While the contents of this course clearly introduce the idea of Social Media Marketing, I was a little upset that Klout which is used for determining the social media presence score which would be also used in the follow up courses for tracking the progress throughout the courses, is not available as of 25 of May, 2018.

I did this course for my own personal development and was slightly let down by the emphasis on being part of a firm. The final week in particular was about your 'companies' social media. Perhaps I missed this in the information about the course, if not I wish this had been made clear to me. Thank you

I thought the course was well organized but found it difficult to apply to my actual job.

Rather than encouraging use of freeware tools, it would be good for NU to arrange for discounts or access to student editions of tools actually used in the business world (e.g. Sprout Social)

Lectures were not necessarily in a logical order. Google Plus no longer exists and is still listed in content in many places, except for one mention in one lecture.

Into to concepts is fine/good, i would have loved to hear more about real world examples.

Content is really insightful, however, the instructor does not really dive into the details of most things. If you are paid learner, its better to get the whole specialization if you really want to get the gist of social media marketing.

The material is old, the content is decent. However, my biggest issue is I had to "Reset My Deadline" 2 additional times waiting on assignments to get graded (as in, there was no more work for me to do). That was annoying.

Unable to complete week 4 as no replacement tool was provided for Klout. As the material of that week is built on Klout, it makes it difficult to follow. This needs to be rebuilt using a tool that is currently available.

I've learned so much about the fundamentals of social media in this course despite that, I think it needs to be updated to keep up with the current social media trend/channels.

I would like more content from this module. It was very slow to take off, especially week one. It was easy and enjoyable though. I would have liked it to be more challenging.

This is a nice introduction to social media marketing with professional insight from Randy Hlavac. I felt the content was a little too basic though.

The beginning this course starts off way too slow. In addition, there are too many products being sold. It made me doubt the quality of the course.

Love the broader insight into social media and new tools. Would really like to hear some mention of Instagram trickled through these discussions.

I did't like the peer grade assignment, I lost 2 weeks for not summiting on time and it was a bit costly, but i hope the course will get better.

Lots of content repetition and many referals to other Moocs. It's obvious an introduction course. Expectations of other moocs are high now ;-)

Good instructor, but the material is a bit outdated - despite some updates from 2018. Very basic information overall.

This course wasn't really helpful. It didn't need to be a full course as most people understand what social is.

An okay introduction to the specialization; hopefully, the future courses will get into more detail.

Useful information if a tad outdated. I already had learned much of this from YouTube videos.

the professor was a little bit dry and repetitive but otherwise the content was interesting!

Very basic intro. Could have more content and not just broad overview of upcoming courses.

Very basic dive into social, feels like it was structured for an older audience.

The weekly classes were very short. But the teachers are very knowledgeable.

Iteresting and usrful experience, ganed valuable information and knowledge.

Great content. Instructor reads lecture a bit too rapidly to digest.

This course in informative, but not very, and it is rather boring.