*A 5 star workload is an easy workload; a 3 star is average; whereas a 1 star workload is extremely hard.
Comments:bio 1306 - All he does is lecture at you. It would be fine if he was actually explaining things in detail. He is only really nice when talking to students that he likes. It is obvious when he doesn't really know a student by the way he responds to their questions (which is usually a passive aggressive, or defensive manner). He gives out exam worksheets that are the meant to be easy, but perhaps the most impossible participation grade you will ever get in your life. He is very nit picky when grading these exam worksheets, and things like not having a name at the top of the sheet will lead to you losing points. The worst part of the class was the inconsistency in due dates, as well as the format of his exams and quizzes. Sometimes they were based on slides, other times it seemed like questions were generated by AI. The exams were probably the worst part, as the format changed every single time. - Grade In Class:B+
Comments:1305 - Dr.McCloud is nice to the students he likes, but does not engage with most of the students. He yaps the whole class and does not explain the material well. He assigns activity worksheets. that are way to hard to access and submit, and takes off random points on them for no reason and they are weighted super heavy on your overall grade. He also assigns complicated quizzes with little to no time to complete them before the due date, and his exams are just the quiz questions copied and pasted into the exam. The exam material does not reflect what is taught in class, I did not learn anything in class I had to learn it all on my own. He also has very unaccessible office hours that no one can make it too. - Grade In Class:B
Comments:1306 - Very nice overall but just yaps in class and doesn't actually teach, repeats questions back to you in office hours instead of explaining it and only has 2 office hour times which are crap and nobody can make them. Has obvious favorite and is mean to the ones who are not his favorites. Exams do not reflect the class material and are copied and pasted from the quizzes which he opens at the last minute before the exam, I was very good at BIO 1 and I struggled in this class bc of his teaching, exams and grading. - Grade In Class:B+