Reviews of professor Mehdi Darban

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Bad class. Seems easy so far, but 40% of the grade is based on a group assignment that is poorly structured. And a big chunk of that credit is not counted until near the end of the course. I feel like I'm learning nothing and that I might get something other than an A because my group is a bunch of schmucks. Take another teacher for this course.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I did not like this class because the exams were unclear and the professor deducts points for questions. He has a lot of assistants that grade projects but somehow he's unavailable for his students. There was also one group project and his guide for the project was really confusing and too long.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Dr. D is a great professor. He gave recorded lectures of himself along with transcriptions of his lectures. He also gave videos to watch. You had the choice of completing AWS certification or 3 discussion questions throughout course. There was one group project that was not hard. I would definitely take a course with him again.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
My first class in the program- overall I learned a lot of great knowledge. The work is very durable and he provides lectures that help with the quizzes. He also curves quizzes depending on how everyone scored which was great. I feel the class work was fair. I do recommend!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Half of the entire course is based off a group project.  He has lectures posted online, but can sometimes he hard to understand.  He does post transcripts to his material.  Exam every week but each exam is only worth about 5% of your entire grade with the lowest dropped.  I took a zero on the last 2 exams and still made an A.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Group project with randomly assigned group. Book is outdated considering the class. Read the chapters and you will do well on the quizzes. The syllabus makes it seem like alot but its not bad once you get the hang of it. The group assignment is heavily weighted, but if you put in time and effort as a group and listen to suggestions you will do well

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Each week there is a provided lecture, video study guide, and quiz. The lowest quiz grade is dropped. You have the option between doing an online AWS certification or three discussion posts. There is one major group project that spans the length of the class, but the groups are large enough it is not a problem. Dr. D is knowledgeable and cares!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He's a good professor, mostly teaching from the book, with very little lecturing. So much of the grade and class experience hinged on the group project, which had a lot of luck of the draw with group assignments. The class required a serious amount of effort with him as the professor, but it wasn't unrealistic.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Group project is unreasonable and taught us nothing. Tests were easy but the wording made them confusing. Learned absolutely nothing about information systems. Group project was just busy work, inconvenient, and took up entirely too much time.