There was not enough, by far, information on teaching you even the basics on using Cognos. Out of the four weeks for this course, with the fourth week being your final exam, only week three is dedicated to Cognos, and I had a LOT of questions that weren't answered. This should be re-named "Data Visualization and Dashboards with Excel and Introduction to Cognos".

Many basic functions not taught, many terms not taught but referred too in hands on models, hands on models were missing key steps to complete, student must complete many steps not shown and it becomes very time consuming, this classes should be reviewed and updated

Although the course has a lot to offer, but the outdated videos are hard to follow, because the IBM Cognos has changed some of the interfaces since the videos were created and it makes it very hard to follow as a hands on course to learn. The videos can also dramatically improve, by offering more examples, and also they were recorded like TV commercials, very fast moving on screens which they needed to be more gradual for the students to follow. Unfortunately the support for this course wasn't good at all, either the support personnel didn't have the inadept knowledge of the products specially IBM Cognos, or they refused to provide educational support to help us resolve problems. The support was more like the Uber support rather than the one expected from an organization like IBM.

Before taking this course I was so excited to learn all I could about the IBM Cognos. but I had to learn everything on my own at a very slower pace than I usually do. It is a shame that a course offered as part of a certification program which introduces a powerful tool which is also made by the same company, is butchered so badly .

Please review all the course materials and update them appropriately and hire some professional people with knowledge and patience to properly address the course shortcoming's which are a lot.

Nothing more than a hidden advertisement for IBM Cognos, and from what I saw, probably the only way to attract new users to it. Poorly finished product, inability to control critical elements of visualization. No PDF export, just to name one of many many aspects missing or poorly finished. The course work that relates to Cognos is little more than a run though of the 'features'. In the end you will not know how best to prepare your data for Cognos, but you will know how to generate a 1930' dashboard ... Fallout anyone?

While the material in this course is not difficult, the course was unnecessarily challenging because of the presentation and instructions. All of the instructions and images are based off of an older version of Cognos which is very confusing. Additionally, the instructions just tell you where to click without ever explaining why any of the options are selected. The only thing that this course teaches is how to follow directions, not necessarily how to utilize the tools presented.

The design of the course is very interactive and a person without any knowledge can understand and execute the program effectively. One of the best course, it improved my understanding about data analytics to take further.

Absolutely dreadful. The Excel componant was interesting, and well put together. And dare I say it informative and interesting. The Cognos half was absolutely dreadful. Out of date tutorials that did not relate to the technology used and labs which did not function at all because they were not updated. A final assessment that did not draw on taught knowledge. And a presentation that was entirely oh yeah heres some things that I think are cool seemingly narrated by some student they dragged in off the streets who had no interest in what he was doing and was just in show off mode showcasing tricks he had learnt and things he thought were cool rather than actually you know teaching. No core learning, no thought given to the learner, just glossing over anything that might be useful with tons of information left out. The only reason I learnt anything was that the units were so bad I had to go googling to actually find out what it was the course should have taught me. In fact the Cognos units were so bad they only thing they left in my mind was a determintation to never use Cognos again. Also lets talk about the fact all software is provided for this course. Really? Because i gott say that a 30 day free trial is not free software, that is forcing a deadline on you that you might not be able to adhear to. Whats that you say the Cognos software has a special trial linked back to this course? No it does not. It might have had once upon a time but those days are long long gone. Just the course has not been updated to frelect it. Also the grading is crazy. Despite attaining 100% in everything I recieved a grade of 96%. Was cognos used to work out this score if so I start to understand...

As an aspiring data analyst, this course gave me more information about what I am currently doing and after finishing this course I have learned a lot and gave me more interest to learn more.

I think I accomplished the most with this course. It was very cleanly accelerated but left enough open to explore more capabilities. I really love Cognos.

Great course! Looking forward to working with IBM Cognos analytics more in the real world!

I find it very useful. it expands my knowledge of Data Visualization. Also, I become more familiar with IBM programs.

Thanks, Coursera and IBM.

Classes in IBM Data Analyst track seem to be for marketing purposes. They force you to sign up for IBM products, provide your personal information and credit card number, and then it doesn't even work. You really don't learn much in the actual classes, they just seem to want to advertise IBM products.

Too basic, childish and time-wasting with ridiculous assessment in the end. To make it logical, try to give learners problems to solve as questions rather these childish paintings. I am ashamed to have a professional certificate for this course.

I'm glad that i improved my visualization skills with Excel and also being introduced to a powerful tool like IBM Cogno Analytics.

Very good hand on the topic with practical applications. I am really feeling equipped for more of this king of learning...

Very short instruction for a big software like Cognos. I had to help from other teaching platforms to begin to understand even the basics. Could be much better.

The class was easy to follow along to and the content as well as the labs provided a lot of information and a great overview of how to create visualizations, the types of visualizations available, and dashboarding in Excel and Cognos Analytics.

Although the excel section was a bit on the basic side, the Cognos dashboarding functionalities were truly an eye-opening experience for me. Produces the type of dashboards that gets your C-suite pants wet.

I have learned some advanced methods of Excel from this course. It helps me feel more confident when I am using Microsoft Excel or Google documents.

The course is good. However, I met some reviewers that is malicious. So hope the course designer to take some measures to avoid this issue.