If you can gain something from the course, take it for the knowledge. Don't expect it to make much difference with most employers.
Some legacy businesses may place more weight on certifications and courses, but I always look for relevant experience and demonstrated skills over pretty much anything on paper.
If you are strictly trying to make an impression on hiring managers, your time would be better spent creating a project or becoming involved with an open-source project that would allow you to demonstrate your skills and gain relevant experience with that domain.
I would suggest finding an open source tool or application you use often and finding their project (most likely on Github). Take a look at bug reports and issues. See if you can help out with these. Maybe they are just usage mistakes ("I can't get this thing to work right!!" "Oh, have you tried to click the button which does that? Here's a screenshot."). As you go through issues you'll find real bugs and some won't be terribly hard to fix. Jump in and fix it, then submit a pull request to have it merged into the project. The project will either accept the pull request or comment on it if they feel you a) need to add more to it or b) didn't actually solve the problem. You can then learn from their advice and soon you'll be far from a beginner.
Getting started in open source can seem daunting but really it's fun and not nearly as hard as it might seem.
I remember one day just showing up in #jquery on freenode and complaining about some spam on their wiki. 10 minutes of talking later it was "Well, do you want the keys to the kingdom to maintain it?"
I think a big reason jquery was adopted so heavily was not just the tool being useful, but the attitude and the community around it.
OTOH, Certs may help you at hiring time. If the company is on the fence and is questioning you skills in a particular area, then the cert may be the thing that pushes you over.
One way to play it is to not put it on your resume. If you find out during the interview that the job fits your certs well, send a thank you email explaining that you'll throw in some bonus certs (but wait there's more!) for free and your cert training fits well. This way you delay their knowledge of your training until the person possibly has bought into the idea of hiring you and needs to convince other people.
Certs as a learning tool, I think are great as long as they don't cost a lot. They give you something to feel good about and an excuse to spend all that effort learning the material.