PS
The course was very informative. ConTESSA is a useful app that would make contact tracing effective. I am looking forward to using it in the future, if given the chance,
This course aims to provide managers and developers of contact tracing programs guidance on the most important indicators of performance of a contact tracing program, and a tool that can be used to project the likely impact of improvements in specific indicators. Students who complete the course will be proficient in using the Contact Tracing Evaluation and Strategic Support Application (ConTESSA) to estimate the impact of their contact tracing program on transmission and strategizing about how to increase their program’s impact. A secondary audience for the course will be decision makers interested in knowing more about the characteristics of effective contact tracing programs, and strategies to improve.
The course is designed for individuals who are already leading contact tracing programs who have significant experience with epidemiology and public health. We strongly recommend completing this course on a laptop or a desktop rather than a phone as you’ll need to complete worksheets and open the course and the application simultaneously.
PS
The course was very informative. ConTESSA is a useful app that would make contact tracing effective. I am looking forward to using it in the future, if given the chance,
MS
Excellent course. Makes student aware of Measuring and Maximizing Impact of COVID-19 Contact Tracing, concluding initial knowledge of 1st contact tracing course.
LN
Course was kind of hard I had to put my thinking cap on when it came to the math part. You’ll definitely need pen and paper to answer some of the quiz question. The course was great
BO
Great course! The teaching was great and I learned a lot about contact tracing for public health. It would be awesome if the instructors held office hours for more in depth questions.
CC
I found the information to be challenging but the instructors were great. It did take a few review times to master the material but I think it made for a stronger working knowledge in the end.
AT
Very good course, with an advanced level of difficulty as said. Very interesting application for program performance. Need more practices to get its full potential.
PW
Really solid course and gets right to the point of teaching you how to use the tool. Hopefully this will help COVID19 reporting improve. Thank you for offering this!
RB
Thank you very much for the wonderful ideas on how to stop or solve the spread of COVID 19 to the community and from infecting people around. Thanks a lot, ma'am and sir
OW
The course was informative but difficult. I could not save the .yaml files directly and had to find a way to get to them when I needed to reload them. It was not easy.
DJ
The way they explain each module was really clear. Keep it up! And just a little more further explanation for the module about assumptions and advanced options. That's all ^_^ Thank you very much.
CM
Well laid out, clear, but a lot harder than then first course. I struggled with the ConTESSA assessments. Maybe if an additional section with simpler walk through guidance should be considered.
C
The audio recording by Kyra have issues and some words are "inaudible" in the transcript. This means those video by Kyra are more difficult to understand what she is saying in addition to her accent.
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the quiz in module 3 needed more training videos as the current videos did not cover this as it should. it was difficult to figure out what to put in first, since all the videos had all information needed. I truly did not think I would pass this last quiz. It was hours and hours writing things down, inputting on spreadsheet. I think the last videos need to be adjusted to show how to put very little information in, as we knew we were missing information at first. Thank you
Overall an excellent course, hence the 5 stars, but the following issue belies it's profitability.
I sent this request 7 days ago and has received no response. Hello Help Center Team, I am sending you this email as I don't have a 😕 on my Coursera course page and I am thereby unable to flag this issue to the instructors. COURSE NAME: Measuring and Maximizing Impact of COVID-19 Contact Tracing by John Hopkins University. ISSUE: I am unable to successfully complete the following: Quiz: ConTESSA: Interactive Tool to Estimate Impact of Contact Tracing. REASON/S: Learners are required to use the Contessa application worksheet to acquire the correct answers for Questions 1, 2, 3 of the five questions in this quiz. But, the Coursera QUIZ required answers do not correspond to the answers derived from the Contessa application worksheet. TEST: I inputted data presented in the instructor's Interactive Tool to Estimate Contact Tracing Video via Coursera into the Contessa application worksheet and received different outcomes. It seem there are bugs or update issues preventing Coursera learning environment outcomes from duplicating in the provided Contessa application workseet. Resultantly, my answers derived in the Contessa application workseet will never match those expected in this Coursera QUIZ.
GOAL: This issue needs to be corrected for future learners. I successfully completed the Quiz today after finding a work around in the Discussion section. Why do we need to change the death total (S2.1) from the 200 in the Quiz scenario given to 100? Incidentally 100 is the death total given in the YAML worksheet to be used to answer question 5. belies it's profitability. I sent this request 7 days ago and had received no response. Hello Help Center Team, I am sending you this email as I don't have a 😕 on my Coursera course page and I am thereby unable to flag this issue to the instructors. COURSE NAME: Measuring and Maximizing Impact of COVID-19 Contact Tracing by John Hopkins University. ISSUE: I am unable to successfully complete the following: Quiz: ConTESSA: Interactive Tool to Estimate Impact of Contact Tracing. REASON/S: Learners are required to use the Contessa application worksheet to acquire the correct answers for Questions 1, 2, 3 of the five questions in this quiz. But, the Coursera QUIZ required answers do not correspond to the answers derived from the Contessa application worksheet. TEST: I inputted data presented in the instructor's Interactive Tool to Estimate Contact Tracing Video via Coursera into the Contessa application worksheet and received different outcomes. It seem there are bugs or update issues preventing Coursera learning environment outcomes from duplicating in the provided Contessa application workseet. Resultantly, my answers derived in the Contessa application workseet will never match those expected in this Coursera QUIZ. GOAL: This issue needs to be corrected for future learners. I successfully completed the Quiz today after finding a work around in the Discussion section. Why do we need to change the death total (S2.1) from the 200 in the Quiz scenario given to 100? Incidentally 100 is the death total given in the YAML worksheet to be used to answer question 5.
THIS COURSE SUCKED and just go through the message board I'M not the only one! The questions are constructed poorly. Community can mean EVERYBODY or just "community contacts" not household contacts! QUIZ 3 was MONKEY DIRT. EACH QUESTION SHOULD BE A STEP BY STEP after the person inputs the numbers into Contessa!
Too Many issues with end use of the APP ConTESSA. and if you look at Posts in forum many students expressed similar issues. A revised approach to this course should be considered. I feel students would benefit from videos that review and include practice exercises, which allow student to input data with a checklist to insure correct data is input. Way too much time to complete Quizzes, particularly noting issues with use of APP. Not sure I would take a course like this ever again.
It's hard because it requires some calculations to pass. I did not want to down load the App, ConTessa, Nothing personal, I just don't download anyone's Apps on my coputer, even Johns Hopkins, I did the calculations with my own calculator, by hand, on a spreadsheet. You have to stay with it ~ but you can get the correct answers working it out without the App. It's not a 3 hour course as advertised. Closer to 7 or 8 doing it the long way. The very first module is an excellent recap of the presentation and epidemiology of COVID-19. Thank you
very tough to take quizzes with out being able to use the conTESSA metrics along side the quiz. maybe in future classes have the app up on the quiz to plug i the information. over all the instructors were great!
FIND ANSWER IS TOO DIFFICULT .KINDLY HELP TO FIND THE ANSWER
Great course but the way you set up the quizzes had much to be desired. The feedback screens after them should have presented a list with the correct inputs so people could check them against what was entered into Contessa.
This was a challenging, but interesting, course about how COVID-19 is charted and measured. It gave me an insight into the statistics that we hear and how they are determined.
Excellent course put together by the John Hopkins team. Thank you for all the great information needed to learn about subject.
Started out well but the instructions accompanying Parts 2 and 3 involving inputs and interpretation of the Decision Support Tool were inadequate and confusing - I mostly got there by trial and error rather than understanding
Horrible and impossible to pass.
Tough but thorough!
Course was great! Test was difficult in Module 2.
This one is buggy. I cant open both the question info from test and Contessa Tool at same time without them morphing into each other.
Also, when I enter the answers from the Dashboard ConTessa says they are ALL wrong. Every other question is 100$ right throughout, and the non-contessa questions are all right too,
Something is not right.
Too difficult to understand
The language and guidance in the 2nd test was hazy, at best.
Excellent albeit difficult ( at least for me). The instructors and material provided is just great. Everybody who wants to support their community should do the course and get the qualification.
Thank you very much for the wonderful ideas on how to stop or solve the spread of COVID 19 to the community and from infecting people around. Thanks a lot, ma'am and sir
The course was very informative. ConTESSA is a useful app that would make contact tracing effective. I am looking forward to using it in the future, if given the chance,