AVOID AT ALL COST...Im not saying this because Im doing bad in the class, she does not know what she's talking about! She was asked why there would be a smooth endoplasmic reticulum to manufacture proteins...and she responded "yeah proteins" with this empty gaze....come on a Phd and she doesn't know smooth er is for LIPID synthesis...again avoid:s

She makes degrading comments towards students that take longer in her labs. She said to a TA the other week "Oh look its natural selection in third year" with a snickering laugh. The week before she made another comment along the lines of calling people slow. Very disrespectful and plasters a smile and laugh to disguise the rude behavior.

avoid just avoid her. I left the test/final just mind blown. The worst!

Overall an awful professor. If you can somehow take this course elsewhere and get an educated and humble course instructor, do so. She is one to avoid!

Not eager or too willing to help students without giving negative vibes with a big attitude.

just avoid her

WORST PROF

She is incapable of covering the school material necessary for the course. She is CONSTANTLY selecting the wrong answers to tests, given students lower marks they deserve. When you ask for assistance she will guide you in the wrong direction, only to conclude an incorrect answer. Avoid her if you can, she will just make you hate yourself.

She can't teach and she's very disorganized. The syllabus was changed 2 or 3 times, videos posted with no sound, her exams are brutal even if u study hard. The 2nd midterm had 20 multiple choice questions(each is almost half page long) with 2 short answers in 50 minutes. Don't recommend at all.

She is a nice person, but not a good professor. She will not provide relevant outlines for assignments, answers her own multiple choice questions wrong (and it will take 3 weeks for remarking). She seems okay on the surface but her course is very disorganized and spreads everything too thin for anything to stick. Avoid if you can, she is stressful.

She does not cover any of the material necessary for the examinations, the tests she provides are much too long for the time allotted. Her rubrics are very obscure and do not contain all of the expectations for the written assignments. Her marking scheme for the manuscript is unclear and provides the student with no guidance.

If there is one prof that I didn't like in this Uni, it would be this prof. I didn't like how she taught in botany and still don't like how she teaches in evolution. Biology students are forced to be with her in two classes for no reason. I don't believe she deserves to be a prof. Very disorganized and changes stuff millions of times.

The rubrics for the assignments are not clear on what is expected for the assignments, the course itself is not very well organized either. The material covered does not accurately reflect what is expected to be know and the assignments grading criteria is extremely broad, yet when marking occurs specifics are wanted making it difficult to do well.

Extremely disorganized. Often does not know the correct answers to questions on her exams. One of my friends in the Biology program switched into the Biomedical Sciences program just because her classes (Botany, Evolution) aren't mandatory in that program. Almost wish I did the same.

The course was organized in a way that made it impossible to keep up, there were too many videos posted weekly and not enough additional resources provided. The lectures themselves weren't helpful because the videos were never posted far enough in advance to allow you to know the material. The rubrics weren't clear and neither was the material.

Extremely vague and gives inconsistent instructions on rubrics and assignments. Makes mistakes in every test on multiple questions and is constantly regrading everything. Little clarification. Leads students in wrong direction when asked a question. Nice person-should not be a prof though. Materialeasy, worrying about marks stressful.

Lesley Campbell has 14 letters subtract 2 you get 12, there are 12 symbols in the zodiac, she supports ted cruz, is she maybe trying to tell us that ted cruz is the zodiac killer?

She's not so much of a 'tough grader' more of a 'I make mistakes marking and you need to correct me because otherwise I wont notice and you'll fail my class' kind of graders.

She has the most boring lectures ever. Do not even bother showing up. All her lecture slides are stolen from Coursera. So do yourself a favor, sign up for coursera for free and watch Dr. Noors videos so you don't have to go through the misery of sitting in her class early in the morning and falling asleep.

Words cannot describe. The worst in the entire universe. Shame on Ryerson for giving her tenure or even hiring in the first place.

In my four years at Ryerson, I have never had a professor so unclear with expectations, unresponsive to any emails/office hour meetings/etc. She only reviews assignments in detail AFTER we have handed them in, and gives very little/no guidance or rubrics before assignments are due. It's a must to avoid her.

This prof is pretty much useless. The labs are ridiculous and she does not provide any guidance towards any assignments. I would avoid her at all costs. For students last year, they were extremely lucky to get Dr. Laursan to teach evolution. We unfortunately are not as fortunate.

This review is for the thesis course and has been a disaster so far. She is unorganized to the point she recycles old content without bothering to change the dates. Directions are always unclear. Tries to be inspirational but just comes off as fake. Just avoid her if you can.

Seriously ruined my thesis experience for me. SO unorganized. Feedback is given late. Instructions are only explained after assignments are due. Unresponsive to emails. Spent lectures on random stuff but not one time did she ever prepare us for a defence. Who let her run this course??? I just wanna talk!!!

switched to biomed just so I'd never have to encounter her again

I'm not even done her Botany course yet but I am so disappointed with how she is teaching it. EXTREMELY disorganized, lecture videos don't come with a transcript, there's nothing on her 5 slides to follow her with except for images, and she reads directly from the textbook. Sad because botany is an interesting topic but she made it so unlikeable.

Doesn't answer emails. Instructions are confusing and incomplete. Lectures are dry and difficult to follow. Multiple deadlines every week... so many assignments and quizzes. Seriously terrible at her job, I don't know how she got tenure. BLG230 is easy but she made it a TON of work. You can get an A if you sacrifice your sanity.

Doesn't understand how to teach, literally just reads off textbook and makes the concepts even harder to understand for no reason. Compares to workload to that of med school, but doesn't even understand what med school is like and thinks people care to post her slides online so doesn't share them.

Probably one of the worst professors I have ever encountered at TMU. I swear she decides what she teaches 10 minutes before class and doesn't follow the syllabus. The most unorganized and unprofessional prof I have ever met. Doesn't answer emails and when you have a question she says it's because you didn't attend class.

Awful prof, almost as bad as PCS120/130. Extremely uncoordinated, possessive over lecture slides (when they're bad anyway), speaks a whole bunch of nothing during lectures. The labs were even worse; she changed rubrics and activities a million times, even the TA's didn't know what we were doing. I did well cause im a finesser but run from this ASAP

This class is a joke. She makes a really easy class literally awful. It's about plants, not neuroscience! She should not act the way she does. People did poorly because she was mad no one came to her lectures (because they were literally useless and I always go to lectures). Labs were an a mess. Only good thing was she gave projects instead of exam

NEVER ANSWERS EMAILS!!!!! the most useless prof ever. made a whole google forms for questions, just to never get back to students. salty about people not attending her poorly created lectures. whats the point of being a prof if you cant answer student questions and be organized with course content you literally created...? AVOID if it's not needed

I never had a professor who cared so little about students. Incredibly condescending, super unorganized: posts lectures slides 10 mins before class, labs are a mess, never answers emails. She tried blaming us for failing but it was just on her at that point.

I tagged hilarious because she's a hilariously bad prof. She reads off a script so basically none of what she says is on the slides she uses, she says everything once and moves on. Basically unreachable outside of class and office hours, horrible grading criteria, and nonsensical labs. Bio students get ready to be more confused than ever.

Lectures were a joke its all textbook material. I will never take any of her classes again - I actually asked her what courses she teaches just so I can avoid them. Thank god this course is over.

IT WAS ROUGH! She had to take a break due to personal reasons 2 weeks in (understandable), however, she came back & the course was just as disorganized as I heard from stories. Prep to learn the content even before the lectures since it's required for prelabs. I was open to learning about botany coming in but I ended up dreading it like every1else.

Don't do this class with this prof, just try to find some other way at another uni. No one cared when she went on her annual leave, and we all rejoiced when we found out that she wouldn't be teaching ecology or evolution next sem. Good luck finding anyone stupid enough to be a part of your research course you're doing next sem Campbell, lmao!

Very disorganized course and terrible at communication. I thought she was nice at first but the entire course is a train wreck. Little contact, horrible labs (my TA was a better teacher), and unprofessional. Claimed we didn't have to draw a specific diagram during lecture, she put in on the final. She was rude to the TA proctoring our final too.

Worst prof I've ever had. Acts like she cares about her students but doesn't answer her emails, can barely keep track of what she's teaching, let alone takes 2 weeks off in the beginning of the semester and still tests her students on concepts she hasn't even taught yet. She put concepts she told us not to study for on our exam. STAY AWAY FROM HER.

This woman was so unorganized and so condescending when she spoke to us. She seems so sweet and caring but in reality the course is poorly planned out. The labs are unorganized, and she never seems to know what is going on. Her slides have little to no information on them, and during lecture she speaks and is not open to answering questions.

This class was messy. Professor Campbell was absent the first two weeks of classes (with fair reason) and the continuation of the class after the first two weeks was done awfully which made the course incredibly messy. The labs were easily the worst part of the course by far, they were so confusing. Campbell was very sweet but didn't answer emails

worst prof i've ever had at tmu. 50% of your grade comes from in person lab quizzes. TAs set timer of 30 seconds per question. profs lecture slides have little to no info just pictures because she thinks people will post her stuff online. lecture quizzes are worth 10% and majority are off quizlet. BARELY RESPONDS TO EMAILS.

horrible horrible horrible prof, ZERO communication with students, course material was all over the place, extremely sarcastic and passive aggressive prof who masks how she really feels with her "sweet" voice.

Want a good mark? Don't take Campbell. The final was a joke; everything we studied was barely on it, practically off of Quizlet. Prof assured it's lecture-based heavily, but it's literally off the textbook. Focus on acing the lab component and the course work since the final was only 20%. Ineffective classes. All my classmates agree.

if lesley campbell has no haters then im dead!!