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Overall the course was informative and the material given and delivered great. disappointed no topics on analogue input and outputs was shown.
The PLC5 course is enjoyable and very educational, focused on programming aspect of PLC.
The course is useful and the tutor is very knowledgeable. At each stage of questioning i felt like i understood the topic better. I think the course content could have been sped up. I would've liked more time to complete all the exercises, including the really challenging ones. The use of the software is most enjoyable on these challenging problems. perhaps the afternoon session after the 3rd break could be solely focused on completing the challenging programs. I think it was useful to have the physical systems to work on. This is definitely valuable. However would've preferred some more focus on seeing other systems and code. For example, the tutor could show us a video of a system and how his code facilitated it's operation. Other than that the course was perfect.
The course was made harder by the 2 bank holidays. In the future maybe slide the course to only run over 1 bank holiday.
Everything was great however I struggled with the practical side much more than the theoretical. I felt like I needed more time physically working than the course had planned in. This is because I'm brand new to the trade and don't yet have work experience (which is assumed to a certain degree when undertaking this course). All staff were excellent and helped me through.
Mark was a brilliant tutor and presented the course in an engaging and fun manner. Overall the course was very good and I would recommend it. The only issue was that we did not have enough tools for each individual student during the first few days, so we had to share tools with other students while we waiting on our set.
Great facilities and a great attitude towards learning, I would like to have seen more examples of the key parts of PLC programming, It was quite difficult to get information from the tutor when struggling on a specific topic, I believe he was making me think for myself as he knew the answer was at my fingertips. A method that eventually worked well.
Course was good and tutors were brilliant however there was a distinct lack of tools and equipment. each learner should ideally get there own set of tools and own motor and access to power so were not wasting time waiting for others to test their boards. Also id much prefer more theory and fault finding as oppose to wiring boards up.
Good course, both Mark and Andy were great and very supportive throughout when I needed help. Both had very sound knowledge of the subject and taught it to a high level and kept it interesting with insights to the trades from their own experiences. Tools definitely let this course down in regards to the lack of them, at the start there was not enough to go round and caused delays with individuals having to wait for others to finish using them. Thought it was unprofessional for the tool sets that are provided to individuals to not be ready on the start of the course as required. But overall the course provided a good solid foundation to be built upon.