Steemit Crypto Academy | Summary of the fixed introductory courses | Task 1 -Task 5 | Season 4 Week 2

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Hi everyone!

The first week of Steemit Crypto Academy comes to an end, it ran from September 13, 2021 to September 19 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	By the teacher @sapwood	Task 1 had a total of 30 entries.
Task number 2	By the teacher @sapwood	Task 2 had a total of 15 entries.
Task number 3	By the teacher @awesononso	Task 3 had a total of 35 entries.
Task number 4	By the teacher @yousafharoonkhan	Task 4 had a total of 18 entries.
Task number 5	By the teacher @stream4u	Task 5 had a total of 15 entries.

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Having in total 113 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	11
5 & 5.9	4
6 & 6.9	7
7 & 7.9	1
8 & 8.9	2
9 & 9.9	4
10	1
Total of entries	30

Observations:

• Students can improve their overall presentation.
• The use of the markdown should be more diverse.
• Students must delve into the topics covered.
• Most of the students do not cite the sources correctly.
• Students take classes too lightly, often not even completing homework.
• This week there were a few more cases of plagiarism.

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	3
6 & 6.9	2
7 & 7.9	1
8 & 8.9	5
9 & 9.9	2
10	1
Total of entries	15

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.

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	5
5 & 5.9	1
6 & 6.9	6
7 & 7.9	6
8 & 8.9	7
9 & 9.9	6
10	4
Total of entries	35

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.

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	2
5 & 5.9	0
6 & 6.9	3
7 & 7.9	5
8 & 8.9	6
9 & 9.9	2
10	0
Total of entries	18

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.
• Tasks were generally above average.

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	2
6 & 6.9	0
7 & 7.9	0
8 & 8.9	2
9 & 9.9	5
10	2
Total of entries	15

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.

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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	23
5 & 5.9	10
6 & 6.9	18
7 & 7.9	13
8 & 8.9	22
9 & 9.9	19
10	8
Total of entries	113

Concluding remarks and suggestions:

• 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.

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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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