Course feedback 2 Semester 20162017 |
Course : COL331 Slot : E | Total students in course : 131 | Feedback received from : 112 |
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Lecture Component |
Course Organization & Delivery | Learning | |||||||||
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Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | Q6 | Q7 | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | |
Poor (1) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Average (2) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 5 |
Good (3) | 18 | 17 | 15 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 21 |
Very Good (4) | 23 | 25 | 22 | 20 | 28 | 27 | 25 | 26 | 30 | 28 |
Excellent (5) | 65 | 63 | 68 | 67 | 61 | 62 | 64 | 61 | 56 | 52 |
No Opinion (0) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Rating | 4.37 | 4.34 | 4.4 | 4.37 | 4.35 | 4.34 | 4.36 | 4.28 | 4.22 | 4.11 |
Overall Rating : 4.31 |
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QUESTIONS:- Course Organization & Delivery Q1. How clearly was the course plan presented? Q2. Did the course content met course objectives adequately? Q3. How were the lectures organized in terms of clarity and presentation of concepts? Q4. How effectively could the teacher communicate? Q5. How receptive was the teacher to questions inside and outside the classroom? Q6. How much did the teacher encourage independent thinking? Q7. How much did the teacher encourage logical thinking? Learning Q1. How much did the course help you learn the subject? Q2. How effective was the teacher(s) in keeping your interest alive in the course? Q3. To what extent did the teacher(s) inspire you to pursue the subject area further? |
Exams & Evaluation | General Questions | |||||||||||||
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Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | Q6 | Q7 | Q1 | ||
Yes | 101 | 95 | 97 | 102 | 92 | 101 | 102 | 101 | 98 | 75 | 74 | 79 | Just Right | 71 |
No | 2 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 21 | 21 | Too Light | 7 |
No Opinion | 9 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 31 | 17 | 12 | Too Heavy | 29 |
No Opinion | 5 |
QUESTIONS:- Exams & Evaluation Q1. Did the examinations test understanding of the course? Q2. Were the question papers of an appropriate length? Q3. Was the evaluation prompt? Q4. Were the evaluated answer scripts shown to you? Q5. Did the evaluation help you to understand your mistakes? General Questions Q1. Were the lectures held regularly? Q2. Were the lectures held on time? Q3. Was the course evaluation policy announced at the beginning of the semester? Q4. Was the attendance policy announced at the beginning of the semester? Q5. Did the teacher take note of the mid-semester feedback? Q6. Was there a significant variation among the different lecture sections? Q7. Would you consider this course as one of the five best-taught courses you have done so far? Q1. How would you rate the work-load of this course? |
Q. No. 1 : What did you like the most about this course? (Responses: 50) 1. Content structured teaching assignments homeworks 2. Very interested about the subject 3. The teaching was very organised as it is a huge and a vast topic 4. I liked the fact that everything was so organised and that the Video lectures and all the material was so readily available All we need to do is just go and study that I wish every professor in IIT was as good as Bansal Sir 5. Well planned course instructor had deep knowledge 6. Very well structured and mot rushed 7. The availabilty of video lectures 8. Everything was explained beautifully 9. na 10. Already planned everything and video lectures 11. We learnt a lot about what goes into making an OS it was fun 12. good 13. every think was organized 14. The teaching the very good The course pattern was good 15. taught very well 16. Though being a hardware course the instructor taught it so well and logically that it became one of my favorite course 17. I am in awe of the instructor Very clear and crisp structure Lecture Videos are a blissful respite Also lots of scope for creative thought 18. Subject 19. Lectures 20. There were full video lectures of the course available 21. Really systematic course with stress on understanding of concepts 22. Video Lectures Nice teacher 23. The way it was taken Very well organized and content was great 24. The lectures were delivered in a quite nice way 25. Labs Concurrency 26. No opinion 27. Everything 28. Video lectures 29. way of teaching 30. Very systematic Good resourses Effective lecture delivery 31. The best thing I liked was that there were video lectures and the instructor was following them exacty in class So if I had any doubt I could watch the video lectures This also helped me understand some concepts which I couldn t learn in one go 32. everything 33. the delivery of lectures 34. Nice professor 35. I am highly inspired by the way of teaching in this course Lecturer is so clear in his explanations that he doesn t need to rephrase his words again unlike other teachers Assignments were in great synchrony with the course contents 36. By far the most interesting and the best taught course in my IIT course work The instructor does an excellent job at explaining things but I think he already knows that Truly glad to have had the opportunity to study under him 37. The Professor s way of teaching He explained difficult concepts in a way that made them look effortless and intuitive The course was well structured and planned out 38. n 39. Best Instructor ever Creating first process was really cool Labs were good too 40. Concepts were taught well and the prof worked hard for us to learn 41. Good course 42. The teaching was simply amazing 43. teaching 44. Effective course materials 45. Too light work load of the course 46. This is the best course in IIT Havn t seen such organised and exhaustive course 47. NA 48. The content was amazing Very logical and interesting It was a great help to have lecture videos 49. No Attendence Policy 50. Professor Q. No. 2 : What did you dislike the most about this course? (Responses: 45) 1. it was boring post locking lectures 2. Labs could have been better I found them boring Really boring 3. None 4. The response to questions on discussion form was not prompt or not given at all It was disappointing as a student who requires help 5. Nothing Every aspect was totally awesome 6. Marking scheme of exams was very random weightage to questions was not uniform and grading scheme was at times ad hoc Also better notes should be developed 7. Lots and lots and lots of theory 8. The pace with which lectures are taught Too much arbitrary content 9. Assignments should have made compulsory 10. na 11. Some bulky assignment didn t have weightage relative to its time demand 12. Marking scheme was very bad 13. non 14. nothing 15. Nothing 16. NA 17. Exams 18. Nothing 19. This should float with same instructor every time so that one is not stuck in the last semester to complete a core course like this which is the heart of CS 20. None 21. No Labs 22. Labs 23. The Labs and the course contents were highly independent and different 24. x86 Hardware 25. No opinion 26. NA 27. Too much weightage for major 28. nothing 29. Major weightage should be less 30. no help from TA s 31. Many students cheated using mobile phones and notes sharing during examinations which disheartened me 32. Nothing at all 33. n 34. There could have been a little of a quick go through through the code that already existed in the assignment files during the Lab help session rather than telling us what to do for completing the assignment 35. The subject itself is boring 36. Too heavy course 37. The correction done by the TAs was horrible and extremely to the point As discussed in the class committee meeting The evaluation policy of best 2 of 3 was also not good 38. labs 39. None 40. Mundane teaching of Sorav Bansal No variation whatsoever in the lectures 41. Nothing 42. NA 43. there was too much syllabus for majors and the exams were always very lengthy 44. Nothing 45. Nothing Q. No. 3 : Any Suggestions or comments about the course. (Responses: 37) 1. please keep the code listing in loop during the very theoretical classes as it keeps things interesting 2. None 3. A little bit of concern towards requirements of students taking up the course an better response rate from the TA s 4. Yes I would please request Bansal sir to show other professors at IIT as to how to teach courses and make material available to the students I have never seen a prof as nice as Sir Its like Bansal sir is the only one who focuses on efficient teaching 5. Improve exam grading 6. Nothing really 7. Very nice course structure and taught beautifully 8. na 9. Please improve the marking scheme lots of marks are usually cut for small mistakes and many a times questions arent very clear about what is being expected 10. no 11. coulg give more practice question 12. No 13. NA 14. None 15. No 16. Regular can be helpful to students 17. No 18. No opinion 19. Keep it as it is 20. Make all labs compulsory 21. Best way to take such tough course like OS 22. Continue this prof for this course forever 23. Video Lectures availability also helped during the phase of the course 24. The lab component could be made a compulsory part of the evaluation while relieving weightage from the majors 25. I don t think this course could have been taught in a better way Professor Sorav was excellent 26. n 27. You can go a little faster locks are taught in the parallel computing class before OS course gets there so we could speed up that too and go to more advanced concepts 28. No 29. No 30. TAs should be more lenient on correction Also the question in the paper need to be a bit more clear Evaluation policy should include both minor 1 and minor 2 marks along with assignments 31. None 32. Lectures could be more involving 33. This course is just too perfect But the assignments should be compulsory 34. NA 35. no 36. No 37. NA |
Practical Component |
Design of experiments | Organization of lab and conduct of experiments | Evaluation | ||||||
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Q1 | Q2 | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q1 | Q2 | ||
Poor (1) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | Yes | 77 | 77 |
Average (2) | 11 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 13 | No | 13 | 10 |
Good (3) | 30 | 28 | 29 | 28 | 31 | No Opinion | 22 | 25 |
Very Good (4) | 19 | 22 | 15 | 20 | 18 | |||
Excellent (5) | 42 | 40 | 46 | 41 | 36 | |||
No Opinion (0) | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | |||
Question-wise rating | 3.85 | 3.82 | 3.88 | 3.83 | 3.65 |
Overall Rating : 3.81 |
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QUESTIONS:- Design of experiments Q1. To what extent did the experiments provide new insights and /or encourage you to think creatively? Q2. Were adequate background material / instructions provided for carrying out the experiments? Organization of lab and conduct of experiments Q1. To what extent was systematic execution of lab work emphasized? Q2. To what extent was analysis of observations/ results encouraged? Q3. To what extent was the teacher involved in the practical work? Evaluation Q1. Was the feedback on your lab performance prompt? Q2. Was the feedback on your laboratory work useful? |
Q. No. 1 : What did you like most about this course? (Responses: 32) 1. Everything 2. The organisation of the lectures and effective teaching by Professor in the class 3. Good assignments 4. Organised labs which helped us implement things ine by one and properly understand hiw they work 5. Everything was explained beautifully 6. na 7. Good assignments 8. The teaching style 9. Though being a hardware course the instructor taught it so well and logically that it became one of my favorite course 10. Proper systematic design of the HoH tasks Also very pleasant working on the kernel side 11. Interesting to do 12. Concurrency lectures and traps lectures were presented very clearly 13. It was optional 14. Labs were fun 15. I loved the course Most chill prof ever 16. No opinion 17. NA 18. Super well structured 19. way of teaching 20. delivery 21. The labs were more or less a practical implementation of the concepts learned in class and greatly increased the understanding of the course 22. n 23. Teaching style really looking into code of a OS xv6 24. The assignments were fun 25. Good 26. The lab assignments were fun and interesting 27. effective labs 28. Well strcutured 29. NA 30. already mentioned 31. Nothing 32. Good Assignments Q. No. 2 : What did you dislike the most about this course? (Responses: 33) 1. Nothing 2. Response towards students problems was non existing 3. Lab 3 was too short 4. The pace with which lectures are taught Too much arbitrary content 5. Assignments should have made compulsory 6. na 7. Very late grading of assignments 8. non 9. None 10. The last assignment for UG Assignment 3 was fairly simple and had unjustified weightage compared to the first or second one 11. No proper guidance 12. Nothing 13. It was quite bulky 14. Labs provided more of C programming experience than insights to the working of an OS 15. Nothing 16. Some assignments were slightly unrelated to the course material 17. No opinion 18. NA 19. Mysterious grading of homeworks 20. nothing 21. No help for labs 22. Again nothing 23. n 24. Insufficient explanation of the code base thats given in the labs assignment files A rough explanation of what stands for what would have been very nice 25. They didn t really test the understanding of the concepts 26. Lab evaluation 27. none 28. Assignments were too simple 29. nothing 30. NA 31. already mentioned 32. Nothing 33. Nothing Q. No. 3 : How effective was the help provided by the teaching assistants? (Responses: 35) 1. No help 2. No help at all 3. Okayish 4. Sometimes helped 5. Very effective 6. na 7. Good 8. very helpful 9. Not much 10. Any problem with the lab was immediately addressed and whenever required helping sessions were held 11. Splendid One of the best set of TAs I ve seen in my entire stay 12. Help 13. Very effective 14. NA 15. Somewhat helpful 16. They were good help 17. No opinion 18. NA 19. So so 20. very effective 21. no help 22. Satisfactory to good at most occasions 23. The TA s did their jobs well They held lab help sessions to help the students facing difficulties 24. n 25. Very effective and they were very co operative 26. Moderate 27. Very bad TA s don t help except on piazza 28. Good 29. not much required 30. Dunno 31. Yes 32. NA 33. excellent 34. No 35. Fairly well Q. No. 4 : Were the facilities/equipments adequate for the experiments? (Responses: 34) 1. No equipment required 2. Yes 3. Yes 4. Yes 5. yes 6. na 7. Yes 8. yes 9. yes 10. Yes 11. Yes 12. yo 13. Yes 14. NA 15. N A 16. Yes What is required for an experiment for CS student a computer You should provide some fancy equipment to do the lab 17. No opinion 18. NA 19. Yes 20. no experimental course 21. no 22. Yes 23. Yes 24. n 25. NA 26. Ok 27. Yes 28. yes 29. Yup 30. NA 31. NA 32. i didn t have an ubuntu laptop 33. Yes 34. Yes Q. No. 5 : Any Suggestions or comments about the course (Responses: 31) 1. None 2. None 3. Feedback questions are such that I cannot ask to make the course less heavy through them eg How much did the teacher encourage logical thinking If I say bad means professors will increase logical thinking If I say excellent means nothing to change 4. None 5. Just fine 6. na 7. no 8. One of the best courses so far in IIT Delhi 9. NA 10. None 11. No 12. Just reduce the workload 13. Suggest students subparts of the code which can give them insights of OS working 14. No 15. No opinion 16. NA 17. Less weightage for homeworks 18. no 19. more help for LAB 20. The lab component could be made a compulsory part of the evaluation while relieving weightage from the majors 21. Best course I hope that Sorav sir takes this course every year as I don t think anyone can teach this course as well as him 22. n 23. No 24. None 25. none 26. Assignments could be more challenging 27. Assignments should be made compulsory 28. NA 29. no 30. No 31. NA |