Summary of Evaluations

Thank you to those who completed course evaluations. Your feedback is crucial for grant reporting and greatly helps to make future procurement decisions. Overall, feedback about the courses was better than expected considering these are basically web tutorials with no instructor feedback (except for the SkillSoft online mentoring available to those taking some of the MS Office courses). Most everybody reported "Agree" or "Strongly Agree" on the questions with very few (as in like 2) reporting "Disagree" or "Strongly Disagree" on anything! Even with our 2 disatisfactions, I can come to no conclusion because other people reported these courses as A OK.

We've had two people report that they took the courses and then did not remember what to do on the job. That's another whole level of evaluation that we have not asked you about and it's where "the rubber hits the road". My response is to please consider doing some kind of work-related project (like volunteer to type the minutes from a meeting using your newly acquired MS Word skills) or you will forget what you have learned. Also, count on forgetting some things, but plan on what you will do when you are asked to remember - like checking the Help menu, referencing a book or using notes. The idea here is that now you should at least feel more comfortable with the topic and can find out what you need to do to get the job done. Please feel free to comment here on any other thoughts or ideas you have about this.