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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....

Top reviews

SA

Jun 30, 2022

This course is excellent and is best for beginners who wish to get familiar with excel and learn its vast features that enhance your problem solving ability and also saves significant amount of time.

ME

Apr 28, 2021

That was extremely helpful, I liked it so much, I liked everything about it from the breaking down of new subjects, literally someone with zero experience in excel can understand and use these things

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By Aayushi J S

Jul 24, 2020

There were a few problems for me in submitting the assignment, and I even tried to contact the concerned person, but my query was not solved, and I have to drop the course.

By Jae S

May 10, 2023

I started but didn't get very far. The tutor didn't make the material relatable or connect it to real-life situations where Excel is useful. He quickly ran through random things that you can do on Excel. Nothing connected, and the learning didn't feel like a well-thought-out journey. He wasn't very engaging, he moved at lightning speed to run through the examples. I tried following with the downloaded spreadsheets while using another screen, and even so, it was too fast. I started another Excel course on another platform and so far, the tutor is much more relatable and explains real-world context to which the topics can be applied. And I feel like he's talking with his audience and not to himself.

By Newman S

Aug 4, 2021

I am somewhat familiar with Excel, but this class is WAY beyond what I know. You need a math background and an Excel background to take this course. The instructor is quick to teach and forgets that some of us are new to formulas and functions. I can only write so fast and there are no real handouts to print out or guides to go by. This is not the course I thought it would be. If this is everyday Excel, then I am clearly below a beginner. We were only on week 3 of the first class and he was teaching things that should be in the second part. I can only imagine what will be in those, but I will not be there to to find out. I have never been so frustrated.

By Yolanda G

Feb 2, 2022

This course was extremely confusing. The instructor was talking like you really understood or knew Excel. Pace extremely fast and lack of examples to rely apply to quizzes and assignments . I was able to read all discussion forums for the class and the frustration was real for many people, trying to resolves the tests for days.

By eric h

Dec 10, 2020

The purpose of free online MOOC's is to learn the material for free, not being allowed to participate in the entire class curriculum simply because the student can't afford the 49$ for a certificate seems foolish.

By ROY W

Sep 11, 2020

unclear how to download/access text files for UK customers. Could not receive support to answer question,aborted course, despite passing every module, could not answer text file question as could not access it

By Marta W

Jul 14, 2020

This course skips important material if you only audit it. It says it is for beginners but the instructor does a very poor job of building off of each skill he addresses. There are better videos on YouTube.

By Miano, J

Dec 20, 2021

The instructor is non-existant. The forums are useless. The course is interesting, but there is absolutely zero interaction from the 'instructor.' No opportunity to ask the instructor questions.

By Anastasia S

Dec 28, 2020

The course is not free even though the instructor says it is okay to audit for free but than locks the context of the course unless you make an upgrade for a certificate. I found it deceptive.

By meredith h g

Aug 1, 2021

Too fucking hard!! never got past quiz 1 within 0.4 of a point. Those questions do not reflect how excel is used on a day-to-day basis - they are more like brainteasers.

By Elizabeth M

Jul 21, 2023

I can't find the same screen on coursera. Even though I typed the exact web address seen in the video. Not sure how I can go at my own pace. Please help.

By Michelle D

Jul 2, 2021

very difficult to follow along and the videos were extremely long and included alot of unnecessary information

By Mikaela N

Apr 11, 2021

Hard to follow, too much codes with not context. I spend 50 dollars and i did not pass at the first quiz.

By Ana M

Jun 15, 2020

I believe this corse is not for me, too many details too fast. I wish I can have my money back.

By Swachi

Aug 12, 2023

this is not a free course after some videos they ask for course fees. NOT RRECOMMENDED.

By Diane G

Jul 13, 2021

This is not a basic excel class.

By Bohdan Z

Sep 15, 2020

As the teacher of this course would say, the course is EXCELent! This is not my first course on Coursera, but definitely the BEST one so far! Someone mentioned that course requires some additional knowledge and I can say confidently that tips from tutor are enough to understand what is asked from you if you will read everything carefully. Also someone found it fast pasting (including explanations of teacher), but this made me like this course even more, because if you need time, you always able to pause/replay the video (that the greatness of online courses after all, noone hurrys up you), and you don't have to listen some information once and once again if you get it by the first time. The greatest part of this course is practice, lots of it. And it is interesting at the same time, because you see as example where you can later implement your gained knowledge. Plus, teacher explain difference of Excel versions and not "just advertise Excel 365" but doing quite oposite - he shows the way to solve a problem for EVERY versions of Excel (if possible) and you don't have to suffer by searching in the internet why something doesn't work in your version. Amazing! Big thanks to the creator of the course!!! It is an example for everyone how course should be created. Definetily recommend it to everyone (at least give it a try) and can't wait to start the next part!!!

By Sarvesh M

Oct 25, 2020

This is the best Microsoft Office Excel course I have ever taken. I actually dived into the course and stayed in it for just 2 weeks and completed the course in just 2 weeks because the content of the course was much interesting and did not allow me to live a day without watching the screencasts of this course. This course is really great and contains all the required learning materials in-built. This course is beautifully designed by the instructor and the experience of learning was great. I did not know anything about excel before taking this course and this course did not require any prerequisite knowledge on excel. This course was amazing. I learnt a lot of new excel skills which I require for my future. I am really happy with this course. My big thanks to the instructor "Charlie Raymond Nuttleman" and the "University of Colorado" and the world's biggest learning platform, "Coursera".

By Paula-Mar M A

Dec 12, 2022

Very useful and easy to follow course. I use Excel on a daily basis for work and this course has helped me dive deeper in certain functions I already use, and to discover a lot of stuff I didn't know beforehand and will help me in the future. As feedback, I would only add that there could be some more guidance on the assignments (such as getting hints if you're stuck, even with the explanations offered). Also, as a non-native speaker, it would have been useful a reading material or a link to a website that offers a translation of the most used formulas in Excel, since most of the formulas used in the course aren't the same in my country and I had to look most of them up. Overall, a a great course!

By David

May 11, 2021

This was an excellent course, taught by an instructor with an outstanding lesson plan. I was able to comprehend Charlie's videos, which were clearly explained, and the instructions were relatively easy to follow. The course allowed me to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, which enhanced my understanding of the course material. The quizzes and tests offered just the right amount of challenge for a beginning Excel course without being overwhelming. Anyone serious about learning Excel will definitely benefit from this course. I am excited about continuing with the second Excel course after taking a day or two break from studying.

By Samsaam u A

Jun 18, 2022

Hi! I‘m ABC. I am from Pakistan (Asia), and I’m a freelancer. When I decided to learn Excel Specialization (All 3 parts) with professor Charlie Nuttelman, I learned a lot of new things about the Excel which I couldn’t at my university. Due to this course, I completed freelancing projects which satisfied my client and received more projects. It increased my skills regarding tasks in Excel. I am grateful to professor Charlie because his courses are challenging but not impossible to complete. Which made me understand how to program and be aware that the world of technology is a good opportunity.

By Earl E

Jun 11, 2022

For me, that is my learning style, is was beyond challenging I mean the lesson's started out as a G rated event but while I was working on them they quickly were turning into an X rated event. Excuse me, I wasn't throwing anything around except profanities but after several rereadings of the required information and rethinking how I could approach the answer based on the screencasts I got them done. I did though enjoyed very much all lessons that had to do with graphing and pivot tables, slicers and those sorts of things, they came easy to me.

By Gwenda E S R

Dec 5, 2020

I learned a lot of new things. More then i ever learned in the office the past 15 years as I never had to use it. However if i knew some of these tricks I learned my work could have been more efficient and faster. I used to do so many things "manually" row by row. I did struggle with the algebra part and putting it into Excel syntax. It has been 20 years ago i did algebra! I really enjoyed the set up of the course and great professor. Additionally I could do it at my own pace. My first Coursera course and impressed. Thank you Mr. Nuttelman.

By Joan M

Oct 25, 2020

I was auditing this course to learn a bit more about Excel. Some of it was beyond my needs and capabilities but I thoroughly enjoyed it. The course was well planned and Charlie Nuttelman is an excellent presenter who, in a relaxed way, was able to make difficult topics interesting and fun to learn about. His students are lucky.

After auditing the course, I registered to take it. The assignments were quite a struggle but learned a lot along the way and have just completed it. As per above, would give full marks to the teacher!

By Abdulaziz

Aug 14, 2020

Thank you for The Coursera Team and Charlie Nuttelman. I really appreciate your hard work, help and giving people an opportunity to learn what they are interested in or needed to be better at their current or future job. Unfortunately, some functions which were thought only available in the latest versions of Excel 2019 and Excel 365 which means if you have earlier versions of excel you cannot use those useful functions, despite this, the course was absolutely informative, challenging and interesting. Thank you!