So friendly and gives treats during exams! ;D

Wondeful Lab Instructor

Coolest teacher but hard.. She is totally fair and enthusiastic..

Great teacher. Can be unfriendly at times.

SHONA IS THE BEST. Best teacher, most polite, most flexible...you're lucky if you get to be in one of her (many) classes!

very enthusiastic

very approachable lab instructor...so glad she posts dr.gander's notes online

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Really helpful over all the years. Tests are specific, but fair.

Very nice woman. Helpful, and enthusiastic. Makes you want to learn the material. Exams are a fair testing of what was taught. Always willing to answer questions!

Actually makes you care about what she teaches. I think she can teach a course about door knobs and make it interesting. Look her up and take as many courses as she is involved in. Which other labs provide cookies and tea? fruit? Overall probably

one of the most helpful/approachable instructors i've had. Shona makes learning the material interesting.

She was an excellent prof and lab director. Her tests were rather specific, requiring a few hours of memory work before an exam, but she presents it all before you. She's got an excellent website going with really helpful lab pictures for her 209 class.

Shona was my teacher for the "Plants and Peoples" course. She is excellent, every helpful, fun teacher and conscientious about students needs. Our whole entire class had a good time learning about how plants affect our society.

The material she taught could have been difficult, but she made learning fun and easy!

a very helpful professor.. knd and considerate.. overall good exams, wittenberg is just jealous she can't lecture as well as shona...finally gotta love dr.stubs and the venus fly trap puppet in lab.

Lab instructure. Super helpful, friendly, nice, fun, funny!!! Why aren't all profs like this? You'll love her even if you don't like plants!

quite possibly the best prof ever! i've yet to hear a bad thing about shona. the class can be hard but she makes it clear and easy.

Very helpful and fair exams

Good teacher. Makes the classes interesting. Very approachable. Hopefully the final will be fair.

fantastic educator. she was a great help in and out of the lab this term. knows her stuff extremely well. even gave us ice cream during our last lab.

What can you say, but WOWIE!

THE BEST PROFF I had in my 4 years of UBC. Her lectures and labs are really fun. A lot of work for her courses but I took all three of her classes,,,,it was THAT fun.

THE best prof i've encountered so far at UBC. too bad she didn't teach the lectures, but she was very helpful when any questions were asked about unclear material. very kind and approachable! =)

Shona is easily one of (if not the) best prof I've had at UBC. Great teacher, really helpful, and is an absolute sweetheart. There's alot of work in the course, but if you do it then you'll do fine. I think she really wants everyone to do well. Highly recommend anything she's teaching.

FANTASTIC IN EACH AND EVERY WAY.

Her tests are hard, but she is an absolute gem! Always patient, knowledgeable, witty, empathetic, energetic, warm, professional. And I'm not exaggerating.

Shona's a sweetheart! Not only is she very helpful both in lecture and in lab, but actually makes you WANT to learn more about botany! Every science student has to have her at least once before they graduate - a highly recommended course!

You HAVE to meet her, even if you're not in Science - that's the measure of her GREATNESS! She even makes field trips for fun..and she loves her webct (chat rooms before the final lab exam and all!) very involved, caring, FUNNY! and she pampers us with food during labs =)SHONA RULZ!

She makes classes very fun and the stuff she says is very interesting. Always provide additional material for knowledge. Hard tests tho, especially crazy on the ploidy questions

Shona is truly a wonderful prof...she made me look at plants when I never did before. Her good spirit was reflected in her team of TA's. She took time and care with webct, and smiled in a totally unpretentious way even when you were dicking around. Nice lady, great teacher, you learned a lot without knowing it.

WOW I have never had a teacher that is as amazing as Shona. Willing to answer any questions and is just an great person, she even answers questions over the weekends :O. Having met her made being in science almost worth it!

Shona is an AMAZING prof, any chance you have to take her classes DO! I was totally uninterested in plants before her classes, and now i love them.. i'm trying to take more of her classes!! The best prof i have ever had!

Shona is a very enthusiastic lab instructor, and goes to great trouble to maintain her WebCT site. She will even use student photos of particularly good slides and works hard to learn names and make the labs interesting. Shona is a wonderful woman, very approachable, friendly, and energetic. Oh, and she brings treats to labs.

Ms. Ellis is a nice instructor, always helpful and do her best to help students understand. I highly recoomend her and would take her again.

One of the most fun and amazing teachers at UBC. very unique and creative, soo helpful. Her lab exams are hard, but they are fair-hard... if that makes sense.

Shona is a really nice lady who really cares about students. She was in charge of the lab for Biology 209 and she did a really good job. The exams for the lab are relatively tough, but I guess that is the nature of the course.

Shona is passionate about teaching and always willing to help out her students. She mades the material easy to understand and helps students with memory tricks. She uses student's study questions for exams so we always know what to study. She listens to feedback and is my favourite prof at UBC!

Really interested in what she does, and awesome to listen to in Lecture. Tests are lengthy but lab tests are made easier by studying the pictures posted on Vista under the Labs section.

One of the best professors I've had in my 5 years of undergrad. Really makes you care about the material you're learning, even if you're not that interested in the course to begin with. I'd run through a brick wall for her if she asked me to.

Excellent prof. I had very little interest in the subject manner prior, but she kept the course very interesting. Apart from that, she's a great coordinator for the program. Handled my complicated transfer with a great deal of patience and professionalism.

Best prof. Absolutely love her

Shona definitely one of the best profs I had! Her labs for this class was fairly simple and straightforward ( and lots of food)! She's very flexible, has a great sense of humour and her knowledge on plants just amazes you! One major projectreport and minor quizzesassignments here and there that are straightforward as well. Overall a great class!

She is a really good lecturer and she posted a lot of the materials she draws on the doc cam after class. She does go into a lot of details that she won't possibly ask from students (Everything needed is basically on the slides) but if you put in some work, it's not that hard. They allow a single note sheet for the exams which is REALLY helpful.

Class is basically group discussion and all the material has to be read before class. Basically self study and not worth the money. PLZ stop using Tophat, there's like a million bugs with it and the weekly quizzes has to be done like twice each week.

Overall, Shona is a really kind person. The way the course is structured may not be the best, but as a prof she replies to Piazza really fast, and is very accomodating with deadlines and etc. You can also tell that she is deeply passionate in her field. This year, she also let us drop our midterm if we did better on the final, which was really nice

Shona herself is a amazing person. She's kind, considerate when you're struggling, and is like that old grandmother figure. The BIOL 111 course delivery, however, is not as great - you need to pay $100 for a textbook worth 15% of your grade, readings are heavy and every week, and all coursework are with groups. Only take BIOL 111 if you need it.

She's a nice person but her gradings are tough on the midterm. Lecture slides are not very helpful if you didn't take notes or go to lectures. No lecture recordings. She's very passionate in her studies and explains fairly well during lectures. Labs are very important and the midterms were hard, like you actually have to understand the materials.