The class gives a nice introduction to cloud computing and very easy to understand. The Final Assignment's method and criteria for grading is kind of stupid. It requires the help of other students peer-reviewing and most are not serious at reviewing and tend to give really bad grades for correct work or really good grades for mediocer work. If there was some sort of actual review/grading system or atleast questions that don't require "peer review" would've been better.

The course was very detailed but the Cloud account making should not be made into a graded assignment, especially because signing up into IBM Cloud, even for free/trail version is just not user friendly. I tried with three different emails. And even after that I could not create the "free plan" stuffs. I could see others struggle with that too, because it's a peer graded one. Almost the whole discussion is also filled with complains of failed attempts.

Pros This is a very informative and fresh course. It's easy to navigate and has a consistent format. Cons The narration volume of videos was too low and inconsistent. The Cloud IDE lab was slow, buggy, and only worked in Firefox. One of the graded assessments had a duplicate question. One of the wrong answer explanations on a quiz was incorrect. All courses should work well with the Edge as it's the most advanced AI-powered browser.

The course said that it is for people with no background knowledge on the subject but continuously used language that was not taught. I learned a lot, but the pain of listening to the same background music over and over again and working through the dense lectures with difficult language probably could have been avoided while accomplishing the same level of knowledge of transfer or better.

The course covers all the knowledge required but the teaching style is very off putting. Having a robot voice basically run a PPT is not very engaging or helpful. The sections where a real human is teaching is way more effective and helped me understand the information better. If I were to just listen to a robot run through a PPT, I could rather just read through a textbook.

Orienting this course at the beginning of the entire program is a bit overwhelming as the course mostly deals with theories about clouds and how they function, standing from the vantage point of a complete beginner who is just mere interested in code, I would not be able to handle a profuse set of theories about something I have never gotten my hands on.

This 1'st course of 12 was pretty useful in understanding some of the basics of cloud computing but I will say that a lot of the terminology was not as explained humanly as there was a robot voice speaking most of the time and while that is ok I was confused with some of the video topics which made me have to go onto google to learn somethings.

While the course gives you a good understanding of the basics of cloud computing, it sometimes feels a little hacked together with videos intended for other platforms being recycled for the course; the narration voice reading the lectures sounds almost robotic; and the quizzes are rather poorly designed.

Great information was introduced by this course, but most of the videos were so fast and not interactive like someone opened the text reader and recorded the session. I learned a lot of new concepts about cloud computing and cloud security principles.

Good for learning some of the terminology cloud computing. It could use more application-style problems to solidify concepts. I felt like I was just regurgitating definitions during the quizzes, but I suppose that's ok for an intro course.

Felt rushed and like some kind of advertisment for IBM - the production value of the videos was pretty poor too. Still was able to learn some stuff but that course is far from a 5* or 4* course, at least for my standards.

The course is a great stuff for beginners however, practical part of it needs to be added by at least 50% to ensure students get to know in depth cloud operation practically as in theoretically.

Good overview of cloud computing, but didn't get too down into the details. The final assignment for the course was a lot of following directions without really explaining the why behind them.

Most of the videos sound too robotized, which make them less engaging than other IBM courses.

And examples are too much focused on IBM and closer to marketing videos than tech examples.

Not really relevant for imo also I doubt the accuracy of some questions (e.g. Giving the name of one of the largest cloud computing providers and then listing both AWS and Oracle)

I feel this course could have been filled more with info. at the end of the course I felt like I had an idea about cloud services but didnt know what to do with that info

Pretty straight forward but I noticed typos. I wish it would go into depth on some of the concepts. I ended up having to youtube search to gain a full understanding.

In the last assignment, some student review my test wrongly. Professional ppl must review assignment or should provide the manual to make someone's score.

Sorry, but this course has a lot of theory and almost no practice, creating one object storage with one file in IBM Cloud is not enough in my opinion😞

More hands on assignments would be much better. I realize that this is an introductory course but you can't beat actual experience using the product.

Honestly it felt like a long advertisement for Cloud Stuff™ a good chunk of the time, but it's good at being an overview if that's what you need

It gives an very good overview of Cloud Computing. I would include more practical experience on the course to learn from "hands-on" excercises.

Some good general information but it felt a lot like a marketing campaign for cloud services. Could have used more concrete practical stuff.

IMO too theoretical. Of course it is subjective. I'm taking courses now but already have 15+ years of experience in software engineering.

The graded quizes contained grammatical errors and spelling mistakes that don't give me confidence in the academic rigor of the course.