Course feedback 2 Semester 20162017

Course : COL331   Slot : E Total students in course : 131 Feedback received from : 112

Lecture Component

  Course Organization & Delivery Learning
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
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
  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
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
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