Sprinkle B.

As I write this right now, I say that I am soooooooo glad I'm not the only one here who thinks i-Ready is horrible about how they teach kids. In the worst residential behavioral facility I had to spend school in, they made a multitude of horrible decisions; one of which, was i-Ready. Aw where do I begin? I did brainPOP when I was in middle school, and because of my much-more childish behavior at the time, grew more and more upset not only because I had to do it most days of the week, it's also because I had to adapt to the new environment of the middle school. In retrospect, I knew I didn't even give Tim & Moby a chance so I was able to do so around the time using this website. I had matured so much that I was able to handle brainPOP for once but we have to get back to the i-Ready that I come to know and hate, First of all, we have to sit through painfully long lessons taught by an off-brand DiC entertainment cartoon with no skip button like that of YouTube at the time, and burns you out once you get a question wrong, and continues to burn you out as you continue to get questions wrong as you go on. To add insult to injury, if you fail the lesson overall, you have to start over from the beginning, creating even more burnout. The website is incredibly non-transparent and I saw somewhere online that the same problems also apply to teachers as well! They can't even give the right lessons to kids and have a limited amount of resources.

In the late 2010s, I was introduced to i-Ready and after finding out how bad it really was, went as far as to avoid i-Ready because it's just so bad at teaching kids the right things. I realized that the teachers did a small intervention to how awful I was doing on i-Ready because I noticed months in they stabilized the difficulty level algorithm that caused this burnout in the first place. Basically what caused this whole predicament was that after the first version of each lesson, they would move me up to a more difficult version of the lesson, and that is where the burnout set in. Months later, the problem was solved and for the last few months I was able to handle i-Ready better than before. I left the horrible school later and in 2021, I was introduced to Quizizz. It is SOOOO much better than this downright garbage and has an awesome pack of features that made me jump in excitement like a little child. It even works on the same way as Kahoot does. Why didn't my older school use this gold? Simple: that school was part of the worst behavioral organization I ever saw, that makes horrible, absurd decisions that I can't even comprehend. I'ma say I won't be donating to them anytime soon.

For the most part, this website sucks. My late 2010s behavioral organization sucks, and American education, for the most part, sucks. If you want an alternative to this heap of trash, try Quizizz. It's so much better than this dollar general-type cheap nonsense that does nothing but burns you out.

I-Ready, you suck, you suck, you suck, and I hope your website goes down.

Have you ever had to endure the horrible learning atmosphere of i-Ready and just can't take it anymore? Quizizz can help! Quizizz has fun features so your kids don't suffer burnout. Back in 2017, I had to endure i-Ready's horrible learning infrastructure and I used to suffer burnout every time I get a question wrong. The lessons are so painstakingly long and boring to sit through like they ripped the soul out of an animated DiC Entertainment cartoon. I-Ready is THE worst site out there, and I mean it. When I was introduced to Quizizz in 2021, all my burnout problems were resolved! I was ecstatic and was able to get all my questions correct! The burnout was completely nonexistent. The lesson is quick and snappy, and you can correct your mistakes like you can do on a physical worksheet.

The Quizizz vs, i-Ready rundown:
Quizizz:
• Class leaderboard
• Contains power-ups that affect your score and have more fun with classmates
• Uses similar software to Kahoot
• Redemption questions to take back what you answered wrong
• Quick and easy way to answer
• Detailed and thoroughly transparent report at the end of each lesson
• For teachers: Similar to Kahoot, you can create your own lesson!
• Funny memes after you complete each lesson you can laugh at
• Based in United States

I-Ready:
• Horrible learning infrastructure
• Incredibly slow DiC-like cartoon that tells you lessons in a boring-like manner
• Wrong questions aren't able to be corrected; you can only start from the beginning, leading to burnout
• Low transparency in end-of-lesson report: Only shows time and % of questions answered correctly
• Awful testing or growth-checking platform that doesn't show grade (not even to teachers!)
• Based in Canada

Everitt does Quizizz while Woods does i-Ready. Don't be like Woods.