Course Reviews

Matthew was an excellent instructor for the SQL Essentials course. His extensive experience as an IT professional really showed in the way he explained concepts and connected them to real‑life scenarios. The practical tips, clear explanations, and supportive learning environment made the two days engaging and genuinely valuable. Much appreciated for your great insights and experience!

Helpful information and he personilsed it when need be.

Thanks Adam, fantastic knowledge and excellent instructional style.

Great instructor very knowledgeable - made learning easy

Adam was a really good facilitator and checked in with attendees regularly to ensure we were following along. Would be good if these trainings could be recorded so we can view back as a remainder

Very useful

Learnt heaps

I learn lots of small features which is very useful in my day-to-day operations. The tutor has amazing excel skills and patient to answer questions with live practical demonstration.

All the most interesting information for my current role was at the end of the day Oaks used great examples and taught us the best ways to do things.

Thank you Oakley for a great course. Great pace and good articulation. Excellent cheats as well. My only thought that helps me embed learning is if you could find practical 'real life' examples of when it might be handy to do the skill it might help to mention that. example: If you are in sales you might need to know where your top performers are in the state ... this is when you might want to use this..... If you need to know the average pass rate of training exams you might find this useful.......... etc and so on.

The instructor was very engaging and helpful. They were also very knowledgeable.

A comprehensive overview of the basics. Matthew's teaching style was really clear - and he did a great job balancing the need to start simple and accommodate everyone's different expertise while still pushing us challenge our thinking where appropriate.

Very valuable to gain knowledge to prepare pay run - made appropriate to our business

Alex is very knowledgeable and I learnt plenty of tips and new features. Demo files are very helpful too. The pace is fast so some may struggle if not experienced, but there are a lot of topics to cover so it's understandable.

Great instructor, very clear on explanations. There could be a bit more for student engagement throughout the day

Very thorough course - extremely enjoyed it! Alex was a great instructor, very clear and easy to follow.

Alex presented well. Clear and concise and very knowledgeable.

The course was very informative and well-structured. The instructor explained concepts clearly and provided useful examples. It would be beneficial to include more relevant on VSBA data.

Very well structured course. The instructor was very patient and led the course at a good pace where beginners like me could understand concepts easily. Good course material as well.

The course was great, well paced, very informative and engaging. Thank you.

The overall training session with Mark was very insightful and helpful in understanding key SQL concepts to get started. He provided great analogies and kept me engaged during the session. Interaction with the class would have made it involved more active participation. Perhaps some time in the end for problem solving would have also been quite insightful and useful to cross any last doubts.

good course and good teacher

very good. love u,jill

Jill is the best instructor and its clear that she is your organisations biggest assett and is the only reason I came back. She is funny, friendly, supportive and makes the content extremely engaging. She is the best!

Opened my eyes to functions that i didnt know existed or were possible.