It gets one star because it really does do a great job scaffolding and helping you to create a very well made and valuable profile. However, the time spent waiting for them to process things is entirely unprofessional. After you spend all that time doing the work, and the many hours creating your profile, in a "work at your own pace" course, you are lead to believe that you will then receive your certificate - but no. It takes 4-6 weeks for your profile to be mentor reviewed, and an additional 4-6 weeks to receive your ASU TESOL certificate. This is up to 12 weeks of pure waiting! This is not "work at your own pace." This is "wait up to 3 months to receive the certificates that you and your employer likely need now." They need to be more upfront at the very beginning that there will be such a long wait at the very end. It is highly unprofessional and, in my opinion, unacceptable if they wish to receive a 5-star rating.

It's very disappointing that the instructors have ZERO interaction with you as a student until the very end, when they grade your portfolio. Then it takes them 6-7 weeks, which is outrageous and would not fly at any real college or university. In effect, it just makes you pay for another month of the course, while you are learning nothing. Then, to get a simple piece of paper with your certificate costs the equivalent of another month of the course. I feel like this is a rip off which effectively quadrupled what i was led to believe the course would cost, at exactly zero added value. I will not use coursera again because of this experience.

Takes too long for the experts to review the portfolio and send grade, commnets, certificate.

I'm desperate. The course has a peer review policy. One of my works has not been checked for more than two months. I posted a link twice with a request to check on the forum. I checked more than a dozen other works and in the review I left a link to my work with a request to check in response. I wrote to support. And nothing happened. At the moment, I don't have a single grade for this work, while three are needed to complete the course.

I deliberately completed all the course assignments by the beginning of August in order to be able to attach a certificate to my CV and look for a job by the beginning of the academic year. But I haven't been able to get a certificate for two months now, and I've missed all the opportunities. It's awful! After all, I paid the money!

It was a wonderful experience. I have no words to express how delighted I am to finally get this certificate after completing the two parts of the specialization. It is more than a certificate for me. I am from Pakistan and our country does not offer such opportunities. The British Council here doesn't even offer CELTA or DELTA for Pakistan. I went all the way to Malaysia for this. However, my experience there was bitter. So imagine how elated I was when I saw ASU offering a language related course online. It was my biggest desire in 2012 and after waiting so many years I came across this course on coursera and had an opportunity to learn teaching, lesson planning, designing and much more. I thought TEACHER TALK was rubbish and waste of time. This specialization has changed me as a teacher. It has evolved me as a teacher. Thanks, Dr. Shane, Dr. Justin and Ms. Jessica for all of it.

Regards,

Sassi

I liked the instructors at ASU but it was so frustrating not having any access to the instructors and relying on perr reviews which were mostlyvunhelpful. Coursera was absolutely horrible.

Thank you so much for everything! The courses are very well thought of in terms of how they could be delivered full of entertainment and content. Perhaps a few typographical errors but in total, each course brings you something new and refreshes your knowledge. It's a fun specialization to take. I was ready to wait 6 weeks for my Capstone 2 to be graded but I was in shock after submitting my portfolio 4 days ago that I already have a grade!! 46/50 is incredibly humbling to receive. We have great instructors in this course. When you take it, focus on what you will learn and the methodologies and materials you can get. Not just on receiving your ASU TESOL Certificate-that's just the bonus!! Happy to have met some friends here as well who always floods the discussion boards just like me :) My advice is to Get Involved! If you want to see your grades early, grade more peers and share your link. Goodluck everyone!

Teach English Now! Capstone Project 2 is an excellent learning experience. I am using much of the information I am learning as a substitute teacher for Middle School and High School learners in the Red Clay School District in Wilmington, Delaware. The work in the Capstone Project 2 is intense although you have previously completed the required work for the project. Assembling the Teaching Portfolio was exciting, yet exhausting because I wanted my work to be correct. Thank you for helping me to complete this portion of the program.

Dr. Zenobia Antoinette James

The course is a helpful final step that incorporates all previous courses and puts them to use. However, it would be better to assign one micro lesson as homework per week, and make only those who have studied previous courses eligible to the capstone. In this case, week 4 would be less loaded. One more thing I would like to mention refers to mentors' review of the work. I would hope mentors can put in some helpful remarks at a prior stage. This is likely to give guidance to learners so that the final teaching portfolio can be better modified based on such feedback. It has been a wonderful learning journey. Thank you!

Instructors unreachable

I took this course to complete the TESOL Specialization of ASU. This final Capstone Project helped me to practice updating, adapting, and writing various Lesson Plans. I effectively incorporated the lessons’ information about teaching techniques in my Lesson Videos. By letting me write Lesson Plans and afterwards make Micro Teaching Videos, I've acquired in a practical way the techniques and knowledge that this course aimed to teach me.

I loved that this course was presented in a clearly and well written format with cheery and informative videos by the brilliant Instructors! It helped make the information sticky and easily understandable. I retained what I learned in a permanent manner. Thank you Dr. Shane Dixon, Mrs. Jessica Cinco, and Dr. Justin Shewell for putting so much effort into creating a wonderful course and Specialization in whole!

Fantastic! Very good content, clear, objective and professional. you will really be a very good professional taking this course. I recommend it!

I don't think they manage the course anymore. For the final project, they would just give you a grade (and it looks like a random act) without giving you any feedback. Not even a word.

The content of the course is really good and useful. But I have problems with getting my certificate. And I don't who can help me. I have already finished seven out of eight series in the course TESOL. I am currently enrolled in the last course TESOL Teach English Now! Capstone Project 2. I submitted my final project in May this year. Though it has been three months since it was graded, I cannot see my grade. And I didn't know if I passed or if I should edit my project and submit it again. Unfortunately, despite my long wait, I have not received my certificate or any updates regarding the completion of my course. I texted Coursera support@coursera.org for help but they did not provide me with any information. They just texted me that the address was unable to receive new emails. I do not know what to do in this situation and where I should seek help.

The scheduling of all the micro-lesson assignments was a complete mess. The final portfolio that we had to submit wasn't just a collection of all the previous lesson plans and micro-lessons; it required extensive reworking. Why weren't the requirements for the micro-lessons made clear from the very beginning? After submitting the portfolio, we received no feedback, as the teacher had claimed. Fellow students in the discussion forum encountered the same issues, but the course instructor hasn't responded in years!!! The process of obtaining the certificate is also very unclear (it's not just about completing the course and submitting the portfolio). You have to search for answers in the discussion forum yourself, which is a huge waste of time. Waiting for the certificate to be issued takes several months. I hope that any students who haven't started this course yet will see this review and choose a TESOL course from a different institution.

Dear teachers!

This course was an amazing experience for me! Dr. Shane Dixon and Jessica Cinco's teaching videos helped me to learn such important things with fun and smile. You, guys, showed me, that a teacher can make any lesson attractive to students of any ages. I'll really miss your fancy videos. When I've watched the last one I felt a bit sad as if I'm done with my favorite TV series. Thanks a lot! You did really great job to share your experience with us! I am really happy to be a part of this fairytale called "Teach English Now with ASU". That was awesome!

I really enjoyed working on that course. İt really helped me test my skills and improve them as a teacher. I'd love to thank ASU for this course and personal thanks to Rachel Dallmann who reviewed all of my lessons, my philosophy and teaching tips. She gave me detailed review for my benefit and of course it felt personal as she really has deeply checked everything. She gave me advices to improve according what she saw is suitable for my teaching style. Have never enjoyed a course before as I enjoyed this one.

i am delighted to say that this course enlightened and broaden our vision of teaching . thanks to all the instructors

I have problem, this course take me a lot of time and now I have nothing

after wasting my time with this course in the last capstone project , they just tell me there is a missing peer review you have to do to take the certificate , and this peer review never show up , from a year now ,, I recommend any course that have peer review , you better donot waste your time on it , damn