I felt like the teaching was fairly abstract, and I had a difficult time figuring out how I was supposed to apply certain lessons. Overall, I did pick up several helpful hints, so the course was worth it.

I found most of the assignments very confusing and difficult to complete. It is a real challenge and forces you to really think, think hard and hope for the best. If you take the course, good luck.

The course was very interesting and shed light on the specifics on character development. However, the questions in most peer-graded assignments were some times not suitable for the assignment.

I found the lectures were not providing enough details and practical informations on how to build a credible character. There should be more references to famous novels.

The information provided is great, but there's so many "shop talks" aka interviews with other Coursera instructors that it misses out on so many possible true lessons.

The assignments are hard to understand and not well explained. They are also completely irrelevant to the lessons of the week.

Has been a great course but I would have loved more readings and a little bit more formal rules to sketch our own characters.

Good information in the videos. The assignments were difficult and didn't seem related to the material from the lectures.

I liked a lot of what was said. I wish I had some more concrete advice for building character - if such a thing exists.

Great material but students grading other student's work becomes a problem if they can prohibit another from passing.

Good course, but assignment instructions were difficult to understand at times and no examples were given.

This course is beneficial to all those who struggle with character plot. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

In the second course, the talks were not as useful for the assignments, particularly in week 2.

It is good but I think the lectures are a little disjointed from each other and the exercises.

Adequate intro course. Could gather roughly the same info with a bit of browsing the internet.

This course could use some work, but nevertheless I learned a bit more than I already knew.

the assignments were poorly worded which is the opposite of the purpose of assignment

The excercises on the course are great, but the videos can be a little vague.

I liked the content, but found the exercises were too complex for a learner.

Excellent lectures. Assignments were a little too "exercisey" for me.

Content is great, but the app is very buggy and difficult to use.

There parts that were rather confusing in Week 2 (assignment)

Helpful, but not very much.

I am taking the specialization course and compared to the other courses, which are detailed and layed out topic by topic with clear examples and assigments referring back to previous lessons, this course seemed very scattered and abstract. The subject topics were often diverted to something else mid-way through the explanation. It made it very difficult to know if I understood the topics. It almost seemed as if the instructor rushed her videos because sge had something better to do and relies on "shop talk" so much to explain creating a character rather than explaning it concisely herself. Since the assigments are peer reviewed, no one can really tell you if you're wrong because we are all learning for the same videos with the same scattered information. I found some of the assigments frustrating because of the lack of explanation throughout the course.

I didn't find this course particularly helpful or useful. I'm not sure why, there was a disconnect somewhere, I think maybe that I didn't receive the help that I feel I still need on the subject of how to create a great, memorable, believable character. Also, some of the assignments were confusing. Nothing really stands out about this course, and it was actually a bit boring and I don't feel I learned anything related to the subject. Everything about this class needs some work: the videos, the instruction/syllabus/content, and the assignments. Sorry, I didn't like it. =(