Learner Reviews & Feedback for Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT by Vanderbilt University
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MS
Feb 21, 2024
Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT has been a great introduction course. I look forward to diving into additional AI courses. I've even joined a Meetup group to continue learning outside of the classroom!
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.
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By Emidio A
鈥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
鈥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
鈥Feb 5, 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
鈥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
鈥Nov 26, 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 Jeffrey W
鈥Aug 28, 2025
This course enables workflow possibilities and process refinements that can potentially enable unrealized efficiencies within the operational environment. Recommend this course to enable the workforce to start thinking about the best method to securely integrate LLMs within their working environments.
By Jennifer E
鈥Sep 1, 2025
Jules does a great job explaining concepts. I would have liked to have more graded sessions scattered between all the videos, not just at the end of the modules. It would also be great if the homework would give feedback or provide a simple rating (1-5 perhaps) on my own prompt attempt.
By Theophilus W I
鈥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
鈥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
鈥Jan 30, 2024
It麓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麓m really looking forward to continue with the 2nd part on data analysis
By Raj A
鈥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
鈥Feb 1, 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
鈥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
鈥Mar 9, 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
鈥Jul 4, 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
鈥May 7, 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
鈥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鈥檛 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
鈥Oct 25, 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
鈥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
鈥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
鈥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
鈥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
鈥Dec 9, 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
鈥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.
By Christian W
鈥Oct 20, 2024
I found it very useful and well-structured particularly in the beginning. It seems odd to me that as the course went on, examples became less detailed, numerous, and useful, but overall a very good introduction that I would recommend to others.