Reviews of professor Rosario Porras-Aguilar

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This professor has NO IDEA how to use Canvas properly. Tests would be locked after taking them, making you unable to figure out what you got wrong/how to improve. Same assignments had multiple due dates and you wouldn't know which one was right. The study guides she gave hardly covered the content on the tests. She's nice, but this class was awful.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Porras is super smart & knows what shes talking about, however she appears to struggle at running a class & her lectures end up being an unending stream of words with little structure outside of a big title word on a PowerPoint slide. Her accolades are impressive, but she would be better suited researching full time rather than teaching.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor uses WebAssign for assignments and uses a paid online textbook. Tests are loosely based off of the hw. There is a final project at the end where you make a video answering an astronomy question you have. The recorded lectures are okay, it is hard to understand sometimes because she has an accent.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Not a bad teacher at all. Her class was very hands-off and great for students who want to take it at their own pace. Her lectures (uploaded in video form each week) could drag on for a bit, but overall I feel like she greatly focused on some of the most interesting parts of astronomy and I would definitely recommend her.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Porras is so nice I feel bad saying this but her lectures are awful. She speaks so fast and without clarity, and the powerpoints she posts are unhelpful as it's only pictures. She locks homework assignments and there are NO extensions unless there was a genuine emergency. She's very sweet but I don't think I'd take her again

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. PA is a nice professor. She seems to care about her students, and for the most part responded in a timely manner; which I respected. My only issue was the short time frame for our tests, as they were online so I expected them to be open for more than one day. Overall, though, she was sweet and the topics we learned were interesting.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Won't take again of there are other options to choose

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
One of my favorite professors at UNCC. She truly cares about her students and want them to succeed. Her lectures are well structured and she explains things slowly so that everyone can understand. Grades come from online quizzes and in-class tests. She curves all tests except the final. Physics at UNCC is hard but she will make it a lot easier.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Her accent is difficult to understand, she tries to be nice but it is just a pretense. I got A but I would not take a course with her any time.