MyTEFL review, submitted by Dani.

After taking my time to understand how the login worked and what I was meant to do it was easy to complete in a rather quick time frame and I was satisfied. I would recommend it. They were very knowledgeable and made this a very satisfying course to complete and were usually available if I had any concerns or needed help in any area. Dividing the course into clear modular sections made this very easy to learn. At least it made the learning quite easy for me and I usually have to take longer than most to get things done and get the results I’m aiming for. Compared to other online courses I’ve taken, online learning courses, this one was the most expensive but was filled with all the tools needed to get a job which made the value even better.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Stanley.

When you hear TEFL mill, you think of this program. It is a little costly when you compare it to similar programs but requires hardly any work to pass the classes. The main bulk of the course involves modules that can be clicked through and no academic rigor is needed to pass them. My TEFL does offer 120-hour classes with a great deal of flexibility, which is ideal for working professionals, so I am acknowledging this as a strong positive for the course. However, passing classes at this school is incredibly easy and the whole setup doesn’t encourage in-depth learning. It does touch on the basics of teaching English as a second language. A TEFL certificate from this school probably won’t carry a lot of weight in my opinion.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Nicola.

Overall the course was worth it. I also managed to qualify for the discount which they were offering at the time. This was a sweet deal and made taking the TEFL course an affordable option for me. The course I took was the 120-hour one. It did take me about 120 hours to finalize everything from start to finish. Emails were answered quickly and with efficiency and this meant a lot to me too. It’s my understanding that a lot of the schools offering the TEFL in-person have changed over to the online format in recent years. When I was researching which TEFL course to take this seemed a bit strange to me because going back the same schools were claiming that only in-person TEFL courses are recognized and it isn’t worth taking the TEFL online. My course showed that the online TEFL is just as important because if it wasn’t I wouldn’t have been able to land an online teaching job with the certification. I think there is much competition between online and in-person schools. My advice would be to go for the online TEFL course because you save a load of money and you get the same certification in the end with the same teaching job possibilities.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Chase.

I’m giving three review stars for the MyTEFL course because I thought it was a good training program online. I’m giving no review stars for the MyTEFL job placement because it’s a bait-and-switch scheme.

You pay for the MyTEFL job placement and it isn’t cheap.

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TEFL Charity Warning.

Trusted TEFL Reviews would like to point out that the person who submitted the following MyTEFL 5-star review was not able to sufficiently verify their course attendance. Usually, we would simply trash the review, as we do with any reviews that we receive which raise red flags for us. A red-flag review normally includes promotional language or is just so obviously written by the TEFL school that it is reviewing.

The reason why Trusted TEFL Reviews has decided to publish this review is that we thought it important to highlight the fact that some TEFL programs are claiming that they give to charity. Recently, we quizzed one particular program about its giving-to-charity claims, and it transpired that they only gave $18 to their charity cause in the past month. Yes, you read correctly: EIGHTEEN USD.

So whilst Trusted TEFL Reviews strongly encourages donating to worthwhile causes, we urge any readers who might be swayed by a program that claims to give to a charity to dig deeper and find out exactly how much the program does in fact donate to charity.

If the program is transparent, and if they have actually been giving a significant amount of funds to charity, then there is absolutely no reason why they can’t provide you with an itemized list of their charity donations for the past year.

If they can’t, or won’t do this for you, it might mean that their claims of “charity work” are just another marketing gimmick for them, in order to win over new customers.

We are not necessarily writing that this is the case with MyTEFL, but given their track record in other business areas, we would recommend just making sure that their charity claims check out against hard data – hence, the TEFL Charity Warning.

MyTEFL review (https://mytefl.com/) submitted by Luis.

After many months of researching numerous online TEFL courses, I ultimately decided to choose MyTEFL due to the multiple positive recommendations and reviews that I came across during my research.
And what can I say? The 120-hour course plus the online teaching module met and even exceeded all my expectations I had when delving into the TEFL world!
All units are well-structured and presented in a very clear and concise manner. The examinations at the end of each subunit are a great way of checking the comprehension of the content presented. Also, many of the units contain very valuable information about websites, resources, and advice on how to teach English in the best way possible. And, of course, the Library! I do not know about other TEFL courses out there, but I am eternally grateful that MyTEFL included the Library with all its documents that will be of so much help once I start my teaching adventure.
Even though the course lacks actual teaching practice, it gives you all the tools necessary to succeed in the TEFL classroom. Plus, it details where the TEFL industry is currently and offers great advice on the different opportunities that prospective teachers can take advantage of.
Overall, I would say that if you are looking for a TEFL course in order to teach either abroad or online, MyTEFL offers the best course out there, hands down! They even donate to charity when you enroll and help you look for a job once you are done. I mean, what else would you want from a TEFL course?

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MyTEFL review (https://mytefl.com/) submitted by Yvette.

Where do I begin? I’ll start with what I didn’t like about the MyTEFL course and then I’ll finish with what I did like about it.

What I didn’t like:

1. Finished this 120-hour course in one afternoon.
2. Had to pay $99 for the TEFL certificate.
3. Noticed spelling mistakes and grammatical errors in the course content.
4. When I tried contacting the MyTEFL office I got no response.
5. The course came with online tutor support, which I didn’t receive.
6. Am worried about the international recognition of the certificate because they are only regionally recognized in Thailand.
7. The course was way too easy and the quiz questions at the end of each module were so easy that my 8-year-old son was able to answer most of them correctly.

What I liked:

1. The course price is good. I paid $199. However, you do need to account for the $99 certification fee on top of this.
2. Some of the modules were better than others. the ones that were (Grammar especially) were written really well and included some excellent graphics.
3. In the end, I did receive my certificate and as long as I want to teach in Thailand I know that I will be able to teach there without issue.

If you want to teach in Thailand, this MyTEFL course will likely be one of the ones accepted by the majority of schools within the kingdom.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Anna.

For me, it was the possibility to earn money online that got me interested in doing a TEFL course, and when I saw an advert for the online MyTEFL program I went ahead and signed up for it. The assistance I received from MyTEFL when I was signing up for the course was professional and helpful. TBH I didn’t realize there are so many other courses. I thought MyTEFL was the only one offering international TEFL. Now I see this definitely isn’t the case. In fact, far from it. This was the first time for me taking a course online and I was nervous about the prospect of doing it at first. Didn’t know what to expect really. It wasn’t a difficult course though and I passed TEFL without any difficulty. Am looking forward to receiving the promised help to find a teaching job online and later on I will want to be teaching while I travel. I can’t objectively write whether it was a great course or not because this was my first go at education online. I think it was good enough and as long as I do find work with the certificate then I will conclude that it was a good investment. Only time will tell.

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Online TEFL TESOL course review scams in 2026.

(Updated: December 21, 2025)

This is a must-read article if you are choosing which TEFL course to take and are confused by which ones are legitimate and which ones are scams.

The scams are becoming more and more sophisticated.

To prevent your TEFL dream turning into a TEFL nightmare, we strongly recommend that you read this article in full.

Online TEFL TESOL Scam TEFL programs.

Currently, the more notable scam TEFL companies are ESLinsider, ITTT International TEFL and TESOL Training, MyTEFL, The TEFL Academy, and World TESOL Academy.

1. ESLinsider

ESLinsider (Ian Patrick Leahy) portrays himself as a TEFL whistleblower and he trashes almost every TEFL program online for seemingly altruistic motives, but his endgame is to sell you one TEFL course – his TEFL course. Among a long list of criminal activity, he was recommending TEFL students without college degrees to buy fake ones online. Some people followed his advice and (in China) were arrested, fined, deported. Ian is currently wanted by the Chinese authorities and is essentially on the lamb, living a transient life in the United States. Ian was banned from Facebook for spreading misinformation and disinformation way back in 2017. https://www.eslinsider.com/

2. ITTT International TEFL and TESOL Training

ITTT International TEFL and TESOL Training operates under more than 20 different websites. Each one looks similar, but is different just enough so that you would be forgiven into believing that one website is a different company from another website. This company has a bogus accreditation from a website that spells it as “Accredidation”. Affiliate marketing is their lean and they have one favorite who will say and write anything to get you to make the purchase: Linda Dunsmore. ITTT will take your money, give you access to a subpar course, fail to respond to online tutor requests, and ghost you when it comes time for the advertised “free” job-finding help – unless you pay through the nose for their job placement services, which you are recommended to avoid like the plague.

3. MyTEFL

MyTEFL used to be accredited by OTTSA (a website they created) and are now accredited by a bogus company: International TEFL Accreditation Council (ITEFLAC). Folks, official accreditation company website’s don’t have stock images of business people in office boardrooms. MyTEFL offer affordable TEFL courses, but they make their real money from paid job placement services. Do not pay for this service. If you do, when you receive your weekly or monthly teaching pay, without realizing it at first, MyTEFL will be skimming up to 25% off. And what can you do about it when you have locked yourself into a job contract with a language school through MyTEFL? https://mytefl.com/

4. The TEFL Academy (TTA)

The TEFL Academy (TTA) is a truly corrupt corporate company. They claim to be the “Worlds #1 TEFL Course Provider!” They are not. And, despite their many claims, they are not accredited. The TEFL Academy claims to be accredited by AQC, DEAC, QUALIFI, and even by Ofqual. It is only regulated by Ofqual and QUALIFI, and it also appears that QUALIFI might have been created by the good folks at The TEFL Academy. AQC is a sister website of DEAC, and you can see that The TEFL Academy is not accredited by DEAC because DEAC has a search feature that shows all the companies that it accredits – The TEFL Academy is not listed. As with ITTT, The TEFL Academy pays affiliate marketers to promote its courses. More about this below. https://www.theteflacademy.com/

5. World TESOL Academy

World TESOL Academy is likewise shady as hell. They offer TEFL courses for $38 and this appears to lure in a lot of unsuspecting folk. After you pay, you get bombarded with requests to become one of their affiliate marketers. Students rate the course as “terrible” and a bit like flying with Ryanair, with a smorgasbord of hidden fees and additional costs. World TESOL Academy is accredited by Accreditat and CPD that are pay-for-accreditation companies that are not recognized by any reputable language schools. Another red flag is that they have the Reviews tab disabled on their Facebook page. https://www.worldtesolacademy.com/

How TEFL companies scam you.

Besides the above mentioned scams, there are some complex ways in which some TEFL companies will scam you.

And the sophistication of the scams is intensifying.

TEFL Review Website Bedfellows

Go Abroad, Go Overseas and TEFL Course Review are the three biggest TEFL review websites. They each make their money from charging TEFL companies for a listing on their site – the TEFL companies are their customers – and it is in their best financial interests to have positive reviews about (fill in the blank) TEFL company than to have bad reviews published. This is why a company like The TEFL Academy has a high review score on all three websites – they make certain that negative reviews of them are minimized and they are free to have fake positive reviews appear on all three sites, and on the other review sites where they have a listing. Incidentally, The TEFL Academy has a lot of money at their disposal and frequently sue individuals and companies if they dare to publish something negative about them. Trusted TEFL Reviews published a few negative student reviews of The TEFL Academy and we were warned that if they were not taken down, they would sue us. We simply responded that the reviews will remain published because they were written by students of their program.

Affiliate Marketing

If you see an individual excessively promoting a TEFL program – with or without a coupon code for a discount – it will certainly be an affiliate marketer. Caitriona McTiernan and Megan Broccoli are the two main ones for The TEFL Academy and Linda Dunsmore heads the ITTT affiliate marketing side of the business. A large majority of TEFL programs belong to affiliate marketing companies, paying people who have never taken their courses to promote them online and earn money for themselves in the process. They will say and write absolutely anything (“the course was AMAZING!”) to make the sell, such as promises of earning $100 per hour for teaching English online. No one earns anywhere near to $100 teaching English online.

Trashing A Business Competitor

In the Wild West of online TEFL, anything goes. It’s very common for TEFL companies to trash each other online. They create fake profiles and then write fake complaints and fake reviews – misinformation and disinformation – on complaints websites and Reddit. And TEFL programs with deep pockets, such as The TEFL Academy, have now started to pay people to take a competitor’s course and then slam it online. This is cruel and clever because the person can show that they have a certificate from the TEFL company and can write exactly what the company tells them to write. A recent case involved one of the affiliate marketers from The TEFL Academy – Megan Broccoli – who purchased a TEFL Online Pro course, completed it, claimed after an hour of course completion that she couldn’t use the certificate, and began spreading her message on Reddit and elsewhere that the company is a scam. Something similar also happened to OISE University of Toronto TEFL and CIEE TEFL. CIEE TEFL, OISE University of Toronto TEFL and TEFL Online Pro are among the 5 Best Online TEFL/TESOL certification courses.

Reddit

When Online TEFL/TESOL courses were gaining traction about 15 years ago, in response to the established in-person TEFL/TESOL course industry, a few of them set up Reddit communities – communities that they used and continue to use to push their agenda. This tends to focus on trashing their competitors and clandestinely promoting their courses. We recommend avoiding Reddit for Online TEFL/TESOL course information because of this, and because of the vast number of TEFL shills active on the site.

Niche subreddits, such as online course communities, are often run by people with a vested interest in promoting certain courses—for which they receive a financial kickback. This often leads them to delete positive comments about any business competitors of the courses from which they receive kickbacks.

The r/TEFL subreddit is well known for this type of behavior—they allow positive comments for their favored TEFL companies but prevent students of some other TEFL programs from posting honest reviews of their course experiences. They even have a Reddit Wiki page that clearly demonstrates the quid pro quo partnership they maintain with certain programs.

Trashing Trusted TEFL Reviews

It must be so frustrating for the many TEFL programs that don’t have the kind of power over Trusted TEFL Reviews that they lord over other TEFL review websites. So what do they do? They spread misinformation and disinformation about me and Trusted TEFL Reviews because they just can’t handle having even one or two negative reviews published online about them. By trying to discredit this website, they hope that people won’t believe the reviews of their program. All TEFL programs listed on Trusted TEFL Reviews have a free listing and all TEFL programs are free to respond to reviews and to add comments.

The TEFL Wall of Shame.

Important Clarifying Information.

Several points need addressing, and I will write about each one separately:

The Teachers’ Choice Award

Several Online TEFL companies are claiming that the Teachers’ Choice Award is fake. It isn’t. We created the Teachers’ Choice Award back in 2019, after noticing that other mainstream TEFL review websites had also created their awards. The fundamental difference between our award and the awards of other mainstream TEFL review websites is that the winner of the Teachers’ Choice Award is based on merit alone – voted for by language schools, universities, TEFL students, and TEFL graduates. If a company has won an award from a mainstream TEFL review website, it means they have likely paid for the privilege of “winning” that award.

TEFL Online Pro

TEFL Online Pro (https://teflonlinepro.com/) has won the Teachers’ Choice Award for seven consecutive years – they are the highest-rated in 2026. They have won the award every year because they were the Online TEFL/TESOL program that received the most votes. Trusted TEFL Reviews does not own TEFL Online Pro, just as it doesn’t own the other four Online TEFL/TESOL programs that currently hold the place of being one of the 5 Best Online TEFL/TESOL programs. Trusted TEFL Reviews is an independent Online TEFL/TESOL reviews website. We are not affiliated with any TEFL/TESOL program listed on the Trusted TEFL Reviews website.

Trusted TEFL Reviews is a not-for-profit website

Contrary to what some Online TEFL programs claim, it doesn’t cost anything to list your Online TEFL/TESOL program on Trusted TEFL Reviews. Also, we don’t allow any paid advertising because we feel that it could present a conflict of interest. The only advertising allowed is granted to the TEFL program winner of the annual Teachers’ Choice Award. TEFL Online Pro (https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-reviews-in-2025/) is the winner of this year’s award, so they have been allowed to promote any TEFL course discounts that they may run during the year. This additional exposure on Trusted TEFL Reviews is without charge for the TEFL program currently enjoying Teachers’ Choice Award winner status.

I am not a man

I identify as a woman because I am a woman, living and teaching English in Vienna, Austria. Contrary to what some Online TEFL/TESOL companies have written about me online, I am not a “man”, I am not a “dyke”, and I am not a “b!tch”. I am a mother. I co-own Trusted TEFL Reviews with my partner and we run Trusted TEFL Reviews together, from our apartment in Vienna. We also have a small office within the city limits that we visit mostly during the summer months when the air-con in the office is a welcome respite. We also run the Teachers’ Choice Award from this office. It is no Online TEFL/TESOL program’s beeswax what our addresses are and we both feel safer not disclosing our addresses. I have received threats in the past simply because I wouldn’t delete a negative review written about one of the TEFL programs listed on Trusted TEFL Reviews.

We never delete reviews from Trusted TEFL Reviews, unless the review is later found to be fake

Online TEFL/TESOL course programs are the customers of the mainstream Online TEFL/TESOL review websites. The programs pay a yearly fee to be listed on the review website, and this is how those review websites generate the majority of their commercial income. Those review websites have a strong financial incentive to hide negative reviews and hold almost no verification process for publishing positive reviews – the vast majority of which are written by the TEFL company. Trusted TEFL Reviews has a strong verification process in place and we only publish reviews that have been proven to have been written by a real TEFL student. This has infuriated a few Online TEFL/TESOL companies – companies that are used to chalking up fake 5-star reviews on those mainstream TEFL review platforms.

We allow all of the TEFL companies listed on Trusted TEFL Reviews to respond to reviews

All Online TEFL/TESOL companies listed on Trusted TEFL Reviews are free to respond to any review published about their program. The vast majority of programs choose not to, but some do. The most prolific company to respond to reviews – responding to every review they receive – is TEFL Online Pro. This company is proactive and recognizes the importance of thanking customers for writing positive reviews and addressing any issues presented by negative reviews. If an Online TEFL company writes that they tried responding to a review but were unsuccessful in doing so, it is a flat-out lie.

Russian review websites

A few months ago, an Online TEFL/TESOL company reached out to me – a company not listed on Trusted TEFL Reviews – complaining that their business wasn’t doing so well. They blamed their dwindling revenue on the many cheap Online TEFL/TESOL programs undercutting them with lower prices. They suggested that they would “handle the Google Ads campaigns” of those programs through a process known as click fraud. They also suggested that I should write some damning reviews about those programs on complaintsboard.com. I refused the offer and told the individual to focus on improving their course offerings and customer services. complaintsboard.com, dirtyscam.com, and ripoffreport.com are all Russian-owned websites. They may claim otherwise, but they operate outside of countries where they can be held accountable for the defamatory material that they allow to be published on their websites. I read one recent “complaint” that TEFL Online Pro is offering courses illegally and not paying their taxes. This, of course, is just fiction. I also read another “complaint” where someone had written that OISE University of Toronto TEFL is a scam and their certificates are not valid internationally. Also, fictitious. The rogue Online TEFL/TESOL companies use these websites to badmouth their business competitors because all you need to do to have your review published is to verify your email address – using any name to create an account. Those Russian websites feel protected from legal repercussions and they are the go-to websites for the dregs of the Online TEFL/TESOL certification course world.

TEFL companies that want to take over the world

The TEFL Academy (https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/the-tefl-academy/) is the perfect example of a company that wants it all, and they are willing to break all the better business rules to achieve their objective. We began listing this program on Trusted TEFL Reviews a few years ago. Within a couple of days, we received an avalanche of 5-star reviews for them, but not one of the reviewers was willing to prove course participation in The TEFL Academy program. They were fake reviews. We also have it on good word that this company reaches out to its graduates and offers them a free mini TEFL course if they write a positive review. This is why there is such a disconnect between their reviews on Trusted TEFL Reviews and their reviews on Facebook, Trustpilot, etc. World TESOL Academy (https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/world-tesol-academy/) is also guilty of this shameless and flagrant middle finger to the better business rules. They claim to be the “Worlds #1 TEFL Course Provider.” This obviously isn’t true, as are many other claims on their website.

Our advice for Online TEFL/TESOL companies

Interact with your customers! If you receive a positive review, thank the customer for spending their time to review your program. If you receive a negative review, apologize and try to right a wrong. Don’t write false sh*t about me or Trusted TEFL Reviews just because you got some negative feedback.

Our advice for Online TEFL/TESOL students

The Online TEFL/TESOL industry is unregulated and highly competitive. Some companies will swear blind to you that you need to take their course because it has more hours or because it has won so many awards. The Teachers’ Choice Award is the only Online TEFL/TESOL certification course program award that cannot be bought. The industry standard is a 120-hour TEFL/TESOL certification course (140 hours if it includes 20 teaching practice hours). You don’t need more training hours because those extra hours are meaningless for TEFL employers. If you pay less than US$100 for a 120-hour Online TEFL/TESOL certification course, you WILL regret it.

Accreditation

To prevent you from becoming a victim of a TEFL scam, we recommend that you choose a Fully Accredited TEFL/TESOL certification course provider.

The most well-known accreditation companies – offering Full Accreditation:

ACCET – Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training.

ACTEFLC – Accreditation Council for Teaching English as a Foreign Language Courses.

OISE – University of the Toronto Faculty of Education.

TESL Canada

University of Cambridge’s English Language Assessment

If you read anything negative about these organizations online, it has been written by an Online TEFL/TESOL program – a program that likely has no accreditation itself or one that simply pays a dodgy accreditation company an annual fee.

You can see which companies are Fully Accredited and internationally recognized by looking through the program listings in the TEFL Course Directory:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/tefl-course-directory/

The top-rated schools in the directory are top-rated for a legitimate reason.

The low-rated schools in the directory are low-rated for a legitimate reason.

Be smart. Don’t fall for the disinformation and misinformation.

Trusted TEFL Reviews

If and when we are notified of shady practices or even outright scams, we will post details of them in the Online TEFL Course Scams section of this website.

This ‘Online TEFL Course Reviews Scams’ article was originally written and published by Mia Williams, co-owner of Trusted TEFL Reviews (TTR) | Best Featured TEFL Articles

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Liz.

The MyTefl course online was OK. I was on their 120-hour program and it took just over a week to complete. The course itself is designed nicely and seems to cover the main topics that I also spotted on other Tefl/Tesol school websites. I did raise an eyebrow at some of the questions asked because they weren’t really difficult enough and it seems that the course is designed for everyone to pass with flying colors. Very little support was offered at the end. I received my certificate quite quickly and didn’t experience any problems using it overseas. I would like to give MyTefl a higher rating but the support promised just wasn’t there for me.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Doug.

I am very satisfied with the customer service. MyTEFL was very helpful, professional, and friendly. They were understanding when I accidentally answered some of the quiz questions incorrectly and allowed me to retake the quiz. Replies to questions I asked were quick and the course was overall very enjoyable. I thought the section on phonetics was particularly interesting and it is going to be something that I use regularly with my students. I am now in the process of securing a teaching job overseas and the help I have received from MyTEFL has been great so far. I honestly didn’t realize that there were so many places around the world where it is possible to teach English. Thank you very much MyTEFL!

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Simon.

I really enjoyed the My TEFL program. It is user-friendly. After about 3 weeks the certificate arrives and you’re all done. After finishing the course, they asked where I was interested in teaching. I couldn’t get a teaching position in Japan, where I wanted to go, because I don’t have a degree, but they were able to provide me with European teaching English job options, and I’ve accepted a position in Prague, where I’ll be starting in January. Taking this course has really opened my eyes to what makes a good/bad teacher. I certainly feel more prepared now, and I am very pleased I chose this course to study TEFL.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Cynthia.

I bought the 120-Hour with the expectation that MyTEFL offered the course with tutor support. There wasn’t any. Hence the low review. Despite this, the experience was overall good. There weren’t any issues purchasing the course and no issues getting access to the course. IMO the content of the course was presented clearly and in an understandable way. I’m a newbie to TEFL and I appreciated the step-by-step slow approach to the course. There also weren’t any issues getting the certificate. I just cannot justify spending that much money on a course where you are completely on your own. I haven’t asked for any help yet with finding a job. Maybe that will be a more personalized service. I do need to add that I did pass the course so it isn’t impossible to complete without tutor support. Just would have been much better if I’d had some help when questions arose and when I wasn’t sure of something. Came away with the feeling that it was overpriced for what you get.

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MyTEFL review, submitted by Tina.

Did the job. I wasn’t looking for anything else other than a quick-fix TEFL certificate. They try and upsell you on job placement services when you finish but I didn’t think the price was worth it. Besides, so easy to get a job if you are a native speaker. No need to pay someone else to find a job for you. I didn’t experience any major issues with this company, so I would probably recommend them in the future. I’ll just need to see how effective the certificate is in job interviews going forward.

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120-Hour TEFL Certification MyTEFL review, submitted by Evan.

120-Hour TEFL Certification. Evan’s MyTEFL review.

So many TEFL courses out there! It was a small nightmare trying to choose which one to take. In the end, I narrowed my list down to just two: MyTEFL and TEFL Online Pro. I ended up choosing MyTEFL simply because they were offering me a 50% course discount, because of my recent college graduate status.

To begin with, MyTEFL was very responsive to emails and the telephone call I made to their Vancouver office. They explained everything very clearly, confirming everything written on their website; that the course is exceptional, that there is amazing support throughout the course, that they go out of their way to help with job hunting, etc. I was initially impressed! But then reality hit.

The quick, helpful responses abruptly stopped at the moment of purchasing the (120-hour) MyTEFL course. It was in stark contrast to before I signed up. No matter how many emails I sent, asking valid questions about the course system, I never got a reply back. And yes, I did check my Junk/Spam. I then decided to call them, like when I had, before I paid for the course, and they just brushed me off with a short reply to my question which didn’t help me at all.

In total, I completed just over half the course. Within that time, I received no feedback on any of my work. It felt like I was studying blind. The 6 or so modules which I did complete, I completed in just a few days. It was ridiculously easy. Read a boring text. Answer some multiple-choice questions. Repeat.

The thing is, I didn’t just take the course to get a certificate. I chose MyTEFL because of what student blogs wrote about the course; it educates you in TEFL to a top level. It doesn’t, and I question the authenticity of those MyTEFL student blogs.

After I had finished the sixth module, and when I read through the 7th and saw a few glaring grammar and spelling mistakes in the text, I contacted MyTEFL for a refund. I was still within the window to able to qualify for a discount, based on their course purchase Terms and Conditions.

MyTEFL wrote back that I wouldn’t qualify for a refund, and I never got a further reply back. I had to contact my bank to ask them to get my money back for me. Last Thursday, my bank informed me that they would be able to claw back the money for me, so I now feel comfortable leaving this MyTEFL review.

The first thing I did was enroll in the TEFL Online Pro (120 hours) TEFL course; something I should have done at the start. It’s been almost a week now and the difference between MyTEFL and TEFL Online Pro is like night and day.

I don’t feel like I’m studying blind now. When I purchased the TEFL Online Pro course, I received a welcome email from my tutor (Paul) and when I send a message to him, I got a message back almost instantly. The course is way better designed too, and without any grammar or spelling mistakes. The difference in price is only about $50, so I recommend TEFL Online Pro as the far better choice.

Despite the rocky start with MyTEFL, I’m now looking forward to completing my TEFL Online Pro course and I’m looking forward to teaching English online with the certification. I’ve read great things about teaching English online and this comes at the perfect time for me to start doing it.

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