Edpuzzle Reviews

I get the purpose of Edpuzzle and in concept it’s very useful. It can be a very valuable tool in the classroom because it lets you answer questions as you watch the video. I’ve gotten some pretty easy grades from Edpuzzle. However there are many aspects of Edpuzzle that make it rather inconvenient. Edpuzzle tends to lag when you tilt your screen or try to do full screen mode. The time stamps can be pretty finicky. When I speed through the video to get to a part with important information it will sometimes glitch and send me back to the beginning. The way the multiple choice questions are set up can also be inconvenient. They are all set up as checklists. When I try to change my answer by clicking on another one it will highlight both answers. The questions don’t always clarify how many answers are needed so this can be problematic. Overall I think Edpuzzle is alright at best. While these aspects don’t completely diminish Edpuzzle ’s usefulness, they make using it a tedious experience.

I have to use this app for school, and I have a pretty busy schedule. So instead of bringing a big bulky computer around tarnation, I decided to start downloading apps on on my phone. For example google drive app, google slide and docs app. Even Ixl and Schoology apps, all so I could have the convenience of being able to pick up my phone and work on my assignments when I have time, and not have to worry about bringing the computer around/trying to connect to the internet wherever I go. So Edpuzzle was no exception. Of course I was a little skeptical when I saw the 1.3 stars. But in my opinion it works just fine. My only complaint, is that it’s very slow with loading the videos. Whenever I flip my phone to make my screen bigger I had loads for about a minute before I can continue watching.
Comparing Edpuzzle to the website I’d say they’re pretty much The same minus this exception. Keep up the good work this app!

Guys,
Why in gods great infinite purple galaxy would it be a sane idea to allow the orientation to switch so much with so little prompting. I try to watch a video at full screen and even so much as setting it down or moving it at a slight angle will flip the rotation. This wouldn’t be as big of a deal if it didn’t have to buffer every single time. I tried to lock rotation but now it won’t let me watch it full screen. Which is important when I’m trying to learn how to do math in a pandemic. I’ve taken time out of my morning to write this review I have class in 10 minutes and I have to watch a 15 minute this app, except I can’t because your app infuriated me so much. I can’t help shake the feeling Edpuzzle has been abandoned based on the fact I wasn’t the only one with this issue and it hasn’t been updated in 4 months. The public school system depends on apps like yours especially rn. It’s truly a shame to see people not only abandon their own creations but also the kids that have to use them to learn.
Sincerely,
Jordan

Okay so I will admit, Edpuzzle did help my grade when I got easy hundreds and that was a pleasure, however Edpuzzle isn’t fair in the way it projects the answers. I will have to ask my teacher to resend me the video twice because Edpuzzle marked questions wrong I got right. For example, one question asked me something it just discussed and I picked the right answer, what I did not know is I had to pick more than one which wasn’t explained properly or at all. Sometimes it will ask a question before the video discusses it and it doesn’t even give you a chance to fix ur mistake. I feel like Edpuzzle would be better if students could fix their mistakes for points back or at least half points for the question they got wrong. Not allowing students to fix their mistakes doesn’t teach them why they got their answer wrong and it doesn’t encourage them to want to do the assignments provided. Edpuzzle SHOULD be giving students a grade boost but instead gives them extra stress, wasted time, and poor results.

this app is more horrible than i can put into words. The first thing is that it’s just not a good way for me, or anyone i know to actually learn and remember things. I would MUCH rather just write an essay or anything else. Next, Edpuzzle is so buggy. Sometimes its not physically possible to watch the videos because they keep glitching. Also, many teachers will give you the grade the this app gave you, which if you have a multiple choice question with say 5 options, and you click 3 out of 4 correct, you get the question wrong, and could as a result, get like a 85 on the this app for simply having one answer on part of a question wrong. Lastly, if you miss something, you can’t even rewind all the way back to the checkpoint, this is simply to screw students over, and it bothers me. So please, any student seeing this, i pity you, and if you’re stressed about your grades like me, from stupid stuff like this, it will be okay. And if your a teacher seeing this, PLEASE TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION.

This has to be one of the most horribly designed apps on Edpuzzle Store. It’s mind boggling how much of a buggy mess Edpuzzle is. It cannot be that hard to design a video-playing app for mobile devices that doesn’t stall for 2 minutes and reset the video every time your device orientation flips. If you accidentally exit the video, unfortunate for you because you will now have to rewatch the last 2-6 minutes of video and constantly click through questions you have already answered. The fact that they don’t have an answer mode that distinguishes between single answer and multiple answers leads to a lot of wrong answers from thinking you had unselected an answer choice (or thinking Edpuzzle would automatically do it for you when you select a different answer, like anything with good design would have). This feels like an app created by some amateur company run by maybe up to 3 people, yet it’s widely used (at least in my schools) by many teachers. Disgusting.

I just want to give up trying to use Edpuzzle but my school is requiring it. There are so many issues with it. First of all, there is no way to skip or fast forward, so if there are announcements not directed towards you there is no way of skipping it. Also, it makes other issues 1000x worse. For example, there is a glitch I keep having that sends me back to the beginning when I pause, making lessons that require taking notes impossible. In addition, if Edpuzzle crashes or your phone gets turned off it sends you back. Also, sometimes full screening changes where in the video you are. I’ve used it for 1 week and all these issues have already surfaced, so I can only imagine how much worse it could be. Honestly if you are given the choice of whether to use this I plead you not to, as you’d be more likely to have your work successfully submitted by throwing a paper airplane and hoping it lands on your teacher’s lawn.

So, it works pretty good on my computer! It’s just when I’m too lazy to go on my computer, I’ll use my phone to do my work. I went to the this app website and I had to get Edpuzzle . It was a little frustrating but I downloaded it anyways. I got Edpuzzle and I was trying to do my Math assignment. Then it went downhill.. It keep kicking me out, crashing, saying I don’t have internet (when I do), etc. Then, I was typing in an open-ended and pressed the “return” button on my phone, (and I wasn’t finished writing), and it enters my writing and I can’t go back. Now when I’m writing this review, I’m multi-tasking and I’m on my computer to see if it'll work. No, it keeps saying for me to connect to the internet and I have perfect internet. I’m a little disappointed in Edpuzzle and if you’re a new teacher I would not recommend Edpuzzle. (I recommend Nearpod.) Thank you for reading this if you did, I’m hoping this app might respond back.

Edpuzzle was fine for about two days, but recently, I have been completely unable to log in. I have taken the link from the web page provides by my educator, and when I open Edpuzzle , I tried to log in. So far I have tried every possible way of logging in on there, and none work. When logging in with google, I inputted my email address and hit go, but it took me back to the exact same page. The next button is not even functional, and I had to use return on the keyboard. Setting up an account will not let you see the assignment, and signing in in general has the same issue as google. I have deleted and reinstalled Edpuzzle three times, but the problem persists. For fellow students, I agree with you all with your issues, as I have had most of them also, and for teachers, if you use Edpuzzle, do not be surprised if there are reoccurring issues. This has caused my somewhat okay grade to drop almost five percent. Please fix!

Edpuzzle is your standard “we want to help the teachers help their students” kind of app. It reminds me a bit of Khan Academy. The idea behind it is amazing and everything, but Edpuzzle itself is horrible. When watching a video, make sure your phone/tablet has the lock orientation “ON” because every time your phone/tablet switches from landscape to portrait mode or vise versa, the video stops and reloads. That wouldn’t be a huge issue, but there’s also no high-speed scrubbing on Edpuzzle. That’s just what I have to complain about the video aspects of it. I also found that it is not user-friendly at all, where I find myself getting sent from Safari to Edpuzzle Store to Edpuzzle after clicking a link to a video, only for the video not to work, and I have to manually find the video. It’s absolutely horrible app, I really wish that they could fix Edpuzzle , because other than the mechanics its a super cool way for teachers to teach their kids.

Honestly, Edpuzzle I would rather do than do class work with text books and stuff. But, especially on a student’s grade, Edpuzzle should be more careful with their bugs and glitches because it is risking someone’s grade. There’s bugs, like you can’t answer a question or something and no matter how long you refresh it it won’t work which makes it frustrating and puts a lot of stress, especially when the assignment is due. Another is the multi choice questions. If you change your mind, you press another answer, but it marks it as you chose TWO questions and ends up getting the question wrong. Lastly it is the time. It’s really finicky with the time stamps, so you can’t go back sometimes or sometimes you’re forced to go watch through the whole thing or whatever just to get where you completed. Even though Edpuzzle has a lot of bugs, would much rather do this than have to carry around a text book everyday..

I was forced to download Edpuzzle because if my classes, and let me tell you, it’s a HUGE waste of time. I was reading the reviews while waiting for it to download and was thinking, maybe these people are exaggerating or something, because NEARLY EVER REVIEW is one star, and the teachers seem to like it. Now I see that they like it because they can be lazy and not do crap.
So I got a HOUR long this app in geography, and it was so boring. You literally can’t skip forward so you are stuck watching the whole thing. Also, it makes you watch it all the way through, so even if the last question is 20 minutes from the end, you still have to watch the last 20 minutes even if it’s not relevant. Sooo stupid.
Honestly, I don’t know why teachers use this abomination of an app. It’s a time waster, and it’s super boring, and I’d rather do any other lesson in class than sit here and be forced to watch hour long videos.

Thanks for listening to my ted talk.

Edpuzzle has so many complications. You should be able to retake questions after a missed attempt. This being because more than half the time the questions are timed before they are answered in the video, so you are left to guess or google it. Even half the time you attempt to google it, nothing shows up. These videos and questions do not match more than half the time! It is a bad attempt of a learning tool, too many teachers use this program too. This ultimately just leads to the dropping of grades. If this program wants to become better there are many things that can be done. If a question is missed, give at least one more chance to get the question right. Or let kids retake the entire quiz, but let them skip through the video. Check your questions!! So many of these questions do not match the video at all. This does not teach us anything. Please do better.

I did several assignments on this stupid app and for one thing, you can’t skip through the video at all, you’re forced to watch through the whole video, wasting time if you just want to get through the thing, and you have to watch the whole video just to complete the assignment. Edpuzzle glitched and said I had turned in all of my assignments and when I checked it this weekend it told me I hadn’t finished a video even though it clearly told me I had, I refreshed the page a few times after just to make sure and checked the completed section and it was there. Now Edpuzzle has possibly cost me points in my class because it decided to glitch and say I didn’t finish the video. I JUST HAD TO FINISH WATCHING THE VIDEO NOT EVEN THE QUESTIONS, I did those already but it still wouldn’t accept that. Edpuzzle is pointless and I can’t even trust it to work, worst app ever if it glitches because now my work could be counted as late when I did everything before it was due.

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Set sail
For I am like the whale
I'm on a different frequency
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Literally

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I love this app!!!😀 I personally think that this app is the greatest app on this store. Its very creative and being able to post videos WITH questions is so innovative.😝 And the fact that Edpuzzle goes for all subjects is really interesting. I wish every one of my teachers used Edpuzzle because of how wonderful it is. My spanish teacher used Edpuzzle and its made my grade wonderful, and i feel like a real native speaker (wow 😃). I really dont understand why so many people dislike Edpuzzle😔. I hope more students are exposed to this app and helps them with their work just like me🙈. I learned how “who go the ma Sanaa” which means “orange juice”. Like i said, my grades are amazing.

Edpuzzle was supposed to be created as useful but some of the teachers abuse Edpuzzle by assigning several ed puzzle assignment videos and put in a question for every 30 seconds, it does mark whether you got the question right or wrong but it's more like a test than an assignment and I get at least 2 ed puzzles to do every day and they are typically between 10-25 minutes long plus other assignments for that class and other classes, this is what I've noticed and I don't think assignments should act like tests that's why they aren't tests. But it doesn't make learning enjoyable or fun it makes it seem like it's forced and it's harder to learn on this type of platform, we need a more interactive and rewarding app that actually makes students learn something. And you can't be watching an ed puzzle and do other assignments on different tabs.

On laptop and desktop, this thing works like a charm. No bugs or glitching whatsoever. The only thing with desktop is that you can’t skip ahead. It’s fine most of the time, but when people forget to crop out the outro, it gets annoying because you have to sit through the whole entire outro before you can get the grade. Mobile however, much worse. This is probably the worst mobile app on here. Worse then those games that come with the “terrible mobile game ads”. There’s so many bugs, glitches, and a lot of things missing. It’s this app, but take out all of the good stuff, and make the bad 10x worse. Oh, and add extra bad for a bit more spice. Whoops! Now it’s TOO spicy. That’s the best metaphor I can come up with for this abomination of an “app”. It’s so bad and so glitchy that I had to delete it. Guess what? My teacher made me reinstall it :,)

Edpuzzle is getting a lot of hate on Edpuzzle Store, and I think it is probably because most people dislike their schoolwork. However, thinking of Edpuzzle developers just makes me feel bad. But, I won’t let these thoughts get in the way of my review, as many people seem to genuinely dislike Edpuzzle. So, my thoughts for Edpuzzle are that it is a very good concept, but it needs more space to be executed as well as it could be. I would recommend using their website on a computer, as it’s very helpful and easy to use. As for Edpuzzle , it is a little hard to use, but I think it sufficiently serves its purpose, so I don’t think it should be getting so many negative reviews.

Being completely honest here, I really wish Edpuzzle was good then I would genuinely not be incredibly frustrated using Edpuzzle. Most of the 5 star reviews are about the students “not wanting to learn” even though they are kinda forced to. Edpuzzle is incredibly buggy (and I mean that) sometimes the video restarts for mo apparent reason and we can’t even fast forward to the part we were previously watching. Also it’s incredibly hard to answer questions due to the issue where if we didn’t get a answer for a question and try to “rewatch to find answer” it only gives us a split second to watch he video then proceeds to bombard us with the question. Absolutely and I truest mean this with a burning passion do not get Edpuzzle just use the website on a computer because this is a waste of space and a waste of my time.

Ok so a lot of the points I’m gonna bring up might be solely because of my teacher, but I don’t really care. I’ll start out with some pros:

-It is functional
-Not the worst thing I’ve ever had to use
-Gives me some easy grades

Now for some cons, which are mainly quality of life:

-The fact that “multiple choice” questions function as check lists. Say, for example, you choose an answer, then decide to change it. Instead of only allowing one answer, you end up selecting both answers and getting it wrong.
-You don’t know the questions beforehand, keeping you from knowing exactly what to look for
-Really finnicky with leaving and coming back, sometimes moving you back three minutes and forcing you to rewatch
-Due dates are automatically in red, even if it isn’t late, adding unneeded stress to my poor little boy heart

Overall, Edpuzzle works, but there are plenty of things that could be improved, and in its current state, this app is something I dislike.

Not the worst thing I’ve had to use for school work. But the bugs make it hard, especially when it’s risking my grade. One of them is when it glitches and says you didn’t complete it, even though you did. Hasn’t happened again, but it made me lose points because of Edpuzzle. And another one is answers. The multiple choice glitches and makes me not be able to move on. Edpuzzle should really fix these as soon as possible or try to, because they should know a lot of people in school use this and can risk their points

I’ve been using this for math since my teacher likes it so we’ve all been signed up on here for about a month. After struggling to complete work for that amount of time, I can confirm this is definitely a bad app. If you have any other device, go to the website. Don’t download this.

Pros:

• Videos are watchable
• Multiple categories for work (Due, Not Due, Completed) making it easy to browse through.
•Shows scores on previous completed tasks

Cons:

• Transitions are delayed and very laggy
• Glitches when you have to answer a multiple choice question, shaking the screen and making it impossible to press. If you do press on one, you can’t change it because...
• Say you want to change your answer, you can’t. You can choose another answer but it marks it as both of the ones you’ve chosen and you get it wrong.
• Videos are not skippable
• If you exit video, you have to rewatch a minute or so to catch you back up to where you left off.

Overall, a 2/10, don’t download.

So I have to say this, if it works it is ok but when I had gotten on to a question it decided to make the answers move up and down very quickly and for whatever reason I could not click the answers I closed Edpuzzle , fully powered off my phone and multiple other things so I have given up on the assignment so please fix this but overall and okay app

Edpuzzle saves us a ton of time in class when taking notes. Instead of taking notes we just play some sort of fun educational game. I love how if needed, you can go back and rewatch the video when answering questions. It helps me a lot and I just feel like that it is an amazing application to download for schools. I would recommend this to teachers, of course if I could.

Edpuzzle helps you quite a bit. It doesn’t take a ton of time and it’s kinda entertaining. It gives you the option the rewatch which is good especially if you didn’t understand something or if you missed something so you wouldn’t get the answer wrong. Overall I think Edpuzzle if good and y’all should get it if needed.

Edpuzzle would’ve gotten a five star review but since it decided to be stupid on me, I’ll give it a one.

I was able to watch the video that was assigned, no complaints there. However, since it did not show the notes the teacher put on it, the assignment was not turned in. This costed me an easy 100 for a daily grade. I suggest you make the pop ups pop up so that my assignment can be turned in and not be late when I have to go back and turn it in on a pc.

So please improve your app so that students don’t fail school. Have a nice day.

Edpuzzle is just another way for teachers to assign busy work and try to feel like they’re actually doing something. Being forced to sit through half hour droning videos with no option to skip forward or even speed up is a complete waste of time and makes almost every student want to claw their eyes out. But hey teachers, if you don’t like actually teaching and or need a class period to catch up on grades or even your own personal life... here’s a great tool!

For a while Edpuzzle worked properly and provided the services it said it would provide. Despite the poor quality of the services rendered (Permanent answer choice and generally buggy, sometimes preventing completion) it seemed usable. But after a few weeks it completely shutdown and wouldn’t even open thus failing at providing any services and just taking up space. Overall I rated this product at one star for providing unusable service.

Edpuzzle try’s helping us but doesn’t help as much as it needs. I get that it makes you watch the whole video but if you understand the concept or are done with all questions you shouldn’t have to watch until the last second. This is just my opinion on Edpuzzle . Thank You!

for those of you complaining about not being able to skip the video.. THATS THE POINT. and not able to see the questions beforehand.. THATS THE POINT, to see if you’re paying attention to it.

I have been using Edpuzzle for a while due to my teacher liking Edpuzzle and making us do homework on Edpuzzle. There’s a problem with Edpuzzle . It’s saying the assignment was due a week earlier then it’s due. Hopefully things get fixed and don’t glitch too much.

I would like to be able to post an assignment from my phone and not need my computer with me. But apparently only students can log in to their accounts on mobile devices, teachers have to use the website on a computer.