I very much enjoyed participating in this course! For me, as a newby to Excel, it was a great way to learn a whole lot about the different functionalities of this popular spreadsheet software. Also, because of the many exercises available, I could immediately bring the formulae and other learnt operations into practice straight away. Thank you for offering this, and keep up with the good work!

The assessments are quite random at times, with the questions outright stating the formulas to be used without giving much of a challenge for us. The last question in the course assessment was also worded incorrectly, the answer 41 is the retail average of those WITH the bonus, not without.

Maybe some Regional settings made the process more difficult. Otherwise, I'm afraid there are some bugs in the Excel sheets on in the test. Nevertheless, it's been fun to learn something new about Excel.

Really disappointed in this course so far. Some of the content and materials are helpful but I think they do a terrible job of making sure the content as it is presented in the course matches the skills that are expected to be demonstrated in assignments and assessments. Several times an assessment or skills challenge required the user to be aware of certain formatting standards that were not covered or mentioned at all. Some of the skills needing to be demonstrated aren't even covered in the videos and aren't brought to the user's attention at all; if it wasn't for the solutions that are provided the user would have no idea why they aren't able to complete a task. It really feels like there is a serious disconnect between whoever is responsible for providing the content for the videos and who is developing the skills challenges and quizzes/tests. They need to get on the same page if they want to deliver a good course.

Very slow and too basic to consider Data Analysis.

There are a lot of examples using European date conventions which can be reversed from US date conventions. This makes it very confusing.

I wish I could grade this course with more detail, I'd rate it 4.5 stars.

Overall, it seems to be one of the best resources on Coursera regarding Excel skills and almost up to date with the latest version of Excel and its more useful formulas for Data Analysis. There are some formulas not included in the videos but with a brief explanation in the weekly toolboxes; these are really useful formulas and even needed to answer some questions in the weekly graded assignments, but don't worry, with what's covered in the videos you can handle those extra formulas confidently.

The practice challenges are great, but there is a problem with the final asessment (25% of your final grade), don't know if there were previous versions or inconsistency in the file containing the data for it, but it is hard to get the suposedly right answers for the last 4 questions or so, at least I could not get any of the available options to answer; nonetheless, I considered I got a good grap of the necessary concepts and did not focus on getting a perfect grade. I mention this because it also seems there is lack of feedback or support on the forums from the teaching staff, I sugest reading the corresponding weekly posts to see if some other learners have found a solution or workaround with any trouble you may have.

Also, be aware of your regional settings when handling currency and date and time formats, they can cause errors in your formulas that you will need to address individually or with the help of other learners.

VBA and macros are not covered in this course, maybe they are covered in further courses of the specialization. Macquarie University also offers some other specializations focused on different applications, look for them to see if you find what you might be interested in.

I recently completed the Excel Fundamentals for Data Analysis course on Coursera and found it to be an extremely helpful and well-structured program. The course covered all the basics of Excel software, including spreadsheet formatting, data manipulation, and analysis tools. The instructor was knowledgeable and made the subject matter easy to understand.

I appreciated the hands-on approach to learning, with weekly practice assignments that allowed me to apply what I had learned. The discussions with fellow learners were also a valuable aspect of the course, as they allowed me to expand my understanding and share my experiences with others.

I would highly recommend this course to anyone looking to improve their Excel skills, whether for personal or professional use. The course was well-paced and the certificate of completion is a great way to demonstrate my knowledge and skills in Excel. Overall, I found this course to be a great investment in my professional development.

Q: If you want to create a Table, you need to click somewhere in the data before creating it. My Answer: This is FALSE. You can start anywhere in the workbook, then click in the "Table" under the Insert Menu, and then select the range you want to apply the Table. Q: On the Attendees sheet is a table showing people who will be attending our next event. We wish to include a welcome pack for people who are relatively new. In K7 create a calculation to check if the Start Date is on or after the date shown in U14, if it is put the text New in the column, otherwise leave it blank (do not put space or FALSE). Because it is a table your calculation automatically copies down. What is the number of new people as shown in W14? My comment: It should be: "What is the number of new people as shown in V14?"

A very useful course, even in period when I was taking it I had lots of use of the learnings so far, and I can immediately use this on my daily work.

My excel installation has a different regional format than the course providers and I had some problems with data in some of the work sheets. For instance, my formatting uses a comma as a decimal divider, while the course material uses a full stop for the same, and excel cannot interpret the difference. I also separate arguments in formulas with semicolon rather than a comma, as a consequence of this, so it was not possible for me to copy-paste formulas into the response field in the quizzes. I still made do, but it was a bit of a hassle to have to make manual adjustments for these differences all the time.

This course's teaching approach is extremely effective, if interacted with honestly. The concepts are broken down into digestible chunks, making seemingly complex topics easy to learn and apply. I feel like this method of teaching is really great for retaining the knowledge you learn. For example, I took a 2 week break away from the course, on week 4, and when I came back and test my knowledge with the final assignment on week 5 I was quite surprised by how much I had remember! Really impressed with this course, could not recommend it enough.

P.S. I can tell a lot of thought was put into all the questions in this course, they test you to make sure you have a deep understanding of each topic. Love it!

Some of the assessment questions need to be reviewed for correct grammar, missing words, or punctuation. Also, there were discrepancies in instructions vs. the intended Workbook Output. (Ex. The final assessment has a question which states clients with a balance of 300 - 11999.99 receive a 5% discount; the Assessment work book lists Discount Percentage by Balance but the balance list values are 0, 300, 1200, 3000 and the discount is 3%, 5%, 8%, 12%. So the correct interpretation would be "clients with a balance of 300 - 1199.99 receive a 5% discount.) These errors cause confusion and frustration which is exacerbated by the nature of online assessments.

Great course, great practice, learned a lot.

This is my first course ever to be successfully completed on Coursera. Instructors are engaging and the videos make you feel comfortable in actually learning Excel. All the little tips and tricks that the instructors showed in the videos and then reinforced with real-world examples have made me more confident in using Excel. The part of the course focusing on working with dates was extremely helpful since this is not something that I had much experience with. This course has given me a great bag of tools that I can immediately apply to work projects that require the use of Excel. I am very thankful to the instructors and anyone else who helped to put together this wonderful course!

Tbh I didn't even know that I didn't know how to use excel properly before I started this course, it was very exciting to follow a course where the study materials are perfect and also the quizzes after every single lesson were really helpful, cause sometimes after having a lesson we falsely believe we know everything now but those quizzes really show you "well you need more practising, stop overestimating" the entire course was very fun and very informative, so thank you very much for the month of knowledge, I enjoyed being Zara quite a lot. I still believe I need more practising, and so I'm going to redo all the downloaded materials, to make sure. Thank you very much.

This course is designed in the exact same way as I wanted. Practice tests after each session made me analyze where I was lagging so that I can practice again. I found weekly practice assignment very helpful and challenging as it comprises of all the learning material they had taught in a week. Before weekly assesment test these assignments worked as a charm for me. I want to thank to both the great teachers for enriching my learning experience.

Apart from this, complex topics in week 5 could have been more elaborated else everything was great.

It is important to set goals for yourself that keep you motivated and push forward Even though I only just managed to squeeze it in between all my weekends good to have achieved certification in "Excel Fundamentals for Data Analysis" Now to start planning my learning and certification roadmap for 2022. I am currently leaning towards rounding out my functional level (Data Analysis) certifications. If I can manage that, I will probably set a stretch goal to achieve one of the professional certifications or perhaps another speciality.

An excellent course in my opinion. Although I had picked some of the lessons on my own this goes through it in Excel tools in a much more systematic and logical way and so I feel I have ended up with a much better understanding of how to get the best out of it. The practice sessions are good at testing understanding so I would not recommend skipping these. The course lecturers were very clear in their presentation of information which I appreciated. I would recommend this course,

This was an excellent course! I have been working on several coursera courses, and this one is the best so far. They have tests after every lesson to ensure you understand the material and the questions ACTUALLy require understanding o the course material. The final test is actually very comprehensive and it whopped me the first time I took it because it test you on all the course concepts and if you have a gap, you will struggle to figure out questions after a missed one.

The practice problems proved to be helpful especially when done alongside with the instructors. The weekly assessments are also very helpful which needs you to execute the items for you to answer the questions. The instructors did a great job of teaching the material in an understandable way. Most importantly for me, the hands-on exercises and assessments are better off than peer reviewed activities. I very much recommend this course for those wanting to learn Excel.

Le voy a dar 5, porque el contenido es excelente, además, los profesores explican superbien, pero hay un detalle que deben corregir: hay Bug en Varias preguntas, lo que no permite llegar al 100% de la nota en algunos casos. Por favor, corregir. Por lo demás, todo excelente. Uno llega creyendo que sabe mucho de Excel y se da cuenta que mas bien, mucho es lo que hay que aprender, las pruebas son duras, pero quedé enamorado de este curso y voy por más. Muchas gracias.

I think the course provides a good foundation to clean data and a good range of knowledge about functions that can be used to operate with data en different formats. Exercises and challenges are great for practicing.

I would however encourage the teaching team to provide the solution sheets for the weekly final assessments and the final assessment once the course is completed because you might get stack with some operations and would like to see how to resolve them

(+)A good one to introduce tools and fomulas for a daily analysis.

Content: Concise and easily comprehensive, homeworks are aligned with what is tauhttps://www.coursera.org/learn/excel-data-analysis-fundamentals/home/welcome?ght.

Tests generally are designed well, not difficult but required your comprehension on these knowledge.

(-) Im using Excel 2010 whilst the course uses 2016, so some functions are not available. Then I would not recommend use excel below 2010.

This course is just amazing for the efforts that has gone into making it self-explanatory for those who are ready to put in those hours. Kudos to both Nicky and Prashan, for the lucid choice of words and, succint verbiage. My sincere gratitude for all the efforts the entire team has put in, to make this available to me.

I am highly motivated to take up remainder of the courses and, look to complete within a much shorter time frame. Appreciate the help and, support.

This is absolutely awesome! I have learned various helpful and practical Excel skills. All lessons are discussed in details, step by step, which makes them much easier to follow. The assignments at the end of every week are of great difficulty that allows you to test your understanding and practice. I will definitely recommend this course for my friends and colleagues. I would also like to thank to Coursera and MacQuarie University for introducing this course!

I have just finished the course with a 100% Grade. This course is very well-designed and it offers plenty of exercises for you to practice the skills. I like how the quizzes show up after every practice video. It helps me check my understanding of the lessons, and reminded me of the points I had failed to catch up. The Excel functions this course introduces are also pretty handy. I would recommend this course to those who want to leverage their Excel skills.