ISTELive 24 Reviews

Just in the first few minutes, issues from years past are still very painfully evident, including (1) forced portrait mode on an IPad; (2) no way to see more than 100 characters of a session description (really??); (3) illegible-sized fonts that ignore system settings; and probably worst, (4) when you swipe to another app, you totally lose your place and filters for what you were looking at, and you start entirely over. Even if you swipe out for a few seconds, you waste 10-20 seconds getting back to your schedule … which starts you on Sunday even though it may be Tuesday.

Forget trying to build a schedule on the IPad or IPhone app, impossible as you’re not shown any of the description beyond 100 characters. Do your planning from a desktop, or from your mobile browser, then import it into ISTELive24 . I guess that’s the way to do it.

Does anyone at ISTE care, or does anyone there use their own app? My school district is bringing fewer people to the conference this year, due to rising prices and diminishing value. Seeing how poor ISTELive24 experience is, and how poor it’s been for years now, does not reflect good on the organization.

ISTELive24 doesn’t work, can’t sign in, can’t see sessions. You’d think a Technical conference would have an app that actually works. Hope you have paper schedules this year.

ISTELive24 is a disappointment and incredibly cumbersome to use. Every time you “open” ISTELive24 , there is a screen that says “updating app” and then completely refreshes ISTELive24 . Super annoying when you’re looking at ISTELive24 , respond to a text, and then switch back to ISTELive24 and have to go through the whole thing just to get back to where you were.

There also needs to be a better way (like a grid) to visualize the events/sessions that are happening simultaneously.

Again super disappointing for a technology conference. It became either use ISTELive24 or walk around aimlessly… I chose the latter, thankfully there was plenty of interesting things to find.

ISTELive24 is a joke.

It’s the only option… but the 5-90 second title screen is a pain. Sessions aren’t organized into the program clearly. Finding the day’s sessions is always an ordeal of menus, filters, and scrolling.

It's pretty embarrassing how terrible, fluky, unreliable, and utterly useless ISTELive24 is, considering it was theoretically created by actual tech professionals. It's just a sad version of the perfectly good website, so if you're considering downloading ISTELive24 , don't bother.

Would like to meet the mother flippers who designed ISTELive24 and take away their certificates of achievements.

ISTELive24 has been very useful, but some serious usability issue make it really annoying to use.

Having to dismiss every modal popup is tedious. For example, when checking a message (which, honestly does anyone really need another mail account to check?), it takes 3 taps to exit out of the messaging mode. If you're one level deep, like in the session Overview mode, why can't the user just tap outside the modal to dismiss it?

The Coming Up feature should really hide events that have already past. It might be doing it, just inconsistently. I really just want to see what my options are if I'm bailing out of a session. What else just started? How far away is it?

I would love to have a notes feature associated with the exhibitors, including access to the camera. Just as exhibitors can scan attendee's badges, I would like to take a picture/video of the booth, product, demo and have that stored in the context of the exhibitors record. Exporting at data is a must.

I echo the features that folks have mentioned: a usable map feature (with navigation?), syncing planner data between devices and the ISTE planner page, adding personal appointments to the My Planner or dumping the feature entirely and using the devices' native calendar.

Every year I marvel at how horrible ISTELive24 is. It’s literally a technology conference! Any time you go off ISTELive24 it closes you out of the screen you were on. Chosen sessions are a mystery in ISTELive24 ..they should be the easiest thing to find.

This is a fantastic companion app for the ISTE conference. It has improved a lot over the last few years. However I already have some suggestions for further improvement; specifically with the conference planner and I don't know where else to provide feedback for it. It would be nice if the planner portion included the icon codes (or other some other designation format) for the different strands, formats, etc. I know you can filter in the overview view, but I would like to be able to glance at my own saved planner and know which of the sessions are Posters, Spotlights, Registration required, etc. It would be helpful to filter by more than one criteria per category (for instance Posters AND Lectures). A nice integration of the planner with the map would be a fabulous addition if possible. For example, click on the session to see where it is located on the map. I would appreciate the planner more if I could see a "grid" view of my schedule. I'm very disappointed that the conference map is "buried" under Info Booth and not available for full screen view. Heck, it's not even available in landscape view, so I have to turn my iPad to look at it correctly! Overall, I like the smooth integration of the social media networks, the planner, and the other relevant conference information. The interface is clean and easy to navigate.

I was very glad to see an app for ISTE. I was happy to see the helpful maps (once I located them), and enjoyed ISTELive24 game, despite having earned few points. However, there are some things that could be improved upon.

It would have been helpful to have been able to filter the pre-registered and paid sessions for those who were browsing for content. Filtering (or being able to organize) the sessions per area would have allowed attendees the chance to see what all was being offered in the Tower View area (for instance) all in the same time block. Lastly, the planner needed to some tweaking. Perhaps the ability to see the day separated/organized in to time chuncks, to be able to highlight a session as "This is the most important in this time block and this is the one I'll go to if the other is full." Maybe even the ability to make easily-viewed notes (from the main planner page) to remind oneself why a particular session may have been selected over another.

Overall, I found ISTELive24 to be adequate to the task and infinitely better than a paper catalogue. Thank you for putting it together.

I have high praise for ISTELive24 , with the exception that I have a bit of a problem with ISTELive24 wigging out when I'm in the Attendee Lookup section. I get the area at the top of the screen flashing or black bars like a partial frame showing up on the sides and flashing. Kind of annoying, but overall, ISTELive24 performs well.
Don't know why I'm having these problems, minor as they are.
I'd also like to suggest that, if you have a place for attendees to like vendors they like, then have the vendors show up on an interactive map of the exhibition hall so we can find those vendors easily.

The most glaring one being that the personal appointments I've added to the online planner don't show up in that section of ISTELive24. It would also be nice to have a map of downtown San Antonio with some relevant info. Update (post conference): for next year, work on better search tools, especially the part where ISTELive24 crashed during certain searches for participants. It would be helpful if the Upcoming section on the main screen jumped to the current time and not just show the current day from the first thing. I should also be able to search by type of presentation.

I like the integration of social networking and sessions popping into your personal schedule. I also received messages from people attending from my home state through ISTELive24 . Suggestions for improvement: I would have loved to have been notified that there was a con flint in the sessions I was adding to my schedule. I would also like to be able to search by topic for all of the conference days at once instead of having to click through each day for a single keyword. And lastly, any presenters willing to share conference notes like power points. . .it would be nice to have integrated links off the conference descriptions.

I kept this open every minute I was at the conference. I especially liked the Coming Up page to help with spur of the moment changes in schedule. I do have a couple of small suggestions. I would have liked a way to search exhibitors by topic or capability rather than just a list of company names. And it was a little inconvenient that the My Planner page went back to the beginning after looking at the details of a session so I had to scroll down again to Tuesday or Wednesday. The other pages went back to wherever I had scrolled to in the planner. Thanks for this awesome, helpful app!

ISTELive24 delivers everything I wanted to be ready for #ISTE2015 My favorite sessions are organized by date and time, complete with descriptions and presenters. You can favorite presenters, exhibitors, and other attendees. There is navigation to share directly to social media (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook). There are maps of all areas of the convention center. You can message other participants through ISTELive24 as well (I have yet to be able to test this feature fully, since ISTELive24 was just released today).

The ISTE Conference app has really improved this year! It now has some very useful new features, like being able to register for sessions—and to see if they’re full. It can also help personalize attendees’ experiences at the Conference with recommendations, and it makes it a lot easier for people to network and connect with other educators who have similar interests.

Downloaded ISTELive24 for the ISTE 2019 Conference. I was able to search and filter for the sessions that I needed without any issues.
The connect function of ISTELive24 is fantastic! Being able to search for other educators with my interests allowed for me to connect with the right people at the conference and after.

I’m so excited to get to ISTE19, after looking at all of the great sessions from ISTELive24 . Mind Meetups sounds fun too!

The new and improved conference app for ISTE19 is comprehensive and provides everything you need to know on the go for a great conference experience!

The new version of ISTELive24 is much better! The suggested sessions are great and so are the directions to the session rooms. Thank you for the updates.

A great app which serves this essential ed tech organization well. While there is no such thing as perfect tech with every feature and operability we desire, ISTELive24 serves ISTE well and is a great addition to their suite of services and events serving educators.

Highly recommend.

This year’s app gives me exactly what I need to make the most of my time during conference. With so much to see and do, ISTELive24 let’s me map everything and plan my sessions ahead of time to share with other #ISTEfriends.

Lookin’ good, ISTE!