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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Usable Security by University of Maryland, College Park

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3,239 ratings

About the Course

This course focuses on how to design and build secure systems with a human-centric focus. We will look at basic principles of human-computer interaction, and apply these insights to the design of secure systems with the goal of developing security measures that respect human performance and their goals within a system....

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IR

Jun 20, 2016

I like how in depth this gets. it explains it very well an in ways for people who are starting off in this field to get a basic understanding in exactly what we are learning. very well put together!

DG

Jun 28, 2016

Despite not being very fond of areas such as human-computer interaction, I found this course to be well-presented and useful. Definitely a necessity for anyone planning on building secure software.

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By Ivan

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Sep 8, 2017

Good course, but not really what I expected.

All materials are common things and knowledge.

By Tom G

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Jul 13, 2018

Some good info, but the course needs to be updated to correct long known mistakes.

By Mian A J

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Aug 10, 2020

Content was a little boring. Secondly, Voice quality wasn't up to the mark.

By Daniel K P

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Oct 20, 2019

Needs more content ; present course repeats

information, too often

By Andrew A

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Oct 10, 2020

The content is good, It partially outdated being made in ~2013

By Lev D G

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Feb 8, 2022

A very generic intro to UX course rather than cybersecurity

By Noam R

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Oct 23, 2021

need to use more graphical and visual explanations

By Giulio B

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Jul 25, 2020

Very little useful information

By Alberto R

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Nov 21, 2016

Useful concepts. Quite simple.

By Darius E

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Apr 24, 2022

Thanks for the lessons

By RAVITEJA R K

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Aug 11, 2020

not interesting

By Mitch H

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Sep 29, 2020

low quality

By Abner G

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Dec 1, 2016

This course is about "good practices" for user interface design. If this is what you are looking for it may be worth your time, just be aware that the "production" (quality) of the videos is among the worst courses I have taken in Coursera. On the other hand, if you are looking for a heavy Cybersecurity related course I suggest you to stay away from this one, unless you are taking the specialization in which case you don't have other choice.

Content: 2.5/5

Videos Quality: 1/5

Practice/Theory ratio: 1/5

By Ronald S

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Sep 21, 2017

I did this entire course in about 25 minutes without watching the videos or reading anything. I would bet a person with general common sense could pass this. I had more trouble figuring out that received input in Python is always taken in the form of a string and must by converted into a floating point number or integer than I had passing this entire course. I'm not sure why this is in a cyber security track.

By Daniel S

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Oct 31, 2020

Course content could have been much more compact in my opinion. The topic is not complicated to understand but the videos are very long and need a lot of time to watch. Test at the end is only multiple choice with many True/False questions -> when you select the wrong solution you will see what's correct very easily, so it's easy to pass without understanding the topic really.

By HJ B

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Jun 20, 2020

Needs some serious revision. Lots of errors (e.g. week 2 summary of Cranor study completely botched), audio issues (loudness variability), quizzes (e.g., week 2 asks questions from week 3, questions/answers frequently imprecise), etc.

By Tim B

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Mar 22, 2017

There are many parts of the lectures that are very quiet and even with my speakers turned to max, I struggled to hear, while other parts were clear. The course is interesting, but I doubt that anyone would pay to attend this course.

By Matas W

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Mar 1, 2018

A large amount of this really didn't seem focused on Security. A large part was UX. The Quiz for week 2 contained a lot of material that wasn't covered until the following week.

By Dimitrios D

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Oct 13, 2020

Very professional approach, but a bit lower level than expected. In addition the audio could be of better quality, in some presentations.

By Roger A

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Jan 13, 2019

I have learn small about security and some basics about design, perhaps this training should be renamed to "design" instead security....

By Vitor G

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Mar 3, 2020

I was expecting a technical course, and this is more about concepts of usability.

By Youssef S A M

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Aug 14, 2018

i think that this course doesn't have the importance that i thought i would find.

By Anurag P

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Nov 9, 2020

Needs an immediate update.

A significant portion of the course was unnecessary.

By Justin W

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Jun 5, 2016

Reasonable class about designing user interfaces, not much about cybersecurity.

By Benjamin H

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Mar 31, 2020

Most of the course content simply states commen sens facts