The following are unsolicited learner comments from a few of our courses. Learners have been identitied only by the first initial of their first name. The complete text of these and others is on file.

Looking back to Fall, 2000, I can't believe how much I've learned, and how far we've come. Thank you for all your help, and I look forward to receiving my certificate.
K.

My turn. Yes, the course was enjoyable, the notes well crafted and the assignments skilfully set and pleasantly marked. Your choice of assessor was a good one I feel. What more can I say?
P.

I just wanted to let you know how much I have enjoyed taking this course and how much I look forward continuing with the certificate. The resources available and the amount I am learning both through the projects and other students are more than I expected. You and Elinor have both been great. Thank you for everything,
E.

I just completed MDIA 2205 and have started on 3205. I am simply writing a quick email to you to let you know how much I have appreciated Elinor's assistance throughout the course. She has replied quickly, provided great information, and has always been more than helpful (and Lord knows I have sent her enough emails and questions over the last 6 weeks!). I am sure that you receive many of these emails patting your tutors on the back, but as an educator myself I believe in recognizing a job well done. Thanks to you and Elinor for helping me along with what will one day hopefully become more than a hobby for me!
I.

As always thanks for the detailed comments. It is really nice to be in an online course where comments are deemed important. In my past experience a grade was assigned and left at that -- no chance to learn from comments.
N.

Your comments is the most valuable part of this course, since I can always "warm the chair" and find technical info, but a good feedback is a bit harder to find.
M.

I would just like to say again how much of a pleasure its been having Dale and your instruction, guidance, and feedback which along with the discussion board and the 'synergy' from viewing each other's pages makes this a unique experience. Your careful constructive criticism and tact as a 'virtual TA' also bring a warm and personal touch to the learning environment. I look forward to continuing on with the certificate and beyond.
E.

Just wanted to thank you for this great course. It has been great fun and I have learned so much.
R.

I thought that ... everything was clearly presented and the course material was organized. I thought that the responses I got from my tutor, Dale, via private mail or the bulletin board was prompt and provided much insight. I felt that Dale was very accessible whenever I required his assistance.
J.

Thanks again for an enjoyable learning experience.
L.

I would like to thank Dale and Elinor for making the course so interesting and informative. I find I benefited a lot from the very educational and useful comments from Elinor on my assignments.
W.

Thank you so much for accepting me as your student. I had a great time in working on the assignments and learning Web Page Design.
C.

I just wanted to take a few minutes and express my appreciation for your hard work and professionalism in making this program so rewarding. You and your team of assistants (in my case, Elinor, Mary Anne, and Mike) have made my experience extremely satisfying. I had my concerns starting a distance education program but you and Elinor soon extinguished any doubts. Any queries I had were handled quickly, thoroughly, and clearly. Throughout the entire program, I never waited more than a few hours for any reply regardless what time of day (or in many cases, nights) I made them. This response time is better than any university where one must book an appointment time with an instructor that fit both your own and the instructor's schedules and then walk a distance to get there. You and the assistants made every question I ask seem important, even when the answers were often obviously simple. Your patience and understanding, as well as in-depth comprehensive assessments of assignments , made for an effective and comfortable learning environment. Now that I have finished the Associate Certificate, I look forward to continuing with you to attain my full certificate.
D.

This course is user-friendly. You [Elinor] and Dale brought everything into focus in a way I doubt anyone could improve upon. So I just wanted to say thanks again.
K.

Thanks [to Elinor] and Dale for being such great tutors -- the both of you made this course so interesting and the assessments were so informative. It has been a long time for me since I have felt so motivated to continue with school and I wanted to thank the both of you for that -- you have really inspired and motivated me to continue with my education. Thank you again.
Z.

Thanks for everything! This was an excellent course -- intelligently thought out nicely put together. I got a lot out of it!
D.

I just wanted to say thank you for another great class, for your patience, help and extra time.
L.

I enjoyed the course, and found the material was written at a suitable level. I also found the concrete examples provided in the notes helped me understand new concepts. I really appreciated the way that you got back to me with comprehensive answers to questions so quickly, Elinor. That way I didn't feel like I was 'left hanging' when I was working on my assignments.
N.

I would like to thank you for your cheerful help with MDIA 1206! I learned a lot (but obviously not enough, yet).
A.

Thanks again for your excellent assessments and thoughtful comments.
A.

I just wanted to thank-you for all your help and patience. I really enjoyed this course. I can't wait to get started on more.
C.

Thank you for the detailed and helpful feedback over the term; its really been a stimulating course--coding had never appealed to me. Now I am more receptive towards mastering and actually enjoying web development--I look forward to the next courses in the series.
E.

All this learning only makes you realize how much more there is to learn. I have enjoyed the course and the online experience. Thanks.
J.

Elinor, thanks for all your help. I hope I haven't been too much of a pain. You've taught me a lot so thank you very much.
M.

Elinor, thank you very much for all your guidance and support. The MDIA 1205 along with this course have proven to be very valuable to me. I can hardly believe I have my first customer after only two courses! This is definitely a wonderful reflection of all the extra effort and support you provide to your students.
S.

I am amazed by the amount of work you commit to grading assignments! Thanks for all the feedback.
P.

You've been an excellent instructor -- and with a sense of humour! Thanks to you and Elinor.
P.

I found this a very helpful course. I've taken an introductory Web course at _____, and also started _____'s online Web course, in the past 2 years. BCIT's course is much more satisfactory, largely because of the focused and incremental approach of gradually constructing a simple site. Building on one's knowledge is great, reducing frustration and allowing an opportunity to revisit and fix shortcomings in an assignment. Your detailed assessments and moral support, plus the clearly written unit materials were all excellent.
R.

For me MDIA 1205 wasn't just another course involving submitting assignments or projects for marks--I was able to begin mastering skills I plan to use as a competent web designer and "information architect" after I complete the program; it is this learning process I value the most. Meeting Shane and the other students in their final stages of the program made me realize how little I still know and how much work is still between myself and my goal.
E.

I've enjoyed being exposed to PHP and plan to use it in my work and personal projects. I would also like to thank you for always being a responsive and even complimentary instructor and for having already given me very useful enhancements to my skills as a developer.
S.

Thanks for all your help. I've been amazed by how quickly you have been getting back to me. I have better access to you than I do with my instructors at BCIT. I'm VERY happy with that!"
M.

Before this course ends, I just want to thank Dale, Elinor and Brandon for making this a really enjoyable experience. When the course started, I wasn't sure whether Internet delivery would be as effective as other methods. But you guys made it happen, and the proof is in all the wonderful websites that the class has come up with.
C.

This has been a great course and I would like to thank Dale, Elinor and Brandon as well. I think that all the discussions on these boards by everyone, both instructors and students, made it much better than the average distance ed course too.
D.

Thank you all. Dale for his patience, Elinor and Brandon for their thoroughness. You were great! Thank you all classmates. I learned a lot from you, too!
B.

Thank you for the time you took to do the detailed evaluations on my assignments. I'm sure it took a lot of patience.
N.

Thanks very much Dale, Elinor and fellow "virtual classmates." This was my first distance ed course and it went much better and I learned more than I thought I would.
D.

Thanks for the great course. MDIA 1205 is the first distance ed. course I've ever taken. I didn't think I'd like WebCT, but I do. But Elinor made the course 100% more enjoyable and practical for me.
R.

We made it -- me and my classmates -- all thanks to your great teaching abilities. I really mean that as it must be 100 times more difficult to teach on the net than it is in person. I am really hoping that you, along with Elinor and Brandon, will be together teaching, tutoring and marking our assignments for us in the future.
D.

If it weren't for Dale, Elinor and Brandon I am sure that I would have jumped out my basement window severely injuring myself.
M.

Being my first distance course through the Internet, it has been a very good experience, and everyone on this BB has been so helpful. Thank you Dale, Brandon and Elinor for being so patient and helpful with us.
R.

Class: thank you for asking all the right questions and thank you for your efforts.
Dale, Elinor, Brandon: thank you for answering those questions, thank you for patience, and a special thanks to Elinor for all your comments.
C.

I have never seen such energy and connection in any of the on-line courses in which I was involved. Frankly, I am almost in tears! Dale, this community is blessed by your vision and dedication. Elinor, Brandon and yourself are such a great team that fortunately we are the beneficiaries.
L.

I want to thank Dale, Elinor and Brandon for their considerable help and consideration during this course, and also congratulate them and all the class for a job well done.
B.

I will miss learning all this wonderful stuff. This has been great. I have never enjoyed learning as much as I have in the last year. Thanks I can't say enough to people about how fabulous this program is.
L.

With such a wonderful class like this, I think I may even prefer taking all my other courses through the Internet!
R.

Thank you so much for all your help...the course has been extremely challenging (taxing and frustrating!) at times and we all appreciate the patience and (good humour!) of the instructors.
T.

Just wanted to thank all involved. The course was great but I just wanted to mention how much I enjoyed viewing all of your exercise sites. You're all pretty talented people and it was great to see how creative some of you could get in manipulating the scripts. In the future, I just might be inclined to poach a few ideas.
R.

Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the course. This was the first course I have taken over the Internet and I was a little skeptical at first, but it has worked great and is much better than driving to BCIT after work!
C.

Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed the course. I'd also like to compliment you on the material provided and the choice of the scripts. Thank you so very much for your guidance and generous appreciation of my work.
M.

I sincerely hope that the next couple of courses I am taking after this will be just as enjoyable.
O.

Just wanted to thank you both for another excellent course and all the nice comments on my assessments.
J.

Also I wanted to thank you, Elinor and Brandon for all your help and patience in this course. I even got a promotion at work because of the course and what I have learned.
L.

Thank you Dale, Elinor and Brandon for your great teaching. This is my first virtual classroom, and it was a great experience.
M.

This course has been brilliant! I've very much enjoyed the format. Some would say that Distance courses are impersonal but I absolutely disagree in this case and I think I'm not alone among classmates. Thank you Dale and Elinor for your invaluable assistance when panic stricken. And to all classmates still tuned in, thanks for all I've learned from you too, and for the camaraderie!
T.

Just wanted to say that I have really enjoyed taking these courses, and I think you and Elinor are doing a great job!
G.

I really enjoyed MDIA 1205 and I look forward to MDIA 2205 and 3205 for the winter term. Thanks to you, Elinor, and Brandon for all your help and hard work! I hadn't even looked at HTML before I started this course and now I can construct a basic web page!
T.

To Elinor, Dale and Robert. Thank you for making this the most interesting course that I have taken at BCIT. The interactivity has been great. The assessment of our assignments has been very informative and quick. To all the classmates -- your questions and ideas have been very helpful, and informative.
R.

Yes, thank you to Dale, Elinor and Robert. This course has been very informative and helpful.
K.

I would like to thank Dale, Elinor, Robert and all the students who helped me. I took a few online tutorials in the past, but they only covered the basics, this course taught me so much more and I found it very interesting and informative.
T.

I just want to say, thanks a ton for all your help and your keen sense of humour. It was great to have a Professor as attentive and supportive as you were, even though you have hundreds of students.
D.

This has been the best online learning experience I've ever had. It was tough and fun at the same time. It's been great cyberschooling with you and hopefully I'll be joining you in the fall. Thanks for all your wisdom Dale!
L.

It has been a really great class and I have learned so much. Thanks everyone for making it so enjoyable. Dale, Elinor and Robert, thank you for your time, knowledge and patience.
L.

This program has been fantastic. Any questions I asked were responded to promptly, and the resource materials were excellent. All of the skills taught are relevant and this made me look forward to working on the assignments. Again, this program has been great, and I would not hesitate to recommend it to others.
M.

Dale, Elinor and Robert, thank you for making this course such an enjoyable experience! And to all my fellow classmates, it's amazing how much I've learned from reading the messages posted up here. Your discussions helped me through a lot of "dazed & confused" moments!
J.

Thanks Elinor, Dale and Robert for putting on such a great course. I really appreciated your help Dale and Elinor with my coding problems in the last assignment! I also enjoyed all comments and insights from my classmates.
B.

Thanks to Dale, Elinor and Robert for all the great information. I've had a lot of fun and learned a lot!
E.

This course has been a great experience. I've had a ball. Thank you again for all your help. I'm hoping you are still offering "Flash" in the fall.
L.

I just wanted to send you a short note to say "Thank You" for a terrific semester! I really appreciated the time you spent marking my assignments and all your assistance. I thoroughly enjoyed myself.
B.

Sure I learned a lot during the whole program. I started a little behind, but after each course I felt how much I needed it. Especially with these last two courses, and such an active Bulletin Board. I really liked my classmates' work too. Thanks for your consideration and Elinor's advice.
H.

I just wanted to say that I have really enjoyed this course (and all of them).
K.

Thank you for being our awesome "virtual professor and TA"!
J.

Thank you to you all for making this virtual online class so wonderful. I have learned so much from all the questions asked and from all our experiences! I would also like to say to our teachers that you guys rock and we couldn't have done it without you!
A.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you. You have been an absolutely great instructor and very patient with even the stupidest of questions. Keep in touch and take care!
L.

Thanks so much for this class and all your help (and patience). I learned the most out of any of the courses I have taken so far. Thanks again. The knowledge I learned (in all ways) from this course will make me a much better Web designer than I was three months ago.
L.

Thanks for all your patience during the course. You guys are very good. I was nervous about doing an on line course because I worried about getting the support necessary to learn. You have all provided good support and I have learned more than I thought and done way better than I thought I would so THANK YOU.
J.

I truly enjoyed course and although I struggled a lot, I do have a good understanding of JavaScript. I look forward to the next course. You do a great job as an instructor and mentor -- you are fair, patient, speedy with your replies and kind in your comments...all of that with some humour.
P.

Thank you to both you and Dale for your continued support in the courses. I must say it is nice to have you both for each course -- unlike taking courses in person where you usually get a different instructor every time. I appreciate your well-thought out comments in the assessments.
B.

I enjoyed this course and I really enjoyed the program. Thanks for all your hard work and putting the materials together. You and your team certainly did an excellent job in giving me the necessary skills set and confidence to start off in the right foot to pursue a career in the web design industry!
V.

I just wanted to express my gratitude for your understanding and encouragement in 3205 and 3207. It has been tough going, but as I said, I have learned a lot.
L.

I am happy to have you as our instructor, as true teachers are, you are too, very open to questions and those curious students!
M.

This has been a very interesting course. I would have never imagined putting an audio on the Web would be so involved. You have given us an excellent overview of the industry and its technology, the assignments have been well chosen. The life has been so much easier knowing you're at the end of the pipe. Now, I will really be on my own, trying to learn as I go and hopefully show what I can do. Thanks for everything, Dale.
M.

Thanks for the assessment -- I always appreciate the detailed feedback. I love the support and feedback I get from you and Elinor in these courses -- it's great!
E.

I have been meaning to tell you that of all the courses that I have taken over the past two years that your MDIA program is the best of the best. I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience, the alacrity at which you respond to students questions and return assessments is nothing short of amazing. So as long as you keep rolling out new courses I will keep taking them.
S.

Thanks to you both. I enjoyed the course and, as usual, being able to see how others do their assignments. I'm pretty sure I'll be back for more in the fall.
D.

This was the first online course I've taken and found it to be really well done -- lots of material and the comments emailed after the assignments were very helpful. I hope everyone else has a great summer and I will "see" you in the fall.
R.

Thanks again for a great new learning environment! I really enjoyed learning online.
F.

I just wanted to say that the course was wonderful. I really can't believe how much I've learned in the past twelve weeks.
S.

It was a unique experience working on the program; I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as me. Thanks Dale for being a great teacher/tutor even though I have never met you.
M.

My final note is that my tutor was awesome. I have enjoyed working through these courses with Dale and I have found him very accessible and quick to respond which is crucial to a successful distance course.
T.

Yes, this self-directed learning idea is definitely getting easier the more courses I take. However, I'd just like to say that even though I've never met you guys, you've been excellent teachers.
C.

Thank you very much for all your help, I have learned a lot from you.
L.

Your notes are great, the Web resources you direct us to are valuable and you both have a lot of knowledge that you share. It's a great way to learn.
B.

Thanks for the course, it was very informative. I have become somewhat addicted to SVG. The more I learn, the more I want to learn!
M.

My final note is that my tutor was awesome. I have enjoyed working through these courses with Dale and I have found him very accessible and quick to respond which is crucial to a successful distance course.
I.

Thanks for being great teachers. As I mentioned to Elinor in a private e-mail, feeling stupid about something is one thing, being made to feel stupid is another. One thing you guys have always done is make me feel as if my questions have had merit even if I was personally feeling stupid. Not once have I been made to feel stupid.
J.

Anyway, thanks again for another great course. I am looking forward to the next one, although I am not quite sure which one I will register for in the Fall.
J.

hank you for your support in Web Publishing I (Media 1205). The course was interesting and highly informative. Your feedback on each lesson was invaluable; I very much appreciate your commentary style -- it was instructive yet supportive. I learned the most from the mistakes I made, yet didn't feel the fool committing such peccadillos.
T.

I just thought I would let you know how grateful I've been, having you as my tutor. You were very helpful in every aspect of the course and especially being my first Internet course. You answered every question in an excellent and professional manner I can proudly say that it was money worth spent. I have learnt so much from you.
T.

Thank you very much for the MDIA2205 and the previous MDIA1205 -- they are wonderful courses and I thoroughly enjoyed both you have a great marking style -- lots of good suggestions and comments -- well done!
J.

Thank you for your, Mike's and Dale's input and advice during this course. Hope to take more of your courses in the near future. Really enjoyed online instruction!
Z.

Thank you for the comments they very helpful as usual. You have been very helpful thoughout the course which made it very easy to take the course on line. I have learned alot and had a great time doing so. Hope to run into you in another course soon.
N.

Thanks very much and I appreciated all of your comments and feedback you have provided.
C.

Thank you so much for your feedback! I really enjoyed the course and learned a lot.
D.

Thanks for the quick grading and the patience. Looking back, I have learned a lot from this course about HMTL and I enjoyed your help! I will definitely take more courses from you and Dale.
K.

I just wanted to thank you for your help in this course. I enjoyed it a lot and really feel I accomplished something -- stretched myself.
L.

I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for all your kind help and understanding. I have learned so much it seems in such a short time but the hard work has been a blast!
A.

I've just finished the Weaving the Web course taught by Dale McIntosh and Elinor Gavin... (Dale) was always helpful and his responses were amazingly fast... I don't think more than a few hours elapsed between the time I sent my e-mailed questions and the time I received (Elinor's) very detailed responses which always gave additional information. In addition to helping a lot directly with the course contents and material, she helped a lot through the marking of the assignments. She didn't just gave us a mark. She explained what we have done right, what we had done wrong and how to correct it, and then suggested ways to improve. When I received her notes concerning my first assignment, I was astonished but such thoroughness. Doing assignments then had two benefits: one learns from doing and one learns from the correction. I think I got twice my money worth.
S.

I very much enjoyed the course. I feel this was largely due to your accessibility and quick response to my concerns. I was using this course to decide if I was going to carry on and get my Certificate in Web Technologies. I am now convinced of its merit and the dedication of the instructors.
M.

You have been great. I know you spent a lot of time evaluating each assignment. Your comments were always very supportive and your direction was very helpful. Thank you for the encouragement and guidance.
E.

Thank you for your time, and an extra thank you for all the help you have given me during this course. You have been polite, kind, resourceful, and quick, and I have really appreciated all of your help, and most of all your understanding and caring as you have answered my questions.
J.

Firstly, I would like to thank you (I mean really thank you) for all your time and effort that you have given to me over the last 12 weeks. I must tell you this, at first when I received the online information once I had registered for this course, I told my wife that there is no way I could complete this course. I knew that I had a genuine interest in this field, but I was hesitant to try it especially since it was my first online course! Yet , thanks to people like yourself, you made it possible for me to achieve success in which initially I thought there would a be minimal chance of obtaining !
P.

Thank you very much for your assistance and I hope to hear from you again in the next Internet courses. This is a fantastic way of learning and I have waited for this opportunity for a very long time. I hope you have more Web design courses being offered through the internet (ex., Flash, JavaScript, Director, etc.) so I can advance deeper into Web design. Take Care and more power to you!
R.

It has been several years since I did any kind of structured studying and this has probably been the most enjoyable course I've ever done.
P.