SourceCad Website Review

Here’s some feedback on my overall experience while trying out a course after finding SourceCad for the first time through YouTube.

I recently completed the AutoCAD Essentials course for complete beginners and while the overall experience was good, there were a few things that got under my skin after a while.

  1. I understand this lesson may have been on the older side and possibly because it is a free course, but the amount of videos in the course with a max quality of 720p made it difficult to make out certain things on the instructor’s screen. This meant I had to go back more than once to see what he was typing out or the functions he was selecting.
  2. The inability to stay in full screen after each video was also quite distracting. With each lesson in the course averaging about 2 minutes long, the page would refresh when a video ended, and I would have to make it full screen again, but that could just be a personal gripe.
  3. When coming back to the site to carry on with the course i always found that I had to hunt through the interface to find out where to continue my lesson and when i clicked on “My Lessons” it would show a bunch of free courses that i had not singed up for previously.

Other than those three things, everything else worked as it should have and the course definitely helped me out, as a brand new user to AutoCad.

Hi Charles,

Thank you for taking the time to share this.

The points about the 720p video quality and having to re-enter full-screen mode after every short lesson are completely understandable.

We are also reviewing the course navigation and the way free courses appear under My Lessons.

Finding the lesson you were last watching should be simple and immediate.

I have shared all three issues with our product and course teams.

I’m glad the course still helped you get started with AutoCAD, and your feedback will help us improve the experience for future learners.