PMI Study Hall 17+

Somewhat helpful

Helpful: App flashcards
Not helpful: directions to stop automatic renewal didn’t work for me. Once I passed the test I had to contact them via chat support to stop the renewal before it went through.
Also can’t turn off the question of the day feature through the unsubscribe link. Account user interface doesn’t match directions. This is true whether it’s the phone app or computer version.

Ironic

Ironic that an organization that considers itself the gold standard in project delivered a defect riddled basic iOS app. Virtually useless on iPhone 12, loading takes for ever if it ever happens at all (check control quality benchmarking requirements or whatever you call it hahah) if you get it to load the study hall flash cards and test exams are full of typos some of which completely change the meaning of a sentence, not ideal when precision matter as the questions can be very intricate, this is called NOISE in the pmbok 6th edition. I’m assuming you followed PMP standards or attempted to, perhaps in Control Quality you should have terminated a contractor relationship then consulted the risk management plan, as the product was iterating with too many defects….when you do get app to load it says “go to product” did you have any real users test this before deploying or did engineering write all the copy? Maybe they figured they could do it with fewer typos. If you are using iterative process, this app is iterative I’ll give you that, but deployment was early since it’s damaging your reputation and brand wholistically since if your principles were applied with this app, I question the principles , organization, and education wholistically.

Just too much, and quite frankly very frustrating to use

This is based on the days when I could actually log into the app and it didn’t send me in an endless loop going back to the login screen…many days I couldn’t even use the app for this reason. Current issue now too and why I’m finally giving a very poor review. But do read on, there more not to love.

Overall, App tries to do too much. I just want an app that helps me with practice questions and explains them in a clear and consistent way.

I like having solutions with explanations to practice questions, but many of the explanations are a regurgitation of text and make no attempt to map (or explain) why some answers are wrong. Instead they are just confusing.

Would be good to have a flag as feedback to developers if we think there’s an issue with a question / answer. Also, I would have the opportunity to vote on questions that I think are good (well worded, make sense, appropriate, etc) or not.

I would like to see the Learning Plans as an outline, not the default expanded view on my phone screen such that it scrolls on indefinitely (think UIX people).

Confidence ratings are a distraction and annoyance and would prefer NOT to have to answer those questions before proceeding.

Much of the Analytics are overkill and don’t add value to my experience.

Unclear where to change email subscriptions to stop getting question of day. Finally found it buried somewhere that was not immediately intuitive.

Developer Response ,

Hey there, thanks for your feedback and apologies for the inconvenience. We are looking into a resolution for this issue. Please reach out to studyhall@pmi.org for further assistance.