DSE Training (Display Screen Equipment), Page 35 Reviews

Took too long to complete

Far too long. It doesn't need the narrative for each section. Quick explanations/pictures/multiple choice are sufficient.

found it repetitive, Very mono tone, Alot of it was common sense, Also some parts especially the exercises felt made up.

some ery vauge questions & pictures making it very difficults to work out the correct answer.

Factually the presentation was great but the topic is already dull and it wasn't helped by having a presenter who has a voice that it would be easy to fall asleep to. Also there were sections of the video that were reused so there were minor groundhog day moments. Overall, I feel the video should have been more engaging and the presenter should have spoken in a more conversational way, such as in a TV advertisment when you feel like you are having someone discuss the facts with you rather than them being talked at you.

.

easy to use

There are some practical tips within the information but the entire thing seems to have been designed to protect a companies back from being sued rather than benifit the person using the C.D. The exercises were fairly daft, and nobody would keep up with these on a regular basis. Many of the tips in the setup tips only apply to an "ideal" workstation and cannot actually be applied in a real work situation, or at least not within this company, as workstations are often difficult shapes, sizes and require much more equipment that show nin the C.D. It also does not address the issue of working standing up at a bench, some of the benches used here can be either stood at or sat at depending on what work is being done.

It taught me what I needed to know but it was incredibly tedious. Areas such as the demonstrating the stretches were good, actually holding them for ten seconds was completely uneccessary as, at this point, I can count to ten.

I found your software to be an arduous, boring lecture on points of common sense that bear no relation to the actual work environment that people are increasingly finding themselves in. It is commonplace to have desks containing more than one computer (desktop and portable), several monitors, keyboards and mice and your materials do not cater to these sorts of environments. In my departmental office alone, there are only seven employees, but between them there are seventeen displays, eleven computers (of which two are portable "laptop" computers) and a number of heads-up monitoring systems. How do you arrange all of these required machines and screens in such a way that posture can be correctly preserved?Maybe you might like to start by adding a section on managing multiple displays? I've been working with multi-display computers since 1998, and found it hard to understand how that might be missing from your training programme.For much of this session, I had to pretend to be a user of one poorly designed computer with a diminutive display that could freely float through space - when in fact I have three 24" monitors across two computers in a configuration that cannot hope to comply with this guide. All are required for my job.As a final ringing irritation, the term 'PDA' is considered obsolete. Try 'smartphone'.