Feedback form for Scilab Workshop from 4 to 6 March 2021

Dear Participant,

We thank you for attending the 3 Day workshop on Scilab from 04-06 March 2021. We would like to have your valuable feedback about the Workshop and learning experience as it will help us enhance the quality of our work. Kindly select the best option that describes your views. You can also provide your comments in the spaces provided in the form. Your response will be kept confidential.

Thank you for your time!

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Questions marked with are mandatory



1A. Your background:

  Faculty in a College
  Lab Assistant/ Lab Staff member
  Research Scholars/PhD Student
  Student (B.E/B.Tech/B.Sc/Any other bachelor's degree)
  Student (M.E/M.Tech/M.Sc/Any other Master's degree)
  Working Professional
  Other




1B. If your answer to the above question is OTHER, then please specify:





2. Please mention the name of your School/College/Institute, or the company you work for, etc.





3. What is your age

  Less than 22
  22 to 30
  30 to 40
  40 to 50
  Above 50




4. Generally, how comfortable are you in learning a BRAND NEW software? Please select one.

  Extremely comfortable (or fast) in learning a new software
  Somewhat comfortable (or fast) in learning a new software
  Neither comfortable nor uncomfortable (neither fast nor slow) in learning a new software
  Somewhat uncomfortable (or slow) in learning a new software
  Extremely uncomfortable (or slow) in learning a new software




Questions related to Scilab background

5A. Do you use any numerical computation software in your School/College/Institute/company?

  Yes            No         



5B. If the answer to the above question is Yes, please let us know the name of the software in your School/College/Institute/company.

  Octave
  Julia
  Mathematica
  Matlab
  Python - NumPy etc.
  Sage Math
  Scilab
  Other




5C. If your answer to the above question is OTHER, then please specify:





6. How long have been using Scilab? If you have not used please select 'never used before'.

  Never used before
  less than 1 year
  less than 3 years
  less than 5 years
  more than 5 years




7A. Have you used Scilab before you registered for this workshop?

  Yes
  No
  Maybe




7B. If the answer is "Yes" to the above question, in what way do you use? Please select all the relevant options.

  Course work - class or lab
  Research
  Consultancy
  Scilab Textbook companion project of FOSSEE
  Scilab Lab migration project of FOSSEE
  Other




7C. If your answer to the above question is OTHER, then please specify:





8A. Why would you like to learn Scilab?

  For course work - class or lab
  For research
  Consultancy
  Other




8B. If your answer to the above question is OTHER, then please specify:





9. Before today's workshop, have you attended any other Scilab workshop? Please enter the total number of days of the workshop/training you have undergone before. If you have not gone through any such workshop/training before, please choose 0 days.

  0 days
  1 day
  2-4 days
  5-7 days
  Above 7 days




Questions related to learning in the workshop

10. Rate your experience in using Spoken Tutorial to learn Scilab. (Kindly provide the response using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "Strongly Disagree", 2 implies "Disagree", 3 implies "Neither Disagree Nor Agree", 4 implies "Agree", and 5 implies "Strongly Agree".)

  1     2     3     4     5  
Tutorials are well made and self-explanatory
Tutorials need improvement
Various aspects are unclear and need further explanation
I learnt a lot using Spoken Tutorials
I couldn't learn much





11. Using these tutorials, were you able to learn the following concepts? (Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "extremely easy to learn" and 5 implies "extremely difficult to learn".)

  1 (extremely easy to learn)     2     3     4     5 (extremely difficult to learn)  
How to use Scilab
Vector and Matrix Operations
Conditional branching
Scripts and functions
Iterations
File handling
User defined inputs and outputs
Plotting 2D graphs
Concept of Xcos





12. Were the spoken tutorials used during the workshop helpful in solving practice problems?

  Yes
  No
  Somewhat




13. Were the 9:30 am-10:00 am optional sessions to discuss the practice problems useful?

  Yes
  No
  Didn't attend these sessions




14. Did the practice problems help you to improve your coding skills in using Scilab?

  Yes
  No
  Not sure




15. How will you rate the difficulty of the practice problems? Please choose 1 for difficult and 5 for easy







16. How would you rate your experience of the live sessions taken during the workshop? (Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "not of much use" and 5 implies "extremely useful".)

  1     2     3     4     5  
Solving differential equations in Scilab
Graphical User Interface in Scilab
FOSSEE Optimization Toolbox
Applications of Xcos and Xcos on the Cloud





17. How would you rate your experience of the lectures and talks? (Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "not of much use" and 5 implies "extremely useful".)

  1     2     3     4     5  
Benefits of using Scilab by Prof. Kumar Appiah
How easy it is for an institution to switch to Scilab and its benefits by Dr. Subbulakshmi
Use of Scilab in industry by ESI group
Scilab in CNES by Mr. Thierry Martin Mission Analysis Expert
Switching to open source software by Prof. Madhu Belur
Using Scilab in Power Systems by Prof. Jain Marshal





18. Do you think some lectures were too advanced for this workshop? If so, please mention which.





19. Would you have wanted more lectures? If yes, please indicate which topic you would have wanted to be covered.





20. Please share your thoughts on the hands-on session (without Spoken Tutorials), and the Spoken Tutorial based sessions. Please tick all that is applicable.

  When many people have doubts in a hands-on session without spoken tutorials the slowest active person decides the speed of the workshop but I don't mind it
  Had the topics of hands-on sessions been converted to Spoken Tutorials I could have used them for self learning to teach others etc.
  Hands-on sessions are a little chaotic and I would prefer to see these topics in the form of Spoken Tutorials
  Hands-on sessions give a personal touch and so I prefer them to sessions based on Spoken Tutorials
  Hands-on sessions without Spoken Tutorials are impersonal in very large classes of say 100 people or more
  The efficacy of Spoken Tutorials approach is the same whether the class size is small or very large
  Spoken Tutorial sessions are impersonal in very large classes of say 100 people or more




21. Rate the following aspects of the workshop:(Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "Extremely bad ", 2 implies "Bad", 3 implies "Acceptable", 4 implies "Good", and 5 implies "Excellent".)

  1     2     3     4     5  
Quality of instructional material presented to you
Learning through Spoken Tutorials
Interaction with the Scilab-FOSSEE team
Learning through live sessions
Quality of the online workshop overall





22. Comment regarding the pace of the workshop

  Slow
  Very Slow
  Acceptable
  Fast
  Very fast




23. Select the response that describes your overall view of the workshop: (Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "Strongly Disagree", 2 implies "Disagree", 3 implies "Neither Disagree Nor Agree", 4 implies "Agree", and 5 implies "Strongly Agree".)

  1     2     3     4     5  
The workshop exposed me to new knowledge and practices
I did not learn much from this workshop
I will recommend my friends and colleagues to use Scilab
I will recommend my friends and colleagues to attend similar workshops based on Spoken Tutorials





24. How would you rate your level of knowledge in using Scilab before and after the workshop?

  Novice     Amateur     Competent     Proficient     Expert  
Before the workshop
After the workshop





25. Why did you not post questions in the forum?





26. What aspect(s) about the workshop did you like / dislike the most?





27. Cost benefit analysis of this workshop: please choose one

  The cost of this workshop is too high
  The cost of this workshop is just right - neither more nor less
  It is value for money because what I learnt is worth a lot more




MCQ questions on Scilab

Please take a minute to attend to these MCQ questions. Certificates will be given to all participants, irrespective of the correctness of your answers.

28. Select the correct method to define a row vector. Select all applicable.

  A row vector is defined using commas
  A row vector is defined using semicolon
  A row vector is defined using colon
  A row vector is defined using spaces




29. Select the correct method to define a column vector (Select all applicable)

  A column vector is defined using commas
  A column vector is defined using semicolon
  A column vector is defined using colon
  A column vector is defined using spaces




30. The command used to display the output is

  view
  disp
  display
  show




31. A colon operator is used to

  Create regularly spaced row vectors
  Create regularly spaced column vectors
  Both a and b
  Neither a nor b




32. Which of the following functions defines “Identity matrix”?

  ident
  identity
  ones
  eye




33. For a stiff system of differential equations, the following method of integration is recommended

  Explicit Euler
  Built-in function ode
  Explicit Euler or the built in function ode
  No method is suitable to solve stiff systems




34. In-line functions are defined by the command?

  function
  func
  deff
  funct




35. Which of the following functions is used for opening an existing file?

  op
  start
  mopen
  read




36. The CSCOPE block can be found under the following category of blocks in the Xcos palette browser

  Plot
  Source
  Sink
  Continuous Time Systems




37. The save command

  Saves scilab scripts
  Saves the entire scilab session into a binary file
  Saves 2D plots
  None of the above




38. In the Calling User Defined Functions in XCOS spoken tutorial, the MUX block was used for?

  Generating multiple sine wave signals
  To club the input and output of the user-defined block for plotting
  To enable user-defined functions
  None of the above




39. Which one of these are used in a Graphical User interface?(Select all applicable)

  Radiobutton
  Pushbutton
  Slider
  All of them




Effectiveness of the current and conventional workshops

You may have undergone some other workshop on Scilab. We want you to compare that experience with the current experience. There are only two, but important, questions in this section. Please take a few minutes to understand the questions and answer them.

40. Compare the method of learning through Spoken Tutorials with CONVENTIONAL software training workshops you may have attended *

  The current workshop is WORSE than conventional workshops I attended     The current workshop is COMPARABLE to the conventional workshops I attended     The current workshop is BETTER than the conventional workshop I attended     Cannot compare. Not attended any conventional software training workshop  
Self learning of topics missed/skipped in the workshop
Conduct of a practical workshop for a large number of participants and STICKING TO THE SCHEDULE
Conduct of a practical workshop for a large number of participants while EFFECTIVELY HANDLING both FAST and SLOW LEAERNERS
Conduct of a practical workshop for a large number of participants but with ONLY A FEW TAs 4
ABILITY TO CONDUCT a similar practical workshop with the instructional material provided
Contributing to content generation in the software taught (e.g. Scilab)





41. This question has to do with the CURRENT workshop using Spoken Tutorials

  Extremely easy     Somewhat easy     Neither easy nor difficult     Somewhat difficult     Extremely difficult  
Exploring aspects of Scilab not covered in the workshop also not available through Spoken Tutorials is
Conducting a workshop on a new software if help with Spoken Tutorials and Forum are available





General

42. We have provided you with Scilab Spoken Tutorials and many other learning materials in this workshop. What else is required for you to conduct a similar workshop in your institution by yourself? (Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "Strongly Disagree", 2 implies "Disagree", 3 implies "Neither Disagree Nor Agree", 4 implies "Agree", and 5 implies "Strongly Agree".) *

  1     2     3     4     5  
(a) Remote help of a FOSSEE expert (b) Spoken Tutorial Forum support
Spoken Tutorial Forum support alone is enough
I don't need any other help





43A. Check all the activities of the FOSSEE Scilab team that you will be interested to participate in.

  Scilab Lab migration
  Simulink to Xcos migration
  Scilab textbook companion
  Xcos textbook companion
  Conducting workshops using the instructional material created by the Scilab team
  Going through research papers and identifying case studies that could be simulated in Scilab/Xcos
  Other




43B. If your answer to the above question is OTHER, then please specify:





44. What in your opinion are some other tasks the Scilab team should undertake? Please check all that is applicable.

  Create more spoken tutorials
  Promote Scilab in a bigger way
  Collect Scilab case studies
  Develop material for data acquisition and control through Scilab
  Create many more textbook companions
  Migrate many more labs into Scilab
  Create school level topics using Scilab
  Conduct many more workshops using Spoken Tutorials
  Conduct Scilab workshops especially for school teachers




45. In what way you can help promote the use of Scilab?





46. Suggestions for improvement or any other suggestions.