Hands down the worst teacher I have ever had in college. If you want to pass he is easy because homework, participation, and labs are 60% of your grade and he drops an exam. If you want an A, good freaking luck. He doesn't give partial credit on exams and his lectures are completely worthless. Most(!) of the class failed the first exam. Thee worst!

Brian could be a good professor - he knows the material and the labs are well-organized. Unfortunately, he likes to ramble on during lectures and doesn't teach the material; you'll have to teach yourself. Tests are very difficult. Class attendance dropped drastically after the first few weeks because no one wanted to be there.

This class was UNBELIEVABLE. The amount of homework I had to do was over the top. Brian Carter genuinely cared about his students but how the online class was run, he couldn't help you if one of your videos stopped working. If you take this class, be prepared to be frustrated at how much time you spend watching dumb irrelevant videos.

If you have a lot of time on your hands then this'll be a good class for you. All you do is watch a total of 3 hour videos and answer tons of questions each week. Theres no help at all, test are difficult because there are no study guides. You have to be on top of things or else you'll get left behind.

this guy would be a great teacher if he actually took the time to explain how to do the math, i swear its simple stuff no harder than calculus, but he does not teach the information well at all, goes off on tangents about how his day sucked or something literally every day, 75% is a B but it still wont come too easy, tests are hard

Lectures were made up mostly of homework questions, in which he would pick questions at random to practice. The way he would show us how to do these problems was frustrating, as it often left me confused. I came out of that class without much knowledge gained, and very frustrated. Other students felt similarly. Least desirable instructor I've had.

Terrible. Definitely does not help you. Don't even think of taking online classes, for if you had any technical problem and SEND A PROF OF THE PROBLEM YOU HAD, HE WILL NOT HELP. Lot's of ridicules exercises that you spend between 10 to 20 hours a week to do and their grade still won't help you much for they're not worth a lot, the exams worth more.

I wish I took the reviews more seriously! Starting out the bookwork is like 3-4 part questions (for only 1 measly point), but by the end of the semester there are parts a-z questions for the same 1 point! He has up to 30 videos a week averaging 10-20 minutes which is ridiculous. NO study guides. A LOT OF BUSY WORK. Beware his online classes!

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!! Each week we have 6-10 hours of videos to watch(you have to click buttons throughout the video for credit, and cannot leave the tab or it pauses), along with exercises to complete(must get them correct for credit). His tests do not give enough time, and you cannot go back to previous ?'s!! he doesn't teach/post at ALL!!

I wish I took the rating more seriously too. His online class makes you watch approximately 5 hours worth of video per week on top of spending a few hours answering questions. Not worth it at all. Do not take him

Wish I had read reviews before taking this class. The amount of videos and difficulty of homework are completely uncharacteristic of an INTRO class. This suuuucks and I can't drop because I need this class this semester for my degree. Don't take this course with him if possible. I am overloaded because of this course.

Underachieving professor. He has a PH.D. I went to his office hours for help because I was struggling in his class. We went over some of the practice problems and he got the, wrong multiple times. Does not know his material, but expects a lot out of his students. DO NO TAKE! I learned the hard way.

I can honestly say I was very overwhelmed with the number of videos we have to watch every week and you have to pay attention or you'll miss the cues and have to start all over. Additionally, it was very annoying struggling with a question and being unable to get the assistance e you need from the professor because he wants you to figure it out.

I am a straight A student with intense dedication, and this class was a nightmare. I am pretty sure Brian Carter hates teaching, or at least hates students. His methods for my online course were abusive and I cried more than once. I missed entire days with my kids because of the 20 hrs a week required for this ONE of my 4 courses that semester.

Professor Carter is the worst Physics professor ever, he is much worse when you take him over the summer, if you take him, you are gonna have to learn most of the stuff on your own. Summer class with him was so difficult some people either failed and had to retake or dropped not even a week in. Take him as a last resort if you plan on taking him.

Carter is the worse professor, he gives an unnecessary amount of problems on hw. Tests were even more difficult than hw. He is not really much help when you ask him, he makes you feel completely dumb as he has a super complicated way of solving problems. I should have taken the bad reviews on him more seriously.

Gives way too many questions for wileyplus hw. No matter how much I studied, I still end up doing terrible on his exams. I think he gets a thrill from watching students struggle in his class. He makes intro level classes like this one difficult for no reason. He will make your life miserable if you take him as your physics professor.

I would not recommend to anyone never communicated anything after the second week of class and has an insane amount of online homework.

I am a hardworking determined student who took a full load of courses, including Astronomy 110. Hardest course Ive ever encountered. The videos are over the top and I honestly didnt learn anything from this course. The test are a minute per question. The exams were 100 questions in 90 minutes. The course material didnt match the test.

I will admit. He is a nice guy and good life coach, but in terms of a teacher no. My first complaint is that he does not lecture, but instead talks about anything and gets easily off topic. Online labs are terrible. The homework is nothing like the book. The book has mistakes. Deducts you 10 points if you get it wrong. Does not respond to emails.

Worse physics professor at grossmont in my opinion. His tests made no sense because there were so many questions in such little time. Going to his optional lectures over zoom to learn the material didnt help because you would just end up being more confused. Stay away from this professor, especially during summer!

Overall he was not a great teacher by any means. I took this class online so his in person classes might be different but he put no effort into putting together the material. He assigned MANY videos each week that were both long and repetitive. The questions he assigned were vague with little help to find the answers. The quizzes were very hard too

This class is very video heavy and hard to keep up with if you don't start the videos the day they come out. The questions and textbook reading need to pass the quizzes on top of that are also really hard to keep up with. I would suggest taking a different professor if you are interested in taking an astronomy class.

I took this class to meet one of my requirements for my ADT. This class was very poorly structured. We spent more time on YouTube and talking about his personal life than actually learning physics. We did not open the textbook until over half way through the semester. His syllabus was incorrect. We were behind all the other physics classes.

I didn't even last a week and I was able to tell that his class was going nowhere whit his methods. The couple of classes I took with him he didn't even talked about physics other than an accumulated 30 min at most. He told us that he only had a few more years to teach so it did not really matter if he actually taught us or not.

Using Stemplosion was very frustrating & had to pay $25 +the textbook. There are about 100 "exercises & videos" to do per week + discussion &quiz. There are no lectures/PowerPoint (read the textbook chapters, watch videos, and answer questions). It first told me that it wasn't for credit so I got behind. Stemplosion is outdated & irritating to use.

Professor Carter's class is very difficult. Lectures are too fast and hard to follow. Office hours are unhelpful, and exams on the Willey platform are extremely hard. Grading is delayed, with no timely feedback. I dropped the class due to these issues. In conclusion, DON'T TAKE IT WITH HIM

AVOID IN SUMMER! This guy is God awful, he is not a teacher. He skims through textbook chapters for like 20-30min and spends rest time solving problems and rambling to himself. I watched him spend 45 min on a level 3 question getting it wrong twice before he finally got the answer. I found a YT vid that solved it in 8 min. Thiswill ruinGPAavoid!

It's all true. Sidetracked easily, constant tangents (NEVER bring up MAME). Short lecture followed by hours of chapter problems. His left-handedness combined with his outdated overhead camera setup makes note-taking difficult. He'll spend an hour on a problem, but you get 15 minutes to do it on the test. Goes through a forest's worth of paper.

Very hands-off teacher. If taking the accelerated online course, you need at least 20hrs/week to do the homework and watch all of the required videos. They are mostly outdated and only slightly relevant to the chapter, but worthless in regards to the quizzes. Stemplosion's grading is super precise and frustrating. Try to get a different teacher.

If you want to get success in Physics class at Grossmont never ever take class with this professor. He wont grade the assignment till last day of the semester and he is very tough.

no feedback. didn't explain things well and goes very quickly. five tries on homework with no guidance and aren't shown how to do it if you get it wrong (how it is in calc). in person class but tests online, a few digits off=youre wrong, doesn't grade work on exam. how are we supposed to learn if we have no feedback? never though i'd drop a class

tests are just terribly designed.

The class is thought by giving you a physics question and you have five tries to learn how to do it. If you can't do it then you move on with no explanation. The labs are online which is interesting but clunky while he brags about the amount of work he put into creating the online lab in his videos from 3 years ago.

I took this class online & he was very nice over email and genuinely did help me out but he does not lecture. He just assigns like over 6 hours in mandatory unskippable videos to watch each week. He doesnt even teach you just makes you do so much busy work. If you r taking for credit take him cuz its easy but if ur interested in astronomy no.

Brian Carter was quite possibly the worst teacher I have had at grossmont. He refuses to show grades till the last 2 weeks of the semester, his lectures are just tangents about which person(his wife mainly) he hates today. He also hates athletes. I really tried for that A but he just treated everyone in the class bad and 2/3 of the class Withdrew.