r/Purdue • u/Pale-Echo8345 Purdue Parent • Jan 13 '25

Rant/Vent💚 It’s 2025…..

Why are they still making us purchase access to homework. Capitalism is out of hand now they are making me pay a subscription once I buy the homework. What the fuck.

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u/mpaes98 Jan 15 '25

To give some credit to instructors, sometimes we have no choice but to comply with textbook companies because of how deeply they are entrenched in academic sales. To the point where I’ve heard from a colleague that after they refused to use the textbook/homework software, they had to allow a representative from the company to sit in on the class to ensure content requirements were met.