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How We Teach

Short lessons, real labs, work that's actually checked

Each course is broken into short lessons, and every lesson ends with a knowledge check so you can tell right away whether it landed. Courses also include quizzes and a final, plus one or more labs you must pass. Where a course calls for written work, you upload an assignment instead of taking a quiz.

The virtual lab

In your browser

Lab benches run in your browser. You enter values — measurements, component specifications, test conditions — and the bench calculates the result from what you typed, the way a real instrument or worksheet would.

Graded, not self-reported

You get instant right-or-wrong feedback with an explanation, so you know immediately why an answer was correct or not. The lab is graded on our side, not something you mark off yourself — a passed lab reflects work that was actually checked against the expected result.

Feedback on your written work

When a course calls for written work, you upload your assignment and a member of our staff reviews it directly — it isn't auto-graded. It comes back with comments and a score, both visible in your portal, and you'll get an email notification when the grade is posted.

We aim to return graded assignments within a few working days, though this can vary with course load.

Who teaches

Meet the working technicians whose field experience shapes Anode's courses and labs.

Jacob Calhoun working on an electronic amplifier

Jacob Calhoun

Instructor, Electronics and Technical Certificate Programs

Electronics and biomedical equipment specialist with more than two decades of hands-on experience in circuit repair, industrial controls, medical imaging, and technical training.

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Portrait of Patrick Powers

Patrick Powers

Instructor

Biomedical field service engineer and technical leader with more than two decades of hands-on experience supporting critical medical devices, complex electronics, and radiology equipment.

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Portrait of Terrell English

Terrell English

Instructor

Gaming-machine and medical-equipment repair specialist with 14 years of combined field experience and ongoing radiology-equipment service training.

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How to reach us

Questions about a course, an assignment, tuition, or accessibility all go through the same place. If you're signed in, your course progress — lessons completed, quiz and lab scores, and any graded assignments — is visible any time in your student portal.

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What we ask of you

  • Study in your own name.
  • Submit your own work.
  • Tell us when something is broken or unclear.