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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT by Vanderbilt University

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About the Course

ChatGPT and other large language models are going to be more important in your life and business than your smartphone, if you use them
right. ChatGPT can tutor your child in math, generate a meal plan and recipes, write software applications for your business, help you improve
your personal cybersecurity, and that is just in the first hour that you use it. This course will teach you how to be an expert user of these
generative AI tools. The course will show amazing examples of how you can tap into these generative AI tools' emergent intelligence and
reasoning, how you can use them to be more productive day to day, and give you insight into how they work. Large languag...
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Top reviews

RH

Jul 8, 2025

This class is very informative and easy to understand for a beginner like myself. I would recommend it to everyone who is interested to learn how to write better prompt but don't know how to start.

WA

Apr 18, 2024

I really loved it, I used chatgpt to understand the videos and I'm glad coursera offers context under the videos, this helped me finish the certificate in not a long time, all it takes is dedication.

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By Ronna B

Feb 4, 2025

Actually I give it 4.75 stars, but that wasn't an option. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars, some of the tech language could be confusing to if someone hadn't be exposed to it. This class is specifically for non tech people. I have a marketing background, and some training in coding for previous jobs. I recognized the programming terms referenced, but I don't know if that would apply to another non tech person. At the beginning of the class there should be a one page document with common Markdown language. I could see a non tech student having a hard time following Jules' examples if they were not familiar with Markdown.

By Lawrence L

Jul 8, 2023

This is an excellent ChatGPT course for beginner or intermediate ChatGPT users. The course gives you concepts and techniques on how to program or prompt ChatGPT or other large language models to reach your desired goal or result in any fields. It helps you unlock the power of AI. By all means, this is not the end all learning of AI. Continue to practice and learn as much as you can as AI technology continues to evolve daily like a river flowing.

By SJ G

Mar 2, 2024

I love the instructor. Easy to understand and follow along as well he has a bit of a sense of humor. He made learning fun and interesting. I withheld 1 star because it didn't seem like my homework was actually being reviewed by anyone and therefore I am not sure I did it correctly nor was there any instructor feedback. As soon as the homework is submitted it is graded immediately. Otherwise, I enjoyed the course!

By Emidio A

Nov 6, 2024

I would have liked more guided exercises to really hammer home the prompt patterns this course teaches. That being said, the course was presented well and I ultimately learned a lot. At the end of this I was able to create a prompt-based application that had ChatGPT review, critique, and rewrite any prompt I initially give it and even ask follow-up questions to me to further refine the quality of my prompts.

By Ellen H

Oct 16, 2024

Great introduction to the overall concept of AI prompt writing. There were several unique patterns which I had not had experience with before, however there were some modules that lacked clarity on real world situations where they might be useful. These felt more interesting, but less useful overall. Overall I'd recommend it, for a novice who's looking to an introduction.

By Peter S

Feb 4, 2025

Recommended by an industry professional. Dr. White does a great job of capturing and painting the potential of LLMs and harnessing your creativity as an LLM operator. If you want to learn patterns, why specific approaches are efficient, or warp your head around how LLMs process our input at a basic level, this course is for you.

By Daniel Q

Jul 2, 2025

Very helpful description of how LLMs work and why the patterns/techniques it teaches might be effective. But when the LLM on the screen doesn't behave the way the professor said it would, those moments are glossed over and pushed aside with minimal explanation. Makes it a bit hard to trust that these patterns are reliable

By D B

Nov 25, 2023

Really good instruction. However, not being able to receive actual feedback on one's assignments is really limiting. You have no idea if your work is just OK or if you are really excelling. This would be really valuable in deciding if you are well suited to continuing further into your chosen academic field.

By Theophilus W I

Nov 19, 2023

Even if you are familiar with ChatGPT this course opens up a new scale of possibilities with the AI. The courses and explanations were mostly straight forward. The last course is challenging so be prepared. Overall the course is valuable & worth repeating/keeping nearby for reference.

By Beth P

Mar 19, 2025

I loved the content. It is a lot! I wish they had a more microlesson format with pauses between the sections. I stopped the video from time to time to work, but often, it became a bit overwhelming, and I knew how to do all this going in! I did enjoy the insights and ideas! Thanks!

By David L

Jan 30, 2024

It´s a super interesting introducation into a structured way of using ChatGPT. Before I had a very straight forward approach to use the LLM, now I understand better how to increase the quality of the output. I´m really looking forward to continue with the 2nd part on data analysis

By Raj A

Jul 15, 2023

As a free open course, a brilliant introduction to Chatgpt. Learned many new types of prompts and methods to get more out of chatgpt. Dr. Jules's style is easygoing and interesting at the same time. Need to do more structured and advanced courses now. Thank You, Dr. White and VU.

By Michelle G

Jan 31, 2025

I found the course incredibly helpful in understanding how to best create prompts. The only thing that I would appreciate is a 1-2 page document with a table outlining the prompting strategies and quick examples of each. Watching the videos at 1.5X speed was perfect for me.

By Holger L

Apr 10, 2025

While content wise this is a great course the way it is presented feel like a lecture which comes across less attractive. I could easily envision a couple of way to improve this "lecture" to make it an even more exciting learning experience. Greetings from Berlin, Germany!

By Jordan R

Mar 8, 2024

Great content, but a little bit repetitive, could probably condense the information a bit and make it more streamlined. Also, the assignments are too open-ended. There should be more smaller assignments with prompts and hints to get more into the habit of using ChatGPT.

By Matthew K

Jul 3, 2025

Interesting course with some great concepts. If you have already messed around with LLMs a lot, you'll learn to put structure and names against some of the things you've already taught yourself. Valuable to build a foundation of understanding, beyond just doing.

By Julianne N

May 6, 2025

the overall course was very informative and described the information very well. However, i wish that the assignments had the user use the content from the videos to figure out how to use chat gpt to give a specific output instead of having it be open ended.

By B. L C

Apr 18, 2025

It was great to hear the break down regarding how the type of language is categorized in prompts but honestly it didn’t like anything groundbreaking was learned. It all seemed like common sense application to me perhaps update the course for 2025 and beyond.

By Yesh s

Oct 24, 2023

A list of checklist of skills to build upon including introducing the first pdf early (catalog) would be very handy as it was hard to keep tab of the various lessons learned. A quick at the end of each section to summarize the key learnings would also helped

By Shaikh M

Jun 25, 2023

THIS COURSE WAS VERY HELPED ME , I GOT LOT OF EXPERIENCE AFTER DOING THIS CORSE THIS, THE MENTOR WAS VERY GOOD OF THIS COURSE HE TEACHED TO ME VERY WELL I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU THAKS TO CORSERA FOR PROVIDING SUCH KIND OF OPPORTUNITY TO ME . THANKS AGAIN

By Erwin N

Jul 4, 2023

The course becomes quite challenging from week 4 onwards, but I still enjoyed it a lot. It is one of the best courses I have taken so far. I would recommend it to users who have some prior experience and knowledge. It is not very suitable for beginners.

By Dana M

Jul 8, 2024

I thought this was a great course with a lot of great methods to get the best out of GPT. I do think the videos could be improved if the professor didn't spend so much time reading the content on his screen to the audience, we can see it ourselves.

By Sascha R

Feb 19, 2024

The course provides a good introduction to the topic and then increases the level of detail as the course progresses. Also very easy to follow for non-native speakers. In my opinion, the examples given could sometimes be dealt with in more detail.

By Marc S

Dec 8, 2024

Great entry to learning about prompt engineering! The exercises are useful, but I think the course could benefit from more applied or case study style assignments to really help us understand ways we can apply the prompts in real life situations.

By Rakesh S S

Nov 6, 2024

I liked the flow and the content of the course. The lecture was very clear and simple for my understanding. However, more examples on how and where these applications can be used would be more helpful for the learners to use it more effectively.