My Take
The main advertised feature of this program is for educators to be able to monitor their students grade and lexile levels, which the program does poorly of. Functionality wise, the program works fine. You can buy a premium subscription to make sure students are on level with reading, but if you do not buy the subscription, the program will default the articles to the level it “thinks” the student is on. If you get even one question wrong, it will drop you down a whole grade level. Overall, I do not recommend this as a tool to measure students levels and to give them on level reading exposure.
How I Use It
I tried to use this program for students that I am tutoring for the reading SAT. I was looking for a way to record the lexile and reading grade levels of the students I tutor. Before I could test it on the students I tested it myself. When I opened a student account, I was given a sort of “diagnostic test”. The test had borderline elementary-level questions and passages. These “passages” ranged from maybe a paragraph to 1 to 2 sentences. The number of questions was arguably much too small for ANY program to give an accurate lexile or grade level average. Upon completing the diagnostic I was given a Lexile of 1060 and a grade level of 9. (For comparison, I am in 12th grade with a Lexile level of approximately 1740, which I have been at since around 8th grade) After the diagnostic I went through the quizzes it told me to do and got every question right with a short skim of the apparent “on grade level” passages. It still kept around the previous level I was given regardless of how many questions I would get right.