triOS College review: Not a serious school 60

I did the Web and mobile development course at the kitchener campus to spend 25000 dollars to have a teacher that first doesn't know the material also to watch him sleep instead of teach I sure don't think anyone should sucks it up .I can say trios does have some good teachers but I advise for at least the course I stated above do not spend money on it.Also when the whole class complained nothing was done.

The Web and mobile development course is not good the teacher is not a good teacher it seems he doesn't prep for the courses he tries to lean a new course with the students and if he can't figure the course out he will just give you a passing mark he also has been observed sleeping instead of teaching and when the whole class complained nothing was done.

Guys... you have NO idea! I went to Ryerson for a certicificate program in Computer Programming Applications because I thought... RYERSON! But... what a disappointment! I have similar complaints! The instructor just poorly copied and pasted materials from the textbooks and *read* them in class! Lab work was useless: the instructor lacked both in-class and hands-on experience, and just pretended to help, classes were clearly not prepared, and I got a less knowleageable and less deducated instructor than I was expecting for over a thousand dollars. I did try to escalate, but the staff was as dismissive as the instructor. What I learned: how not to teach, and how the IT field education can be a scam... learn online for free, build a portfolio, and you should be go to go. Don't spend money on these schools, not even in a university like Ryerson.

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I have attended trios downtown Toronto and It seems the director of the campus (Lynda Eng) picks and chooses what rules she follows. A serious School is far from how i would describe Trios.

I am not sure who It'sOnlyMyOpinion is, but I would like to respond to their comments. I searched my teacher's name for her website and I noticed this website. I would like to say that Adeela Alvez is an amazing teacher at Trios College, she is very knowledgeable. Adeela has taught me so much about law. Adeela works with every student individually, if the student needs help. She has helped me so much. She returns assignments and provides feedback to each student. The material for the course is always covered in my experience and as far as I know from my friends in the class they think the same. I will also ask them to write a comment on here. Adeela has also invited us to see her in Court and she is a great paralegal.

@SarahsOpinion told me about this website. Adeela Alvez was my teacher, our class loves her. She is a great teacher and a paralegal. Saw her in Court argue a case -she is really good! She knows her stuff well.

I learned a lot from Adeela Alvez's courses. She cares about educating her students and helping her students get jobs in the law field. I am working in a firm because of her recommendation and I am still employed because of what has taught me.

Sarah told me about this website and I wanted to write a comment here, because what that person its my opinion has written about Adeela Alvez is not true. Ms. Alvez doesn't deserves that. She is very smart and a good teacher.

Kathleen at the Hamilton campus for the community service worker course does NOT know what she is doing. When I joined this course I thought she was great and our first assignment was great. they took time and energy and forced us out of our comfort zones. That was 1 assignment in 1 course. I am now 73 days until my internship and this is why you should join the SSW program at mohawk over the CSW program at Trios.

1) When you join the course a few things are made clear to you, no cheating, don't log in to class and sleep, and be respectful. And all this seems standard until you start taking her tests. I've noticed Kathleen's tests will have questions that do not reflect ANYTHING we did in class. I'm almost 100% certain she takes her questions off of study guides online and while that sounds extremely accusatory multiple other students in the class agree that her tests are funky and have information in them that isn't gone over during the course. Then, when you download the assignments there are countless grammar and spelling mistakes that give the impression the assignments were written by somebody else and never edited or revised for further use.

2) For the logging on and just not participating, she used to call people out or even kick people out, in fact, she'd make a huge show of it saying "Ope I'm gonna kick them out and see if they're paying attention and come back" though as time went on I started to realize she was progressing students who never participated during discussions, classwork time, after class assignment time or in trainings. And at the graduation ceremony (if you can even call it that) we are forced to nominate people for awards that we have to create and at some point, you run out of names and have to nominate the people who don't participate and then they end up winning an award for sitting in a teams call doing who knows what.

3) As for being respectful, Kathleen has this ideal she follows where has to fix every willfully ignorant, disrespectful, person who logs into her class and won't hesitate to waste our tuition money giving into people's homophobic, racist ideals and ignoring genuine questions from other students like when and where to find an assignment. Students will even admit to pushing her just to get her upset and time and time again she continuously takes the bait or out of nowhere will ask for their opinion.

4) We used to have a student that was slightly disruptive. She had a new life-changing moment every day and we would listen to whatever was new but Kathleen would ALWAYS force her back on track. One time when the student wasn't in, Kathleen made a comment that every class has a student that you need to keep on track and they come off as awkward or even rude but they're just trying to fit in, and keeping them on track helps them. However, once that student and her group left, that expectation was dropped and we were expected to listen and SYMPATHIZE (not empathize) with individuals in my class and once spent the entire 4 hours counseling a student in front of the class (a repeat class disruptor). It's so bonkers to me that the hateful individual willfully not accepting the help around him gets more understanding than the kind, disabled girl who is genuinely trying to get help and better herself.

5) Kathleen boasts about her past working with individuals with disabilities, though, when a student in her class showcased her autism rads test and asked if she should pursue a doctor about it she was told she "might have Aspergers because she is very high functioning." This is very worrying as people in the class are getting jobs working with disabled people and while Kathleen isn't teaching about disabilities, if she is going to be giving her opinion then she needs to know what she's talking about. If you have autism you have autism it's a spectrum disorder for a reason and terms like Aspergers and high and low functioning are harmful as they were created by non-autistic people with the intent to label autistic people based on how hard they were to deal with not how they can actually function within different settings.

6) Multiple students have disclosed messaging Kathleen for help or to navigate assignments outside of class and there are times when she will straight out ignore people's multiple attempts to get in contact with her or she will give a vague answer and exclaim why she won't do it "it's here but too far back for me to get to it, find it yourself." Now, students are turning to each other for assistance and hoping they find someone with the answer as our instructor is never not showcasing her incompetence to just assist her students who actually care about the course. (btw Kathleen helped develop the courses and write the textbooks, she, by all means, has the know-how on helping us; she just chooses not to)

7) Someone got caught cheating and distributing material to cheat in the Hamilton and Niagara program. By all means, this isn't 100% Kathleen's fault HOWEVER before this past test she would open the test, go through every question, and tell us how to answer the written ones. then let us write it. Somebody recorded her doing this and sold it and all I have to say is who previews tests? who previews them in such detail as she had? who spends DAYS encouraging her students to bash each other, and followed up every insult towards this girl who cheated with something along the lines of "I'm so great why would you cheat from me." I'm sorry but if you're giving away the answers, you just answered your own question on the why and how people can cheat off of you. Things were getting tense in this bashing fest where multiple students and Kathleen talked about how this girl was a shame to the program and the field, how she didn't deserve to continue studying, how they'd be watching her like a hawk, and if they even thought she was cheating or doing anything she would be gone. Students talked about How it was EXCITING for Kathleen to go and question this girl and how offended Kathleen was that she didn't have remorse. I don't agree with what the girl did and my heart would be in my throat if I had to have been in that call but regardless, Kathleen is not entitled to this girl's admittance of guilt and her reasoning why. But that was her reasoning for why it was okay to bash this girl for what she did and insult her entire character not only because she cheated off of material that Kathleen gave to us that she really shouldn't have in the first place but moreover because she found it immoral to have been caught cheating and still not admit it.

8) Grading. Kathleen has admitted that she does not read the names of whos tests she's marking and there are students with learning disabilities or who are ESL that would benefit from extra care being taken in marking their material. I'm very familiar with the D2L that we use for the class as it's the same I've been using for about 6 years now and I know there are features to edit on top of people's assignments the way you would with a pen or to leave comments though we NEVER get a breakdown of our marks. Actually, at the beginning of our course, Kathleen showed us how she marks our work and it's essentially a point per relative sentence but she does that for every assignment and there's just more to marking than counting sentences.

9) Kathleen told us that it is in policy that if you need to use the restroom during a test it is her job to follow you into the bathroom and listen to you pee. These ideals are not reflected in Trios policy and she said it with such crass and a smug smile as if talking to a group of children in an elementary school. She also informed us we are to keep our cameras on during exams to ensure we aren't looking around but that we aren't allowed to look around because she wouldn't be looking. I have GI problems and was sure if I used the bathroom beforehand I would be okay writing the test though my stomach acted up and i was in a great deal of pain. Side note if you genuinely think I'm lying I debated taking the fail or genuinely taking my computer into the bathroom because I have a legit medical condition and was not told if I would be required to bring a doctor's note... to go to the bathroom... in my own home... Needless to say, I was breathing as deeply as I could and hoping not to "look around too much" so as to not make anyone think my gastro intestinal despair was cheating.

10) The past 2 months have been the same course repeated with different titles and some trainings put in. Part of me thinks they had to legally add more time into the program to make it valid because there's no reason we need to pretend that Populations at risk, community services in Canada, group work and human relations, and business communications were not just 1 course that they were asked to extend into 5 courses.

There will be more to tell and theres surely stuff I'm missing. You can even see the success rates and look at the difference between just the two CSW courses she runs at the Trios hamilton campus from 2019 and every other course offered at a private career college (its in an excel doc online)... but I'm not the only one who's caught onto whats going on and whatever happens I just hope I can pay off my OSAP loan in an okay amount of time