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Review about: Shaw Academy
Personal Beauty and Fitness and Weight Loss Diplomas
The course content is informative and the tutors are engaging. However, my mailbox is currently swamped with sales pitches from Shaw Academy, I am getting random automated phone calls, WatsApps and texts. Far too much of this.
Everytime I log in to the site and every time I open a new screen or a class or the resources page, I am confronted with a popup asking me to spend about €29 on access to private content, much of which can be found by searching YouTube and you can see it for free.
There is no obvious upfront explanation of how one might expect the classes to go and not easy to find such guidance before you take your first class. It is not helpful to try and learn to navigate through the minimal options when supposed to be following the lecture.
A side panel opens at the side of the screen when class is going on but it is useless. There is only an option to interact with others when the bot is unable to answer your response, and there is clearly an understanding that a person could be virtually attending the class alone with no other participants because the Bot will readily tell you to email support and explain there may not be others taking the class right now. Support requests so far have been met with the same canned response over and over. I am happy to take these courses to the conclusion of the free trial, but would not recommend spending €29 per class for minimal additional material that can be found in Youtube anyway, and a further €29 for a completion certification