If you find yourself confused and cannot decide for sure which courses best fit your current needs, this article outlines how you can preview a course and see if it is the right course for you. In addition, it explains how you can review key information about a course, the instructor(s), and read student reviews on the course landing page.
For tips on how to find a course on the Thkee marketplace or courses related to a specific subject, please see How to Search for Courses on Thkee.
How to start a free preview
Each course on Thkee platform has some lectures, which the instructor has assigned for students to preview for free. Thus, you have a sample the course content and the teaching style.
To start a free preview, please follow the steps below:
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Click on the course icon or course title to proceed to its Course Landing Page
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Next, click Preview This Course on the left-hand side of the page
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Now you’ll be able to watch a handful of lectures selected by the instructor
Reviewing course information
You can also review key information about the course on the course landing page, which includes the following sections:
Course Objectives: it outlines the learning goals.
Overview: it includes a summary of the course content and key ideas.
Requirements: these are the prerequisite knowledge or tools, if any, you will need to take the course.
Target learners: it defines the learning group who would advantage from taking this course.
Course content: you can review a list of each lecture title, and any other curriculum items the course includes (quizzes, assignments, practice tests, etc). The entire course length, including non-video lectures, is also posted at the top of the section.
Instructor: this section is where instructors share information about themselves, as well as their experience and expertise. If you click on the instructor’s name, you will be directed to their profile page, which also includes icons for all the courses they teach.
Reviews & feedback: in the Student Feedback section you can see ratings and reviews students have submitted for the course, which may help you decide whether the course is right for you.
When students take a course, they are asked what they would rate the course from one to five stars. In the rating section, you can see what the rating for the course is, and sort through reviews based on their rating, by clicking on the corresponding number of stars.
Please note
- that instead of using a simple lifetime average, Thkee calculates a course's average star rating by considering a number of different factors such as the number of ratings, the age of ratings, and the likelihood of fraudulent ratings.
- Below the ratings you will find the reviews that students have submitted from their experiences after taking the course. These reviews include the students' comments, opinions as well as their rating for it. And this can be very helpful when you want to determine whether the course will meet your educational goals or not.
- Also, this section may also include a featured review, which highlights a positive experience a student had with the course.
To learn more about submitting a review, please read our Leaving and Editing a Course Review article.