Academy Class Reviews

A great course overall, really useful to learn new tips and tricks to help improve my workflow. Nigel was great and very knowledgeable. For me in my case it would of been more impactful if we were able to use our real life examples of the work I work on. And for Nigel to talk us through our own work rather than watching along whilst he shows us how he got to his final stages of his work.

Course was really good, although there were some limitations as I just had the free DaVinci version and the course included lessons that needed the payed feature. Josh was an excellent tutor. Great pace, really patient and really nice person too.

The course was good, but I am frustrated that the exam I prepped for all day did not function properly. The software kept freezing and I could not it working properly. Hitting refresh did not fix it, and I got no reply in the chat. I would like to be able to take this exam fairly.

I found the instructor was excellent at his subject matter and personable but he went too fast and it was very hard to follow because it is very complex. I would say this course was hardly based at beginners. This is more due to the course content and what is expected to be covered rather than the instructor. I felt the instructor should have been on the same version as us – not a version that is older. The information about the exam was appalling. The instructor wasn't aware we were meant to do an exam until we asked him about it. We were not given information from Academy Class on how to sign up until a few hours before the exam which made us all stressed when we were meant to be focussed on studying. The instructions were also very unclear. We were expected to download software to do the practice exam just before the exam and most of us work for big companies that have firewalls and we can't just download software. My company takes days to grant permission. The instructor was able to download it and we went through the practice exam together on line. I felt the whole exam experience of signing in and get on to do it was a shambles. I also felt as if Academy Class would prefer us not to do the exam and it was reluctant to allow us to. Doing the exam was part of the deal with my company to attending the course. A Mac mouse won't right click during the exam to open pop up menus so I also lost points from this.

I think the course could be split into 3 sections: beginner, intermediate and advanced. A lot of content to take over 4 days.

The course was really enjoyable and it was great to learn something new. My only issue was the fact that the exam was on a remote computer which was really slow and 'laggy'. It meant that I was unable to complete around half of the practical exam questions, which was a real shame. Even moving the mouse across the screen was painful and perhaps made slightly worse the fact that I was working on a Mac, so not all of the shortcuts, or right click commands were working - adding a bit more pressure.

Intense, enjoyable and efficient course. I feel i chose well between all the offer i found in the market. We covered a lot in only five days, and the teacher has been able to guide us through all the themes smoothly and making us participate in all the creations.

Informative and interesting course - Marnus delivered the course in an understandable and concise way - only thing that made the course difficult is having to listen to the instuctor whilst trying to take notes and perform the Autocad exercises all at once - would be better to have had the paper copy of the course to use in conjunction with the online class.

Really enjoyed the course. It is very intense, but gained a lot from it. Only comment is that it is quite hard to follow the trainer and replicate their screen almost at the same time. I think more showing before practicing would be good.

The online tuition was brilliant and I cant fault it.... What would make the course even better would be some course notes as at times I found it difficult to write, watch and do.....