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“I learned more in this class than any other IT class at GMU”
IT332 - 5.0 rating“Professor Darquea had a strong knowledge of the field and was very helpful in every way possible”
ITCS101 - 5.0 ratingClass Info
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100%
Attendance Mandatory
37%
Textbook Required
74%
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Reviews (105)
I like his style
Cool guy.
Very nice man and is willing to help if you have questions.
The subject mater is very easy (power point, Excel, website design) but he makes it as painless as possible. Kinda annoying that attendance is mandatory but that is the department's policy not his.
Interesting Pronunciation, not much work load.
He is a relatively good professor. However, sometimes he drags things out in regards to teaching a certain topic.
The class was useful to learn basic office tools. However, the lecture could have been clearer and general guidelines on how to use the software would have been useful.
Solid professor, werves the class purpose well. No shenanigans, just come to class, do your assignments, and you'll receieve a decent grade.
Interesting.
The professor is very prompt with grading and keeping students informed via blackboard. Quite a strict grader though.
I hope to take another class with Bernardo soon.
I learned a lot.
I learned a lot from his class.
Relatively easy class
Bernado, although keeps you in class for basically the entire period when not neccessary, is a good guy. helpful, easy, and if you go to class, youll do well.
Bernardo is great, take a class with him
Prof. Darquea is very knowledgeable about verious computer programs. Even if you are not computer savvy, he will find a way to help you understand.
Very helpful even if you are not particularly good at working with computers.
I really learned a lot in this class. He was very helpful and the assignments were good practice. Very passionate about what he is doing. Take him!
This professor is passionate about his subject, however he is not very good at listening and hearing out students.
passionate about the subject. easy course.
take THIS LAB hes awesome
Good professor for BADM 64 lab. Never took up the full 2 hours of class time. Easy assignments. Not hard to get a good grade in his class if you show up to class and do the work needed.
Solid
He cares a lot about every student and truly wants everyone to succeed. If you have trouble understanding the material, he will spend time with you and explain it to you. Plus, this class is easy if you study a minimum!
Darquea was a great professor. I am not particularly interested in this subject but he made it interesting.
Great professor. Let us leave early a lot. Go to class and do the easy assignments and you'll get a good grade.
He is always trying to help students
Bernardo is really helpful if you ask for help and the stuff that he teaches is useful
Overall, I did not like the class since information systems is very dry. But he did keep the class interesting and does a good job in teaching the subject. He is also the boss.
He is extremely helpful and knoweledge about the material. He is a fair grader. It is recommanded to attend the class because it will make the homework and quiz very easy
Overall, I did not like the class since information systems is very dry. But he did keep the class interesting and does a good job in teaching the subject.
Very kind, helpful and enthusiastic about his work.
Good man, made class interesting, and definitely knows his stuff.
He has been an understandin and helpful teacher.
Great professor, Helpful and available during office hours. Also, he will not hesitate to spend his own free time and make appointments if students can't make his official office hours.
His lab taught me a lot. i knew most of the stuff and it was a refresher but for the stuff that i didnt know like publisher it helped me. you should take his class if you want to learn!
Prof. Darquea is a good lab teacher. He explains all the info you need to know for the projects and is a fair grader.
great instructor
Professor Darquea was always on ime, very hlpful and prepared for class. I learned a lot of cool things even though I thought I knew most of the programs covered.
Darquea was a great professor his enthusiastic brought energy and motivation to the class and within class work
PRETTY COOL CLASS
Just need to keep better control of class
I really appreciate you teaching me about using the microsoft office tools. I learned a lot from all the labs that i completed in class.I will recommmand you to any student that wants to learn about computer softwares.
It was a good class. I`m glad I go to learn about the programs. Thank you.
I really like Mr.D, I just wish our class had a bit more hands on experience in what we were doing. All in all, I was satisfied though.
Even though my interest wasn't fully in the class, I did like the way Professor D makes humorous analogies to keep our attention.
Very Practical Labs. Very helpful, friendly, and knowledgeable.
Definitely an interesting class, and not really hard at all. Instead of just listening to a lecture, you also do practical labs using servers in a virtual environment, and learn about Exchange, AD, Apache, IIS, CMS, FTP, DNS, and more. One of the best IT courses at Mason when taught under this instructor. Very friendly Ecuadorian guy. Take him.
BIG BOSS BERNARDO! amazing professor..amazing class, 2 words: TAKE HIM
I had no idea there were these data visualization tools available prior to this class. Class notes were informative and professor Darquea was helpful and responded promptly to questions.I had a hectic schedule this past semester, and wish I had more time to dedicate to this class. The tools I have learned will be helpful and relevant in workplace.
Keep up the good work
Very educated, helpful and knowledgeable professor. Enjoys teaching technology and obviously knows the material!
This course was interesting, the assignments were practical and useful and the professors teaching style made it easy to follow along and understand.
Easy class, just do your work and you will do fine. Took him at GMU and he was very helpful and would do anything to help. I never used the textbook as I found it not helpful. Everything is provided online. If you like web development and are a visual person, take this class. An easy A. Thanks!
The best professor I've had so far at GMU. Helpful, responsiveness, the class is fun and you actually feel like you're learning something instead of just memorizing trivia. I can't recommend him enough.
My honest opinon about Mr. Darque is that he is one of the best teachers I had. Very helpful and dear to his students. I learned a lot from Mr. Darque and I wish him nothing but the best. Thanks Mr. Bernando Darque.
Professor Darquea knows what he is doing and makes his students enjoy and feel comfortable in his classroom.
Mr. Darquea is very proficient and concise with his instruction. His teaching style is lucrative and efficient. I would definitely recommend Mr. Darquea as an instructor to any student at any educational facility.
Professor Darquea had a strong knowledge of the field and was very helpful in every way possible. He did not let students fall behind and kept the class engaging and fun.
I had several courses with Professor Darquea at Westwood College. The classes were always informative and I learned valuable IT knowledge.
Professor Darquea is a great professor and is always willing to help whenever you ask. His lectures are sometimes long and boring, but he tries to keep them interesting by adding a few jokes and interesting stories. I would definitely recommend taking his class.
He makes IT 103 not as bad as people think it is. He is helpful and is a good professor. TAKE HIM!
Overall, Bernardo is a very good professor. Now granted that I am an IT major, I found his class very easy. Going to class is not necessary but you might miss a pop quiz here and there. Bernardo knows his stuff and does a good job teaching his students. Overall a great teacher, take him.
Awesome Professor. Will work with you if you have an issue with an assignment. Each assignment gets progressively more difficult. Key is to keep your assignments on time.
He's a really great professor, really funny. The way he explains things he tries to be interesting and not boring but the lectures do get boring. Does give random quizzes but sometimes lets you know. The quizzes are at the end of class so you don't have to be on time.
IT is not my thing but he made it easy and relate able.
Professor Darquea is one of the best instructors I have ever had. He is very helpful. Replies to his emails in a timely manner and tries his best to help you. His class was fun and very helpful. I learned many helpful tools that I can use at work and for my other class projects. Do your assignments A You don't need a book for this class.
So dont do the extra in his class basically worth no pints. This guy takes silly points off the project. A lot of work, I recommend taking IT 471 if you are trying to find easy class. Cause this class got difficult this Fall semester than the last one.
Believe the Hype! Professor Darquea is a great professor. He is very helpful if we ask him for help and always finds time to meet his students, even at the last moment. If you feel like you are struggling in class, go see him!.The only thing I would change is to make the extra credi assingnments worth more. I would definately take him again.
This class is easy, and it's interesting. There are lot of good tips about Web Server Admin, from a respected professional who's been around production environments for a while. He's not complicated at all. Labs are straight through, but pay attention to the directions before class.
Professor Bernardo's labs will teach you a lot about information visualization, we didn't need the book although the one he assigns taught me a lot. Great class, and if you do the work you'll definitely get an A or B.
Professor Darquea's IT 415 class consists of learning how to make and use visualizations. Simple class, there's work but it isn't that difficult. If you put in work and do it correctly, you have nothing to worry about. I didn't use the book. Professor Darquea is an understanding and fair instructor.
The homework is mostly lab assignments which were fun work, so nothing draining or boring. Great class and Professor Darquea managed it well. I would recommend him period, but especially if you are looking to take this course online like I did.
Book wasn't necessary. Assigned reading was of little value in relation to exercises. Expectations were pretty clear. Class was interesting which I guess is why it felt easy. TA didn't provide very good feedback on graded assignments and the delay in return made the little feedback given obsolete to try to learn fromapply going forward.
He is kind of Professor he wants everyone in the class to be attentive to the Subject and he wants everyone in class have to participate in the Practical classes and i liked it the way he teaches for Database concepts with installing all required software , this was really helpful for me to understand Database concepts in better way
Great, friendly professor who wants you to do well in the course. He promptly responds to emails, and is overall a very friendly, knowledgable person. There's no reason why you shouldn't get an A in this class, if you follow along in the syllabus.
Straight forward and educational if you can follow instructions
Professor Darquea is very helpful and motivating. He tries his best to make the students learn the material through his feedback for the assignments. He grades the assignments in an appropriate time and provides extra credit. I recommend him to everyone.
I learned more in this class than any other IT class at GMU. You will gain valuable hands on experience with Windows Server and Linux, unlike other classes that just have you read the textbook. The professor was very helpful. This is my first review and I came here because I thought the professor deserves recognition.
he is very good professor. before also i m taking his class .Right now i m taking online classes with him,.He give us amazing lecture .I want to take again his class .
It was a very good experience getting to learn from him.
Very organized lectures and helpful for learning database clearly.
He is a pretty good instructor. I recommend others to take his class.
One of the best professors I've had. He loves what he does, and so will you, after taking his class. Information visualization is a very fun subject to explore and learn. Grades very fairly and leniently. The only issue I came across was late email responses. Other than that, would definitely recommend him, and take him again myself.
The video lectures are pretty short, helps with completing the lab assignments. Alothough some parts are unclear. Look through the textbook even though the PowerPoints make sense to help with the quizzes. Professor Darquea is a very understanding Professor. I contacted him once and he was very quick to respond to my e-mail. I recommend him!
Professor Darquea provided an adequate amount of work and all works were pretty easy to follow with his video presentation. Final was pretty cool to do. I would take him again if I have an opportunity.
Great course. Would take a course with this professor again. Recommended.
Professor Bernardo is a very knowledgeable guy. He teaches really well. I recently took IT 415 with him online. He replies email right a way if you ask him any questions. He also provides all the helpful material to you to make easier for you to learn in this course. He is one of my best professors. I recommend you to take him for IT415.
Very helpful of a professor when needed, know's a lot about the subject
Good professor. Very communicative and transparent. However, when taking his online class, FOLLOW THE RUBRIC TO THE T. Do this, and your grade will 100% be an A or B (at the least, assuming you put it in effort).
I had professor Darquea for IT 415 that past fall 2017 and other class prior to 2017. Both were online. Professor Darquea provides great video lectures that tells you want you need to do and gives good examples. All in all even if you're not a computer wiz, as long as you put good effort in, the class is relatively straight forward. Great professor
I took IT-415 Online this fall 2018. This class requires you to do a lab assignment each week but Professor Darquea did a great job explaining what we have to cover for each of these assignment in his lectures videos. There is also an individual project that we have to complete but this project is based on the materials covered in the labs. Take it
I took IT415 online with Professor Darquea and I loved it! Couldn't have taken it with a better professor. He replies to emails very quickly and is always ready to help. I really enjoyed this class. We learned about different types of visualizations and for both midterm and final we just had to create charts using our favorite tools. Super easy!
Great professor. Really wants us to succeed and learn in this class. I took it online so never met him directly but has videos for the lab every week which is huge bulk of the grade so do those and you Will be just fine! Take him even if WDM is not your concentration. Fun class
Really Good Professor makes the course very informative and provides great instructuons on assignments.
Very clear and organized class. Consistent and quick grading of assignments helped me know where I was at during the duration of the course.
I took Professor Darquea's IT415 class online, and it was one of the smoother experiences I've had. He gives homework every week, but his guides on how to do them are very clear. Participation and showing that you're following the lectures are what he's after, and if you do those, then you'll do just fine.
Professor Darquea is the one of the most amazing professors I have taken at Mason so far. I took two classes with him this semester, they both was very interesting and easy to complete all the labs. He made it very easy for us and was also very helpful when I had trouble completing my labs. I would 100% recommend everyone to take him!
Fun yet challenging class. Definitely recommended if you are doing Web Dev Concentration, since the assignments and projects are easy enough but also require a lot of learning on your part to succeed.
Great guy!! Professor Darquea has really clear instructions and the assignments are not that hard to complete. Just put in the effort and ask for help if you need it. The GTA was helpful too. I strongly recommend taking this class if you want to improve your web development and visualization skills. This is an A+ teacher! Take him!
This class was a great experience. Prof. Darquea is knowledgeable and helpful. The assignments are fair and he provides tutorial videos for most of them. Also, he provides other sources that help you understand the material. If you do the work and turn it in on time, you'll do well.
Not only was this class well organized, but Professor Darquea offers a lot of extra resources for people who want to learn more. All of the projects are fairly easy as long as you keep up with the material, and there's a lot of creative freedom with some of the assignments (which was awesome). I honestly recommend this class to everyone!
Class was well organized, easy to navigate, and there were lots of resources available. Assignments are pretty straightforward and you can make it your own. You'd honestly have to try to fail.
The professor is alright but choose your group early and wisely. There are 3 phases and it is not difficult but it is a lot of work and if you have a bad group, expect to do the work as everyone gets the same grade. Don't fret there is a peer assessment at the end of the course and it will be considered by the professor.
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
37%
Textbook Required
74%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
A-
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Stable
-0.05 avg changeRatings by Course
BADM34
5.0
(2)BADMN064
5.0
(1)BADAM64
5.0
(1)FLOWYOGA
5.0
(1)ITCS222
5.0
(1)Difficulty by Course
ITCS215
3.0
NW421
3.0
IT462
3.0
DL1
3.0
IT216
3.0