Alberta Distance Learning Centre

I had registered this past summer for the 6 weeks ‘What’s New In Microsoft Office 2010′ course as I thought it was time that I updated my software skills, and as I already had MS Office 2010 on my computer anyway but only used Word and not the others, I felt it would be beneficial for me to add this course as well to my Resume and hopefully make myself more employable.
The course consists of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access, and EACH course, no matter what you take from ADLC costs $ 130 dollars, which isn’t too bad. These are NON-​accredited courses, so you can’t use them to get into whatever college or university program or course you take. Instead, you are provided with a Certificate of Completion.
I found the instructions and layout of the course to be very easy to read and understand, and the course layout by the female instructor quite well and professionally written. But for anyone who’s taken MS Office courses, you will naturally find the course ‘assignments’ easy to do, with picture examples of what the steps outlined or assignments you do are supposed to look like. You don’t hand these in to the instructor, nor the quizzes that are at the end of every chapter. This is for your own learning benefit, which really helps you when you finally ‘write’ the final exam, which consists of multiple choice questions. They even recommend that you print out a COPY of the Final Exam, which I did, and those same questions are the ones you answer on the actual Final Exam online. I studied for two days, and got 100%. Your results are calculated instantly, and then there is a link provided, where you obtain the Certificate of Completion. You have to score 65% or more in order to get the Certificate of Completion.
AS you go through each course, the Instructor recommends as well that you print out each lesson of the course, which I did, and which I’m keeping for my own reference and practice or review in the future. You can download the files required for each lesson and keep these for yourself. IF you happen to run into any problems with the end of the lesson’s assignments, you can always e-​mail the instructor for help and I found that she was good at getting back to me when I was having issues with this one PowerPoint assignment that I just couldn’t get to look right.
I ran into no difficulties from when I first walked into ADLC where you can pay by debit card for the course till when I completed the course on September 4^th, 2014. ADLC has a great variety of courses to choose from! Just be diligent and work through the course lessons, and as there are dates provided online for when each lesson for each MS Office course are available for you as you progress. Otherwise you can easily get behind if you’re not committed and disciplined.
I would gladly take another course through ADLC again, and it’s quite convenient to be able to do this in the comfort of your own home at your own leisure.

I’ve taken quite a few courses through the Alberta Distance Learning Centre, so I could finish my high school. The people that work there are actually extremely helpful and nice.
The courses are very expensive, but you can apply for a loan or subsidy. I found the course packs to be well written and the assignments were relevant and challenging. You can contact your teacher for help at any time. Also, they have courses that were not available, when I was in high school, like World Geography and Legal Studies.
Since this is distance learning, you work on your studies at home. You need to be self-​disciplined for sure, but the benefit is you get to work on stuff on your own time and at your own pace.
There are exams, and all you need to do is make an exam appointment and go downtown to the ADLC building and write your exam in a quiet room.
I definitely recommend taking courses through the ADLC, whether you want to finish your highschool or upgrade.