things taught.

2021-11-10

Worst decision I’ve ever made in my life…

I learn sure, but I don’t retain anything even slightly complex. I highly suggest you do not use this app. It seems great at first, it really does. But then you start losing motivation a couple months in. I am going at the same pace I would be going at a public school. I’ve been using this for years. It’s not like I am a bad student either I used to get mostly A’s in school. And it ruins any type of social life your child has. The only reason I haven’t switched back is because I am already so close to finishing and the amount of hurdles you have to go through to switch back to public school is outrageous . I was 86% through a course and suddenly the video isn’t playing, and u can’t skip it , all my other subjects work except for that so it isn’t a internet connection issue. So, now I think that progress I made in that course(Months) will be deleted.

2021-11-02

Amazing!

I recently just finished 6th grade and I’m in 7th. I love this a lot. I finished 6th grade within a few months! In public school you have to do semesters and stuff like that. But here you can work at your own pace and you don’t have rude teachers rushing you around like it would be in public school. I highly recommend this school Edit: I’m in 8th grade now and the program is still pretty good but I feel like some of the stuff that they are teaching is kind of irrelevant to me. Especially in social studies and language arts. I don’t really see what’s the point in learning about Shakespeare, and most of the time I don’t even watch the videos because I already know what the answers are. In social studies it’s just really boring, and the teacher explains the lesson in a very boring way. My attention span doesn’t last very long so I get bored really easily, but I probably won’t have to worry about this anymore because I’m going to return to public school after I’m done with grade 8. Anyways, the school would probably be better for kids that are good at paying attention unlike me. Another thing that I wanted to mention was how hard it is to keep my grades at all A’s. If I get a B on an exam then my grade all of the sudden goes down to a B like seriously? I got a good grade on the test so why is my grade going down!?

2021-11-01

Best school

This is the best school because you can learn so much, on any device, anywhere! You can also join a class with Roger Billings, which is really fun and educational. You can learn things normal schools don’t teach you and you can do more then other schools because other schools you just wait for the class to end but here you can do as much as you want and choose which class you want!

2021-10-22

Im not surprised

Ok so acellus, yes it is a great teaching app there are just some flaws, i know the videos are supposed to be done but the teachers in the videos treat me like im in 3rd grade, especially the math teacher, he acts way to goofy, the other teachers qre fine tho, 2nd reason is that u cant skip videos! EVEN if u already watched them, its just ridiculous! Every time i get a help video it wont let me skip to the part i need to understand,and it post way to much stuff in math,even if u miss one day it will give u like 10 assignments over the ones u need to do, crazy! but ig over all THAT its a good app in the end, def teaches good in a way?

2021-10-07

Love love love for my kindergartner

After researching for so long for accredited online schools that can cater to my little one needs (she has an iep) I am glad that I chose Acellus Academy. I don’t have to tote books and binders when going on vacay, all you needs is a device and wifi :) I had her enrolled into connections academy but that was not a great fit for her. She was falling through the cracks even with live teachers with 50 kids in the same class. They wasn’t even teaching! Now she loves getting up and going to school. I can easily switch her back to brick and mortar after covid ends (if we decide) i love that they have an app and parent account. Everything is simple and user friendly!

2021-10-01

Lags/NON-Certified TEACHERS

Please this program is crap. The foundation of the program has a wonderful idea but the execution of the program is horrible. For students that are nonreaders or beginners this is not the program. MOST OF THE MATERIAL IS MUST READ. I love the video’s very informative but when you get to the next steps some questions are not correctly written and or is a must read for parents. The questions seem to be more involved rather than baseline on subject matter and age understanding. The sight has the ability to do more with just a click of some buttons from Acellus but I doubt that will happen. ANOTHER THING …. Pay attention to attendance because I have been on with my children personally and it logs that they did not do work. This is crucial to children possible going to return to in person learning for attendance verification. Good luck parents but we do get what we pay for. On another not this is a Diploma earning school for high schoolers….this is the only one I have come across like this making it much easier to attend colleges across the world… there is also other Ideal Schools which is also online but comes with a bigger price tag!! But is a LIVE TEACHER

2021-09-10

Terrible school

First off, it doesn’t cater to kids with hearing disabilities. 95% of the time, the videos don’t even have subtitles.

Next, you only get ONE TIME TO PUT AN ANSWER MOST OF THE TIME, if it’s a type in answer they give you only a few times to answer and if you get wrong all times, you have to go through this awful and usually long “help video”. Most of the time when I put an answer, I’ll end up accidentally tapping an answer that I didn’t want! And I’ll have to watch an unnecessarily long video.

Third, you cANT SKIP VIDEOS IF YOU ALREADY UNDERSTAND THE MATERIAL!!! I was put into SEVERAL wrong classes this year because of a 46 QUESTIONED TEST, how is a test with 46 questions going to tell me what class I’m in? OF CORSE IM NOT GOING TO KNOW ALL THE MATERIAL I LEARNED IN THE LAST 5 MONTHS, the human brain doesn't retain memory for that long, school is quite literally short term memory for most.

AND LAST, YOU CANT TALK TO REAL PEOPLE IN THE SCHOOL!! There have been countless times when I needed help and I HAD TO BUY A TUTOR- NO, NOT FROM THIS SCHOOL. This school costs a lot for what it gives. It’s not worth it.

Please listen to your kids, if they are struggling, help them, and no- not by smashing their phone.

2021-06-09

It wasn’t the best

I was so happy to see my daughter thriving through school but didn’t make sense is that when I transferred over she had to start the whole school year over in the middle of February. And even though she was doing great in most her classes the math portion did not make sense on the way they worded there works and solved it in all honesty they over complicated the easiest things. During the social and emotional corse she didn’t really understand the. Concept of some of the things the teacher was saying and if she did it did not make her feel the best about herself. Over all. I would not choose this as my first option but it was still good

2021-05-12

Good but some bad things

So I’m a student and I think it is a really good program but four things that need fixing. No.1 some times when you press the button that makes you go 15 seconds back sometimes it will make you go back to almost the beginning I’ve spent so much time bc of that. No.2 the coding program is quite bad I’ve had many times where the question was different from the video and it’s also so hard my mom can’t do it I barely managed to keep my A in coding and you should make the questions more related to the video. No 3 the messaging is also bad if you ask a question they don’t respond or you will get sound like your having trouble blah blah blah I remember asking a question about do cells have gender and if so how can you tell? No awnser after three months I deleted because my sisters told me they don’t have genders.

2021-04-26

Absolutely Amazing!!

Acellus has great portioned lessons, and lots of extra credit opportunities, which can up your grade a whole percent which helps me keep straight A’s in all my classes! Of course you’ll see lots of lies made my 2nd graders so they don’t have to do school, but in reality it’s the best homeschool system I’ve ever used, coming from a homeschooler for 4 years! in 7th grade curriculum it teaches kids great real world skills like how to do taxes and in English it makes writing essays really fun!

2021-03-04

Great program!

I started using Acellus during May of 2020. I love that you can go at you pace because I went through 9th and 10th grade in one year!! I am self driven so i have no problems with motivation and keeping a consistent school schedule. My parents monitor my long term progress but otherwise I get a lot of responsibility and independence with my coursework. I recommend this for anyone who is feeling held back in public school and would like a change of pace. There is an option for having a real life teacher monitor your classes and work or just a parent. The classes are pretty understandable and I find little to no problems with this program. They also provide AP courses and many diverse options for what you want to learn. 10/10!

2021-02-23

It’s alright.

So it is a very good app the only problem is that the work stacks up on you only don’t do it and then sometimes when you try to do what you don’t get your points you get your stars and that is what really makes me mad because what is the point. This app wastes all of my time when I don’t get my points and my professor is always saying every few weeks that we need to have the certain percentage and how am I supposed to do that if acellus does not give me my points. That is a very big glitch that you guys need to fix because if you guys don’t fix it then I’m starting to have doubts about passing my grade. So yeah please work on that and on the days that kids can’t work you have to put the time into it so that the work doesn’t stack up that much.

2021-01-10

Acellus video and learning concerns

You guys really be to change the video options. I can not fastfoward on any device only backwards. So I know one it something wrong with the app. Which In the orientation it says you can fastfowards and go backwards. This is really time consuming and extremely annoying. Please fix that. Abs also it would be great if you guys added a transcript to the video for those who are hard of hearing or maybe have missed a part of the video. Learning is for everyone and I feel that you guys should make it more accessible for those with different learning needs.

Thank you

2020-12-07

Just a suggestion. :D

I love this app, and it’s been helping me with understanding a lot. But just a suggestion. Can you program it not to give work on the holidays? It’s annoying how I have a day off on Christmas or Thanksgiving, and I have to come back the next day and do twice the work. Also, when you’re taking over a quiz or assignment, it counts it as your daily work, and I don’t know why. I think that needs to fix. I’ve been very confused on how I finished my daily work so fast. Anyways, I think those two things need to be fixed. Other than that, this is app is amazing! Thank you for taking time to read my review! :D

2020-10-02

Good and but boring format

I’m gonna say now it’s a good software to use for learning next to anything but it gets kinda boring after a while. It’s the same format for most if not all classes. Watch a video do some problems watch ANOTHER video and so on. And if your lucky you will get the ever so rare “exam” of the same questions you literally just did. Although I’m not too far into the program and this is coming from a first year in high school homeschooling really the only fun I’ve had with this program was going on a spree due to how easy it was, put me in a good mood.

2020-09-17

We love this app!!

My daughter’s school went online this year due to Covid-19. We were given this program to start out the year and we would choose if we wanted to go in further or leave and go to another program. We chose to DEFINITELY stay at Acellus! It’s an amazing program! The teachers are very fun and captivating! The program is advanced and they learn new things every day! Being able to send a message to her teachers if she needs help is really helping my daughter. Also, she LOVES reading, so she likes to read books in the library in Acellus. She LOVES this program a lot and really enjoys school these days, something that I thought that I would never see her like. THANK YOU ACELLUS YOU MADE HER LIKE SCHOOL!!! It’s a great program and I totally recommend it. My daughter is in the 4th grade, so I don’t know what it’s like for Middle School and High School, but I would recommend this program for elementary students. Love it! (my daughter picked the review name so that is why it is like that.) Good day!

2020-09-16

Wish exams were different

I have used a acellus for quite a few years and I always get aggravated when the reviews and exams have questions from the same areas but not the same questions or close to it. Why review something if it isn’t important enough to be on the test? Also I wish the lessons would get re-numbered after lessons are added or taken away. I have a daily planner for school and it’s very aggravating to have to continue fixing the numbers because some are missing so if I have to do 20-24 and the removed what was 23 then now I’m doing 20-25. It’s just confusing. Over all great app and very useful!

2020-09-03

Ya know ya

I’m going point out for now on a of life where plz oh haha I will not get this album from my friend in my game tonight so we have no friends at a party but I’m sure it I would get to join in a fun place to see it I would have a chance and then I’ll join him for sure I would like a lot to get it for sure but it is so good I have been a little disappointed in his past but he popppopkkooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooopppppoooopoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop

2020-08-26

Usability issues but good content

The content is great. Well paced, well taught. But the usability of the ipad app is very poor.

Problem 1: slow answer recognition. When you submit an answer, there is no reaction for several seconds. This causes many children to tap again, which often is registered as the answer to the next question before it even loads.

Solutions: show a loading icon, message, or other visual cue to not tap again. Don't use taps until the question has fully loaded. Maybe at a coding level, return all the questions and answers to the ipad before the quiz/exam begins.

Problem 2: question moved off screen when ipad keyboard pops up. You can't see both the question and the keyboard at the same time. The keyboard stays up when the next question appears, meaning you are constantly switching or scrolling for every single question.

Solution: scale the question to fit with the keyboard for questions answered with a keyboard and automatically bring it up or put it away.

Problem 3: no idea where in a unit you are. There should be some way, without leaving the course and going into a distant submenu, to know how far along in a unit you are.

Solution: A simple progress bar or 3/10.

These issues directly affect the efficacy of instruction, especially for younger students.

2020-08-24

Very amazing!🥰

I can’t even start to tell you how great this app is! This is the best homeschool app out there! And that’s saying a lot from me, one who hasn’t ~loved~ school in the past. This is so great for the following reasons... super reliable, very self-guided, and great curriculum! Very reliable because you can check your progress and lesson status at any time! Self guided because you can pause the video whenever you would like and elaborate on what is being said or just to take notes for your own self benefit! Great curriculum because you can pick out your own electives for your child and there are even special lessons to advance in your knowledge on the subject. The app even has “Library” and a “Roger Billings Vlog” for extra help and creativity! For all the parents out there who are struggling to choose on what is best for school right now, I HIGHLY recommend Accelus! Thank you.

2020-08-17

Keeps logging off

We are new to the school. My daughter is in the kindergarten program. I requested to add a first grade class. No response. Now she is being logged off in the middle of lessons. I emailed the teachers for the lessons. They offered no solutions to the problem, but simply acknowledged when she was able to log back in. Today, she was logged off in the middle of lectures and reviews. Again, I emailed. No response. So not only are we being logged off in the middle of lessons, we are also being ignored. This happened 10+ times. It’s FRUSTRATING! We are still in her first month and it started off great but went down hill after the second week. I’m seriously considering cancelling if this problem is not resolved. I understand glitches here and there, but this is just ridiculous.

2020-08-05

Great with one major flaw

I've been using this for 3 weeks now and my oldest is loving it so far. I love the parent log in as well to keep track of progress and check out the syllabus when needed. Our only complaint is, some videos are really hard to hear even with the volume all the way up. We used the closed caption and 75% of it either has the wrong spelling or the completely wrong words used. Can you please fix this issue. If my child was deaf this would be a terrible program.

2020-05-13

I 💗 this app!!!!!!❣️😍❤️🥰😘

This app has made it very easy for me to understand some things that I didn’t understand before I got the app: I have to admit that I had a few problems in pretty much all my subjects but who doesn’t right??? So I used to have a VERY HARD time in math especially in division then acellus came in, but I just have to agree with some of the people that say that they are having problems with the app for example l just finished my 4th grade math and l am now in 5th grade math and they make it look 👀 easygoing at first but when you get to a hard problem then it’s like what am I doing here so I still have to ask my dad for help and another thing is acellus just came out with a new writing course and me and my mom can’t figure out how to get to it and it says that it is in all of my subjects including science, social studies,language arts/reading and etc so I hope that they fix this soon! Thank you 😊.!!!

2019-07-10

Awesome app

I had lots of problems in my school work I didn’t even like school till my mother got this app for me. I LOVEE how they make you redo the exams and help you get a better grade, I also like how they have you watch videos on the subjects you work on and you can take notes on the videos it’s like going to school, but you are alone. That’s what I hated about school I had to share the teacher with other students and the teacher had to help everyone I recommend getting the app.

2019-01-18

Correct answer said to be wrong.

I’m a homeschool student who has been using Acellus for four years now, and hasn’t used anything else. I love the program and all the new courses I have taken over the years, but my only is with some of the math subjects, such as the high school geometry (that I’m taking this year) and the algebra 1 class (from last year). The issues are with the fact that sometimes when I would answer a question right, it would say that it was wrong, and when I used the Submit Problem Fix option, it would take at least a day to refresh. In fact, I’m having problems with that right now. And not only has that happened to just me, but also my siblings have come across the same issue. Troubles like these have lowered my grades, and have made my homeschooling experience a real pain.

2017-12-12

ExCellent🤗Outstanding

My children have been schooling with Acellus for 3 years. We have never had a problem with it we downloaded this app on iphone on their mini ipad4 and our computers. We are all so very happy, my kids love the way Acellus is online. All the Acellus teachers always helping my kids when they get stuck, the teachers quick email them and emails me to let me know my children problems and always has a solution. When you call over the phone they are very nice always asking questions to help with your children's education. This online School is 10x’s way better and more advance than public school..

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Dont get it its bad

meh

Expected More

SLOW, KICKING, AND OVERALL IRRITATING!

IT DOES NOT WORK WELL ANYMORE

Ehhh

Portuguese

Was a good app until glitches kicked in

New version UI is buggy

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Fix your app

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Really like it 🙂🙂

The new update is tresh

Update App

Go back to normal

It was better till gold.

Loved it until the UPDATE!!

Terrible new update

buggy

Recent update is terrible.

Why??

MAKE THE SCREEN AROUND THE VIDEOS AND LESSONS WHITE AGAIN

This is NOT A Adequate Educational System

i would die with slaps without this

Ai grades writing.

Dated Curriculum

Im 8 and I’m in 5th grade

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Doesn’t load all the time

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PLEASE CHANGE THIS

Acellus

This is amazing I love acellus!!!!!!!!!!!!!😍😍😍

Good learning app/website!

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Great if you can stay focused

It’s… good?

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A great learning app

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Awesome program!

So good school

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I hate school

Whoever wrote bad ratings are immature

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I love this app

Definitely recommend it!

Highly recommend

Solid educational experience for 3 of my 5 children!

Billings makes changes and deletes kids work.

Great app!!!

Great app for learning but some things could be changed

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Printing special lessons

Better than a previous learning program that I was using.