Reviews of professor Joseph Robertshaw

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He gives extremely vague instruction for an online class and expects groups to meet within a week to complete a group project. There are a lot of assignments with little time to do them unless this is your only class. This class might not be hard to keep up with everything if you never sleep or you don't have to have a job to pay bills and such.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Robertshaw does not give clear instructions at all for any assignments, so I spend unnecessary time looking for these rather than working on the assignment. He is also not good at communicating with students and doesn't really give feedback on assignments outside of formatting. Expectations are unclear, and the Canvas page is hard to navigate.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
If you want a miserable time, take this professor. Unclear instructions, contradictory instructions, harasses you about projects for hours over discord, approves topics and changes his mind a week later, doesn't care that his students have lives outside of his class, takes off points at random, and his writing does not meet his own requirements.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr Robershaw is a great new addition to the English Department. He emphasis technical work over quizzes. Don't get me wrong, you will have tests. However, these tests will not break your grade. Be on top of the deadlines and you should be good!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is very particular and sometimes contradictory in his comments on submitted assignments. The discussion boards aren't difficult and are an easy way to boost your average. There's one not-too-difficult group project, but you only get one week to do it. So make sure you get in contact with your groupmates earlier rather than later.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Passive aggressive towards students who ask him to clarify his consistently (& admittedly intentionally) vague & confusing assignment instructions. Our canvas & assignments were horribly organized & after the move to online he didnt update us once with even a single announcement & many lost points due to changes in unannounced due dates. AVOID!!!!