Excel Core Level 1 (3 x 90 Minute sessions) (Private) - Live Online One Day Course Reviews

Trainer was great and learned new things but for me there wasn't enough short breaks, concentration can only be held for 20 min blocks so doing 1.5 hours of listening, moving fast and then actioning across a full day left my brain a little fried in the final section. Also, having one screen made it quite tricky.

1.It was a very important and useful training but the allocated time was too small. I would have preferred if the training was taught as face to face and broken into 2 sessions with assignment for practice before the next session.

Very good training but maybe would be better spilt into two as quite long to keep focused looking at screen.

Instructor Sal was very good (and patient). Course content was predetermined and not needs based so a lot of it initially appeared complex and irrelevant. Parts for me did not appear to be aimed at total excel novices. Suggest in future for one to one sessions more time is spent beforehand (and pre session) determining student needs. Only in the last hour when it was apparent I did not understand what was being taught and we discussed what I actually wanted to know did the course become more alive. That said some of the tools learnt in the morning were relevant to what i wanted to know.

The tutor was very nice but difficult to follow - partly because of his diction (not his fault) and partly because he was too fast. Attendees should be given the worksheets to download before the event - I only read that I should download the programme GoTo. It would also help if the files were named in a way to make them easy to find - most of them start with the word 'Excel', so finding the right one on tabs at the bottom of the screen took longer than necessary. It was also frustrating to only answer questions via Chat - our group was only 8 people but there was no audio option. A slightly longer and slower course would have been better for me.