Reviews of professor Shawn McDonald

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This professor is a really kind and nice individual, but his teaching skills suck! He jumps all over the place when he teaches. Its kind of very annoying and confusing. Chemistry is a very hands on class, which hands on was not provided here. Shawn tried to teach electron configurations without the periodic table... He acts like we are chemist.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He requires a lot of outside learning spending a lot of time studying the material before class. The class was difficult and definitely has a learning curve but that's just the nature of the subject he's teaching. He does plenty of great things to help streamline the process and is organized to a T. He also provides plenty of resources.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The class itself was very challenging. It moved very fast and if you missed a day you fell behind. Professor McDonald is a tough grader and takes awhile to grade, but gives good feed back. This class was hybrid, the lecture was online and recorded, this was helpful for me because I would watch it on my own time and able to take good notes.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you want to survive 200 level chemistry at CCC, you should take McDonald. He's a hard grader, but at least you won't fail if you take Hamel.. Still not the best teacher as he's very forgetful and his online classes were hard as he could never seem to get Zoom to work, but he's very helpful over email and willing to work with his students.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took McDonalds Lab course because it was the only available time that I could make it to campus, but he gave such amazing feedback, I was definitely glad that it worked out the way it did. He is extremely caring about getting students to learn the course material and gave amazing feedback on every single piece of my reports. 10/10 Great professor

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took 221 with McDonald am now currently enrolled in Chem 222. can be kind of a disorganized teacher at times. Chemistry is such a huge subject that it's impossible to do all the learning in class, you will have to spend equal time outside of class studying. Will be in his chem 223 class. Nice guy-gives you partial credit on incorrect answers.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Zoom lecture feel like hardly cover course materials required for exam, speed skim at best, not very helpful when trying to grasp materials. Aktiv was an additional expense for course, get ready to struggle to figure out how to use it's tools. Recommend taking this course with other professor, if able. Talks to you like you're already a chemist.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Personally, I think professor McDonald was great! Half of our class dropped at the end of the term. Yes, there is alot of classwork, labs, homework, and quizzes. But if you talk to him about your grade and let him know you are trying your best as a student he is very understanding and helpful. I would take a class with him again, he knows his stuff