It's only been a week with Dr. Vision, and he does not seem like a open professor. Most of the biology classes I have taken at UNC has organized lectures that are great to review after classes. His lectures are unorganized, and he never puts up the GRQ's or outlines at once so I'm preparing myself to make several inconvenient printing trips.

I know it's his first big lecture, but he doesn't take feedback to improve the structure. 1. Reviewing the lectures is pointless since he doesn't put the main points on the lecture. 2. Asking him to do a problem in class is a "waste of time." Active learning is great, but this is the worst bio class at UNC I have taken.

Avoid him because it's so difficult to stay interested in his lecture. Ever since he refused to work out a problem on board, I have lost my faith in his professionalism. We get it that he's a researcher, but 200+ people would appreciate more enthusiasm and attempt at improving the way the material is presented.

Dr. Vision is not a good lecturer!! He should stick to research only! I'm sure hes really smart, but teaching students is just not his thing. I honestly was confused the first whole half of Biol 201. He hardly completed a lecture and would move on before making the subject clear. AVOID HIM IF YOU CAN!!

I never care to write a review, but I felt as if Todd has to be the absolute worst professor I have ever had. His lectures are all over the place and he makes you take quizzes on readings that are for classes later in the week. He cannot lecture and is always being corrected by the students. Recitation does not help and the SimUText is such a waste

I honestly do not understand why he is still a professor at UNC. His lectures are extremely hard to follow along with and does little to engage students. Homework is readings and quizzes (which test reading material that is due in all classes for the upcoming week, AKA you have to do the readings for the entire week before taking them).

Take this class with anyone else, I absolutely mean it! He is the worst professor I have had here, and I am not saying that because the class is hard. His powerpoints don't have important points, there is always a general feeling of confusion in class, he does everything last minute, and he doesn't answer emails about pertinent questions.

Todd Vision is a decent guy, but a terrible professor. His lectures were dry, his exam expectations were unclear, and his grading was unreasonable. He gave 12 multiple choice and 6 free response questions on a 50 minute exam. If you take his class, be ready to read a ton and still underperform on your exams. You've been warned.

Worst professor I've had so far in my years at UNC. Lectures were very borning. He speaks with a monotone voice and seems to have no interest in the material. He has reading quizzes due on Mondays that cover the readings for the entire week ahead. Poor communication throughout the entire semester.

Dr. Vision's lectures were boring and unclear, and he tended to deflect questions when asked rather than answering them. His tests were long and didn't seem weighted in a way that reflected the material. He seemed like he knew his stuff, but almost like he was being forced to teach an entry level bio class that he wasn't interested in.

I never write reviews, but honestly, Todd Vision is probably one of, if not the worst professors I've ever had. Lectures are confusing to follow as they lack clarity and proper explanation of concepts. He also moves past topics way too fast and lecture is set up in a way that expects you to know how to apply concepts after discussing it once. Awful

Vision is a nice guy and clearly is knowledgeable on the topic. However, I did just about every reading, did the quizzes, attended lecture, took notes, went to recitation and still failed the exams for his portion of the class (as did half the class). i have only received A's on biology in the past. exams are 73% of your final grade.

Dr. Visions lectures are unclear, poorly organized, and lack coherency. Unfortunately, there is no real textbook for the course to help clarify his teaching. Even when reading is presented, its often unrelated to the class or contains primary literature about unknown topics. Also, his tests dont reflect in-class material. Avoid if possible.

I wish rating professors a 0 was a thing on here. Vision is by far the WORST professor I have ever had in my entire life. AVOID THIS MAN LIKE THE PLAGUE!! He is a disgrace to the biology department at UNC and has absolutely no business teaching. Doesn't give a crap about his students, rude, comes unprepared to lectures, took a month to grade a test

Worst professor I've ever had at UNC. Avoid if at all possible. Boring, doesn't really seem to know how to convey information to students, basically just reads off the powerpoints and says "umm". Makes the information much more confusing than it needs to be. Makes you want to fall asleep in lecture and then you stress out when looking back at notes

I've never felt inclined to review a professor before but Vision is awful. He made me despise coming to class. Terrible lecturer. Doesn't communicate. Still haven't gotten a test grade back and it's been over a month. The reading material is always from different places and way too long leaving you not knowing what to study.

Not timely, ignores (multiple) emails, and monotone. Doesn't care about students and takes actual MONTHS to grade exams. Hard to respect someone who isn't respectful of the needs of his students. Clearly hates teaching and his expectations for students far outweigh expectations for himself. One of the most disappointing professors I've had.

It was BAD. He has 7 weeks to grade an exam, and wont provide feedback at all, nor respond to multiple complaints. He clearly does not respect us, and expects us to gain more than he "teaches". I think he doesnt care about teaching. You can read & go to all lectures, but still not do well. Ive gotten A's in every other bio class, so its astounding.

HORRIBLE. HORRIBLE PROFESSOR. The worst I had at UNC so far. Wording on the exams and homework quizzes is awful. Even when you 100% sure in you answer, he twists the question to fit his answer key. Due to the COVID, we had half of our class online and he would take 2 weeks to respond back about the content question. He does not care about students.

AVOID if possible. I was present for every lecture and paid attention and still didn't do well on any of the exams. He is very passionate about evolution but doesn't know how to explain the information to students. There are no words on the slides but just graphs that he never explains. Good luck...

TOTAL disappointment. I was really excited for this class but he is truly terrible. He doesn't seem like a bad guy but he is a monotone, boring lecturer and is such a poor communicator. He took over 6 weeks to grade an exam and simply refuses to remain in contact with students or respond to emails. Wish this could be taken with someone else

I have never had such a poor experience. Dr. Vision caused me to have the WORST experience in 201. He took 6 weeks to get an exam grade back and he made the class absolutely horrible because of his poor teaching and lack of communication with students. With COVID19, he made things way harder and caused the transition to be way more stressful.

Never have I seen a professor care less. His unwillingness to take responsibility for his horrible "teaching" is almost impressive. Expect tests and quizzes to NEVER make sense, even if you've read the material 3 times over. Expect your emails/questions to be ignored. If you somehow come out of the course satisfied, you deserve a gold medal.

Dr. Vision is the worst professor I've seen. His lecture is hard to follow because of his monotone voice and unfocused materials. TAs are better! It took him a month and half to grade an exam that related poorly to the course contents and it was so unfair. BIOL201 is only offered together by him and Evans, so don't take it if you are not bio major.

Agree with others (but you can take 201 with Evans/Burch). The actual evolution material isnt bad but this guy is something else. Takes forever to grade and answer questions. His idea of a curve on the final exam made my grade go down from what it would have been (dropped questions, didnt give credit if it was right. This man is wild, avoid him!

Dr. Vision is the WORST professor I have had at UNC. His lectures were very disorganized and he didnt know how to communicate information to students. He took over 6 weeks to grade an exam and seemed to deflect questions during lecture because he couldnt answer them. Exams are confusing. Avoid him if all possible.

Please avoid Dr. Vision, he isn't a very a good professor. His lectures are boring, he doesn't help much when you ask questions, and he isn't good at explaining concepts. Dr. Vision also fails to cover exam material properly and his quizzes are confusing. I wish I had taken this class in a semester when he wasn't teaching evolution.

Easily the worst professor I have had at unc. The material in the class is very manageable, however, it is very difficult to get a good grade because of such harsh grading criteria. Vision is obviously uninterested in teaching the class, and doesn't really care about the success of his students. Take this class but with a different prof!!

I learned nothing from him. Taught myself outside of class. He was slow with grading, adjusting to online teaching, and communicating. His exams were curveballs. I worked so hard and studied endlessly and barely passed. The material wasn't even that bad, the grading style just screws you.

If a student were to exhibit the punctuality, personality, and attention to detail of Vision, they would have been expelled from the university. The fact that this man is still allowed to teach undergraduates is an affront to the credibility of UNC as an institution.

I would rather go through chemotherapy than sit in one of his classes. Absolutely the worst.

The lectures were boring and long and not enough material was taught so when it was time to do the homework no one knew what to do. Prof Vision often didn't show up for office hours. Projects and assignments were confusing and the instructions he gave were vague.

Please DON'T take this class. Prof. Vision was not a good professor, his lectures were so boring and the things he said didn't even make any sense. Grading was very slow and would miss office hours and emails frequently. Made the class much harder than it had to be and it was up to you to figure it out. TERRIBLE

Please never take this class. It is advertised as a class for non-math people, but it was genuinely the hardest class I took this semester. The lectures were long and boring, but it somehow still taught us nothing at all. Quizzes and homework don't match anything we learned in class. Awful

The absolute worst professor I have ever had. There is a mistake on something every single day and he makes no effort to do better the next time. Quizzes are on material that was never covered and points are taken off for them most arbitrary reasons. I honestly don't even think he understands his own material.

This man couldn't even put grades in on time. The most irresponsible human being you will ever meet. Will frequently have links that don't work and forget to show up to his own office hours. On top of that, he's incapable of teaching but makes the quizzes hard to even understand. Avoid this class and man for the sake of your own sanity.

Vision is absolutely god awful. Grades were due on Dec 1 and it took until Dec 4 to get them (leaving many of us with "NR" grades on our transcripts making applications late). Half of the stuff he posted and the other half was just never posted. One time he gave 12 hours to a quiz and those 12 hours were 10:40 PM-10:40 AM. Avoid at all costs.

I do think he is a nice person and is always willing to help students in office hours. But his grading was very arbitrary especially for things like journal clubs and presentations. Especially in this class where there were students from a variety of backgrounds, some (biostats majors) had more of an advantage than others (bio majors).

We are going on week three of classes and I already can't stand this class. His communication skills are absolute garbage. Shows up anywhere from 5-10 min late for a 50 min class. Doesn't acknowledge he has the capacity to make a single mistake. He is the textbook stereotype of what one may envision for an evolution professor.

Terrible professor. Cannot explain things clearly. Goes through the slides too fast and won't even provide us the slides before class. I feel that this is a class that is simple to understand, but he makes it hard. Way harder than it needs to be which is extremely frustrating. One of the worst professors here at UNC.

Im three weeks into this course and I can already say that Professor vision may be the worst professor I've ever had. He can't teach... very boring lectures.... monotone... so hard to tell what is important and what is not. Does not answer any question during class, if he does he gives you no where near a good answer.

Absolute worst professor at UNC. He is boring and takes long second breaks with the words umm in between everything, as if he doesn't even know what he is/was talking about, which you then get distracted and forgot what he was even talking about in the first place. Can't make clear explanations to questions or anything. Do not take him!!

he is just really hard to follow through the slides presentation. even in person, its just impossible to keep up. it doesnt help that he waves our questions off as if theyre trivial. go to SI / PM sessions is all i have to say if you decide to brush fate and take this course

He goes super fast in the lectures, does not answer questions and, after having a practice exam, the actual exam had NOTHING to do with the actual exam. We studied a lot of math and the exam was nothing that we saw in lectures/readings/quizzes. It just had nothing to do with anything we saw in class.

Dont expect an A

do NOT take vision. Youve been warned.

He lectures much too quickly, his lectures are extremely unclear and not understandable, and he doesn't answer students' questions. His tests have absolutely nothing to do with the material we learn. It truly feels like Dr. Vision literally could not care less about his students.

Please avoid this professor at all costs!! He does not follow up in a timely fashion (sometimes does not follow up at all) and does practically nothing to help struggling students. Poor communication skills and very unreliable. You will basically have to teach yourself, and exams are hard. Average is mid 60s!!

Worst prof I've ever had. Reads off vague slides, makes you do readings before class that dont relate to lecture. Students that didnt do well on first test told to drop class or go to peer mentors. Seeing peer mentor is required every unit.. undergrads teach the material better than he does. practice for test didnt relate to actual test at all.

Dude really is just the worst. I could say more but at the end of the day this kind of just sums it up.

He is so bad at explaining things. Rambles, goes through slides way too fast to write any notes, doesn't explain concepts clearly at all. 0/10

Terrible lecturer that makes things more complicated than they are and explains in circles. Do not take this class with Dr. Vision, or be prepared to receive minimal help, be told/expected to do the learning yourself, and not be cared for whatsoever.

Attending his class is useless because he is terrible at explaining and answering questions. Covers material completely unrelated to what is on exams. Find another professor for 201.

Vision is the worst bio professor I have ever had at UNC- for context I have received nothing but As in biology at UNC and am a senior. His tests are hard and it's completely unclear what is going to be on the tests and expectations for written questions are vague. He' s bad at teaching, often rude/condescending, and sucks at answering questions.

he is awful. Read through all of the readings before the exam and looked through all of the power points and he had random questions that were talked about maybe once for a min on the exam? was nothing like the practice exam and he is the worst prof I've ever had to listen to speak. He mumbles all the time and his voice is hard to listen to.

This was my second UNC bio class and it was the worst class I have ever taken. I failed history in high school and this class is worse. Vision is a kind person but he writes his tests to deliberately confuse students and since the tests are our of 25 points any failure means getting a bad grade. Avoid this class at all costs.

has consistently shown that he does not care about his students. his exams have about a 60% average. and he refuses to make any sort of adjustment to the syllabus when students have expressed their concerns. he makes me question whether or not i made a good decision coming to unc.

Every day I question this mans sanity.

Not only is he an incoherent lecturer, he also does not give clear answers to the many resulting follow-up questions about his slides. I would go into class feeling like I understood 90% of the reading and leave more confused than I started. You won't miss anything by ignoring his lectures and are much better off taking good notes on the textbook.

I feel kind of bad when I look at his RMP score however I feel worse for me and the other students in this class. He is truly just not a good lecturer or test maker. He also seems to have no regard for how upset every student is at this class. I think he would rather be researching than teaching but was forced to teach a class.

Dr. Vision failed to adequately prepare and teach students the material. The exams were completely not in sync with the material covered in class (the material was not effectively taught or explained in a comprehensible manner either). Worst bio class I have ever taken. He should've also axed one exam completely based on failing scores received.

Dr. Vision is obviously a researcher stuck with a class requirement. I honestly am not sure if he has viewed his ratings but we aren't just kids mad at our grades and effort, but he should honestly be out in the field and not in a classroom.

Terrible. He went way too fast during class and made his tests unnecessarily vague. For reference the other bio 201 teacher had an average of 80 on the test, and visions' tests had sub 60 averages. Same students. dont take him, take evans

Maybe the worst educator in North America. I was really tempted to give him a 2/5 because he does rock a sick DNA sweater when he "lectures" about genetics, but anything above a 1/5 isn't a realistic rating. In all honesty, he's a good guy, but he should just stick to research.

Dr. Vision isnt very swag money. If you NEED the course you'll survive, but youre GPA most likely wont. Bad teacher and very little help in office hours. Class averages for his exams are 70%< and his curves just seem to only be there to help his grade distribution.

The worst professor/teacher I've ever had in my life. Even if you can get past his monotonous and nasal voice, you won't be getting past his horribly written exams. He doesn't care about his students, and now they certainly don't care for him.

The most accurate thing I've heard about Dr. Vision is that he has the charisma of a corpse. He is an awful lecturer. It's not hard material but he tests on really weird little details.

This man's lectures put me to sleep nearly every class. The material had the potential to be interesting but it was taught in an incoherent and unorganized way that made it difficult to follow and engage with. Class averages on tests were abysmal. Would avoid if at all possible.

Professor Vision is the worst professor at UNC. He does not care about his students and does not teach the material needed. The material should be easy to understand, but he tests you on minor details that he mentions in one of his many stuttering tangents. He never gets to the point, and if he does, you won't notice. Hate this professor!!!

Vision is the worst professor at UNC! Many of my BIO peers have changed their major after taking a class with him. The material should not be difficult, but he tests you on minor details he barely mentions, often in one of his many nonsense tangents. He is very monotoned, boring, and does not care about his students. He will ruin your GPA.

He was not a good lecturer nor were his tests fair. Tests were out of so few questions/points that getting a question wrong was almost a whole point off of your final grade. The questions were also very different from the practice ones and incredibly specific. His lectures were uninspiring, un-motivating, and the class was incredibly tedious.

This class and professor was single handily one of my worst experiences at UNC. No matter what extenuating circumstances you may have, they do not care, you are just a number to them and even if everyone does bad in the class, they do not care. Worst experience ever.

NEVER have I been so disappointed by such an uninspiring professor before! Dr. Vision was far too soft-spoken (even when asked to speak up!), and he spoke way too quickly--a very unfortunate combination. The tests were NOT accurate to the material taught (e.g. he had to drop NINE POINTS from a 27 POINT TEST). Avoid him AT ALL COSTS if you can!!!

I heard bad things about this class... It lived up to the hype. This is the worst class at UNC because of yours truly, Todd Vision. I agreed with every awful review given by fellow students.

so terrible at explaining, lectures are long and monotonous and very hard to follow

Do not take this class (BIOL271)! Second day he was using full botanical jargon we never defined, nothing is broad he expects you to remember tiny details without ever fully explaining anything. Does not care about your understanding and never answers a question directly. There will be pop quizzes, no practice exams, and attendance is mandatory.