Learner Reviews & Feedback for Excel Basics for Data Analysis by IBM
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AE
Jul 29, 2025
Many of the commands explained in the videos or on the exercises are outdated, especially in the pivots section. I struggled to find its equivalent in Excel 365. Please update whatever is needed.
NS
Nov 14, 2024
the beginner level helps to improve my skill with excel, it helps a lot in my study and my career and used to be excel is a hard tool to use, now it's fun tool to use, thank you IBM - Coursera.
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By Melissa F
•Jun 3, 2024
not organized. Car sales data sheet to practice with, where was that?? previous lesson had you download some Indian start up funding sheet that you barely use and then it is on to a car sales data sheet that they don't tell you where to access. Keep with the same practice sheet for continuity
By Justin G
•May 5, 2022
The actual lessons using Excel could be better, for example at the beginning of each chapter clearly show people where to get the excel file, you should be able to download it and follow along with each lesson.
By Jamie E
•Jun 11, 2022
Good course content however peer graded system is unreliable. Received a fail grade for the assignment, resubmitted with no changes and received full marks. Would expect better from a course I am paying for.
By Craig W
•Oct 10, 2025
The commands are out of date, some of the tasks don't really work, and functions are not explained or broken down so that students can adapt them to different use cases. Would not recommend.
By Dhdh
•Feb 6, 2026
Does not have a simple process for completing the course. You need to review other learners work and you need to rely on other learner's ability to score your work.
By Kristin H
•Jan 16, 2025
The final project has a major issue (instructions and file information for other students does not match the file provided for me to work on).
By Jaysee J P
•Feb 19, 2022
challenging to perform on excel web.. no license on windows available.. also tried libreoffice calc different navigation..
By Leah K
•Oct 15, 2025
should include instructions for working with desktop version of excel
By MARIA G T C
•Apr 22, 2025
Está mal traducido en las pruebas, por lo que es poco entendible.
By Ananda Ż
•Jul 4, 2024
Very Basic information. Not usefull at all for intermediate user.
By Shahid N
•Oct 8, 2024
the course is good!but hard to understand as an indian student.
By Gia T N
•Jun 18, 2023
I tried on excel and it did not work like how they teach me
By Gayathri R
•Apr 16, 2024
Unenroll me from this course for now
By IGOR
•Jul 3, 2025
It was quite fundamental and tiring
By Mohamed A I R
•Apr 19, 2025
ارجاء الموعد النهائي
By belal b
•Oct 27, 2024
جيد جدا
By علي ا
•Oct 9, 2022
thanks
By Mohit
•Oct 10, 2022
okokj
By Christin S
•Feb 3, 2026
Horrible - AI grading does not work and wastes my time. After putting much time into the course to learn the concepts and apply them, AI says things are inaccurate and missing in my uploaded files even though Excel itself does not find these errors (spelling, duplicates, extra rows...). Now I cannot move forward to the next course and am wasting time trying to get help which I cannot seem to find (so common these days). No human help. It does not leave me with a good impression of Coursera. Also the AI voice in the videos is incredibly annoying. To learn pivot tables, had to watch videos outside the course. The examples in the course were not good ones - too much data and data I do not recognize, that is meaningless to me so looking at a pivot table for the first time, I could not make sense of it or see it's value.
By Thurman M
•Dec 30, 2022
Downloading the data has been exceptionally difficult. Unless I have a way of downloading the data, I will not be able to finish the 5th week. All of the down loads, none worked properly. I did work arounds to to get and work on the seven Labs.
Otherwise, if I wasn't trying to get get a certification, the information is very good. The labs are extremely difficult to download. Excel doesn't allow me to upload on the web. It has a download, which is only on this computer. I tried another computer, and some of it worked, but the last assignment, not at all.
By Loetizia C
•Feb 24, 2026
I had an issue with a peer reviewed submission twice in this course. I was deliberately assigned a wrong grade while I should have passed.I had to retake the exam and grade other users submission another time. I reached out to the support who didn't provide any solution. Coursera does nothing against this kind of stupid and dishonest practices. It lost all credibility to me.
By Dinesh D
•Mar 22, 2024
I was expecting the course to be having more advance excel features for data analysis and some troubleshooting. The course was pretty basic for someone who has not seen MS Excel in their entire life which I highly doubt exists as office is an application that's installed in almost all computers who use microsoft.
By Jorge G
•Mar 8, 2022
No funcionan las partes prácticas de Excel. Un timo, un engañabobos. Una pérdida de tiempo y de dinero, lo reporté y no se arregla nada. Y te cobran igual. Le doy una estrella para poder enviar la calificación, pero obviamente se merece 0 estrellas. Lamentable.
By Tyrone B
•Feb 24, 2026
Unable to download or upload the material for Option 1 or Option 2 for graded exercise under Excel Basics Data Analysis Course # 2. This is extremely frustrating and should not affect my certificate completion.
By Seth B
•Jul 26, 2024
Was all good until I got charged £37 for using their 7 day free trial. This course has no obvious way to cancel the subscription, and no way to request refunds - coursera clearly knows what they are doing.