Springboard courses. Free college courses sponsored by the Irish Government

I did the Cybersecurity course in ATU (well, it was LYIT at the time). I enjoyed it, but it was challenging at times - a lot easier if you have programming experience (or inclination). Almost all continuous assessment so project work and assignments instead of traditional end-of-term exams. We had 2 evenings of live lectures a week, no weekends. Lectures were recorded and available to watch back.

Like many TU courses, it's quite practical in nature, so a lot of hands-on work. I'd reecommend the course but with a caveat that if you have no IT experience at all, the content will be challenging.

Quick question.

I was accepted onto a cloud computing course in Tallaght, sent all the paperwork in but not heard anything else from them since. And its supposed to start in the middle of September, is this the same with everyone else? Think it maybe a case on contacting the college, but just wanted to see if others are in the same boat?

Thanks in advance

Thanks Berty for the info. Just off the phone to Tallaght, thye said all should be grand, they are just abit late sending out the enrollment documents. Now to get into learning mode.

Im thinking about brushing up on some programming for this course. Which programming languages would you recommend looking at? I see there are a couple of modules with software development elements. Also, any context would be appreciated.

Contacted Springboard about a course in UL and they told me it was entirely flexible and online so I applied, was accepted and paid my fees. Now after finding out today that half the modules are face to face only.

What recourse do I have here? Do you think I cant get my fees back and will I still be eligible for future Springboard courses?

Going by the information provided, you were misled when you "purchased" this service so you should be entitled to your money back.

You can explain this to the Springboard team and they should be able to cancel your application, allowing you to apply for another course.

From the courses I've seen, you'll be given pretty much everything you need - but at present you probably wouldn't go far wrong looking at either Java or Python.

ecollege.ie are currerntly offering courses for both Java and Python, and as far as I know they are still free to access. If not, there are plenty of free introductory coures available on the web.

Anyone else meant to be doing the Certificate in Regulated Investment Funds in MTU?

Paid for it and haven’t heard anything meant to be starting Tuesday. It has been taken off of their website too. Very professional.

Can you read?

Its working now anyway

No, just use a different browser. For some reason it re-directs to the HEA website when using some browsers, but works fine on Firefox.

https://springboardcourses.ie/

Springboard website only works within Ireland. If it thinks you are overseas, it will redirect to the HEA site. Common reason this can happen when you are in Ireland is using a VPN

Bit frustrating. Laptop belongs to work, everything probably goes through a VPN.

If anyone here is thinking of doing HDID or CUX at DCU I'd say don't bother.

Courses are overly heavy on the theoretic side of UX. Pretty much nothing related to design, pretty much all user research.

Assignments are tedious and overly-long, coming to dissertation length for mid-course assignments!

Some totally unprofessional stuff on group assignments where you have to write written reports on classmates.

I was able to get some online courses Udemy, Pluralsight etc through work and found these far superior.

The only useful thing in this course is the certification, and you'll suffer to get it.