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Srikanth Parvathala INST354 Anonymous 02/01/2024	This was a co-taught course. The lecture material was the right amount of challenging and provided a good background into decision-making. However, his lectures were hard to follow because he often read off the slides (which were posted). Attendance was mandatory, so often I felt the lectures were not helpful and went because I had to. Despite issues, he was always willing to help students.
Abdirisak Mohamed INST354 Anonymous 12/05/2023	I took his online class in the Fall of 2023. His lectures could be a little more in-depth. To be honest I went through the whole semester not knowing what was going on. I would not recommend taking his class!!!!!!
Kathy Weaver INST354 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 05/23/2023	Great professor! Took this class online and had an easy time completing each module. Since she posts all the modules, you can go on your own pace. Her videos and presentation slides were very well made and easy to understand. Her assignments aren't hard if you take the time to understand the concepts. Lastly, there multiple extra credit assignments in case you need them.
Abdirisak Mohamed INST354 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/18/2023	Assignment expectations were not made clear, all learning was done through badly recorded lecture videos and Google Colab notebooks. The final group project wasn't announced until two weeks before the end of the semester, and the rubric wasn't published until less than a week before the due date. Once I was able to get into contact with him by email and Zoom he was very helpful and responsive, but I was flabbergasted that he hadn't made some of the things he told me (mostly specifics about the final project) clear to all students. There were things that had I not asked, I would have failed the final project entirely.
Abdirisak Mohamed INST354 Anonymous 05/18/2023	Professor provides little to no instructions on assignments. Lectures are a drag and he does not communicate and work with students well.
Abdirisak Mohamed INST354 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/29/2023	He just doesn't care, he's clearly phoning it in for an easy paycheck, and made his TAs do all the real work. Hope he gets fired.
Mohammad Ali INST354 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 11/20/2022	Professor is not interested in class. After attaching some videos, he forces the students to read the book. That's how he teach, so of course student don't know what they're learning. Therefore, students ask and apply office hours. but wow! they cancel even that every day. He treated the wrong answer as the correct answer in the quiz, and admitted it as the correct answer again after the students raised questions about it. In conclusion, he's sitting very comfortably and making money.
Vikas Sahasrabudhe INST354 Expecting a B- Anonymous 05/07/2022	My biggest issue with Vikas is his inability to write in English. His slides and assignment instructions are always extremely hard to understand. He is a very harsh grader and grades you on small details, like making sure your name is in multiple places on each document. Figuring out these small details is extremely hard because his writing is insanely unclear and overcomplicated. By the way, every sentence this man writes is a run-on sentence. Each of his lecture slides are just one-sentence paragraphs that are very hard to understand. His instructions are the same way, they use awful grammar, words are often used incorrectly, they are long, and they are unclear. This makes things extremely difficult considering he has very strict grading criteria in his head, that he is unable to relay on paper.
Kathy Weaver INST354 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/18/2019	Dr. Weaver is a kind person that is passionate about teaching. While I did not personally agree with some of her teaching styles (no phones/laptops in class, mandatory check-in at the beginning of each class, etc.), she still does a decent job of conveying material and is receptive to the needs of her students.
Kathy Weaver INST354 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/18/2019	Not the most organized professor, assignments are not clear, class took a hard left and didn't follow the same track as other 354 classes.

Srikanth Parvathala
INST354

Anonymous
02/01/2024

This was a co-taught course. The lecture material was the right amount of challenging and provided a good background into decision-making. However, his lectures were hard to follow because he often read off the slides (which were posted). Attendance was mandatory, so often I felt the lectures were not helpful and went because I had to. Despite issues, he was always willing to help students.

Abdirisak Mohamed
INST354

Anonymous
12/05/2023

I took his online class in the Fall of 2023. His lectures could be a little more in-depth. To be honest I went through the whole semester not knowing what was going on. I would not recommend taking his class!!!!!!

Kathy Weaver
INST354

Expecting an A+
Anonymous
05/23/2023

Great professor! Took this class online and had an easy time completing each module. Since she posts all the modules, you can go on your own pace. Her videos and presentation slides were very well made and easy to understand. Her assignments aren't hard if you take the time to understand the concepts. Lastly, there multiple extra credit assignments in case you need them.

Abdirisak Mohamed
INST354

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/18/2023

Assignment expectations were not made clear, all learning was done through badly recorded lecture videos and Google Colab notebooks. The final group project wasn't announced until two weeks before the end of the semester, and the rubric wasn't published until less than a week before the due date. Once I was able to get into contact with him by email and Zoom he was very helpful and responsive, but I was flabbergasted that he hadn't made some of the things he told me (mostly specifics about the final project) clear to all students. There were things that had I not asked, I would have failed the final project entirely.

Abdirisak Mohamed
INST354

Anonymous
05/18/2023

Professor provides little to no instructions on assignments. Lectures are a drag and he does not communicate and work with students well.

Abdirisak Mohamed
INST354

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/29/2023

He just doesn't care, he's clearly phoning it in for an easy paycheck, and made his TAs do all the real work. Hope he gets fired.

Mohammad Ali
INST354

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
11/20/2022

Professor is not interested in class. After attaching some videos, he forces the students to read the book. That's how he teach, so of course student don't know what they're learning. Therefore, students ask and apply office hours. but wow! they cancel even that every day. He treated the wrong answer as the correct answer in the quiz, and admitted it as the correct answer again after the students raised questions about it. In conclusion, he's sitting very comfortably and making money.

Vikas Sahasrabudhe
INST354

Expecting a B-
Anonymous
05/07/2022

My biggest issue with Vikas is his inability to write in English. His slides and assignment instructions are always extremely hard to understand. He is a very harsh grader and grades you on small details, like making sure your name is in multiple places on each document. Figuring out these small details is extremely hard because his writing is insanely unclear and overcomplicated. By the way, every sentence this man writes is a run-on sentence. Each of his lecture slides are just one-sentence paragraphs that are very hard to understand. His instructions are the same way, they use awful grammar, words are often used incorrectly, they are long, and they are unclear. This makes things extremely difficult considering he has very strict grading criteria in his head, that he is unable to relay on paper.

Kathy Weaver
INST354

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/18/2019

Dr. Weaver is a kind person that is passionate about teaching. While I did not personally agree with some of her teaching styles (no phones/laptops in class, mandatory check-in at the beginning of each class, etc.), she still does a decent job of conveying material and is receptive to the needs of her students.

Kathy Weaver
INST354

Expecting a B+
Anonymous
12/18/2019

Not the most organized professor, assignments are not clear, class took a hard left and didn't follow the same track as other 354 classes.

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