Instructor didn't seem prepared or knew what to teach. Asked students what they wanted to learn and only briefly touched on those features (only went over pivot tables and v-lookup. provided one example of both) Trainnee's drove the class 90% of the time. Evaluated her as a 4 in "Student interaction" Because she asked LOTs of questions. Almost too many, instead of just filling us with the knowledge. only Utilized 1 of the 5 excel files instructor sent to francine for us to have.

The subject was useful and will be applied by myself at my agency. Given the time allotted for subject, I feel the subject was covered well.

would have loved to have some more advanced excel capabilities

there was a lot of valuable information that could have been discussed however most of the work was independent and it seemed like we were missing out on important details as she spoke to each student individually versus the entire group.

This class was very helpful in exploring some of the very powerful applications of excel and demonstrating how we, as analysts, can benefit greatly. Alisa did a great job addressing areas our class was interested in learning about and I would certainly recommend this to anyone new to an IA position.

Alisa was hands instructor, and I learned a lot of new things from her class. I will definitely use all the new skills to better do my job. Alisa was very engaging and made the classroom very active in participation which was good for me to learn and do some work right away. I will definitely recommend this class to everyone.

None

Training lacked substance and overall flow. A lot of time spent not learning anything and just talking about our personal jobs.

Instructor Leduc presented her class that was for all different levels of analyst. She had eye contact with the class and walked around to help everyone.

I would have love to see the instructor do hands on practicals, showing step by step process while the students folow through.

I feel as if this course need two days to be taught instead of one. Instructor focused on helping one group of the class at a time, instead of teaching as a whole.

It was very slow and all over the place.

After the amazing course on PowerPoint, I was very excited that we would be covering Excel. I believe that Excel is one of those things that is easy to learn the very basics of but can be endlessly complex and powerful the deeper you go. Within the first hour of the class I was disappointed and realized I would learn very little. Alisa asked everyone during introductions whether they would rate themselves as a Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced. About a third of the class said they were Beginners, almost everyone else Intermediate. I thought this was a great idea and could help her tailor the course as needed. Unfortunately, Alisa ended up skipping a lot of the early material in the manual. At one point asking a student who said they were a beginner if they know what a "range of columns" is. The student was clearly feeling put on the spot and said no, but we could skip it if needed, so Alisa skipped it. After basically explaining what rows, columns, the ribbon, etc. were, she explained the concatenate formula and did a good job on that. However, the very next thing covered was pivot tables. She did not explain what any of the options were in the initial pivot table popup were, she said "just leave everything the same, don't change anything, and click Okay." She also did not explain anything in the pivot table wizard on the right of the screen, she just said "mess around with it a bit and see what it does." This was really frustrating for me because I don't really understand how pivot tables work and ended up needing a classmate to tell what fields to put in the Filters, Rows, Columns, and Values sections in order to complete the assignment in the manual. Alisa ended up walking around the room to work with individual students and after 1+ hours, came back to the front of the room to give everyone the answers. I was disappointed that she did not demonstrate or explain how to find the answers, she just typed them into the answer form. After lunch there was a lot more time wasted. She did go into more detail on the vlookup formula, but I still don't fully understand how it works. I'm not confident that Alisa fully understands how it works. At the end of the day I honestly feel like I could have learned more about Excel watching YouTube videos on it.

Great course. I filled out the comments field at the completion of the course though.