Mental Health Awareness Training for Education Professionals Reviews

There is no way to advance through material already known. The pace for many sections is painfully slow, which aftre a while is stressful.The having to click the mouse every 45 seconds or so in places, sometimes more often to advance the material is draining and demoralising. It borders on infantilisation of the trainee, and the lack of trust implicit is heavily disempowering and disengaging. The tests are almost box ticking exercises, which are very easy to take, I think they are too easy. And the weekly nagging email to complete, timed for Monday Morning, is disrespectful to staff.This training discriminates against neurodiverse members of staff. There is no reason to treat intelligent, professional people like this, or indeed anyone who deserves workplace dignity, which is everyone.As well as stress from the unecessarily slow pace of this, the temptation to multitask and click the mouse every so often will be tremendous. Many will simply ignore the video material after a while and click through.There is no option to view the training as written material. I am convinced that were we forcing our students to endure this we would not consider it to be UDL compliant.The Mental Health in Education is ironically the most irksome section, at one point it even tells us to 'never forget to drink water'. That's not cherrypicking either, much of the material is similarly superluous. The advice given on wellbeing in the workplace is ignored by the same training.

It's unfortunate to have to give such a low rating for nice material, but the delivery format is repetitive, stressful, and disempowering. This is because video content is only given in bite size content, and the emphasis becomes clicking on rather than absorbing. Some concepts are explained rather too slowly, which is frustrating. An option to read all of the content would be terrific, especially for academics, some of us read in detail and quickly, and notably for neurodiverse. There isn't any point running material this slowly with all of the frequent checks, and it would be easier to focus on it if we felt respected and trusted.

I did not find this at all helpful or informative. There was nothing new or informative. Very much 'stating the obvious' and at times 'patronising'. Very disappointing.

As I did a Psychology degree, I knew all of this already so the course was pointless - there should be a placement test of some sort to gain a basic understanding of what people already know before they are forced to watch videos that they cannot skip. Would rather read the transcript than watch the video, but that's not an option. The multiple choice questions mostly didn't require watching the videos, simply avoid the options that make no sense.