Homeschool: Good & Beautiful 4+

Promising

This app has so much potential but it’s unreliable. The videos work great for us. However, the audio stops every time my phone goes to its lock screen. This makes it hard to walk away from my daughter and let her have a few minutes of independence. (Also have you get children who I’m attending to) Every few seconds I have to unlock it and some times it’s mid sentence and there is no way to rewind 15 seconds just to get the full sentence at once. It ends up being extremely frustrating and definitely changes the vibe of our homeschool atmosphere. I have emailed the company about this. Not sure if they care or not.

Please at least make these audio narrations available on the computer so we can listen to them without several interruptions.

Developer Response ,

We appreciate your feedback, though we're sorry to hear about the difficulty you experienced playing the videos. Your phone settings might be preventing you from the full app experience. You may have more success using our computer version of the Homeschool app found here: https://www.goodandbeautiful.com/apps/

Homeschool

I love this app. I gave it 3 stars because when I installed it on my daughter’s chromebook the format was difficult to maneuver. You can’t access the video lessons through the app on a chromebook.
If it be possible it would be nice to have an app or be able to on this app watch video lessons on a laptop or chromebook. It’s easier for kids to click on an app to watch all content then to go through a website especially when the website is all inclusive with shopping options etc. It would be nice to have an app specifically for the kids to use themselves for school. I am currently using this curriculum for my preschool and homeschooling a 6th, 3rd and 4th grader. Thanks so much and can’t wait to see what developers come up with.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your support and your suggestions! The free Homeschool app makes it easy for parents to access all correlated content for our homeschool courses in one convenient resource. While the Apps function best on mobile devices, you can access a computer version here: https://www.goodandbeautiful.com/apps/

Movies Won’t Load

This used to be the greatest app for using The Good and the Beautiful curriculum. But within the last week or so, the app stopped loading videos. It simply spins and spins but never loads and never starts. I wanted to reach out to the app developers, but when you tap “App Support” it just takes you to the FAQ on The Good and the Beautiful website. What?? I read a bunch of emails about app frustrations, and the general responses from TGTB was “here is a link for the website.” Why have an app is you’re just going to funnel people to the website when the app isn’t working? I really hope this glitch gets fixed, as I can’t get the videos to work on any of my devices (all up to date, all apps up to date) and I 100% prefer using the app (when it’s working) to going on the website to watch the videos.