DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH HER! She will bore you to death and the quizzes are terrible and don't really have much to do with the material. Definitely an advanced reading class and text would be more interesting if taught by another professor I'm sure.

TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE. teaches directly from the book and does not teach during the class. she has the worst personality and thinks everything she does/says is right. blahhhhh

TERRIBLE 101 teacher...she has VERY high expectations, but doesn't teach well encough for her students to actually meet her standards. Ridiculously hard for English 101.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!!! This is the worst class I've ever had. She is terribly unorganized, rude, and doesn't have a clue what she is talking about.

Talks to students like they are dumb. Threatens to low ball scores if you do not sign up for the extra class english 103. Is a total jerk. Likes to tell writers that use simple sentences that they are stupid, and LOVES to tell mature writers that their writing is obscure wordy and and still find a way to insult intelligence. Makes 101 way to hard.

Came to class late all of the time. She assigns 20 page reading assignments from a book that talks about how to write emails which should be common sense but creates quizes on small particular details. the class is not helpful. She tries to make a common sense class into something hard. scattered teaching abilities.

Always late to class. Grades unreasonably hard, with no explanation behind it. Quizzes from reading assignments that didn't test knowledge, but random details throughout the text that nobody picks up on. Should be incredibly easy, but unfortunately made a lot more annoying.

She is a difficult teacher and gives feedback, but overall not worth the pain for a whole semester. Save yourself the trouble and register someone else.

Ms. McCue simply does not understand Canvas, Google Drive, or any other online academic tools. She doesn't know how to post grades into Canvas, so I still have no idea what my average is. She is also extremely arrogant and rude to any student who ever dares to ask a question, and just never provided meaningful instruction. STAY AWAY!

Not accessible outside of class, runs late to class often, takes a while to grade, very confusing grading system, and minimal feedback, bad at posting assignments ahead of time, it almost seems like she's very scrambled with her class. It has made this course so much harder and more confusing than it needs to be.

Don't take her whatever you do. She speaks to the class like you are preschoolers. She doesn't post assignments until prior to the night before it's due. You will barely receive any feedback from her directly, and the peer reviews she assigns don't accomplish anything. Save yourself, find a different professor for this course.

She's a nice lady, but she has no business teaching college students. Her classes are a mix of pointless reminders and looking at past students' work. You come out of every class meeting more confused than when you went in. Class is completely centered around 2 major research papers. She lets most people revise, but her expectations are unclear.

saying she is not internet savvy is the greatest understatement of the millennia. she refuses to answer emails, and if u ask her in class, you mayb get a semi-coherent answer. she cancels class 10 minutes in advance, but schedules online classes for later time periods. the one good thing is she couldnt teach long enough to fill the whole period.

Professor McCue is not a great professor. She does not set up her students for success and is really unavailable to help. She doesn't understand how to use canvas so I didn't know what my grade was until grades were posted at the end of the semester. She is a really tough grader for the lack of teaching she does.

Endless lectures where she explains assignments horribly, adding essential details when they're due. She likes to make assignments and tell us they're due at midnight. However, she doesn't allow the assignment to open until 9 pm! The only feedback we get is from peer reviews, but the classmates doing the review are just as lost as you are. HORRIBLE

Doesn't let you see your grades at all. There's only 6 things that are for a grade and she grades them 3 months after they're due. She doesn't let you see your overall class grade at all. Who does that help????? Every class is a never-ending lecture where she just reads everything she's posted on canvas (which she doesn't know how to use).

Horrible teacher, avoid at all costs. Lost my final and doesn't even input grades, literally couldn't tell you what my final grade was. She also will assign things and not even tell you about them, so I received many missing assignments.

Kristina McCue is the worst teacher I've had at UTK. Her feedback is inconsistent and makes no sense. She will tell you one thing one time, then criticize it the next time, acting as if she never gave that original feedback. She can take extremely long times to respond to emails and questions. Her grading is also incredibly inconsistent.

makes the class page on canvas impossible to navigate. Does not post assignments at all or until a few hours before they are due. VERY tough grader.

Doesn't tell you about assignments that she assigns. Does not post assignments until a few hours before they are due. Cant see overall grade in the class. VERY tough grader with minimal and vague feedback. Does not grade paper months after submitted. Canvas page is a total nightmare to navigate. Lectures are very confusing.

Posts announcements about assignments due the night before at ridiculous hours. Try 3:25 in the morning on a Thursday. Cant even see my grades in the class, very nit-picky and tough grader. I often come in the class and leave with the same amount of knowledge retained. Finding a resource on canvas is a treasure hunt on its own, too many papers.

Do not recommend. When walking to this class I would cross streets without looking both ways in the hopes that I would get run over.

I would rather drop out than take another class with her again. She does not post Canvas assignments until minimal hours before they are due, and then does not give feedback on them. It is November and I still do not know my current grade in this class. Only feedback you will receive is "peer reviews" which is useless when your peers are struggling

Can't understand her

DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS. She would post assignments at 10 pm the night before they are due. Promises feedback but never delivers it. Will give you bad grades on assignments but won't be able to justify it. Never answers emails or shows up to her scheduled office hours, so she is impossible to reach outside of class time. This class was pointless.

Definitely avoid this professor if possible. First of all, I am unsure of my grade as we only have 3 "graded" assignments where she simply provides a letter with no explanation. Second of all, assignments would never be posted until either 11pm the night before or morning of making it difficult to keep up with work outside of class. DO NOT TAKE.

Avoid this class at all costs. Lectures are pointless to attend, all she does is read what's posted on the canvas page. You are only graded on three big assignments and she gives absolutely no feedback to you while you are in the writing process. She goes back on her word all the time and often gives unclear instructions about assignments.

She promised to give feedback on submissions when we never once received any critics on any of our assignments. You can ask in class in front of everyone but be careful cause she will go on a long winded rant and dance around the topic and never give you a clear answer. Only feedback was peer reviews done by students who are just as lost as you.

Horrible. So bad. Dreaded this class every day. Never graded anything on time and never gave feedback on ANYTHING. Was always at least 10 minutes late. Rambled about the material in class yet somehow never actually taught anything? Also never cough in her class, because she will comment on how horrible you sound. AVOID IF YOU CAN!!!!

Very boring, horribly tough grader, hardly explains wat she wants from you on assignments. Takes forever to grade. If you have trouble submitting an assignment she will not let you know that she didn't receive said assignment.

She was unbearable. She would say she would help you then ignore all way to try and help you in that class. Would go on for the entire class of ways to help you better your papers and research then dock you points if you followed what she said. Showed up late to class most days and was unaware of how to use the technology. DO NOT RECOMMEND AT ALL!

DO NOT TAKE. This class is so confusing and so pointless. McCue doesn't grade AT ALL. It's the week before thanksgiving and I have one paper graded, and still no overall class grade. The work is so confusing and she doesn't explain it well. I want to fall asleep every class its actually the worst schooling experience ever.

Don't recommend. She would never grade assignment and said she'd give feedback on stuff but never once did. Posts assignments late at night when they're due before class the next day. Was always confused during class and it was hard to know what she expected on assignments. She only grades big papers and projects so you have to do good on them.

Although this professor was nice at times, she is simply a horrible teacher. She does not know how to work with technology in the slightest and it is difficult to get any actual answer on a question you ask in class. I would recommend avoiding her at all costs for ENGL295.