If you are a professor considering this as an option, please look into some of the fine-print details involved. On the surface it looks like an incredible solution, but a couple things stick out to me that warranted me taking the time out of my schedule to make sure others don't make the same mistake. First, I will point out a basic shortcoming: Customer Service is not knowledgeable for a few different simple questions I had. These questions were ranging from confusing verbiage in their own instructions to clarity with their operations. Second, the material which the students purchased went away after they worked with it. Let me expand: if you had a lab for week 1 that you wanted to review the following week or later during the course, it was no longer available to the students. Let that sink in: the new material which isn't available anywhere else is no longer accessible upon completion of an exercise. If the student wants to review their work, they are unable. If the student wants to study that material, they are unable. As an instructor, Cengage will tell you that you're able to open the material back up to the student, but this is completely misleading. The student would have to re-do all the exercises they've already completed toward their grade in order to simply access, read or study their purchased material which is unavailable anywhere else.
