Free or paid: features comparison
Do you want your practice set to be automatically graded or are you happy
to do the grading yourself? Do you want students to receive feedback as they go, or are
you willing for students to receive either no feedback at all, or only feedback that you
deliver yourself after your students have submitted their entire practice set?
The price and features of your practice set depend on the functionality and submission
format that you select:
Pricing
Free practice sets? What's the catch? There isn't one.
If your undergraduate accounting course is taught at a government-recognized
higher education body in the United States,
you can adopt a Perdisco practice set and have your students complete it without paying any money to Perdisco.
There are no hidden costs and no advertising. Our free practice sets are just the same
as those that the other publishers are charging your students up to $50 each for!
If you teach a postgraduate or corporate education course, please contact us for more information on pricing.
Why do we publish certain sets for free? Because, when you compare
our free practice sets to everything else that Perdisco can achieve for you and your students
using our VirtualTutor practice set, free is all we think a traditional paper practice set is
actually worth! We are simply giving away what students are already taking for free anyway.
If you use a practice set from another publisher today, many of your students are already
(illegally) copying it and cheating by sharing or buying solutions from friends and prior
students. Where's the $50 value in that? (For either you, your students or the publisher?)
So, why would you adopt a free practice set? Of course, while we are
generally critical of traditional paper-bound practice sets, you are still using them in
your courses because they have some academic merit (we also agree with this or we would not
choose to publish them in our catalog). In particular, if you want to encourage your students
to undertake low-stakes self-study or active group collaboration on an accounting project,
then a traditional paper-bound practice set is ideal. And you can now do this for free.
How does Perdisco's paid practice set compete with our free ones?
By solving the problems of traditional paper practice sets and offering genuine value
to you and your students. The problems solved are to stop cheating,
to remove your grading and feedback
workloads and to dramatically lower the price. While our
feature-rich VirtualTutor online practice set does come at a cost to students,
it is still a fraction of the price of many traditional practice sets on the market.
Since it is so functional, why is Perdisco's VirtualTutor practice set so affordable?
We deliberately price our paid resources at a level that is realistic and achievable for students.
We rely on our adopters, such as yourself, to continue using us across many semesters and
recommending us to colleagues. If you like what we are doing, then please adopt us and tell
others about our resources (we also publish a Financial Accounting textbook and Algorithmic Homework as well as practice sets).
Using a practice set in your course right now? If you compare your
current practice set with what we have to offer, we're certain that Perdisco can provide you
with all the value-added features you want, while still saving your students money.
More information
Contact us to find out more or to order a desk copy for your review.