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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Everyday Excel, Part 1 by University of Colorado Boulder

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About the Course

"Everyday Excel, Part 1" is aimed at learners who are seeking to learn Excel from the ground up. No experience with Excel is necessary. While this course is meant for beginners of Excel, advanced users will undoubtedly pick up new skills and tools. This course is the first part of a three-part series and Specialization that focuses on teaching introductory through very advanced techniques and tools in Excel. In this course (Part 1), you will: 1) learn how to effectively navigate around the Excel environment; 2) edit and format Excel worksheets; 3) implement basic to advanced Excel functions (including financial, logical, and text functions); 4) learn how to manage data sets (filter, remove duplicates, consolidate data, sort data, and validate data); and 5) learn how to effectively visualize data through scatterplots, column charts, and pie charts. New to Excel? That is entirely fine! This course is meant to be fun, thought-provoking, and appeal to a wide audience. No prior knowledge in programming nor advanced math skills are necessary. The course is organized into 5 Weeks (modules). To pass each module, you'll need to pass a mastery quiz and complete a problem solving assignment. This course is unique in that the weekly assignments are completed in-application (i.e., on your own computer in Excel), providing you with valuable hands-on training....

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The course focuses on the main points and is easy to understand. However, it will take a little time for beginners to learn Excel to catch up because the pace of the course is quite fast.

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This course has made me change the way i use MS Excel. It is broad and indepth but easy to follow along. the modules are well organised and advacement to more complex aspects was gradual. thank you

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By Jane M

Mar 9, 2022

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By Muhammed F

Aug 14, 2020

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By Belen R

Jan 31, 2023

I liked this course overall, but it went into depth with some material, which I wasn't expecting. The screen casts and examples were awesome and helpful, and the professor explains everything well, but some parts were frustrating. There was some more math than I thought, and some homework was harder than what the material covered. It was pretty technical and practical, so if you enjoy that, you will enjoy this course. Here are my critiques:

- Too math-based

- No help available from the professor if you are stuck

- There are homework assignments that are harder than the lessons

- This course is hard to complete if you don't have a windows computer!! Would not recommend if you are a MAC user.

My biggest critique is that the assignments could be overwhelming and difficult, and some people take this course just to learn! I understand the point of the quizzes and assignments, I really do, but sometimes the homework can be a deterrent. If I had to pay for the course, I would have probably given up.

But, I did learn a lot, which is awesome, and you can tell the professor is very knowledgeable Explanations are clear and concise, whihc I like.

By be18107089 P G

Jun 12, 2020

1) The course content is widely based on the use of MS-Office 2019 or Office 365, which makes it difficult to clear the assignments as easily as they would be on these versions of Excel.

2) Assignments and quizzes should have more sensitivity in them, as in assignments if a person could not solve any particular question due to any reason, the whole assignment turns into vain.

3) The difficulty level of all the questions is quite low, the only fact makes them a bit hard is that all the formulas of the newer versions are not available in the older versions, which makes it difficult so solve, else if one is provided with the new versions, then the assignments are just a piece of cake for them

By Jaime C

Apr 18, 2021

I don't really like this course. it is a bit difficult and some of the assignments have questions that were not covered or just not enough information and there is absolutely nobody to help you or ask questions. your basically all on your own.

By Greg S

Feb 18, 2021

Overall professor does a good job explaining things, but instead of videos, or aside from videos, it would be good to have like a visual textbook. Also, technical issues need to be tended to quicker.

By Anny L

Jul 21, 2021

way too hard. it not similar in the assignments that are being taught in the class. also emailed the professor and havent heard from him.

now i know why i hate excel.

By Baiba

May 19, 2022

Course is great, but I had difficulties with quizzes and assigments. Maybe it is because English is not my first language or I need more practise daily with excel.

By Josef B

Oct 9, 2022

A good course but at times difficult to follow. Assigments required nested formulas and perhaps the course could have inculded more samples or exercises.

By Manzoor A

Dec 1, 2020

It was great course. Need to focus more, There are few info which was not shown or informed was there in week 4. You really struggle in 4th week.

By Mariah B

Feb 8, 2021

The course was pretty good there was an issue with one of the assignments not working well, but other than that it was highly informational

By Riccardo S

Nov 19, 2020

very interesting and well explained. some parts were too complicated though - not really "everyday excel" in my opinion.

By Juanny J

May 11, 2021

By no means a bad course, just that I have issues working on the assignment. Not sure if it is my software problem.

By Tina Y

Feb 25, 2021

I felt there could had been more examples and more multi-use of excel functions for the examples.

By Leonor I C F

Nov 27, 2020

IN THE FORUM NOBODY HELPS TO RESOLVE THE DOUBTS ABOUT THE TASKS OF THE COURSE.

By KASOONE P A

May 2, 2024

This was hot but good. Completing it means that I fought 😅

By SIKEE S

Jun 8, 2020

It's wonderful course. I learned much about Excel.

By Harald B

Jan 23, 2021

I cannot use the course due to my Mac version

By Koteswara R U

Jun 12, 2020

ASSIGNMENTS ARE LITTLE BIT BORING

By YERRA C P H

Feb 18, 2022

its good to gain knowledge

By Wisam S S

May 21, 2021

شكرا

By Pholoswang G

Jan 2, 2021

Ok

By Jane B

Aug 4, 2020

I was very disappointed in how this course was presented. My background is math and I have a degree in Computers in Education. I had a familiarity with Excel and just decided to take it for fun to pick up some new skills but i became so frustrated with finding my way around the course and how to use the supplied spread sheets that I just gave up and only did the videos and picked up information, The instructor presented the topic way to fast and really did not give guidance in what we should do in the practice sheets to prepare for the quizzes. Feel free to contact me at jbunting_97@yahoo.com if you would like to discuss this further.

I have never quit on a course in my entire life until this one and it has defeated me.

By Somtoo C

Aug 28, 2022

My experience with this course was not a good one as it went over my ahead for the most part of it. The assignments were much too technical for the examples that were given in the screencasts. And you could be stuck on them for days, maybe weeks without being able to move on because you need the assignment codes and there is no form of solution except you find a nice enough fellow with the solutions in the discussion forum. But thanks to the organizers and presenters of the course. At least, I was able to get out some useful information.

By Cheryl A

Dec 23, 2022

This class started off interesting then turned into just a bunch of formulas. I need to practice to retain and though the quizzes are nice, but there is nothing to help you practice the concepts before continuing. I think having the assignments at the end before the quiz is a waste. I became really frustrated with not knowing what was wrong with my calculations or formula and not having help with that.