Course has potential to be very good with some improvements: Course content to be more engaging during the speaker videos (i.e if a speaker is talking about place names about significant battles, political unrest, trade routes, ect instead of a still background with a person, have relevant maps, or have dot points for the student to skim.

I really learned a lot and I'm inspired to continue learning about Indigenous Canada. The first 3 and last 3 lessons were the most enjoyable for me. Unfortunately, the instructors rely too heavily on presenting list after list. Since this is a virtual presentation, more stories, video clips and interviews would have increased engagement.

I really enjoyed the course and I feel that I learned a lot from it, but I found that the quality of the lectures and the course reading materials, as well as the quizzes, went down toward the end of the course, in particular in the last three modules, and that some of the information presented was superficial and perhaps one-sided.

Good info on the early years of contact and the fur trade. Nice imagery. I was not in agreement with some of the material, finding a fraction of it inaccurate. For example, the statement made that there was less logging since certain indigenous / provincial / federal agreements were made on the northwest coast is not accurate.

Was hoping to learn more about the First Nations peoples and cultures, but instead, I feel I only earned about them in relation to Europeans and racism. I know how they were cheated, mistreated, oppressed, and assimilated, but I know almost nothing new about the core of the people themselves. I'm quite disappointed.

This is not an engaging course. The videos are very dull and the speakers are reciting the reading for that module. There are a few videos that feature people who speak more naturally and it is presented in an interview style. This would be much more engaging if all of the videos were presented that way.

I appreciate the content and effort put into this course and am glad I took this, but some of your questions are quite confusing, especially the use of negatives (eg. "Which of this is NOT..."). And sometimes the questions do not even correlate to the material presented, which was frustrating.

I have found it very informative. History is written from many points of view and I had not heard this POV before. I found myself frustrated that the course had not been updated with more current information. I would have appreciated a more scholarly approach on both content and exams.

Very important and relevant historic and contemporary knowledge of Indigenous Peoples is shared in a very academic way. I found it a bit dry and dispassionate at times and so my engagement was sometimes hard to maintain. I really do appreciate this free and informative offering.

I found the voices of the female lecturers monotonous at times. Adding some more images of examples as artifacts or art work would stimulate (wake) the interest. I also found the negative and ambiguous questions distracting and of no benefit to my learning experience.

This class very very well made. I have learned a lot. I would like to thank everyone who work together to create this free course so many can be educated. However, the use of english is a little too advance and at times it was hard for me to understand topics.

The course was excellent and I have learned so much and I believe I have a better awareness of Indigenous People. I found that I was so busy taking notes in hopes of passing the tests that I missed important info as well and the opportunity to just absorb.

Course material was great and I learned a lot. The presenters were strong.

The questions asked in the tests were not always well written. They sometimes seemed intended to confuse vs. teach.

Overall, I enjoyed this program and will recommend it.

I really appreciated this course and am a better person for it. But I found the delivery a little flat. Would have preferred a more dynamic content, chock full of hard examples and first person stories of the concepts being shared.

Informative, presented from a specific point of view, but reasonably balanced, and easy to access and use.

The presentation style was clear, but repetative and, at times, failed to keep me engaged.

Overall, worthwhile and eye opening.

Thought provoking and illuminating. However lectures often seem choppy and are not always engaging. Presenters seem to be reading from overly academic sounding text, the content gets more compelling as the course progresses though.

I think the course was fine. However, I have not received my certificate in the mail yet. I paid $65 for this certificate and completed the course on October 4. Please reply and let me know when it will come.

Thank you,

SherryBaker

Content was wonderful, learned a lot. The questions themselves can be improved to match the language provided in the course work and reading material; many questions were difficult to answer because of the disconnect in language.

The course was totally well-organized, well-developed, comprehensive, and enlightening; however, the tedious presentation of the speakers could have been more dynamic. Moreover, the interviews and artworks were fascinating.

The way the questions are written in the quiz's is very confusing. There is no need for that. Even with the course notes right in front of me it sometimes marked my answer as incorrect although stated in the course notes.

It is great to learn about everything that we have learned about, but it is jutst a very tough way to learn. It would have ben nice to have had more questions pop up throughout and have the content be more engaging.

There was a great amount of insightful information; however, I found the quizzes to be rather difficult. Many of the questions were worded in a way that made it nearly impossible to be 100% sure about your answers.

I did find it a bit light on details, so I found I didn't walk away learning much. But it's just an intro course, and I have no talent for sociology so ymmv. But I hope that later courses are more in-depth.

interesting and informative. Would have welcomed more information on worldview, culture and history of Metis and Inuit people with a comparison to Indian people. Perhaps this is offered in another course?