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.

Some of the assignments are really confusing, with non to little actionable steps to take. This course can be way more streamlined. Enjoyed it nonetheless

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.

The course was great but the quality of the student/peer review was abysmal.

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)

Instructor is not very good

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. =(

I am honestly not a fan of Amy's teaching style. She seems to have a discussion with herself about character building techniques but not really explain the technique nor structure it for the student.

There are too many shop talks.

I would rather have a structure explained to me and then hear a discussion... the way Brando Skyhorse does in the Plot course... really a let down. I will have to buy the book she keeps averting I guess... after spending quite good money on the course already. Pity