Steemit Crypto Academy | Summary of the fixed introductory courses | Task 1 - Task 5 | Season 4 Week 9

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Hi everyone!

The 9th week of Steemit Crypto Academy comes to an end, it ran from November01, 2021 to Novemberr 07 of the same year. I'm happy to be working on reviewing the 10 Fixed Tasks for Beginners. Those in charge of this work are @dilchamo and myself @nane15.

There are a total of 10 fixed courses for beginners available, distributed among the instructors in charge as follows:

Task 1-5 are reviewed by professor @nane15
Task 6-10 are reviewed by professor @dilchamo

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My summary will be about the tasks that are between 1 and 5. I will leave the courses listed in the following table, along with the total number of tasks performed for that course.

Task	Teacher	Total number of tasks
Task number 1	Taught by the teacher @sapwood	Task 1 had a total of 21 entries.
Task number 2	Taught by the teacher @sapwood	Task 2 had a total of 17 entries.
Task number 3	Taught by the teacher @awesononso	Task 3 had a total of 29 entries.
Task number 4	Taught by the teacher @yousafharoonkhan	Task 4 had a total of 16 entries.
Task number 5	Taught by the teacher @stream4u	Task 5 had a total of 18 entries.

Having in total 101 tasks uploaded for the courses that comprise from 1 to 5.

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Reference:

The entries between 0 & 4.9 have the content: plagiarized, invalid, or below average.

The entries between 5 & 5.9 have the content: average.

The entries between 6 & 6.9 have the content: above average.

The entries between 7 & 7.9 have the content: good.

The entries between 7 & 8.9 have the content: very good.

The entries between 9 & 9.9 have the content: excellent.

The entries with 10 have the content: perfect.

In task number 1, professor @sapwood gave a class to users about the TRON network in general, trying to give them the basis to interact with said network.

Most of the students decided to answer the next question out of the three that were eligible.

(1) What is TronLink and what is Tronscan? What are its uses? How do you verify a transaction status(including timestamp, resource consumption(bandwidth & energy), nos of confirmations) using Tronscan-- Examples, Screenshot? What are the different dApps can you explore using the TronLink wallet? Make a transaction(a micro-transaction) with Justswap or JustLend using TronLink wallet?Screenshot?

The general performance of the students in this task can be observed below:

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Score	Frequency
0 & 4.9	4
5 & 5.9	0
6 & 6.9	4
7 & 7.9	7
8 & 8.9	3
9 & 9.9	3
10	0
Total of entries	21

Observations:

• Students can improve their overall presentation.
• The use of the markdown should be more diverse.
• Students must delve into the topics covered.
• Students take classes too lightly, often not even completing homework.
• The students have been trying a little harder.
• There is a fairly low level in users who are starting to perform tasks.
• The students improved the quality a little compared to previous weeks.

In task number 2, professor @sapwood explained to his students a class about STEEM and TRON, explaining to the students the foundations of the Steemit platform and how their tokens work.

Most of the students decided to answer the next question out of the three that were eligible.

(1) What is PoB? What does curation mean to you in Steem Blockchain? What are the benefits of building SP? How do you explain self-upvote as a good or bad social behavior & why? Explore Coinmarketcap.com to indicate rank, STEEM price, and coinmarketcap of STEEM(screenshot required)? What are the different tokens do you earn by socializing in Steem Blockchain? How would you use your TRX earned in Steem Blockchain to optimize earning in Tron ecosystem?

The general performance of the students in this task can be observed below:

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Score	Frequency
0 & 4.9	1
5 & 5.9	1
6 & 6.9	3
7 & 7.9	5
8 & 8.9	5
9 & 9.9	0
10	2
Total of entries	17

Observations:

• The questions that were usually tried are about what the student believed, at least in some cases, usually some opinions were deferred.
• The definitions of the answers to the questions that were given by the students have been somewhat more creative.
• There were more assignments charged to this course than last week.

In class number 3 taught by professor @awesononso, this same attempt to explain to students about what the genesis block is and the creator of this block, as well as its meanings and what it implies today in blockchain.

Most of the students decided to answer the next question out of the three that were eligible.

3a) What is a Cryptocurrency?
b) What is Cryptography and how does it make cryptocurrencies secure?
c) Explore the Steem Genesis Block and Sign in as proof of completion.

The general performance of the students in this task can be observed below:

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Score	Frequency
0 & 4.9	2
5 & 5.9	4
6 & 6.9	5
7 & 7.9	10
8 & 8.9	5
9 & 9.9	2
10	1
Total of entries	29

Observations:

• The answers were usually too short.
• Most students pass this class with ease since you answer the questions correctly.
• Students tend to use fewer Markdown codes and lower the level of presentation on short topics like this.
• This was the most performed task and for which users generally made the least effort.
• The number of courses uploaded to this task is greatly increased compared to the previous weeks.

In task number 4 dictated by professor @yousafharoonkhan, it was explained about decentralization, blockchain and blocks, trying to provide a general knowledge about what makes up a blockchain in a technical way and its deeper and more ethical bases.

Most of the students decided to answer the next question out of the three that were eligible.

(2) Define decentralization. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of a decentralized system. In what areas of life can a decentralized blockchain be helpful? (write in own words)

The general performance of the students in this task can be observed below:

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Score	Frequency
0 & 4.9	3
5 & 5.9	0
6 & 6.9	5
7 & 7.9	5
8 & 8.9	2
9 & 9.9	1
10	0
Total of entries	16

Observations:

• The understanding of the subject in general is very good. The answers are generally quite short.
• Students are limited to answering what they read in class, although their answers are valid.
• Most of the users prefer not to upload this task due to the ambiguity of the subject, they do not generally know how to explain it.

In class number 5, professor @stream4u dedicated himself to giving a detailed explanation of what cryptocurrencies are, and public blockchains.
The main topic was the leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, the current market leader.

Most of the students decided to answer the next question out of the three that were eligible.

(1) What Is Cryptocurrency and How You Would Like To See Cryptocurrency In The Future?

The general performance of the students in this task can be observed below:

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Score	Frequency
0 & 4.9	4
5 & 5.9	1
6 & 6.9	2
7 & 7.9	3
8 & 8.9	4
9 & 9.9	1
10	3
Total of entries	18

Observations:

• The students decided to do the homework as quickly as possible. Simple and accurate.
• Usually the answers were the same, from the words of each student. Very few decided to innovate.
• The quality of assignments uploaded to this course has improved a bit over last week.
• Again this week the courses uploaded for this task are the ones with the best overall quality.

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Overall Perfomance.

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Finally, I will leave general statistics of the grades obtained by the students.

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Score	Frequency
0 & 4.9	14
5 & 5.9	6
6 & 6.9	19
7 & 7.9	30
8 & 8.9	19
9 & 9.9	7
10	6
Total of entries	101

Concluding remarks and suggestions:

• This week much fewer tasks have been uploaded than in previous weeks.
• The presentation can improve, these are the first courses and users who become students usually do not understand how to correctly prepare the tasks.
• At the beginning many students copy and paste content from the web, which they later paraphrase, many times this is almost blatant plagiarism, in the first task it is very noticeable and leads to the performance of very poor tasks or with plagiarism.
• Students should be encouraged to do more research.
• The questions for tasks 3, 4 and 5 are quite simple and the resulting tasks are much shorter.
• Most of the students begin to perform tasks from course number 1 and course number 3. They generally perform tasks of a somewhat poor level but with time they improve a lot.
• There was a considerable increase this week in courses uploaded.
• There was a lot of quality in the assignments this week and very few assignments with plagiarized content.

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Congratulations to all the students who made it this far, we understand that the requirements to do the assignments are not easy to achieve, doing the assignments is not easy either, please keep up the effort and uploading content (of the best possible quality) for Steemit.

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