IntrepidTEFL

When you think of how cheap this is, it's hard to imagine it'll be any good. Surprisingly, everything about it is great (with a few asides that we'll get to in a minute...I'll try to keep it short). Login is easy and it's on a nice, fast site; text is informative and gets to the point (it also looks organised (so if you're anything like me and can't stand plain then you'll like this); there are videos and a nice interactive review section on all or most lessons (not sure if anything was missing); and the quizzes and little practice thingies are fine (I'm guessing they're there to 'water' the learning or whatever that memrise app termed it as years ago). So those things are great. You just swish your way through the text, get some learning done, then get your assessments tucked away. It's straightforward. Once I clicked to finish the final quiz, I got asked to enter my details again, and there was my certificate freshly off the digital matrix for me to download. That was easy. The buts and howevers are small, but you need to beware of them (I think). There's not really any job support: the homepage has a little thingie where you can click it and get some links, but it's not support by my understanding of the word. I get the feeling 'tutor support' doesn't really mean the same thing for these automated TEFL courses either as it's more like technical support. I'm convinced it's one of those gimmicky buzz words they use in TEFL, as I cannot see how you'd ever need to actually ask a teaching question because the answers are all there. Tech support is more accurate. Their tech support is good - that's the next point. One quiz seemed to want to befriend me and not let me get past, so I messaged and they did some magic to make it let me move past question 4. After that, no issues, but again, I had no need to get support so that selling point of tutor support is meaningless to me. This is in danger of being unbearably long. End note: I learned a bucketful of stuff about teaching English but not from a live tutor!

Not much to say other tan it went as expected. The text was easy to read and had a nice bit of touch screen action going on. It was self paced, s9 I just beasted through it when I fancied cutting into it.

Paid $27, did some learning online about something I knew little about, took some quizzes and thought through some scenarios, then downloaded my certificate. It was an easy process and legit, so I'm not sure what else to say!