*Written by my son and employee whom I refer to as Minion (William Nix).

Chris Randal – The creator of the course

I found Christopher Randall’s construction courses on LinkedIn. His beginner course is approximately 45 minutes long and broken up into three sections: Learning Construction Estimating, Construction Estimating Takeoff, and Construction Estimating Extension.
Overall the course was extremely well put together with great quality video and sound work. Unfortunately, the meat of the show, the actual explanation of estimating, was a bit shallow.
The courses dove headfirst into explaining how estimators calculate materials from a blueprint, fill out a take-off sheet and turned that into an estimate that could be submitted. It never went beyond the basic excel-sheet-old-school style of estimating, but I can see how a beginner course would find it difficult to explain estimating with a complex program like

HeavyBid.
Someone would not be able to take this course and immediately start estimating, but this course does provide a decent overview that could give someone a basic idea of what would be required of them on the job.
If you have access to LinkedIn learning or any web course site, I recommend watching it and seeing if you learn anything new.