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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Linear Circuits 1: DC Analysis by Georgia Institute of Technology

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About the Course

This course explains how to analyze circuits that have direct current (DC) current or voltage sources. A DC source is one that is constant. Circuits with resistors, capacitors, and inductors are covered, both analytically and experimentally. Some practical applications in sensors are demonstrated....

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J

Jul 7, 2023

I used this to prepare for my circuit analysis class next semester in college and found that this gave a lot of base knowledge to apply in my class and put me ahead of other students.

PR

Sep 7, 2020

The course is very helpful to us to understand the DC circit analysis a lot.Thank you to the team.As a faculty,I know the concepts well.So directly went to the quiz part.

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By Anurag N

Dec 11, 2017

Lots of mistakes in practice quiz

By Dung H

Jul 25, 2022

too many problem with the quiz

By MAREM P P

Mar 11, 2020

good explantion by George Tech

By K M C

Jul 21, 2020

No proper mentoring

By Parkhi j

Jul 25, 2020

Update is needed

By Jorge E E R

Jul 8, 2020

Muy dificil

By Rishi K

Mar 9, 2020

excellent

By William B

Jun 14, 2020

Before all of the negative stuff, I would like to say that I learned a lot from this course. I just believe that it could have been made a lot more error-free and easier. Here are my complaints:

*There were a ton of errors in the practice problems (both in the questions and the accepted answers).

*Some questions (both in the practice problems and on quizzes) required outside knowledge (other than basic calculus physics, which are supposed to be the only prerequisites).

*Some of the subjects covered need more explanation than what is given in the limited lessons.

Overall, I would not recommend this course to anyone without basic circuit analysis experience and the ability to spend extra time researching to fill in the gaps left by the lessons. I'm sure that there are better courses for beginners (e.x. maybe MIT OpenCourseWare).

By Greg O

Oct 28, 2023

Lecture content that must be combined with watching many sample problems to piece stuff together. I did appreciate the example problem presentation by the additional professors. Very, very sloppy work by the staff on exercises and quizzes in terms of typos, ambiguous presentation, out-of-order assessment (problem given in the wrong week before the subject matter was presented), and clearly correct answers not being accepted by the auto-grader. I didn't want to walk away from the course without completing so I spent many hours banging my head against issues with the quizzes, going back and forth between forums, and in some cases finally guessing to figure out what the problem author meant to write. Do yourself a favor and audit this one. Find some problems to work on from a different source.

By M C

Jun 22, 2023

Some very good explanatory videos, however, there are two serious problems. One problem is sequencing: students are expected to solve problems before the material is introduced in the videos. An even more serious problem is that the autograder erroneously marks correct answers as incorrect for many questions. The discussion group is full of examples but, even after five years, the course authors have not fixed any of the errors, which are many in number and serious in nature.

By Janis T

Feb 14, 2021

Course provides you basics, I give it that. The flavour isn't the best, but that's not the problem. The problem is there are a lot of mistakes during the course: in videos, practice quizzes, including grading tests too! Hours and hours of wasted time trying to solve a problem, solve it right and get the "answer is not correct" form the makers. Don't bother reporting those mistakes. Many have tried, me too, no reaction from the makers of this course.

By Pierre-François L

Dec 1, 2020

The main content is OK, but the course doesn't seem to have been carefully curated at all. Several problems have the wrong answer key, week 1 had questions only answerable with knowledge from week 2, week 2 sample problems included a ton of problems on components not covered at all in the class (op amps), etc. Forums are basically abandoned as far as I can tell.

By Paulo M

Sep 6, 2023

The content is good but the exercises and quizzes are full of mistakes. This makes the learning process extremely frustrating. You end up going to the forums almost every time to try to understand if there's a problem with your calculations or if it's a problem with the grader. In most cases, it's the grader.

By Taylor B

Jun 3, 2019

Various issues with the course. practice problems don't always align with the lectures. Copious typos and errors in the problems. Course creators seem very lazy. Completely unsupported. Content was good and helpful for refreshers.

By SURYA T K

Mar 9, 2020

I have rated this course with 2 stars since my experience was not too good with this course.

there are many mistakes in the practice problems please take care of them.

By GANESH P B K

Dec 24, 2018

course structure is good and worth a 5 rating but I am rating it 2 only because the mentors are not active at forum and grader is found faulty at times

By Gustavo S

Feb 11, 2023

The course has many errors that haven't been corrected in years, and the forums have zero support from the course staff.

By Maribel M

Oct 9, 2021

Too many error in the grader. You're on your own because no one helps you.

By Tamir L

Apr 11, 2022

lots of issues on problems

By Dr. H B A

May 13, 2020

Assignments are very tough.

By Martin

Mar 10, 2023

I am posting a rating of One Star to hopefully draw the attention of anyone responsible for posting the course content.

There are some mistakes inherent in the grading, (i.e. the robotic graders), for both the practice problems and the end-of-chapter quizzes. Multiple learners in the community have noted these and posted such in the discussion forums, yet there has been no response from the Instructors and/or Administration responsible for the MOOC. Also, in having gone often to the discussioon forums where we are promised to encounter the Instructors, I cannot recall having encountered any Instructors for the discussion forums I have visited. Many of the Learners seem to be performing the job of the Instructors.

Also, if I may offer observation. the instructional videos tend to be very brief, and usually give a problem and then jump to the solution without showing some of the work involved to arrive at the answer. Contrary to the lab videos which are quite lenghty, yet spend idle time showing how to physically attach a component to a circuit on a breadboard.

By Leonardo M

Oct 24, 2020

While looking up courses on electronic circuits, I came across a comment that called this course "one of the worst MOOCs ever". Since this is a rather popular course and the content seemed pretty comprehensive, I decided to try it myself, and I can safely say that comment wasn't far off. This course was one of the most dreadful experiences I've had on this site. The video lectures are of worse quality than your average Youtube video, with presenters that never appear prepared. Several tests include concepts that haven't been covered (or not included at all), and to top it off, a lot contain grading errors. Since apparently this course has been abandoned for a long time, I see no reason why anyone should even bother taking it at this point. In a rare exception as far as Coursera courses are concerned, the only useful part was the discussion forum. Shout out to Dale Garman, their forum posts were more useful and informative than anything in the modules.

By Areg D

Jun 16, 2023

You need to seriously start from scratch and make new videos and content that is error free. There are questions where submitting the wrong answer is the only way forward... and you expect someone to actually pay for this?

I'm sure you mean well in regards to helping others by providing this course knowledge, but you are doing a great disservice to yourself, Georgia tech, and learners by not staying current with the responses and concerns coming through the discussion forums. Some of these mistakes are 5+ years old...

If that is your philosophy of teaching, leaving intended errors for the learner to pick up with no way of the learner to showcase that they have mastered the topic, then you yourself do not deserve to recognize a breakthrough in your research or professional endeavors.

By dries h

Jun 6, 2020

I've learned a lot during this course, but that would have been more due to youtube and google searches on the topics brought forward in this rather incoherent course... the video lectures are too short for beginners to get a decent grasp of the subject. I am positively sure that the tutors are experts in this field and I can imagine that this works well as a refresher course for engineers but not for someone like me, a control systems technician trying to upskill into the field of drafting. On a positive note, I've had to brush up on my calculus to get through this, which might come in handy further down the track. It took a lot of determination to sit this one through until the end.

By Jordan B

Nov 28, 2023

Completely unacceptable that so many quiz questions are broken. This was brought to the attention of the instructors years ago but no fixes have been implemented. It is so frustrating to go around and around on a quiz question you think you are getting wrong, only to finally check the discussion board and see that the auto grader for the quiz has a completely wrong solution. The videos in this class are fine and you'll learn basic circuits, but the broken quizzes and typos are incredibly frustrating.