Thank you for reading my review, students, teachers, and maybe the developers. I rate this extension 3/5 stars, it first of all is called NCTest, and look at what it's on. It's a literal extension. If you are a school computer you cannot rate this or do a review due to a classlink merged with LanSchool and Securly. I recommend you don't visit Securly blocked sites, as the principal will be notified when you do. In my view, it has practice tests that work. It's buggy but if you don't try and do something weird, it won't bug out. You can easily escape it if it's full screened, or windowed. The students aren't usually smart enough to get out of it, but the occasional technical kid who is a gamer and smart enough for trial and error. Alt + Tab works, also the Escape key can also get you out. Kids can easily cheat with easy click back and forth. But overall in a special needs class and a full school, it works. The teachers I have collaborated with have no idea how to work LanSchool, so all they know is that there is a spyware watching them. LanSchool blocks them from deleting the extensions listed: everthing. In one of my classes I needed my kids to learn about history in the U.S. and something cool about it. Some kid chose "Cocaine Bear" and guess what, it was blocked by Securly. NCTest blocks you from deleting LanSchool and Securly. Securly blocks them from deleting NCTest, and same thing with LanSchool. It has been tested to be proven one of the most boring methods to teach, but with a little spark you can make it good. The highlighter is low quality and usually doesn't work. Overall it is a bland test extension for school. I recommend not downloading this on your personal computer at all. Needless to say, it is a bland extension with small effort used to make it better, the one thing they updated was the tests and guess what.... YOU CAN NOW CHANGE THE COLOR OF THE WHOLE THING! My kids were distracted with the color changing properties since NCTest was always so bland the second they added something moderate they went crazy. Help button doesn't work and the developers somehow made off with enough money that they don't need to respond. The organization that made this extension/test is called cuacsapps. The design is horrible, I can see that there is no inappropriate ads or ads at all, but as many people have quoted, made by a three year old. And it's true, I have no experience and was able to make one by myself. But remember this was made before most of you were even enrolled in school. Works fine with me and anyone I try it with under watch, the second I'm not watching is when the problems go all over. Overall it's fine and works well enough, the people rating it as a one star just don't like the tests on it. Let me repeat, it also lets you prepare for tests. The only things that are a bit weird is that they haven't updated it since COVID, which is understandable but this is a virtual extension that you can be on a Zoom/Google Meet talking about how to make it better. Do not add a brain break, most of the students during an iReady brain break they just leave the room to go to the bathroom. Most of these kids are from Wake County, and as a response to all the administrators there. What are you doing? These kids are stopping from doing their work to read reviews on this/make a review. There are also troll reviews that just give it a five star and turn on caps lock. Look at the reviews listed, 313 reviews. 313 posts on this from mostly students. It has 1.5 stars and in my eyes, you need to restrict them from creating a review/comment at all.
Thank you for reading my response,
~MK
MKMatthewG Kiser·11 May 2021
