BC
Jun 24, 2016
Excellent content, and the assignments were great as well. Even better is that now as I work through my workflows, I now have these videos to reference if I am having difficulty with anything. Cheers!
MH
Feb 3, 2025
One of the amazing platforms UC Davis provided to the students through Coursera. Enjoyed the course by doing practical work and its submission. I feel lucky to have hands on such an amazing course.
By Sanchita P
•Feb 20, 2017
Awesome!
By Nikolas A
•Nov 6, 2016
great..
By Mary O E
•Apr 14, 2023
great
By Tarek M
•May 29, 2021
BIEN
By Shailesh T
•Nov 5, 2024
good
By MEGHANA G
•Dec 15, 2022
BEST
By Mustafa M
•Sep 7, 2022
Nice
By hmuigaimwangi@yahoo.com
•Mar 1, 2017
Good
By Akram A M E
•Apr 10, 2016
good
By Duncan M
•May 30, 2023
I gave this class 3 stars and even though I wanted to give it 0. The reason I gave it 3 stars was because the instructor and the material was very good. Even though it was review for me I felt like the lessons were very informative and were a good refresher. Now the reason I wanted to give it 0 stars is because of the peer grading on the final project. This is garbage. The final assignment which says wether you pass the class or not is graded by others taking the class most of who don’t understand the assignment themselves. There is also a language barrier for most of the graders so you get no useful feedback. My first submission missed out on passing by 1 point and there was no intelligent reason why. The reason i got back was actually incorrect so I resubmitted the exact same project and passed easily.Hoping this gets better with more difficult courses.
By Marshall H
•Oct 14, 2024
Overall these courses were interesting. I do feel like I learned a bit and am more comfortable using ArcGIS. I will say though that I was not super impressed with the structure of this specialization. I felt that many times the instructor would skim over topics and not really clarify or provide context. I would then have to answer quiz questions related to those. I also was not impressed with structure of the assignments and all the grammatical errors. Finally, I had a hard time following one of the instructors. They seemed uncomfortable and didn't really explain things well.
By Moriah B
•Aug 25, 2023
I feel like this course was more difficult than it should have been. Certain topics went really in depth and the instructor would say things like , "I don't expect you to know this yet, but this is the tool to use for this situation," as an example. Many basic things were glanced over, while doing too deep into topics that interested the instructor like spatial analysis tool. Overall, I still learned a lot and it was fun to work on my own project.
By Seaver M
•Jan 28, 2024
The course materials are truly stellar. However, it isn't (currently) a five star course because it isn't maintained well. You don't get stuck because it's online and you can't talk to a teaching assistant. You get stuck because there are gaps where the materials were only partially updated. It is challenging enough to learn GIS skills for real, so I'm enjoying the specialization.
By Amelia S
•Apr 24, 2024
The course was decent however, there were some issues with the final peer reviewed assignment. The instructions were not detailed enough and involved using a geoprocessing tool that hadn't been demonstrated in previous modules. I also disagreed with my peer review after my first attempt and there were no comments provided which made it difficult to make improvements.
By Laura
•Feb 6, 2025
Had to go to Univ. of Toronto. Sorry UCD- your instructors were very nice, but you need a more clear and cohesive script. Hard to follow the "kinda", "like", and "um". Content organization could be more clear. And having trouble getting graded appropriately to finish, even though I followed the parameters
By Meagan H
•Sep 1, 2024
It's a dense subject, but I think there could have been more written summaries after the videos and specific troubleshooting walkthroughs. The wording in the quizzes and assignments sometimes felt disjointed from the lessons. I appreciate I had the chance to practice GIS though.
By Pierre V
•Apr 3, 2017
Quiet good introduction with clear objectives.
Some step by step explanations could be shortened because they seem too detailed.
A brief introduction to creating your own data could be great and will cover more steps
By hte way, thanks for this good introduction
By Mohammad H A
•Oct 15, 2022
The course is very intresting. I really appreciate the opportunuty given to me through finantial aid
By Akshat J
•Sep 15, 2019
Focuses mainly on ArcGIS tool whereas the objective of this course should be to explain GIS concepts.
By Sean C
•Feb 18, 2019
Good information. A little simple at times
By Darcy J G
•Sep 30, 2021
Very difficult to learn online.
By soundhar r
•Jul 11, 2021
i cant access all materials.
By Avishek H
•May 30, 2020
Helpful for beginners.
By Dia P
•Mar 4, 2023
very nice
By NAGIM E M I
•Oct 29, 2019
perfect