Yapps A lot

talks about the most random stuff all lecture, speaks in incomplete thoughts, and SO HARD to understand anything she says

I do not recommend this professor at ALL!! She speaks nonsense the whole lecture and asks a bunch of questions that I'm not sure if they even make sense. We don't even know if we need to take notes on these said questions or if they'll be on the test. She also stays on the same slide for like 20 minutes and in one lecture we get like 6 slides done!

just a no, im sorry but her classes are just terrible, i stopped going :(

I understand the disappointment from the majority of the students in the class. she always seems confused about what she is saying which stresses the rest of us. However, it is understandable, as this is her first time teaching at uOttawa. I don't go to her lectures anymore, teaching myself and hope she gets better at her job for future students.

Rambles on and on. I have no idea what the actual important points are. learning objectives don't relate to the lecture. Asks advanced questions for a first year class. I listen to the lectures on 2X speed in the off chance something relevant and coherent is mentioned. +online textbook with content completely separate from the in-class work!

One of the most unprepared profs this year, keeps adding random slides for some reason, without telling us! Very ignorant and probably thinks it isn't a big deal but already worked on previous slides and have to copy new ones in one by one. Also random pauses and stuff while teaching as if she doesn't know what she's talking about.

Super monotone and talks in circles about random nonsense. often times mumbles under her breath questioning her own thoughts. There is never organized ideas in her classes, absolutely no idea what the midterm will contain

Difficult to follow along to lectures. She mumbles and leaves thoughts unfinished. She updates slides without telling us when we annotated prior versions. Shows her lack of preparation. She also spends half the lecture going over slides from previous lectures. It is however her first year teaching & I hope she improves over the years :(

Can't bring myself to go to this class because she's so boring. Talks about random things not even on the slides so we only get a handful of slides done per class. She also adds additional slides AFTER SHE HAS TAUGHT THE LECTURE. If you don't have a good intention span don't take this class. Also made us buy a $50+ online for mandatory homework.

Talks way too much&stays on the same slides for the WHOLE CLASS! I haven't learned anything from this prof. not sure why we are making these PhD students teach when they haven't gotten proper training yet. I stopped going to the lectures because they are complete waste of time. Can't believe Im spending money on this class when I'm teaching myself.

slides and lectures are completely unorganized, impossible to tell what info is actually important. spends way too long on trivial things and and sometimes straight up makes students read off the slides out loud like its elementary school. take anyone else. hope she gets better

I feel bad writing a low review, but her lectures are honestly so difficult to attend. She isn't good at following and presenting slides. It seems like she doesn't know what she's talking about. We have such an expensive textbook and don't even know how to use it or what to study. Hopefully, she improves :( it's hard to teach yourself everything.

Trails off when she's teaching a ton. Often sounds like she doesn't know what she's talking about. I kind of feel bad, but this class is truly brutal to sit through. She is constantly changing up the slides and editing them after class. If you wanna work from home? Too bad the zoom isn't uploaded until wayyy after the class is over. Good luck.

The mandatory textbook has nothing to do with what is lectured. Bad lecturer and consistently unprepared! It's her first year teaching here at uo but not her first year teaching ever. She seems like she has not received the proper training to teach this class. Hopefully she improves, but do not take her if given the choice.

There are simply no words to describe how infuriating it is to attend her lectures and walk out with absolutely no new knowledge. Not to bash her degrees or wtv, but she comes across as really unknowledgeable when she lectures. She leaves every though incomplete and speaks about the most irrelevant points all class.

Her slides are not good and she how she writes them seems like she's not even sure the information on there is correct herself

She is ridiculously disorganized, runs on and on about irrelevant topics, changes her slides after the lecture and does not explain anything clearly. I'm paying a grand for this class just to teach myself the content, can't wait to see the exam :/

she's basically the "no more than one unmarketable tomato" meme on the internet.

Lowkey shes just super unsure of herself during lectures and doesn't seem to understand what's going on. Most unprepared I've ever felt from a professor... maybe she should think about switching professions.

as respectfully as possible i hope she hers better because this level of teaching is just unacceptable

I think she's one of my worst teachers in my entire education! She always looks unsure of what she's about to say, which doesn't help at all when trying to focus on difficult concepts. Her presentation slides are a mess too, and there is not a single glimpse of logic when she jumps between concepts, making it impossible to connect the dots.

She is ensure about what she is saying, quiz was extremely brutal . By the way she said that she taught in u of Tehran for 15 years . Although Shen seems that her first year in teaching maybe her TA is better in teaching

If you thought Rundle or Delcourt was bad, you're in for a treat. This class is nothing but a mess and she has no direction. The quizzes and mandatory textbook also have NOTHING to do with what she says in class. Basically you're on your own and good luck cause she makes no sense. Petition to bring back delcourt to teach this course PLSSSSS...

Good luck you're going to need it

Lectures are so disorganized and super boring. It is not simply the content itself but the way she delivers it is awful. She speaks in a monotone voice and sometimes mumbles which makes it difficult to follow along. Slides are full of spelling mistakes with minimal information so you dont even know what you're supposed to be studying for the exam.

Her teaching is absolutely unacceptable for the amount of money we are paying in tuition fees. I truly hope she improves or something changes.

worst professor I have encountered. Expectations for exams not clear whatsoever. Lectures are unbearable, she mumbles and asks questions to students without providing the answer. The majority of students no longer attend lectures.Horrible and disorganized course .

Her slides are so unorganized and her learning goals do not line up with her slides, doesn't have good explanations sometimes have to go on google for an explanation bc it's hard to understand what her slides are saying. Slides almost feel like they're out of order and it gets confusing when she goes on about a topic for multiple slides. Dont take.

The information in the lecture slides is so simple and basic compared to the types of questions she asks on quizzes. She expects you to makes these complex and far-fetched connections that she doesn't even bother to go through in class. Talks about specific topics in class and skips over a bunch. Terrified for the midterm.

I know this is her first semester teaching here but the slides are awful and all over the place and expectations are unclear. The first quiz had absolutely nothing to do with her lectures and was unessasarily difficult imo. Class is extremely boring and not even worth it to go as she just blabbers the whole time on a few slides.

So dry and unnecessarily hard

Information on slides and in class is very basic compared to the quizzes and midterm where the questions are very complex. Classes are very boring and half the time students are told to read slides for her to the whole class.

THIS WOMEN HAVE TO BE WATCH, most her time is spent on wooclap, the rest on bombard of information, she teaches like where in 4th year's. I understand this her first year teaching but being a guinea pig in her first teaching was not very pleasant, hopefully she gets better.

I find the lectures incredibly difficult to understand and it doesn't help that the slide decks are terrible. She uses lengthy complex examples to explain a relatively simple concept. She is also not clear about what we are expected to know from these examples and once when asked what we needed to know from one example she replied "nothing" :/

feels like i've unlearnt things I already knew with the way she teaches

Awful slides with no detailed information, yet she expects highly detailed responses for evaluations. No textbook to read from and no useful information on the slides whatsoever. The lectures are unbearable to sit through and only 30 out of 300 students ever attend them because of how awful she teaches. No clear outline for exams in the slightest.

I think ill fail the final, shes super unpredictable, anyone willingly taking her, rip...I think more than 90% of the class dont get her with the other 10% leaving good comments in here :')

Yes, she did improve over the semester. No, the improvement wasn't enough. As frustrated as I am by this course, I'm more frustrated by the "just study" comments. The prof has a lot of faults - she is unorganized and unclear. Lectures were poor aids to the slides - please just explain the concept and stop going in circles. Mcqs are fair though.

Teaches a 1st year course like it is a 4th year one. Spends most of the class making examples that are convoluted and aren't pertinent to the class content. Lecture slides lack a lot of info. Tough grader and makes exam questions very detailed. Take this class with Delcourt if you can. If not watch lectures at 2x and start studying forthefinalnow.

Despair. Lamentation. Depression.

Her teaching style was bare slides, an excuse of a textbook and Wooclap. She just threw out a topic and asked us to deduce what it meant and move on. People saying to "just study it" clearly do not understand that everyone learns differently. Full-time students should not have to teach themselves an entire course, especially not 1st years.

I like cell biology, well used to like it, but she kinda made me hate it. Lectures were all over the place and she doesn't hold back on the midterms, same with the marking of said midterms. I feel like she is way better than this because 1140 with her was not ideal.

Literally the worst professor I've had. Does not care about students, makes the exams so so hard and impossible. Lectures are also all over the place. Someone should review her resume smh

She is a horrible professor. Her lectures are very dry and she reads directly from the slides. Her slides and lectures in general are very unorganized.

Horrible horrible horrible! Stay away! Honestly not sure how the university is allowed to hire people like this. She doesn't teach and doesn't care about her students!

Impossible to follow along with lectures and the insane amount of slides, the lectures were all over the place and it was difficult to stay on top of everything because of this. You're graded on only one midterm and a final, both of which were absolutely brutal in terms of grading. She is a new prof here so I am hoping this year she will improve :(

Lectures are so boring and impossible to sit through. Slides are chaotic and unclear. Midterm grading is very harsh- if you don't write exactly what she wants 0 points for the question. Avoid her!

I was worried because of her other ratings. I'm almost done the class and I can say all her ratings are accurate. Her classes are hard to follow and she talks about a single diagram for too long. At first everyone was in class but by the end the class was empty as it was pointless to show up because she doesn't teach. Avoid if you can!

Would not take her again or recommend her to anybody. Talks to fast, and the only thing that happens during her class is her reading off the slides. It is difficult to follow through her information. Her tests are not that bad if you study for them, but don't rely on coming to class if you're willing to “learn” something from her.

I took BIO1140 with her in person. The course is easy, and the grading is fair, but attendance was low in her class because people couldn't listen to her. The slides were vague, and I had to use ChatGPT to understand all the material. The teaching style made it hard to understand concepts. don't waste time, just study the textbook it much better.

It is absolutely disgraceful that this professor is allowed to teach at any school. I cannot take how she goes on a side rant for 20 minutes in her slideshow (including pictures and notes) and finishes off her rant by saying that it isn't included in the course and that we are now out of time in the lecture. DO NOT TAKE EVER

she is so hard to follow along with as she just yaps about things, very specific and hard grader on the short answer questions, overall a bad prof avoid if you can

Her slides are bare and her lecture recordings unhelpful. Would not take again she makes everything needlessly complicated.

This teacher is the epitome of having no passion, no drive, and no motivation to watch students succeed in her class. Her slides are sloppily thrown together using confusing diagrams from the textbook as her main source of information. She hardly had any of her own explications and when asked questions struggles to relay useful information. Avoid

She simply doesn't care for her students. The exam was fair but most stuff she put we had never talked about in the class. Wouldn't recommend for anyone too take her

She is not good at teaching at all. She is very unclear and not concise when explaining a topic. She can go on tangents where she talks about random stuff we don't know need to know. She is very specific when grading long answers, not flexible. Do not take her if possible.

Nightmare of a course, nightmare of a prof. Tried to give her benefit of the doubt after reading her reviews but nope- failed both the midterm and final. She really doesn't hold back & barely even cares about her students. Only reason I passed the course is the lab portion. Avoid her at all costs. Lost my motivation & will to live after this course

If you care about your time, marks, and passion for biology, then just DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS!

I took BIO1140 course in person.Honestly it's not a hard course. Many things is high school review. Her teaching is so bad that I even forget things I know. I had to teach myself everything before the final exam. Her slides are very bad. Only thing good about this course is the labs. My advice is do the practice quizzes and short answers she posts

If you have a choice, DO NOT pick her. The first midterm was crazy hard, and the final exam did not focus on the main ideas like GPCRs, RTKs, etc... Included topics we did NOT go through in class or any of her slides. STAY AWAY FROM HER she will end your GPA

She's a nice person but isn't the best professor. Please don't waste your money and buy the textbook just do the free trial we didn't even use it. Her lectures are disorganized and very dull and it's sometimes hard to follow along. Her midterms/finals are fair tho they're not bad but very tough grading. She is nice tho to help out students.

what the hell was that final. gives a free 25% with quizzes though which was helpful.

Very bad professor. Hard lectures and always reads off the slides. Very hard tests and tough marker.

She seems like a nice person, but her teaching is all over the place. The midterm and the final exams covered extremely specific concepts instead of focusing on the general principles. It felt like she wasn't even trying to evaluate the understanding of the course, but to try and weed out students by using extremely specific topics.

Midterm was not that difficult, and gave 25% free marks from quizzes. Final was horrific.

She is a nice professor in the sense of a person, but that final was so violating that me sitting here writing this review gives me rectal pain. I don't know if our marks were simply too high for the faculty and she received some guidance to change that and got over zealous, but there was no need to make 6/8 questions on the final about RTK.

Take any class taught by her to tank your gpa

She gets off topic really easily, which really was one of the things I didn't like about this prof.

Dr. Vahideh is kind but struggles with organization and focus in her lectures. While the quizzes helped boost grades, the exams included irrelevant questions and her grading was very strict, requiring overly specific answers. Her teaching style could use improvement in clarity and structure.

Okay so the semester just started so I'm not exactly sure how her grading works, however, I do not recommend for anyone with a sane mind to take her class. She goes off topic all the time, yaps too much, and doesn't seem to know what she's talking about ever. She's quite difficult to understand as well, takes long pauses and mispronounces words..:(

My sincerest apologies to anyone who takes this class. The prof is a nice person but midterm and exam grading scheme will make you tear your hair out. Lectures aren't worth attending, just pick a god and pray. Bless the labs and online quizzes that allowed me to pass.

do not take bio 1140 with her, spare yourself the trouble. She has learning outcomes at the end of each powerpoint, which you'd think would be a good guideline to know for exams but no, she had the most random hyper specific questions for the whole midterm, it's impossible to study for something so unpredictable. Regretting my life choices

I have to agree with the other reviews. Despite giving her a fair chance, her explanations were unclear, and I ended up teaching myself. The learning outcomes were almost pointless, and she doesn't use the textbook for exams. This class completely killed my interest in bio—avoid it unless you're already solid in the subject.

This professor is not good and the midterm was terrible, I have never failed anything before but her midterm was the first thing I have failed. Absolutely terrible.

I failed the midterm. And the CLASS AVERAGE WAS 53%. Most people failed and some barely passed. If I was you never take that class with this prof. SHE IS HORRIBLE

The best thing I can say about her is that she seems nice, and does put effort in.However, her lectures are inane. She rambles about topic that are a) not relevant or b) extremely specific, while neglecting more important, big-picture content.

This course covers important content, too bad the prof has no clue how to teach it. Lectures are off topic rambles full of irrelevant info that never shows up on exams. To pass, you have to teach yourself everything because her lectures are background noise. No structure, no clarity and 0 chance you'll leave the lecture feeling even a bit smarter.

terrible lecturing, very softspoken and rambles on and on just like ChatGPT.

I thought the other comments for over-exaggerating. spoiler alert!!! they're not!!! she seems like a nice person but is horrible at teaching, does not make clear lecture slides, and makes the content extremely uninteresting. there's literally no reason a first year bio class should have such a low average. people didn't even do THIS bad in physics.

They just ramble on and on and dont explicitly say the main points. Not considerate of notetakers.

she will just read off her lecture slide. not specific on what you should focus more on. just keep talking about not important stuff. the grading was strict, but it was done by TAs, so it was not her fault. I would say do yourself a favour and avoid her. She is a good person, but I can't say the same thing about her teaching methods.

Haven't finished the course yet, but she really sucks, please avoid the class if you can.

I never wore a seat belt while driving to university in hopes of NOT MAKING to her class!

Poor lectures with little to no substance or guidance for extremely strict grading and wildly random and unpredictably convoluted exam questions. Luckily there are free marks - not enough to save face for this prof unfortunately.

It's been almost 2 years since I took her course, I'm just here cuz I just got a traumatic flashback of how bad it was. Yeah don't take her if you can. She's terrible :)

Nice but horrible at teaching. Lectures dive into diagrams with no labels, no words, only verbal explanation (skipped any writing). Midterm had super specific questions that nobody understood. Midterm average was 53% and she said that was better than others. She will ramble incoherently about things. Impossible to memorize. I'm a bio major btw.

I had to teach myself this entire course...

Half the time you can barely understand her. The course material she covers is mostly high school material, but the way she teaches it makes it harder to understand. Be ready to learn it yourself and focus on the learning outcomes.

Do not waste your time going to her class TRUST ME. It is a better use of your time to just learn the material on your own. This class is honestly not as hard as people make it out to be, if you know the content well then you should be able to do decent. But she is NOT going to be helpful in getting you a good mark.

This prof is extremely monotone and talks way to fast. Unless you understand the content the review sessions are useless. A lot of very tedious material to learn and she makes understanding in class not an easy job. The only thing that I appreciated is that weight of all the work makes sense and it's easy to recover if you mess up the midterm.

Save yourself the trouble. She doesn't know how to teach, all she does it talk at you and to you. It is very difficult to understand. The review sessions are useless. I am a very good student and this class was horrible, difficult and not worth the cost of tuition. Find yourself a different professor.

She cannot teach well at all, you have to self-teach. Went into this final with an A, came out with a C+. Final was brutal, she said final was cumulative, but it was based on the last 2 lectures. You can't understand what she's saying. The class is content heavy and has written answer and multiple choice questions. AVOID!

RUN!!!!!!!

Went to every class, still disliked this class the most and I LOVE cell and molecular biology as a subject. I had her for her first semester teaching ever. It was just a mess. Midterm was practically all copy and paste from the practice questions she gave in class, which gave me a false sense of security for the final. Run while u have the chance

This prof is confusing and disorganized. She jumps through topics with little clarity, leaving students lost. Explanations often make concepts harder to grasp, and it's difficult to follow her lectures. Overall, not effective for learning bio. AVOID!!!

She's like the only English BIO1140 prof, so good luck. At this point, it's just an initiation for any bio-related degree to take her. Pay attention to the specific formatting of how she wants you to respond to short answer questions.

Poor lectures, nothing is understandable, but she expects A LOT on the midterm. Grading is done by TAs and they are really harsh on it. I went to her office hours and she treated me like I'm stupid asf. Unfortunately, she was the only prof who was teaching this course so I had no choice. If you guys have choices, please avoid.

Biology was my strong suit in high school however after taking her class I feel like not only have I learned nothing but I know nothing as well. your grade is only from 3 quizzes, a midterm, and a culmanative final. the midterm was literally the hardest thing I have ever written, I fear its a canon event for all Uottawa freshman sorry :(

I used to LOVE bio, got a 94 in HS, this class has made me HATE IT. doesn't even try to make questions cohesive, purposely tricks you on those "select all that are true" questions. Im fearing for my life on this final, RUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

Not the best. Her short-answer questions are confusing and the marking scheme is EXTREMELY specific. If you don't know the exact answer you probably will not get any points. Also very hard to ask questions in class because she is very dismissive. Some questions on exams are repeated from her review session so that is helpful.