You even hear the scratching of the pen. Bridget thinks it's neat and has spent some time wondering how they do that. Nothing reminds you to read the text or do the homework, though periodically they do have a homework check where you have to enter the answers to selected questions. Nothing triggers you to take the tests either. You are simply told in one of the handouts that there is a test for each chapter in the book.
Tests are partly enter into the computer and partly done on paper and mailed in.
Tests are a separate part of the program and do not pop up automatically the way the homework checks do. You are supposed to email a progress report weekly. The software is not as reliable as most stuff you can buy. Twice we have had it all come to a crashing halt with a message that we have just performed an illegal operation. These bugs are easily worked around but I must say they rather shook my daughter.