This class is pretty strange, I really recommend not taking it with Dr. Archibald if you can. She is condescending to students and belittles them in lecture. Tests are often over material not covered in lecture. Read the book if you really want to do well.

I am a pre med junior and this was my 2nd biol class and I loved the topics of this class but she made the lectures super dry and boring. She did not really care about the students. I read alot and did not miss a single day of class and got a B because the multiple choice section was super confusing and its not A-E its A-L.

Did not care about helping students, didnt give any grade projections until a few days before the final. Refused to open assignments if you had documented technical difficulties. Had so many different kinds of homework it was hard to keep track. Really boring material. Tests are impossible.

Horrible professor. Obviously did not care about the well-being and grade statuses of the students in her class. Lots of homework, not creating, and reading is needed for this class because her lectures are useless. Usually, classes follow the books assigned, however her lectures were what she wanted to teach, rather than what needed to be taught.

Professor Archibald's class was not enjoyable. The lectures were extremely boring and confusing to follow, which is a shame since the exams seem to revolve around those lectures. On top of that, for some reason she feels the need to not post her slides for review after class (the slides are terribly formatted too). She means well, but wouldn't reco

It's ridiculous. She doesn't teach the class at all, giving us "modules" and tells us to go at it. It's not structured and she expects us to work 15+ hours in this class. She's so hands off it feels like there is no connection and that you can't go to her. If you do go to her, she is snotty and condescending. Do not take this class. Frustrating.

AWFUL CLASS AND PROFESSOR! Do not take this class with Archibald. She is absolutely terrible and does not help in any way shape or form. The only learning each week is 25 page word documents with all the info were supposed to know. And the quizzes are timed and go way to fast its impossible to pass her quizzes. She wants the students to fail.

Terribly structured class. No lecture videos. Have to read the textbook chapters and through a module. Test questions are very poorly worded. Takes pride in a low class average on scores.

Extremely disorganized. Does not seem to care. Lecture videos from past semesters that contain different information, which she tells us to ignore. Doesn't bother making new content, some lectures are from random different professors, weekly quizzes that replace exams are extremely disorganized and poorly worded. Timed essay questions graded harshl

I took Dr. Archibald's class in Spring of 2020. The first half of my class was all in person with her, and she was good at teaching but did not care about the students. My group asked for help in class one time and she told us "that's too bad." Online, her class became extremely confusing and she was no longer present. Only 25 page modules.

Professor handled this course terribly, especially considering the current state of college student mental health and motivation. PDF lessons with YouTube/lecture videos scattered throughout were not engaging, weekly quizzes due the same day as discussion posts, placed at various places in the lessons, was incredibly stressful.

I had to take this class online due to covid and it was a nightmare. She cared more about people who were cheating than actually teaching the class. We were allowed to use our notes for the quizzes but we were supposed to reword our notes. People would get in trouble if they didn't do this. Quizzes were not clear and very hard. DO NOT TAKE!

Long module packets as your weekly lessons--both unorganized and confusing to read, and random videos from YouTube instead of normal lecture videos from the prof. Then, a very hard quiz every week over the confusing material. More concerned about her students CHEATING than her teaching ability. What a waste of what could have been a good/fun class.

I think this is one of the worst classes I've ever taken. The class was horrible being completely online. The whole course consisted of reading out of the textbook and completed ridiculously long modules that didn't teach anything, The entire semester I basically taught myself. Completely stressful and chaotic. It was hard to learn any material.

I threw up during an exam because of my migraine which i had documented previously with the AAAC and I let her know this exam severely affected my grade. She said there was nothing she could do. Shes horrific at teaching and its an extremely boring class.

My only class I didn't get an A in. No help to further understand the material. Quizzes are nothing like module. good luck....

She is terrible, one of the worst professors I've ever had. She makes weekly quizzes 47% of the grade and there 20 min timed. There extremely hard questions and she does everything to make them extremely hard to understand and tries to trick you into picking the wrong answer. SHE SETS EVERYONE UP FOR FAILURE IN THIS CLASS

The professor makes it difficult very to succeed. She purposefully creates "tricky" questions "to make you think," is quite scattered, never goes into detail and doesn't thoroughly explain or connect concepts. Don't expect to learn much from lecture, each week you have a 17-27 page module + book reading to teach to and understand yourself.

This professor does NOT lecture. You teach yourself through weekly 10-20 page word docs. The class is only one day a week and is iClicker questions and a groupwork assignment. There are no exams in this class except the midterm & final. All other assignments are worth low points, so if you don't do well on the only 2 exams then you're screwed.

She takes pride in watching people fail and does not take student feedback seriously and continues the same way of teaching. She only tests you and tries to trick you with most of her questions. She makes this course boring and uneducational when this could be a really fun course. She likes to see us fail and doesnt try to make it any better.

This class is extremely boring. You basically teach yourself, which does spare you from ONE class in person. The quizzes are cumulative and pretty hard and confusing. She doesn't motivate you to do well and her class makes you want to fall asleep. Overall, it's hard, boring, and I recommend a different professor or to even refrain from the class.

You have to teach yourself everything. All of her quiz and worksheet questions are worded very confusing and expects you to know everything even though she does not teach you the material you are expected to learn everything from the textbook and weekly modules.

-Mandatory lectures: in-class iClickers & assignments worth 12% of grade -Timed weekly quizzes: worth nearly 50% of grade, questions VERY unclear/vague -Long "module" pdfs often contain lecture videos recorded years ago Prof. seems nice enough and seems to want us to succeed, but the current course format just does not work in its current state

You only go to the in-person lecture once a week. She doesn't explain very well and expects us to teach ourselves with a 20ish pages worth module that doesn't simplify any explanation. The weekly quizzes will drag your grade down real fast if you do bad and extra credit is usually just 1 point which doesn't help too much.

This is my first response on rate my professor, but honestly this professor was to terrible I had to post something. Treat this class like an independent study. You will probably learn nothing in lecture. You are expected to learn everything in 20+ page modules every week. She honestly cares more about you cheating than learning.

She sets you up for failure in this class. You teach yourself everything in 20+ page modules with weekly quizzes worth almost 50% of your grade. Everything is designed to have extremely confusing, "trick" questions for both quizzes and the iClicker questions in class that are graded for accuracy and worth 12% of grade. Worst class I've ever taken.

The worst part of this class is that it is needlessly difficult. The shortly timed weekly quizzes that have ambiguously worded questions don't reinforce learning but rather increase stress since the quizzes are weighed just below half of your grade. The 20-page modules are a nightmare to go through. I would not take this class again.

Sets you up for failure. Ridiculously worded/exceedingly difficult quizzes, contradicts herself constantly, 20 pages of complete nonsense each week, makes it impossible to get any sort of grade compensation for technical/general issues, etc. I'm better off completely ignoring her and using my prior knowledge instead. Don't take this class.

Worst professor I've ever had. Her questions on quizzes/tests can be confusing and be intentionally "trick" questions. The modules she does are too long, and often have to search for the useful videos as most of them provide little value. We have a cheat sheet for quizzes but expects us to not put anything on our cheat sheet FROM the module.

Words her questions for you to fail

You need to do all the modules to understand what happens in class because it is a reverse classroom. Yet, for her quizzes, she words everything so weirdly to "have you think about the concepts", yet they are just traps. Also meeting with her, she doesn't offer you help, she just kind of tells you what she expects and wants, not what you need.

Okay, so this is probably the worst teacher you'll ever have to deal with at KU, plain and simple. I would say this class is a test of how well you know English more than biology, her questions are a trap. She doesn't care about the students at all. Her only goal is to make her class seem harder than it really is.

She never goes over the worksheets done before class, and you're almost never prepared for the exams because there is no study guide or previous exams provided. There's no way to fully prepare yourself for the exams because some questions are just so specific and there's too much information across the modules to study for.

No study guides so there is never any way to prepare fully for tests. Rarely goes over anything important in lectures that were on the quizzes or worksheets.

Easily the worst professor I have ever had. The exams are so hard, and there is no clear cut study guide. She does have quizzes that do help boost your grade, get ready to learn a lot of content with no clear guide on what to study for exams, exams are 32 MC and 4 short answer. Each exam is cumulative besides the first exam. ARCHIBALD IS TERRIBLE!

Hybrid class so all of the learning is done before class. Lecture is used to repeat information said in the online homework. Pointless 75 minutes, the TA's are the only people that teach and explain concepts in this class. Tests are always trick questions and purposely worded to confuse people. Minuscule opportunities for extra credit in this class

Dr. Jenny Archibald is a nice person, but horrible teacher. She does not discuss everything on her modules in her once a week lecture, her modules take almost 4 hours to go through the information, she doesn't provide study guides for her extensive exams, and her questions purposefully trick you. I found myself very frustrated by her class.

I made a RMP account just to rate this class. This is the bio major weed out class. The structure of this class is horrid; it's a flipped classroom for no reason, and it's designed for students to suffer to get an A. Yes, she offers extra credit, but the amount you get for the work required is ridiculous. Few points in the gradebook too. Good luck.

I think that Dr.Archibald is an expert in her field, but that does not mean she is good at teaching. On the frist day of class she said that she uses a flipped classroom in order to fit in more students.That is not something to tell your students. It is obvius she does not care about her students educations and just wants her class too be hard.

She is not a good professor by any means. The TA sessions, and the SI sessions are not helpful. If you have to take this class I recommend getting outside help and ensuring that you are understanding everything. She does not word her assignments, tests, quizzes, etc. clear or in detail. Good luck if you ever have to take this class...

She does not care about the grade you receive. She is going to give you almost nothing but trick questions and lectures are mandatory. Close to nothing is taught in class, so get ready to teach yourself the material yourself.

Hybrid classes are not fun.

worse teacher ever she doesn't care about the students at all.

Quizzes and tests are written in the most unclear language possible, on top of making test grades inclusive of group exams. Participation is required via iClicker but if you don't get them right then you still do not get any points. Flipped format course so you do 95% of the teaching yourself from 8-10 pdfs filled with videos 3-15min made in 2020.

Every test/quiz question was designed to trick you. Hybrid class that shouldn't be hybrid and every lecture isn't spent lecturing it is iClicker and group work. Actually worst class I've ever taken. It is basically a teach yourself class about PLANT BIOLOGY. would not recommend. try to get into honors (with her husband) he gives out A's.

This class is flipped, and the actual class time is useless, but group work is important so you have to go. The worst part of being in class is that you can't listen to her talk on 3x speed like you can with the lecture videos. Every iclicker and test question she writes is worded in the most confusing way possible, like she's trying to trick you.

I would never take this teacher pick someone else and you will thank me later. She is the worst teacher I have ever had in my whole life. She tricks you and her test are very hard and the test are cumulative. Sometimes the TA's in the class don't even know the answer to her questions.

I actually hate Jenny so much! I would not recommend her to any student ever. I recommend that you take the class with her husband BIOL 153. The flipped classroom actually make me want to die. She is a tricky person. She changes words up to make it impossible to understand what you are trying to learn. Everything is cumulative so good luck!

Gives absolutely zero f about students and grades like satan himself. No review packets for tests. No extra credit. Oh wait correction. EXTRA CREDIT IS DILUTED TO WORTH NOTHING. Trick questions causing you to lose lots of points. Worst teacher in college. She should resign in disgrace.

Tricking students when assessing them with wording and confusing questioning is absolutely unethical. Students are here to learn and all that is being taught is that this professor is power hungry and wants students to feel inept. Her TA doesn't know what she means by questions and is unable to help. The professor shows little empathy for students

I am extremely disappointed with the set-up of this class and the lack of support I feel. As a 100-level class, the difficulty is way beyond what it should be, test questions are very tricky and worded badly, you learn all of the content by yourself, and tests are 80% individual and 20% group. My best advice is to pick a different professor.

This class is genuinely the worst class I have ever taken. The workload is insane. You can spend hours studying, and still be completely lost.On top of that, there are so many trick questions. If it isn't a trick question, it's a question over a specific, small topic mentioned once. If you can avoid taking this class, please do.

This class was difficult not because of content but because she makes it difficult. In class we had iClickers, and we didn't get adequate time to read the questions much less think about our answers and select one. There is very little room for mistakes. There's a weekly quiz with 3 attempts, but they barely impact your grade. Very little EC.

She honestly made me consider switching schools just so I could take BIOL 152 with a different professor.

I used to love biology, and this professor was so awful it made me switch majors.

This professor would rather spend her time wording the questions to be as confusing as humanly possible, than teach. I legitimately hated taking this class, this professor is not doing her job properly. The teacher only lectures once a week. Worst of all, legitimately no proper study guides were given in a class which is so insanely test heavy.

She's very nice but doesn't do a lot of teaching. Flipped classroom style.

She doesn't teach very well. A lot of the questions on tests and quizzes are very complexly worded. Made me hate biology as a bio major. She's nice but just repeats things from the modules instead of teaching and answering questions. Told me that non-disjunction (in meiosis) is not real and does not happen.

terrible teacher and not helpful. modules are long and dreadful and what is discussed in class has nothing to do with any of it. exams are cumulative and very hard. doesnt read the room when it comes to confused students. doesnt see the issue when the class average is a 65%.

don't take this class if you want to remain sane

horrible teacher

I hate this class it was so unhelpful and the modules didnt do jack. She also didnt really explain things well and my biggest issue was how reliant she is on iclicker. LIKE SOME OF US DONT HAVE INTRENET AND CANT USE IT AND THEN WERE PUNISHED FOR HAVING POINTS TAKEN OFF LIKE ITS NOT MY FAULT THIS SCHOOLS WIFI IS DOOKIE AND MY GRADE IS AFFECTED.

No lecture slideshow except for course gallery. I despise reverse lecture style.

This was the worst class I've ever taken in my life. Surprised I made it out alive.

Uses trick questions and strange phrasing on exams, expecting students to decipher them. TA's tried to help and were often wrong because of how confusing she was. Feels like she wants students to fail. Always excelled in higher level biology prior to taking this course. (Keep in mind I took this years ago, hopefully she has fixed things).

I cannot believe this. I need to study for modules BEFORE and AFTER every class, and class is FLIPPED COURSE?????? She is just yapping at class, and giving unnecessary informations. Iclickers terrible. Modules terrible. She just destroyed my 4.0 GPA. Even tho I had genetics and bicohemistry before her. This is just a nightmare.

The worst class I've ever taken.