I recently developed an interest in online courses and online certifications. My search for free online courses with certifications (keyword “free” bc I’m broke LOL) led me to Google’s Google Digital Garage, a hub of free courses offered by Google to boost your CV/ resume/ LinkedIn profile and make you more attractive to potential employers.
I did the first course, “Intro to digital wellbeing“, and was waiting for a certificate, but that was not a certificate course. The only course with certification they offer is the “Fundamentals of digital marketing” course, and let me tell you, it’s very long and strenuous. What I love about it is that they tried as much as possible to make the short quizzes at the end of every chapter fun by relating to a person/real life experience with fun graphics. They used characters with real life business and real life problems with you’d solve by applying the knowledge you just learnt in that chapter.
The Course Breakdown
The entire course has 26 modules (grouped into different sections), and each module has chapters (ranging from 3-6 chapters). Each chapter is presented as a video, and if you don’t want to watch the video, you can just read the transcript, and proceed to “Test Your Knowledge”, where you’re presented with a short problem and you choose the solution.
After you pass all the chapters in a module, you’ll proceed to the end of topic quiz. There, you’ll be presented with 3-7 questions relating to everything you learned in the module. Once you’re able to pass all of those, you’ll be rewarded with a badge for that topic.
The Exam
Unlock all 26 badges, and you can take the final exam to earn your certificate. If you hate normal IRL exams, this one is no different LMAO. My heart kept doing gbim gbim. The exam consists of 40 questions and you’re required to get at least 32 correctly (80%) in order to get the certificate. I got exactly 80% LOL. The questions are just like the end of topic quizzes, and some of them are even the same things. Each question has 4 options, A-D. It was exciting and thrilling, TBH. If you fail, you’ll have to wait a while to retake it but IDK how long – maybe a couple of weeks or months.
You get to study at your own pace
That’s another amazing thing about this course. You get to study when and how you want. You don’t even have to do the chapters accordingly. I was clicking and doing them from the list however I wanted. If you don’t even want to take the individual quizzes at the end of the chapters, you can skip to the quiz. If you pass, you get the badge. If you fail, you have to do each chapter before you can retake the quiz again.
You can do it at any time of day, any day of the week, and for as long as you want. It took me 6 days – Thursday to Wednesday, and I was only doing it when I was at work. You can finish it realistically in 3-4 days, or as long as a month, even longer. It’s up to you.
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