Kids A Z Reviews

This is my second year using KidsAZ and I was very happy with it until a couple of months ago everything gradually stopped working. The roster no longer opens on my mac, but apparently only opens on the ipad. Then headsprout became an issue. Headsprout does not work on the mac, and when trying to open it on KidsAZ on the ipad, it opens an entirely different episode than the one assigned - I have to depend on the iphone to get anything to work, because even when entering the password on the ipad it says “incorrect password”, but for some reason only on the iphone it works. I have paid for several things which all seem to have stopped working. I am requesting a refund

so guys I feel bad for writing this but some books don’t make sense and even the quiz room don’t make sense I like but a answer the does make sense but then it says wrong answer and that was right but yeah guys if you had that tell me and when I’m an a new grade it takes all my stars and I had a lot of stars and it deleted all it’s so unfair😡😡😡 like I have to do this for homework to get to 100 minutes and some books are so boring but I have to do it for work so guys I’m really mad that I lost my stars but yeah I only read books that has a trouble because it makes the book fun to Read but yeah and like it deleted all my levels when I got to 2nd grade like I want the owner to fix this because it’s so unfair and when I’m doing my reading or my quiz it takes out and goes back to iPad screen

The game is boring and the only thing that is fun is the characters and that is it and you are just bored for how ever long you need to do it for and it is very bad because one time I put something on my characters that I did not like but I can not delete it and when ever you upgrade you home and the things in it it deletes your other things and you do not get back the stars and this is what happen I bought a chair then I had more money to buy other chair a better one but when I bought the chair the old one got deleted and I spent 3 days to earn all those starts for the old chair and I did not get, my stars back. And the stuff always mess is up my work and then I can not do my stuff then my mom yells at me and I get grounded and that is not fair and not my fault

We’ve tried this on our computer, on our iPhone, and on our iPad and it crashes on all three. When you get to the login screen where you can put the teachers name in, once you click next m it brings you to a second page (where you are supposed to be able click the image that is your kid’s password) except it’s just a white screen and “crashes” by bringing you right back to the login page. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling and making sure everything is updated. I’ve checked to make sure we were logged in properly. It is very frustrating. Developers don’t exactly make it easy to get a response either.

This is a great app but there should be some changes.

1. Hackers. My classmate kept on hacking me for no reason. There should be Face ID for privacy. I am not gonna tell you who hacked me, but it should just change.

2. Books. Why aren’t there any Spanish / Español books in the level up section? It just makes no sense. And also, it just has less books. There should be a favorite section because I sometimes favorite a book and I might want to read it again, like “Can I vote”, “ Arthur’s Bad News Day”, etc.

3. Others. Why can’t I change my password? Why can’t I delete stuff in the Avatar Builder? Why can’t I give stars? It’s just nonsense. I wish this improved like this. Sometimes the quiz questions are too hard, and later it doesn’t let you do the quiz again when you fail unless if you read it again. There should be some hints in quizzes. When people don’t do their homework assignment on Raz-Kids, why can’t it take stars away or get punishments? This is really nonsense.

I would not recommend KidsAZ to anyone because it should have some nice changes going on and not nonsense. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed reading this. Thank You!

- Jason / Tao Zhe Xue

This is a fabulous resource and wonderful concept. KidsAZ has bugs and various problems. My biggest complaint about KidsAZ is the recording feature. My child records a voiceover of the book but then forgets to push the send button and just swipes to the next page/section without submitting the recoding (meaning the recording is erased and not submitted to the teacher). KidsAZ should not let the child move on without submitting the recording. It would also be nice if KidsAZ would let the child complete the writing exercises, but that only works on the website.

The layout of your buttons in the read & record session absolutely need reorganized. The fact you have the pause/start button a millimeter away from the stop button is a MASSIVE design flaw. These are kids, pausing their recordings to practice, only to accidentally press the stop button by mistake. It leads to them getting extremely frustrated and wanting to quit because they lose the ability to continue recording and have to start over.
Seriously, move the buttons around. Make the stop button harder to press by accident. Help motivate the kids instead of creating a negative experience due to poorly thought out designs.

Great app, but recent update created several problems. Often when finishing an activity, especially the crossword, the done button will not record the finished product. In fact, it won’t even close out the activity. Also, it appears that other students can now hack accounts and steal points. This is happened to every single person in my sons class. He’s not able to submit his work, and whatever work he does just get stolen. And no, this is not my son complaining. I have watched him do his work and seeing the bugs firsthand.

KidsAZ is wonderful. Both of my children use it. My youngest has an auditory processing disorder. This means reading and comprehension are and will always be a challenge. KidsAZ has kept him on target with reading. We absolutely love it.

My one complaint is that every time there is an update, we are not able to utilize KidsAZ for a week or more due to an error stating there must be a valid license. I performed the update a few days ago and when I select our teacher, it gives me the error.

Updates are a great thing when they are smooth and have little to no negative impact for end users.

My 5 year old boy worked hard to save up for the hologram table prize in the Raz Rocket and was super proud to get it. He later thought he was adding more items to his room by purchasing a regular table. It replaced his hologram table and now he will have to save up to buy it again!
If there isn't space to fit every item in the room, the items replaced should be moved to an inventory to be swapped at will. Or at the very least an "are you sure?" warning before replacing an item that will be lost.

I’m not sure what’s going on and neither does my kid school but now we can’t use KidsAZ as it ask for an active license and I have no clue what are they talking about and the school don’t seem to know how to fix it. My kid hasn’t done any of his reading homework for over a month now. Every time you tried to enter the teachers name it says KidsAZ requires an active license! Can anyone help please?

I love this game and all but I have a little thing that’s kinda a deal but it’s a good learning game I use it in school in my freetime and stuff it’s a really fun app, plus when I level up I love seeing all the good books. My confession is that can you make it possible to have more than 1 item like take hats so that’s all I love KidsAZ thank you for all the work you made.

I like ras kids because it helps your understand your ela test it makes you understand what ur reading and how smart you are. People are saying these issues cause they think ras kids questions are hard and it’s easy. It just helps you it’s not difficult if you guys think it’s difficult I know it’s your opinion y’all are just saying that because you guys don’t learn.

My daughter began using app last year, her kindergarten teacher sent home flyer w/instructions, & Teacher already had all the classmates name, so made it easy. KidsAZ is excellent for new readers, app has level books, plenty of books. I have searched for books w/that have A Level B Level etc & could not find any to purchase, thanks to this amazing app we now have access to plenty of Level Books for my 1st grade daughter😀 My daughter practices reading on KidsAZ daily, everyday she comes home settles down from school & open app reads 3 books & 2 books before bed. We have downloaded a bunch of learning apps but my daughter never seemed to like any, until A-Z App was introduced last year, THANKFUL FOR HER KINDERGARTEN TEACHER MS. FIRNHABER @ MAREE G. FARRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN BALTIMORE MARYLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KidsAZ was the system my son and I used to improve his English reading by 40% in 1 school quarter. KidsAZ is better than the others because it has reading levels that tailor to child’s reading level, it has an audio book option, key word definitions at the end of book, questions at the end of each book to check on comprehension, and a reward system that motivated my son to read. I remain involved in my son’s learning by having him read to me to ensure he was putting forth a proper effort, but it is great having questions with multiple answers at the end of the books instead of me trying to think of good questions. I was told by his 2nd grade teacher that because he is ESL his English reading was behind by half a grade. My son has used KidsAZ via DODDEA schools daily and twice on weekends to get caught up. I only wish DODDEA would have kept the contract with RAZ Kids so we can continue to use it.

My son’s reading skill has improved so much better after using KidsAZ. Before, When he read book, I had to come up with questions to help him understand about the story. But now, everything I need to promote for his reading skill is on here. KidsAZ has audio, recording and quizzes features which not only helps with listening but also reading. I absolutely love KidsAZ and ready to purchase it after the school year ends

My son's school used during quarantine and this was my favorite reading app... So wonderful! I love the there levels, read to you, you read, and then take quiz! I wanted for home use but the year subscription has to be paid all at one😩😩😩 $115 don't get me wrong it is a great app and worth the money, but I just can't afford! I wish there was a monthly subscription that way I could pay monthly for this wonderful learning app☺️

And I will have the same time for a little while I have a couple things for my kids and my mom and my dad and eve are at work so I have to go to get some stuff for the kids and I have to go to get my hair and my hair done and then I have to go to get my hair done and then I I’ll be there at five or you can get me some money and I’ll get you some food for you I love the house I love you and I love you the rest of your life and I’m really glad I have to be in a little bit late I love you so much I have to get to you

I cant believe how good this is...the best reading app for all schools! Most recommended for elementary school, but I think in middle school I'll want to do this a lot still! Maybe get to the chapter books. Yeahhhhh. This is awesome! Grades K-5 are most recommended for using this. Almost already said that. Wait I did 😄! Wow I love this game so bad I could nearly hate it. Or dislike, either one. NOT 1%, NOT EVEN 0.1% I DISLIKE THIS GAME! I actually meant app, replace all the game (s) words with app. Lol not in the game silly, on the text. You deserve to be a world wide, famous, most popular, reading app creator ever. Epic too. You know, KidsAZ Epic? Yeah. Similar to this.

Hi! Person reading this i NEED to tell you how amazing KidsAZ is so lets start with this Do you like reading and do you need a app that is educational?? THEN GO AHEAD AND GET KidsAZ!!
Yes i am 9 year old playing from my moms ipad but please listen.
I use KidsAZ for home school bc of covid putting everyone in quarantine and i use it when i am not using it for school. If you are like me and you love reading you need this. And to the parents who are reading this you should get it for your kids! I promise it has NO PURCHASES! It is a AMAZING app so get it! (sorry if it was to long)
Thanks so much for reading byee!

Before on the quiz we can do as much times but now I have to deal with this thing were I can only do it two times plus I now have to type the answer and I type the answer and then it says I’m wrong I know a good name for this game …………………………… TRASH KIDS plus in the past I used to read those monster books but now there gone please fix this all I have to say to this game cheap cheap cheap and when are they going to make a meme book I HATE THIS GAME there is a game called dream box and it’s math now it’s telling me a 7 grade level and I’m in 2 grade

Differences between kids A-to-Z and read naturally live is that kids A-to-Z you listen then read the book then to take a quiz wall and read naturally live you listen to keywords then write a prediction and then play were tastic until your teacher does the cool timing then you read along and then your practice and then you take a quiz and then you retell the story in your own words or practice the word list and then you practice the story again and then play were tastic until your teacher comes to do the hot timing and grading the short answer questions And grade the retell or pass the word list

I agree with other reviewers that using KidsAZ for World Languages materials is not user friendly. They are the only reason why I got the Plus subscription and KidsAZ. I finally figured out how to show Spanish books in the Reading Room, but all the materials in Level Up are only in English. How can another language be selected instead?! Auto reading speed options should be offered too, it jumps too quickly from one page to the next.

KidsAZ is used in many elementary schools, including mines. It’s a go-to choice for many teachers to check students reading level. Here are the problems. First, students could just tap listen and skip all the pages, which gives them access to the quiz, and finish it. Really kids should read first and then take the quiz. Nothing else is wrong.

I really say I don’t like it that much because my sister check my assignments and she gave me hard worksheets. I had really bad time doing KidsAZ and I don’t like the worksheet but I like the reading PART and the outfit. I have to say ⅗ star because I don’t like they have student assignments it’s really annoying they should remove it because it’s made me very ANGRY. I’m really sorry to say that just my comment. Thanks :)

I love this program when using it on an actual computer. When using it on an iPad it doesn't allow you to touch the word you don't know and have that word read to you. This is a KEY FEATURE of the overall program, so I am quite perplexed as to why this feature is missing from KidsAZ version.

One minor thing. On every text question, Sometimes, the text instantly moves up the moment I touch the text box, which doesn’t allow me to see the line of text I am currently writing. I would appreciate it if you fixed this. Overall, KidsAZ is great. No other bugs I’m seeing right now!

So i’ve been using KidsAZ at class and i wanted a search button, that way, everyone can read the book they wanted to read! I know it’s a short review but i hope you add it:)

Raz kids is an amazing app for my students in 2nd grade -5th grade. the huge library of leveled texts, helps us the teachers get a detailed view of students' progress, even as they read independently. I also allow my students record themselves reading the book. This helps them with fluency.

It is a good game and reading those books were fun and it makes it more interesting in the computer they are so fun books I read these books since I was in 1 grade and know I am in 3grade thanks for making this game hope you make more thank you

your app is broken and so are you!!!!!