Unique Learning System works for all Students
October 14, 2025

Unique Learning System works for all Students

Michelle Gregurich | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Unique Learning System

I utilize Unique Learning System as the primary curriculum to teach my class of 6th grade Alternative Learning Environment students. These are students with a large variety of disabilities and whom are at various stages functionally and socially as well as academically. Most are 4-6 levels below their current grade level and all have behavioral and functional needs that are addressed in the school setting.

Pros

  • differentiates reading lessons
  • provides paired visuals to text
  • uses thematic based units to repeat key concepts
  • incorporates functional skills

Cons

  • Incorporation of more Social Studies and Science resources
  • more cooking vocabulary and safety lessons to foundational lessons
  • assessments are confusing for new users
  • data tracking
  • IEP support
  • ease of planning
Lesson planning and daily instruction being clearly mapped out has allowed me for more time to address other needs specific to my individual students and the ease of use has helped to increase the ability of my assistants to feel confident teaching small groups. This makes my busy day as a teacher much easier and helps my class run smoothly in the event I have to be out for trainings or personal reasons or attending meetings.
Being able to project the questions on a large screen so my active students can stand and make selections instead of working on paper all the time has made it much easier to have active participation from some students who refuse to use technology and get tired of sitting for long periods of time.
Unique Learning System takes a long time to get familiar with all the individual levels and lessons incorporated into one unit. It also is a lot to print when you are in a school struggling to have working printers, this can be a problem. If you do not have technology or your students refuse to utilize technology appropriately it is more difficult to use Unique Learning System. Once all those things are out of the way, Unique Learning System is quite simple to use, however the assessments are lengthy for some students that struggle to answer more than a few questions at a time. Others can do the assigned assessments without any assistance using a QR code. These examples show the versatility and breath of flexibility available to the teacher and that is why I would recommend it as a curriculum. External issues aside, I have not seen another program that makes the learning as accessible to all learners. It does not help students to transition to general education, but most of my students are not going to be eligible to make that move.
Unique Learning System is by far easier to utilize. The Vizzle system was fraught with issues for me and the students just used their learning online systems as games and clicked through to the finish with total disregard to what the computer was asking or saying to them. They did not have as much available for level one students and you could not easily assign work or print materials as you can in Unique Learning System.

Do you think Unique Learning System delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Unique Learning System's feature set?

Yes

Did Unique Learning System live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Unique Learning System go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Unique Learning System again?

Yes

Unique Learning System is extremely good at covering math and reading, language arts components and providing differentiated materials and lessons for all types of learners.

However, at times there is a lack of the same sort of lessons for very basic concepts of social studies and science that are not being covered in the overall thematic units. For example when teaching a unit on Science and Science experiments a lesson on the basic rules for a laboratory or units of measurement used in science specific activities such as units of temperature or metric and standard lessons would be beneficial during those units.

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