Was rude during test reviews, and assigns an egregious amount of work. The weekend before the test we had 3 worksheets, a reading check, and a progress check on work that was not on the test. Does not make his own lecture videos, and during in person classes you just work on another worksheets

This man changed our all multiple choice test to having majority open-ended two hours before the exam. We have like 6 worksheets a week, and he makes you start a new unit right before the test. Have fun finding time to study for your exams! I got As on the first two tests with West but now that we have him I don't even know if I passed the third!!

This class was hard but Dr. Ellenberger made it harder. He switched our tests to fill in the blank halfway through the semester which went against our syllabus. He just stands around in class doing nothing and gives us 7, five page worksheets each week along with lecture videos (which aren't even his) and hundreds of online practice problems.

Dr. Ellenberger might as well be replaced by the PLA's. When in person they are more helpful and aware of what's going on. He went against syllabus and changed up the exams. The answer keys for our work don't even have the correct answers highlighted. He doesn't even do his own lecture videos. Like seriously UGA?! This man belongs in a highschool.

Dr. Ellenberger assigns an undoable amount of homework. The class was difficult before he took over, but now it is borderline impossible. I feel burned out and no longer motivated to try anymore. He also drops surprise changes to test format hours before the test happens. I emailed him about my feelings and he completely ignored me. Does not care.

Increased no. of worksheets. Doesn't do anything during the one mandatory recitation. Changed test format against syllabus. Doesn't read emails thoroughly, even if its about errors in the hw system (if he does, expect one-word responses). There's no need for him here, he doesn't contribute anything.

additional support that he doesn't do his own video lectures. one time in recitation he said that we can start working on worksheet name even though it was already about 3 days past the due date. I'm convinced he doesn't even know what's going on anymore. Wouldn't be surprised if he gets dismissed after this semester's course evaluations.

Also, we have a weekly progress check and reading check. While reading checks are whatever, progress checks tend to be very difficult and disconnected from the textbook section and very different from test questions. But, progress checks are worth more so have fun with that.

i wished professor ana west (the professor in charge of the first half of the semester) would come back

Ellenberger doesn't even make his own lecture videos... he uses old videos given to him on behalf of his wife. He also did not follow the syllabus in regards to our most recent exam. I wish uga didn't require us to swap professors in the middle of the semester! The first half was a lot harder but was much more organized and comprehendible.

He doesn't seem to know what is going on constantly. Constantly switching up the schedule does not bother to make an announcement. Had to obsessively check gradescope, elc, pearson to avoid accidentally missing things. Pretentious in office hours, hides in bathroom during actual recitation. Vaque replies, always need to send 2-3 emails to clarify

Ellenberger is extremely disorganized and never really knows what is going on in the class when it comes to assignments. Due dates are always messed up, and he gives way too many assignments at once. He is not great at communicating and is either hard to reach or doesn't fully answer your question. I wish we didn't switch profs halfway through.

He does not communicate. Will respond to emails with one word & doesnt answer questions. Hasnt taught a single thing since he hides during class time to allow the PLAs to attempt to answer our questions. His lectures are old ones his wife made. Expects you to know due dates that are not on the schedule & will not answer questions thoroughly.

Yeah no this man is so unorganized and inconsistent... he makes assignments due too early and has shifted this course for the worse. HE doesn't even make his own lecture videos... so useless...

avoid bill at all costs. poor guy doesn't know how to run a routine, answer emails, or provide correct answer keys for his assignments. the course is an absolute shambles.

So unorganized. Assignments due way too ahead of time to study for anything. Inconsistent method of teaching. I'm sure he's a great guy, but it feels as though no one knows what's happening in the class ever because of how inconsistent it is. He has not taught me a single thing during this course.

He literally has not taught me a single thing during this course. I'm sure he's a great guy. Professor? not so much.

Unorganized course and he doesn't even teach (lecture videos are not his)... he is inconsistent and gives little to no feedback... that should be enough to show you not to take his course... although he is probably a decent human... but not fit to be a chemistry professor.

Like many others, I have not learned a single thing from this professor. Completely unprofessional. Do not take. When I asked to speak to him about how I was struggling in the class, his only advice was to go for a jog or walk before the tests.

dr Ellenberger is definitely a nice guy, but not a good professor. The homework is due before you even have time to learn the material. You have to learn new things that are not even on the test which gets confusing. In class is mandatory to attend even though you sit in silence the entire time and learn nothing. he does not teach.

the most unprofessional disorganized chaotic class i have ever taken. the syllabus is thrown out the window and the assignments are never released on time and we get swamped with assignments we arent supposed to have each week. doesnt respond to emails/only w 1 word. worst communication with class ive ever seen. no one knows whats going on ever...

He doesnt teach you anything. Overloads students with worksheets that he doesnt go over during in person. Answer keys dont actually have the answers so theres not much to study off of. The amount of family emergencies he has right before exams during office hours is shocking. If you work full time as well do yourself a favor and dont sign up

Bill Ellenberger did the bare minimum to provide for his students. Assignments were barely graded by him and he rarely responded to emails. When he did, they were short answers that barely scratched the surface of what they needed to get into. Overall, he was unorganized, didn't know the material he was supposed to be teaching, and just didn't care

Difficult and frustrating professor for a difficult and frustrating class. Worksheets are long, difficult, given frequently, and do not reflect material on tests nearly as much as one would expect. The lectures are not his own, and do not match graded material. Incredibly poor organisation. Ignore him and teach yourself and you should be okay.

This class-tested my patience to the maximum. The answer keys for all the worksheets we were assigned were always wrong and we were never given points that we were promised back. It was disappointing to see how much work was put into the class by the students and not receiving the same effort back. We would always get minimal email responses also.

Bill Ellenberger did the bare minimum and was rude along the way. Assignments were graded by his WIFE and he didnt responded to emails or was rude while doing so. Overall, he was unorganized, didn't know the material he was supposed to be teaching, and just didn't care. His wife (department chair) did everything and it still wasnt enough.

Tests are insanely hard. Avoid UGA chem department by all means.

Dr. Ellenberger did not teach us anything. He assigned an outrageous amount of assignments that left me feeling constantly overwhelmed; you can never get a break. I wasn't able to get tutoring or dedicate extra time to learning the material because I could barely finish the assignments I had. All day every day spent on chem, yet I ended with a B.

Dr. Ellenberger unfortunately had a lot of personal issues this semester, causing him to miss office hours. I want to be kind and say that because of that and the class being asynchronous, things didn't go too well. However, he was not helpful in office hours or class. He did not use his own lecture videos. He miskeyed multiple exams.

Worst professor ever. He did not teach us anything. All the lectures were his wife's and they were outdated and not reflective of the test questions. Too many worksheets and no clear due dates. He never taught anything in lecture and would not listen to anything students. He missed online lectures occasionally without notice. HORRIBLE!!!!

the progress checks are way too hard and ask questions that have nothing to do with the chapter or reading check. He skips through the slides so quickly you literally have no time to write anything down and then doesn't post the slideshows. If you want to pass the tests you better know how to study on your own.

don't

His lectures are horrible. I genuinely learned more from not going to his lectures. The content itself isn't too bad. It's basically high school chemistry. Ellenberger himself assigns way too much homework and isn't really willing to help. He is also not at all accessible through email. Study on your own and do participation and you'll do better.

terrible ... that's all i can say

I switched my major from a chem related major to something completely different because of this class. Never touching chemistry again in my life.

I took him during Covid (Spring 2021) and I've never in my life made such terrible test grades. I would literally make 50s on the tests. Chem is already difficult so you need a teacher whose organized and able to teach well. For your mental health, don't take him.

literally just don't

Lectures are a copy and paste from the textbook, yet he skips over some concepts from the book, so when u do the homework or the test, youll feel like you havent been taught the material. So read the book and get a tutor. Or better yet just dont have him. If youre registering and hes all thats left, just dont take it.

Dr. Ellenberger was minimally communicative and read pretty much everything straight off the board in lecture at too fast of a pace. I approached him more than once regarding a grading mistake on an online assignment and was dismissed because "it wasn't worth enough to be worth it." Just an overall unhelpful experience. Don't do this to yourself.

If you have the chance, do NOT take this course. This professor does not prepare you for anything, and you are left to learn on your own. I had a 3.8 GPA before this class and I graduated with a c+ and if that is not a testament to how miserable this class is than I don't know what is.

it's a flipped classroom setup which really makes things harder. Progress checks and reading checks are harder because he doesn't go over the material before u take it. his lectures dont help at all, he just reads off slides so basically is useless. the textbook is online its ok. i had to get tutoring outside and science guys helps.

Paying attention to lectures was genuinely unhelpful. Best to self-study out of the textbook, but the textbook is terrible as well. Memorization is taught instead of understanding which makes it very easy to dislike chemistry. Be prepared for test questions on content not covered in class.

He was not the best at teaching the subject, at times he often got confused himself. Not very engaging during lectures and homework is difficult. Self-taught class as it is flipped which made learning material difficult. Tests given by dept. are extremely difficult.

I once asked him for help with a problem he assigned, & he didn't know how to do it. Few people went to lectures, you are better off self studying. Many grade points, bad lecturer, weekly hw, 5 exams + final, offered extra credit at end. Other classes consistently scored higher on exams. Use KahnAcademy + book. Sweet man, but avoid at all costs!

This man is so bad at explaining topics and confuses the hell out of you. Don't take his class if you're not good at chemistry. I did pretty good because I skipped all of his classes halfway through the semester. If you think you can do it, no you can't. Avoid him at all costs. The only reason I took his class was because it was the only class left

Ellenberger can be very nice over email, and you can tell he wants to help. HOWEVER you can expect to teach the whole class to yourself. He has no clue to help the class learn the content, and he moves very fast. If you do ask a question, he makes you feel like its your fault for not knowing.

Don't. Just don't. Avoid this man. Seriously. I went to all of his lectures, read the textbook, watched all the lecture videos on elc, etc., but still struggled. Was an A student, but this man destroyed that. The course is manageable, but just take it with a different professor. Please.

Okay... so as a transfer student who made A's in chemistry at my old institution but did not get credit (private to public school issue), this class was hilariously terrible. He is a sweet, old man, but wow could he not teach to save his life. Had I had another prof, my grade would have been at least a whole letter grade higher. DO NOT DO IT!!!!!!!

Nice man, but he is very condescending when you ask stupid questions about any topic. Be ready to cry when you realize the 4 exams + final exam(cumulative) are 82% of your grade. There is a lot of homework, if youre not already proficient in chemistry dont take this class. Do yourself a favor and find any other way to get this credit.

This man does not know how to teach. He shows up late all the time and he is technologically inept. He is not a good teacher. Clicker questions are the bane of my existence.

If you are looking for support and assistance through a professor, this is not the professor to take. He rambles on and on about stuff that is unrelated to the topic and reads really quickly off PowerPoint slides. It felt like both he and I had the same amount of knowledge going into this class. Learned about as much as I would looking at a wall.

A nice guy, but will ramble about unnecessary things and miss the important ones. In-class lectures are a waste of time and he makes them more confusing. You'd learn better if you did everything by yourself. I've always gotten A's in STEM classes, but I never expected a class to be this awful. If I had another teacher, I would've done much better.

I think you would be better off just trying to read through the textbook yourself than taking his class. He does try to answer questions students have and is knowledgeable but I was more confused by his lectures. He seems nice but his explanations feel condescending. Overall, the chem dept. at UGA is not good so good luck with any professor you get

He didnt really care about if his students knew the material he just moved on.

You are better off not even going to class because you will just end up teaching yourself anyways.

He will put you to sleep and comes off as condescending

Very tough class. The UGA Chem department is tough anyways but Ellenberger did not care if students learned. Lots of homework due weekly. Tests are the majority of your grade. Be sure to do well on the small things to help out your test average. The final is what saved my grade for this class.

Dr. Ellenberger was awful. You have to teach yourself everything and his lectures aren't helpful. The final is all conceptual and nothing like the tests, which were all math. Don't waste money on ScienceGuyz, just take the L. Tests averages were in the 30s tho so they offered lots of extra credit at the end, which is the only reason I got a C.

When I tell you, YOU WILL TEACH YOURSELF EVERYTHING, you will. Not a single thing learned from lecture. Worst experience in my academic life and so ready for him to retire

He is nice but probably the worst teacher I've had up to this point at UGA. I retained absolutely nothing from his lectures. It got to the point where I would just sit in the back and watch Science Guys videos since that was far more useful than anything he did/said. The only positive I will say is our exams were easier than the scale up class.

I got an A in this class completely thanks to science guyz. I went to class half of the time and have never listened to a single one of his lectures. He obviously does not know how to teach. Tests are manageable if you study Science Guyz often.

Genuinely the worst teacher I've had at UGA. He is so lazy. It is obvious Llewellyn writes the exams because they are so different than when he wrote them last semester. There are things that Llewellyn is picky about that he is not and if you ask him about it he will say "go with what Llewellyn is saying." Get ScienceGuys or you will fail with him.

Going to his lectures is a waste of time since all he will do is directly read from the textbook or go on random tangents. He will tell you that attendance is mandatory since there are "class questions," but he will only do them a handful of times. He will also tell you the recitation is mandatory, but he did not once take attendance for it.

Attendance was only mandatory when he did clickers which was 25% of the time. Lectures were a waste of time because it was hard to hear him & he just sped through the PPTs with some annotations. Don't get me wrong, he is a kind guy but just not the best teacher. 20 pts bonus at the end for surveys. ochem is hard

He really is a hard professor. If you are going to take him, do not take him in the summer. He practically reads off the powerpoint slides and does not explain the material. We had our fourth exam and then the ACS final two days later. My grade dropped from an A to a B after the final because he did not curve it, despite him not teaching us at all.

Very sweet man, but totally inept with technology. Very hard to communicate with. Lectures will put you to sleep and don't really teach anything. Buy scienceguyz and you'll be fine because he does give extra credit and gives 100s on homework and participation as long as you do them.

Probably the most useless lecture I have endured in college. Just get scienceguyz because he is monotone and extremely quiet, which really doesn't help with a class like this

Unfortunately, Dr. Ellenberger is not fit to be a professor of chemistry. He is consistently unprepared for class, does not communicate or respond to communication, does not adhere to the policies stated in his own syllabus, is unable to use and maintain the programs he assigns to students, and consistently teaches incorrect or outdated material.

Terrible professor. You will learn everything on your own

Always 10-15 minutes late for class and unprepared. Never knew what was going on. Not accessible via email. He seemed to be an okay professor the semester before this one when he wrote his own exams. Now 2212 exams are department written. take another professor. I have never been this worried about a grade before, even for all other chems.

Anyone but Ellenberger. Lectures are not engaging and Ellenberger is clearly not prepared for them. I started going to the other professors' lectures, and the difference was honestly baffling. Expect to teach yourself everything, and for the ACS to be a slaughterhouse. Get out while you can, and if not, then I pray for you.

genuinely the worst class ive ever taken. class avg on the first test was a 58 and they gave no curve at all. recitations were all taken for credit but attendance to sessions wasn't required. only did like 4 days of in class questions right before tests. did joint tests with hubbard so the first 2 were heavily open ended and the last were all mc.

Never provided us with resources for the lab final. Tanked everyone's grade 2-3 letters with the lab final's averages under 50%. Tested us on minor details never mentioned in lab. Long 6+ page lab report due every week. Never knew any deadlines or dates until the last minute. Extremely disorganized. My 4 credit hour classes gave less work.

Does not follow his own syllabus. Provided no resources for final exam prep. Never knew the dates to deadlines until last minute. Lectures do not cover the content on the exam. Exams had content we never learned about. Disappointed he taught the honors section.

If you have him as a professor go ahead and buy Science Guyz if you want to learn anything. Shows up to class late. Barely covers the surface of topics. Gives zero preparation for tests in class. I asked to come to office hours once to work through problems with him and he told me to just look at the ones in the textbook. Awful. He is nice though.

Do not take his class. He is never on time and does not even know how to use the slides/ projector. Sweet man but horrible teacher. If you have him I wish you the best of luck.

Dr. Ellenberger is so quiet and he mumbles. He is late to class every day and spends 10 minutes figuring out his technology. He is a sweet person, but he only covers surface level material. You have to teach yourself EVERYTHING. Get science guyz if you have him. Good luck, genuinely. Might as well not go to class at all and just teach yourself.

Chronically late and does not seem to care at all about our class. We have a test tomorrow and we still have not finished covering material that is on it. It has gotten so bad that I just sit in the back of the classroom and do the Science Guyz videos during class. It is the only way to do well with him since all 1211 classes take the same exam.

At the beginning of the semester he would show up late by 10 minutes if you were lucky. I went to his class today for the first time in a month and he didn't show up at all. His class is nothing but a GPA deflator so find a better professor not like there are many in the UGA Chem department. Take the class at a different college.