Data Visualization and Dashboards with Excel and Cognos was the first course on the platform that disappointed me. Obviously, Excel and Cognos (which were new to me) are great tools. But I felt lost, confused, and frustrated trying to follow the lab modules - and especially the final exam. It seemed at times the provided links and instructions were not in sync with the IBM Cognos platform - as if the course was outdated. Anyway, I did learn quite a bit, but it certainly required me to figure out plenty on my own.

Very basic- good for total beginners. Antiquated teaching methods employed, focus on recall rather than comprehnsion. Quite dated data visualization concepts. Kind of stupid to use the Excel online app, not super user friendly and not equivalent to real life Excel usage. Cannot take assessments without "signing up" for a free 7 day trial but there is never an explanation of what I am signing up for. I already have Coursera Plus so what am I signing up for?

The field on the assignment submission does not seem to behave normally. Whenever I type something in it, the cursor will always move to the end of the value, not to mention often characters I typed will eventually gone, so I have to type the character/letter again.

Cognos seems to have an issue too. It runs frustratingly slow and often does not respond.

The instructions for how to navigate Cognos need to be carefully reviewed and updated as some of them seem like they are no longer accurate.

Also, the narrator for the Cognos videos speaks way too fast and mumbles through a lot of the words. Please change the narrator. In comparison, the narrator in the Excel videos is far superior for learning.

The Excel part of the course is excellent. Easy to understand, easy to try, easy to remember.

The Cognos part of the course is a disaster. The problem in the Labs 4, 5, and 6 was known more than a year ago and wasn't solved for all this time. It seems like the person who created the Labs didn't prepare well.

The datasets for the Labs are full of errors and need some manipulation if you are outside of US. The assistants were not too helpful in solving these issues. A better dataset and/or a word of warning would make the exercises less frustrating and the whole course experience much better.

The interface is not modern. Knowledge seems basic, but the way of it sharing is a bit boring: just PPTX slides without animation. Task for very very begginers: first task was "we will teach you how to log in in Office". Frankly speaking, it is not the level, that I expected.

Doesn't get much in depth. You drag things on the canvas, or double click things - but you don't learn much of the theory of why you're choosing those types of charts, or why you're creating those analyses. It's more of a "do what I just did" demonstration course.

I had difficulties to access Cognos Analytics. I think the links provided in the course are not refreshed with the address being used now by IBM. I may be wrong but this is for now my diagnosis. But, in the veral the course was very useful for me.

Thank you so much

The course itself is good, however it's annoying that the final assignment is peer reviewed so if someone mistakenly gives you a wrong score you can't dispute it because there's no way to contact a Coursera representative and ask them to amend the grade.

Very informative, I think IBM cognos is pretty intensely complicated if you're completely new, I think It could have used much more indepth explanation especially for the final assignment. Hope to grow more comfortable with IBM cognos in the future.

"The Cognos hands on labs were frustrating because some of the steps didn't have screenshots as they asked you to do them and just assumed you knew where tools were for your first time using it. Sometimes it didn't work the way explained either."

Wish that the course could spend more time teaching visualization tools that are more widely used in industry instead of Cognos. Not a lot of companies use Cognos.

i think we could have used a bit more exercise, information and practice with Cognos Analytics. It felt really short, also the trial should last minimum 60days.

The databases used in the hands-on labs are out of date and have poor formating, which makes it impossible for students to follow instructions.

Overall a good introduction to data visualization. I would have liked to have more training and practice on using pivot charts in excel.

I really love the skill am aquiring as it will help me to adavnce my career .Thanking Coursera team for this great opportunity

Includes incredibly irrelevant questions of type what did person X say in video Y. Does not actually test knowledge on the topic

Excel was ok, But Instruction on Cognos was very much inadequate. I feel like I learn't excel but not Cognos.

Last teacher's lecture (Kevin) was very bad and some answers dont't match with the Excel for web version

IBM Cognos is not a common dashboard making tool in the market!! Teach us Power BI or Tableau instead.

Cognos is somewhat broken for our purposes.

Unfortunately, the course requires several updates.

IBM Cognos is not used widely, PowerBI or Tableau would have been an appropirate choice.

Sound quality of videos was low and presentation was a bit jumbled

the qulaity of video and volume were low and unsatisfied.