Very buggy and hard to use

The Coursera app on the iPhone and iPad is very frustrating to use. It has a lot of weird anomalies that make it difficult to perform basic operations.

When I’m watching lecture videos, it always skips forward by two videos when it autoplays the “next” video. So, if I don’t intervene and press previous video when the next one autoloads, I end up missing half the lecture videos. This is exacerbated by the fact that you can’t see the list of lecture videos while you’re in a lecture video. Sometimes, it skips forward to the next week without me even realizing it.

On my iPad, the app is only showing 4 of 5 courses I’m currently enrolled in. There’s seemingly no way to get to the missing course. On my iPhone, it’s showing all 5 courses, but two of them are linked to the next session of the courses, not the ones I’m registered in. They’re linked correctly on my iPad. Again, no amount of pull-to-refresh or “refresh course catalog” actions fixes it.

Overall, the Coursera app provides a hugely subpar experience that actively thwarts learning.

King Chung Huang about Coursera: Grow your career, v2.0.7