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Qualified Student Review
While I am so happy to have completed my course - I have had some time to reflect on my experience. While overall the experience was good there are some points I believe would be helpful for Open Colleges to look into. The student Platform 'Open Space' is not as user friendly as made out, it is not compatible with all devices used and the 'percentage' area is not in real time or sometimes does not update at all - the chat feature however, is fantastic. The modules are not set out in a way that makes much sense - many of the modules require you to stop halfway through as you cannot complete it without work experience, leaving you at the end with all these half finished modules which doesn't really make sense as you need to complete modules to unlock the next. Some of the questions in the modules are VERY cryptic - while there are module helpers sometimes the module helpers seemed more of a motivational speech rather than an example or help. So when you complete a task and submit the teachers are looking for something specific that was not specified in the question and almost felt like I had to read between the lines a lot. While the teachers were fantastic at helping when you asked for it - if the questions and tasks were set out clear and concise this would free up a lot of their time. I do also think a 'student manual' of some sort would be useful that sets out what task to do when and how to submit assignments. Sort of like an online checklist at the start that would also make it easier to see what is left to do. The tutors were very helpful when I needed it with very quick turn around. I do think the course needs a bit of tweaking just to help people get their qualifications as many times I felt unmotivated when submitting assignments knowing that I would have to resubmit again and again. Looking forward to receiving my certificate and I hope Open Colleges staff are all getting through this lockdown. Sophie