Community reviews for Brainly

I like nothing about Brainly. It is powerful -- pays to come up first on a google search, and convincing -- clever "advertising" to convince students to beg their parents to pay for it. It contains specific, curriculum based questions taken by students from assignments and tests. There is no monitoring. There is a way to flag answers as being from an assessment, but I've seen very few of the answers removed from the site in my 5+ years of flagging HUNDREDS of answers. There is no intent by this company to provide a learning experience. Its business plan is to exploit vulnerable children and their desperate parents to "get through" school without learning important concepts. Even worse, many answers are incorrect or poorly explained, meaning that any POSSIBLE learning that COULD take place doesn't because the content is not monitored or critiqued.

This is a total no-no for students who are not learning things in class. I have noticed many of my students, cheating using this website during exams. Of course we try to stop them, but they always find a way to cheat. I would suggest all parents to BLOCK this site during exams or revision worksheets etc. Other than that, during studies you can UN-BLOCK it.

Please appreciate branly and do not nonsense answer and question

While this tool may help solve short-term answers, it will not help a student learn in the long run.

Brainly strikes me as useful for quick answers, and not for complete learning. This website seems to be more for cheating than for helping students to understand their work.

While Brainly is a site that is a pretty large database for test and homework contents and worksheet answer keys, this is the exact thing that makes it somewhat of a detriment and can backfire against educators. Students can sometimes search up test, or homework questions on google and will sometimes be led to a brainly link with the answer to said question, which obviously is bad for teachers. However there is a slight saving grace because anyone who visits the site only gets 3 “free” answers and further answer seeking, or desire to see the full test or homework contents requires a subscription; this gating technique is useful in the longer run against the previously mentioned problem, but is also something for educators to consider.

This is a really good site, completely would reccomend.

Brainly, in essence, seems to be a platform that advocates for cheating, after all, its business model is based on people asking questions for homework and receiving ready answers and explanations. I'm talking about elementary level English and Math questions by youngsters, served with the answer on a plate. Brainly is quite an emerging trend these days, which is to be expected in the middle of a global pandemic. Brainly is a Polish education technology company that provides a peer-to-peer learning platform for students to answer homework questions. Brainly has added gamification and user ranking elements to its platform to increase community engagement, and as of November 2020, it recorded 350 million monthly users. As things stand, Brainly is the most popular education platform in the world. So, a platform to enhance e-learning during lockdowns and stay-at-home orders seems like a good idea. When done right, e-learning can be beneficial, and platforms like Coursera and Udemy have proven that. This is all great and very promising, but it's easy for things to go wrong whenever the web is involved. Now, what can go wrong in a platform where students ask questions, and you answer them? Having a look at some reviews of Brainly out there, I came across people calling it a platform promoting cheating. Meanwhile, the platform itself claims that its own highly ranked users moderate it. That's fine; I 100% believe it. The obscure question here, is “what needs to be moderated?” Would any moderation be a violation of freedom of speech? Because, you know, at the end of the day, cheating is expressing an opinion for others to listen to or read when you are not allowed to. A cheater is someone who reads or listens to a statement when they shouldn't. Could someone go as far as saying that any restrictions on cheating are a violation of the First Amendment? As crazy as this sounds, we heard crazier things in 2020. You know, in a “free speech” app. I want to present the two questions I decided to answer on Brainly, which will give you an idea of this platform's business model. I would not be celebrating if my future kids asked an elementary level question on a tutoring platform to receive a swift answer and an adequate explanation. I have no idea how you can regulate and moderate something like this in 2021. Brainly could have been a subreddit on Reddit. Instead, it is a freemium platform where you can pay for a subscription or use it with or without an adblocker. I'm sure a lot of people would say, “Why didn't I think of this first?” There is nothing wrong with Brainly. At the same time, everything is wrong with Brainly. Brainly is a business that essentially promotes the path of least resistance. It doesn't matter if it is cheating or not. You can pretty much send critical thinking and “deep learning” (pun intended) down the drain for many people who are not ready to use such a platform correctly. It is only a good exercise for people who want to train their brain (by answering more challenging questions than the ones above), by helping people who – in many cases – don't want to think for themselves. The emergence of Brainly is just another sign that we are not ready for the age of mass information flow. And by “we,” I mean entrepreneurs, businessmen, and everyone who tries to profit by providing 100% legal services but 0% ethical. However, if we try to spin this in the most nihilistic and vain way, what is the difference between not doing the homework at all and getting the answer in class compared to reading it online? It boils down to this. Solving the puzzle is optional. Thinking about possible solutions is a requirement. Filling your brain with your thoughts instead of someone else's seems like a great idea. Otherwise, you will end up accusing others of manipulating you instead of holding yourself accountable, not in Math or English, but in life itself. Link with images: https://borderpolar.com/2021/02/05/brainly-tutoring-or-cheating/

As a 8th grade student I am in this thing called VLACS. And EVERY question on the tests is in brainly. Brainly is just a horrible cheating place please just block this its not ok.

This is a horrible website that is used almost exclusively for cheating. Even though their so-called 'code of honor' prohibits students from answering or copying tests questions, test cheats make up a substantial chunk of Brainly. As in, it's what students pretty much ONLY use it for. They go there to cheat, and only to cheat, end of story.