Reviews of professor John Konopka

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Took scm432 over summer. Class work consist of hw and quiz every week, midterm and final (not cumulative). Materials are learned mostly through watching vids and reading chpts. HW are math heavy and time consuming. some questions required extra calculation that the reading or vids doesn't show or explain. midterm and final are doable but hard.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Hard grader and there is not time for the exam.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Boring class. Teaching like a robot. You can learn more by yourself.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Konopka is an okay professor. Learning this course's material over Zoom made it a lot harder than it needed to be. He does care about his students and is very responsive. There are weekly hw assignments and easy quizzes, but the exams can get pretty challenging. He does offer some extra credit though.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Konopka hasn't been able to adjust to the Zoom environment. While he may have been a good professor in person, he is by far the worst professor I've had during this time over Zoom. I wish I could say he cared because he seems like a nice guy - but the dude just reads slides every class for an hour, and if you're trying to learn don't take him.