3.1

Mohammed Gaus Alam

Computer Science - Jacksonville State University

3.1
Quality
2.9
Difficulty
69%
Would Retake
84
Reviews
3.1
Quality
2.9
Difficulty
3.3
Helpful
2.9
Clarity

69%

Would Retake

84

Reviews

Rating Distribution
Official

5

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4

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3

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2

14

1

16

What Students Say

Good luck to anyone who has to take him

CIS305 - 1.0 rating

Remember this is an online class

CS31100121732 - 1.0 rating
Class Info

Online Classes

100%

Attendance Mandatory

64%

Textbook Required

78%

Grade Predictor

Your expected effort level

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Predicted Grade

A-

77% confidence
Based on 9 grades
Most common grades:
A (5)
B (2)
A- (1)
Grade Distribution
A(5)B(2)C(0)D(0)F(0)A-/B+(2)
Based on 10 reported grades
A: 5
B: 2
A-: 1
Not sure yet: 1
Common Tags
Participation matters (5)
Respected (4)
Caring (4)
Group projects (3)
Accessible outside class (2)
Clear grading criteria (2)
So many papers (1)
Get ready to read (1)
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Reviews (84)
5.0
3.0
CS201
May 1, 2004

Very Helpful. His tests are easy too. It was a great experience in that class. He is so funny...

4.0
2.0
CS201
Jan 20, 2005

VERY nice guy. Really cool, liked him a lot. Just a bit unclear from time to time. If you show a sincere approach to learning, he will help you.

4.0
1.0
CS201
Feb 22, 2005

class is a joke...its great

1.0
4.0
CIS146
Mar 2, 2005

This guy doesnt have a clue. He speaks no English, or atleast not clearly. Most girls wouldnt want to take him because the ones I know are scared of him.

5.0
3.0
CS201
Mar 3, 2005

Mr. Gaus is a good teacher. He has a genuine interest in the subject. If are regular in the class he will always work with you. Great teacher.

2.0
2.0
CS201
Mar 23, 2005

He needs to learn better English. He was very hard to understand.

1.0
5.0
CS201
Apr 13, 2005

Mr. Alam was very irritating. He was not helpful and very unclear.

5.0
1.0
CS201
Apr 22, 2005

Mr. Gaus is a good teacher. He is very knowledgeable. He will help you anytime you need. I had a great time in that class.

2.0
1.0
CS201
Apr 22, 2005

This teacher is hard to understand because he does not speak clear english. If you take him for a 7:30 class he will always be 10 mins. late and then expect the class to stay 10 mins later after the class is suppose to let out. He doesnt help answer questions asked too well.

5.0
1.0
CS201
Jun 14, 2005

Great

1.0
5.0
CS201
Jul 12, 2005

Does this guy speak English or some other language?

5.0
2.0
CS201
Aug 1, 2005

Mr. Alam is always helpful. He is very Knowledgeable. Overall he is a good teacher.

5.0
2.0
CS201
Aug 24, 2005

I had him last spring and I think he is a good teacher. He is helpful and can guide you through very effectively. His knowledge is his main strength. Take him you will learn a lot.

4.0
2.0
COMPUTERTECH
Sep 14, 2005

he is nice..but u cant really understand him..he is funny though

5.0
2.0
CS201ANDCS230
Oct 30, 2005

Great teacher. You will learn a lot from him. He presents and explains things that our book even doesn't explain. Take him if you like to learn.

3.0
1.0
CS201
Oct 31, 2005

The information you learn is very beneficial. Unfortunately, most of your time in class is spent figuring out what he is saying. It is a very boring class, I would suggest to find someone a litte more interesting.

2.0
4.0
CS230
Grade: A-
Nov 23, 2005

Absolutely the worst handwriting i have seen in my whole life!

4.0
2.0
CS201
Nov 27, 2005

very nice teacher. He will do anything he can to help you as long as your try.

5.0
2.0
CS201
Jan 11, 2006

Very good teacher! He is willing to help you to understand the subject.

2.0
5.0
CS201
Feb 10, 2006

This guy goes OUT of his way to make easy material hard. "I'm not teaching the material, I'm teaching discipline." What a joke. Go OUT of your way to take another intstructor. This guy is as much crap as he is full of it.

1.0
5.0
CS201
Feb 10, 2006

No Comments

3.0
2.0
CS201
Mar 1, 2006

Go to class and you will do fine.

2.0
4.0
CS201
Mar 15, 2006

He was mean to me. I'm knowledgeable in Microsoft Office, and I'm struggling in the class. It might be because my lab teacher is a different person and I am learning different things at different times, but Alam just seems arrogant toward my lab group. I would not suggest him.

1.0
4.0
CS201
Mar 16, 2006

He doesn't speak clear English. He doesn't know what he is talking about, and he is as confused as the people he is trying to teach.

2.0
4.0
CS201
Mar 22, 2006

Alam is foreign, and nothing against foreigners, but he is incredibly hard to understand and a mean person in general. He made one of my classmates cry for no reason.... I mean really...

2.0
4.0
CS201
Apr 26, 2006

Not a very good teacher. Makes things harder than they have to be.

5.0
2.0
CS201CS230
Jul 5, 2006

Some of these comments are not true. He is very helpful and his class is easy. You need to go to class regularly and do the class work and homework. If you do all these you are guaranteed an A.

3.0
2.0
CS201
Jul 19, 2006

He was an okay teacher he just needs to be more clear on the assignments. Everyone was constantly confused on whether to turn in a hard copy or not.

3.0
1.0
CS201
Aug 4, 2006

He's a pretty good professor, he tries hard to help you understand and will always take time to explain something again if you need it, but sometimes he's hard to follow and can be unclear on assignments. Also, he doesn't always stay on pace with the material - not a big deal unless you're a CS/CIS major.

4.0
2.0
CS201
Nov 3, 2006

Alam is a real nice guy and his class is easy if you just show up. He is sometimes hard to understand because of his accent but it was really no big deal. I haven't had any other classes in the CS dept. but I wouldn't mind taking another class with him.

2.0
2.0
CS201
Apr 6, 2007

Mr. Alam was very hard to understand. JSU needs to replace him with someone who can speak better English. All the good comments that are left on this website are probably posted by him because all of his lectures were very boring!

3.0
3.0
COMP201
Jun 4, 2007

Great teacher

2.0
2.0
CS201
Oct 17, 2008

He is not helpful at all. If you do not understand something he talks to you like you are dumb. Also, a few people in my class-including me- missed the first half of the midterm because he kept changing his mind about when it was and he would not let us make it up.

1.0
4.0
CS315
Nov 6, 2008

This guy is without a doubt one of the worst teachers I have ever had. His idea of teaching is to put an example on the screen and have the entire class copy it. His idea of homework is to provide a screenshot of a web page he "designed" and then the students must design their own page that is supposed to look EXACTLY like the example. DONOTTAKE

1.0
5.0
CS315
Nov 13, 2008

This guy spent 90% of the semester teaching us things that in the near future will be deprecated ie. not allowed when designing web pages. I have never had such a useless, uninformative teacher. Avoid at all costs.

5.0
3.0
CS315
Dec 4, 2008

A great teacher who likes to explain topics in detail and make students do a lot of coding in class. He explains concepts with a lot of examples and makes students do those examples in class. He has covered a lot of HTML, CSS, and design issues of web design in this course. Assignments are from the book and in exam you create page by writing codes.

3.0
3.0
CS201
Dec 10, 2008

He has accent, but he is pretty easy. His exams are easy if you look over it before exam you should do fine. His teaching methods were to read out of a book (boring) Excel he taught, and really got into it, but, "it his way or the high way."

2.0
4.0
LS098
Jan 9, 2009

Possibly the WORST teacher I've ever had! If he wasn't sure of the answer he would say the book was wrong and he was not open to suggestions of other ways to do problems. He made very rude comments too. I would STRONGLY discourage EVER using him!

5.0
4.0
CS325
Aug 27, 2009

He is a very diligent professor. He is up to date and always teaches the necessary stuff that you will need to use. He taught us JavaScript and PHP in this course and I felt it was a very useful class.

5.0
3.0
CS315
Oct 1, 2009

Overall, he is a great professor. He teaches in detail, exaplin things over even many times. Great guy.

3.0
1.0
CM201
Nov 11, 2009

very easy....but hard to understand

4.0
1.0
CS201
Nov 12, 2009

Hard to understand sometimes but if you've ever had a computer class in hs, then it will be like your easiest class. I had no problem making an A.

5.0
1.0
CS201
Nov 21, 2009

Cool and Easy.

5.0
1.0
CS201
Dec 16, 2009

He is a great professor and definately recommended. Teaches in detail and is more than willing to help his students out

4.0
1.0
ALS09
Apr 16, 2010

Mr.Mohammad is a great teacher he helped me so much in his math class. I would tell anyone who has to take math to take him he is a big help I also took him for Computer science, and he was a big help.And he is not all that hard to understand.If you go to class he will help you if you act like you care about your grade.

5.0
3.0
CS325
Jul 17, 2010

He is very detail oriented and his examples are very practical. He is very helpful but you have to do your part. He is not difficult at all to understand. I will take him for my next web class.

5.0
2.0
CS325
Apr 20, 2011

Great professor! Highly recommended. You will learn a lot.

5.0
3.0
CS325
Jun 9, 2011

Best professor.

5.0
3.0
CS325
Jun 9, 2011

Awesome professor. Highly recommended.

2.0
3.0
CS201
Nov 8, 2011

He argues witgh the students when they try to help each other out. Work never gets done. He goes around answers instead of helping. He thinks he is God in his class I would never recommend him to teach anyone. Not even fit to teach an elementary computer lab

4.0
3.0
CS311
Nov 28, 2011

Great professor! You will learn a great deal.

4.0
1.0
CS201
Mar 22, 2012

He is an ok teacher. He teaches excel himself but relies on the tutorial videos that come with your textbook for everything else. You have a lot of classwork/homework which is good but he is picky about some things. Overall, he is a good one to take.

1.0
5.0
CS231
Oct 12, 2012

He was horrible! No one in class knew what he was talking about or what he wanted. He would get angry at us for no reason. One time he yelled at a student for smiling in class. He was very strange! He was also very inconsistent. He would tell us something is due on a certain day but then he changes it without telling us.

1.0
5.0
CS311
Oct 28, 2012

Do not take him, I know he is the only one who teaches web dev classes but he is unclear, bad organized and not willing to help at all. At the beginning his classes seems to be easy but they are NOT. He gives a lot of homework in very little time. He is by far the worst professor I had at JSU

1.0
3.0
CS315
Oct 28, 2012

He thinks he knows everything, while he doesn't even know what he is teaching. Very bad teacher... it makes a difference between Phd professors and just MS professor. I wouldn't advice anybody to take him

1.0
5.0
CS201
Oct 31, 2012

HE FEELS LIKE HE KNOWS EVERY THINGS STAYS ON EXCEL FOR MOST OF THE SEMESTER NOT AT ALL HELPFUL

2.0
3.0
CS101
Dec 2, 2012

Eh... That's about all I can say about him. He is unclear, difficult to understand, unorganized, and kind of strange. His class is very easy though if you have any sense. But expect to make a couple of low grades due to not understanding what he wants. The second half of the semester you will rarely ever meet. Easy A or B, but avoid if possible.

4.0
3.0
CS311
Jan 6, 2013

Also, there is a comment about CS 101 course which doesn’t even exist. In the comment for CS 311 course there is a talk about Web Design course. CS 311 is not a Web Dev. Course it’s the MIS course. It looks like someone got a bad grade and took it on the professor. I took Mr. Alam for CS 315, CS 415, and CS 311 and I think he is a great professor.

4.0
2.0
CS311
Jan 6, 2013

Mr. Alam is very informed, and he cares about his students. His English is also very good. It looks like someone who was not doing too well in his course came here to defame him in last few comments. Most of the last five comments were made in a range of 18 days. There is a comment about CS 231, and Mr. Alam does not even teach that course.

3.0
4.0
CS201
Jan 11, 2013

Practically the class started full and by the 3rd week there were only 6 remaining. He expects a lot from students and doesn't start with an intro lay-out. He assigns homework from Microsoft Excel within the first week. So unless you know how to use Microsoft Excel then this class should be no problem.

4.0
3.0
CS311
Jan 15, 2013

Good professor. I will take him again.

4.0
2.0
CS315
Feb 2, 2013

Taking him this semester. It's a good course and he keeps it interesting. Good instructor.

5.0
3.0
CS415
Feb 5, 2013

Did a great job teaching PHP in such a short time. The projects were challenging but interesting. I did not like PHP beofore but enjoy it now.

5.0
1.0
CS325
Feb 10, 2013

The class was not that hard. Go to class, do all the assignments , and you will do good.

2.0
1.0
CS201
Feb 11, 2013

Is the type that wants you to figure out most on your own and is very vague about assignments as well as test material and test dates. The class is fairly relaxed, but attendance is mandatory, class work is easy if you're good with Excel, and go the extra mile with homework. He won't always tell you what functions to include, so include all of them

5.0
4.0
CS3151
Feb 19, 2013

Great at explaining his methodologies prior to assigning tasks. I have had him for multiple classes and he has not disappointed me at all. If he teaches a class you need, take him.

1.0
5.0
CS305
Nov 14, 2013

This professor was no help to us at all. His grading is awful and there is no way to know what you missed once you got your grade back. I feel like he could be a great teacher, but he had no idea what he was doing when it came to this class.

4.0
4.0
CS311
Dec 26, 2013

The Harvard case studies that we had to analyze and discuss were great. You really learn about the real world of IT by doing the case studies. The discussion in the class somethimes get passionate. Great course, learned a lot.

1.0
5.0
CIS305
Jan 9, 2014

Not very helpful. His instructions on assignments and tests are not very clear. Good luck to anyone who has to take him.

5.0
3.0
CS305
Jan 12, 2014

I liked him. He expects students to do the basic formatting on their own without him telling them to do. I think that's where some people had problems. He always helped me when I asked. His grading is also not that difficult.

3.0
3.0
CS315
Aug 21, 2014

He's helpful, but not easy to understand. The final was incomprehensible, but I don't think he counted it.

1.0
2.0
CS31100121732
Feb 28, 2019
Wouldn't take again

Remember this is an online class. He assigned group work, where we had to meet in person, in an online class. He repeatedly had to revise assignments, add rules halfway through assignments, and was unforgiving for complications out of students control. He very obviously doesn't know what he is doing and it is hurting my ability to get a good grade

Group projects
So many papers
1.0
3.0
CS311
Grade: A
Apr 18, 2019
Wouldn't take again

This teacher was horrible. He assigned group work in an online class where we were expected to meet in person. He graded our assignments without feedback of why we missed what. We were also expected to read a chapter book, in computer science.

Get ready to read
Group projects
4.0
3.0
CS311
Jun 28, 2019
Would take again

Mr. Alam is a good professor. I learned a lot in his course. He made us meet as a group but I would rather work in a group and do only the part assigned to me instead of working alone in the big projects, which would have been the case if he gave us individual projects. Also, we could work alone if we wanted to.

4.0
3.0
CS311
Jul 16, 2019
Would take again

He was helpful. The case studies and the additional book we had to read were the best parts of the course. Follow his instructions, and you will do fine.

Respected
Caring
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5.0
3.0
CS311
Aug 1, 2019
Would take again

Enjoyed the class. His knowledge is his biggest strength. The assignments and the exams were not that hard. There weren't any surprises in the exams. He would make study guides with multiple choice questions from each chapter and ask us to solve those. All the questions on the exams were from those study guides!

2.0
4.0
CS315
Grade: B
Nov 13, 2019
Would take again

He is a good teacher and he cares about what we had to say. There were certain assignments that were slightly difficult but he was more than willing to help me. The class can be a little boring but he is a pretty good professor.

Gives good feedback
Accessible outside class
Caring
4.0
4.0
CS311
Grade: A
Jul 9, 2020
Would take again

Tests were laid out from day one. Really only had problems with his case studies due to the HUGE lack of clarity & guidelines. Talked to him in person about my problems and he seemed genuine and wanted to help clear up any issues. Make sure to email if there are any issues. Took him for 3 CS classes.

Respected
Test heavy
5.0
3.0
CS315
Grade: A
Jan 7, 2021
Would take again

He is a great teacher. I was not doing well at all, but he was always available for remediation opportunities and for helping me understand what I did wrong so I wouldn't do them again. Overall a great guy and a great teacher. I do recommend reading through the textbook, it helped a lot.

Accessible outside class
Participation matters
Caring
1.0
3.0
CS309CS311
Grade: Not sure yet
Mar 17, 2021
Wouldn't take again

Though he is knowledgeable, he is either grossly incompetent or anti-student. Lectures are unbelievably dull, and instead of fixing them he just makes participation too much of your grade to skip. And there's a quiz after every. single. lecture. Important assignments are discussed in class only, without any instructions being posted to Canvas.

Group projects
Lecture heavy
4.0
3.0
CS309
Grade: A
Apr 22, 2023
Would take again

Good and helpful professor. There are ton of in class assignments like labs so you have toa attend the classes. Bunch of quizzes. Nothing that was hard. One case study that is also not hard. The stuff are sometimes not posted on canvas, another reason to be in class regularly. Requires discipline

Participation matters
Clear grading criteria
Respected
4.0
3.0
cs488
Grade: B
Apr 22, 2023
Would take again

bunch of quizzes and homeworks. nothing too hard until last few weeks. you do a red project in the end which is hard but he will check it with you. SQL stuff are squeezed into last few weeks which can get too fast . then you create tables insert data do some queries for your project which was hard IMO. idk what grade I will get but hopefully a b+

Participation matters
Clear grading criteria
Respected
3.0
4.0
cs488
Grade: B+
Apr 25, 2025

He can either be the best, or worst professor you ever have! I've taken two courses from him one being extremely tough and felt ridiculed by him. The other he was extreme flexible and helpful! Just DO NOT push his buttons or ask for leeway as he does not appreciate it. Very responsive tor not at all. Attitude depends on semester.

Tough grader
Participation matters
Lots of homework
4.0
3.0
cs488
Grade: A
Aug 26, 2025
Would take again

Dr. Alam is the nicest teacher in the CS department. Although databases isn't the easiest class, he used similar queries that were in the homework that he also put on the tests. As long as you practice and memorize how to write the queries, getting an A is very possible. He's also available a lot during his office hours, or through emails.

Participation matters
Caring
Graded by few things
Class Info

Online Classes

100%

Attendance Mandatory

64%

Textbook Required

78%

Grade Predictor

Your expected effort level

LowHigh

Predicted Grade

A-

77% confidence
Based on 9 grades
Most common grades:
A (5)
B (2)
A- (1)
Grade Distribution
A(5)B(2)C(0)D(0)F(0)A-/B+(2)
Based on 10 reported grades
A: 5
B: 2
A-: 1
Not sure yet: 1
Common Tags
Participation matters (5)
Respected (4)
Caring (4)
Group projects (3)
Accessible outside class (2)
Clear grading criteria (2)
So many papers (1)
Get ready to read (1)
Rating Trend

Stable

+0.04 avg change
Jul
Jan
Mar
Apr
Apr
Aug
Last 6 months
Ratings by Course

CS201ANDCS230

5.0

(1)

CS201CS230

5.0

(1)

CS325

5.0

(6)

CS415

5.0

(1)

CS3151

5.0

(1)
+18 more courses
Difficulty by Course

CS231

5.0

CIS305

5.0

CIS146

4.0

CS230

4.0

LS098

4.0

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