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I found that the fundamentals were taught nicely and clearly in this course. The given examples, practices and quizzes were also engaging and it helped me to learn some cool Excel tricks that I didn't know exist before. Overall, I'd recommend this course to anyone trying to understand the basics of using Excel beyond using simple and familiar commands. The one missing star is due to the fact that I've read many reviews about the final assignment having issues with clear wording and wrong cell references reported since 3 years ago and they are all still not corrected until I finished this course (I was a bit frustrated and had to search the forum to find out what others thought would be the actual question). It didn't actually ruin the whole course experience, but I hope they'd be fixed in the future so as not to be frustrating for others. But everything else was great. Thanks Nicky and Prashan for the course!

The course had a lot of great information and overview of useful excel functions. The individual lessons and videos were concise, detailed and accessible with easy-to-use stopping points and worksheets to work along side the professor. I would give this course 5 stars, however, the practice challenges for weeks 4-5 and the final assessment included problems that required you to work in a separate sheet and report your answers. This was different than weeks 1-3 where you were asked questions and given screenshots to chose answers from of functions you would use to answer the question. Please make this more consistent and give us more practice of working in our own sheets and getting answers, especially if this will be used down the line and in the final assessment.

Hi, I enjoyed this course and like the way you present it. Although I enrolled as a very experienced Excel user (working with large Excel files in earth sciences, finance and telecommunications since 1993!) I updated and refreshed my knowledge and learnt a few methods that will help improve and make my spreadsheets more efficient. There are a couple of small errors in the spreadsheets to download and a few quiz/assignment answers where the required correct answer is slightly off from what it should be (although I could tell what to select by eliminating the other possibilities). My only other feedback would be to suggest reducing the number of files to download although I understand you may be trying to keep file sizes down. Thanks again, Roland

Very good course; you will learn useful skills and do authentic problem-solving. I was able to apply much of what I learned right away to my work. However, plan for much, much more time than what they estimate. I easily spent twice the time on the course than the proposed 15-25 hours per module. Lack of feedback/support in the discussion forums means you won't get a lot of help when you run into difficulties. (Perhaps this is typical of Coursera open enrolments?) I found myself looking to external sources sometimes to get more information or different scenarios when I couldn't find an answer.

El contenido como tal super bueno y didactico, el unico problema que encontre fue que deberian admitir las funciones en los resultados tanto en español como en ingles y tambien utilizar en las preguntas cuando se referian a una hoja de calculo o nombre de columna en particular el nombre en ingles, ya que todo el archivo excel tenia estos con los nombres de ingles. Al final puede ser un problema mio el no tener un nivel adecuado para lograr entender lo que se preguntaba, pero creanme que si cambian esto, muchos hablantes español estarán agradecidos.

The Excel Fundamentals for Data Analysis course was an enlightening and empowering experience. The course structure was well-organized, covering essential Excel functionalities for data analysis. The instructors were knowledgeable, providing clear explanations and practical examples. The focus on efficiency and productivity was a standout. Although some advanced topics could be included, this course is highly recommended for beginners and intermediate users looking to enhance their data analysis skills in Excel.

thank you..

The course was well presented and easy to follow but as it progresses into more complex formulas, I felt like I needed a bit more indepth info to structure my formulas correctly. I was having to google some info as I went... but in saying that I did speed through the course, so give yourself plenty of time to practice the concepts of each week and you will probably find it easier! Overall tough a great course and I look forward to creating some visualisations next.

Me gustó mucho y aunque a veces sufría tratando de conseguir ciertos resultados, estoy muy contenta de haber terminado el curso.

Sin embargo, creo que puede resultar tedioso o frustrante que hayan cosas que no funcionen debido a las distintas configuraciones como lo fueron el uso de puntos en vez de comas para los decimales, o bien, al usar Excel en español, tenía que estar constantemente buscando la equivalencia de las formulas.

¡Muy buen curso!

This was a really useful course, I learned a lot. I would have given 5 stars however some of the downloads had fields already completed (in the practice documents, not the solutions) and also there's an error in the final question of the final assessment (it should ask for the average for items that DO have a bonus, not the average for those that do not). Otherwise I think this is a great course, and I'd definitely recommend it.

Very good and informative. Good to practice with the assessments. In the final worksheet quiz, some answers didn't match the answers given in the options. When I downloaded and saved this worksheet, it would not let me add columns etc as asked in the questions. Few things were locked like rows etc. Inspite of enabling editing some things were not working in the sheet. But overall had a good learning experience with this course.

The content, assessment and challenges were all well constructed with the right amount of challenge to coax growth and understanding. The lectureres were well spoken and the videos entertaining enough to keep attention. The only thing that I would change would be to have little assignments per lecture in addition to the challenge problem to grow skills and understanding, instead of just a challenge option.

Outstanding detail and updated courseware. I did find that some of the formulas would not work in my excel sheets even when I ensured that I was conducting them correctyl in the excel quiz and Exams. This was specifically a headache when asked to type the number from a specific cell as an answer to a test question. Even though I verified I was using the formula correctly I would still get error messages.

I ventured out of my comfort zone when I started this course. I was pleasantly surprised how well I picked up on the lessons and did on the assignments and quizzes. I put in more hours than what was advertised for the course, but I always expect that when I try to learn to do more with Excel. I now know what I should study next if I’m going to keep learning more about this program.

Great course, gives plenty of tools for solving problems you encounter at work. Too bad some questions seem to be glitchy and there seem to be minor compatibility issues between Excel versions but maybe that's just me. Also, it would have been nice to do extra practice with INDEX and MATCH functions. Otherwise it would have been a perfect experience.

It is a great course, could learn a lot and great spreadsheets for practice.

However, I found some downside too. Some of the spreadsheet broken the formula on older version of excel. Couldn't find solution for the assessment so can't find out what the mistake was. It is easy to find out on some parts but where calculation needs more difficult.

Pros:

The videos were very well done and the practice sheets and quizzes very useful.

Cons:

The forum does not provide enough help. Classmates are either indifferent or afraid to participate. There should be a designated people to oversee the different forums and make sure the questions get answered if the forum is going to be useful.

The course was well-paced and instructed. I found it frustrating that there were a number of concepts that were mentioned but not explained, but were still on the tests. The supplementary resources were not sufficient in teaching this additional concepts either. Otherwise it was a great course for getting started in excel.

Learned so many useful formulas from this course that I am already using at work to automate certain reports and save my colleagues time. I can't wait to see what the rest of the Specialization has to offer. Some of the test questions are broken though and the expected answer is not replicable, which is really frustrating.

I really enjoyed this course, however it was a bit challenging to work on Office 365. In week 5, some of the documents provided just showed errors therefore it was not possible to understand the formulaes. Regardless, I have learnt a lot and use many of the new formulaes in my dat-today work.

Excellent teachers, extremely clear, organized and course well thought out! Five very busy weeks of technical tuition, I just wished that the teachers could have given more examples and more formulas to work with during tuition. Highly recommended class, even for beginners in Excel!

Though it was a very tasking and challenging course, it was also interesting and easy to understand. The videos and quiz sections were very helpful. I am glad to pass the final assessment.

I am looking forward to the next stage which is data visualization in Excel.

Thankyou

I'm not sure if it is my computer but some things does not work just like in the video. In week 5 151 sheet I even tried copying the formula from the solution sheet to the freshly opened practice sheet and the output is not like the one I've seen on the video.

I learned a lot about tables and functions! Sometimes it felt like I was not learning the course material and needed more practice than what was provided. Overall, a really wonderful course to learn more about using Excel for data analysis. :))