Reviews of professor John McDonald

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Online lectures feel lazy and outdated since he uses recorded AUDIO from 2019/2020 with no visual aid, making it hard to follow for note-taking. Exams, done IRL at CASA, do follow his lectures, but he tests on every detail he talks about. Study guides are more like study topics. Studied hard and got an A, but his class could have been set up better

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's honestly the worst professor I've had. If you ever think about taking his classes online, DONT! He is very lazy to reply back my emails, he lied to me and every online student about the tests being online. Uses old lectures and refuses to help any of us, Dosent matter if he is nice. McDonald is the worst professor. Do not take his class online

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
He's a super chill professor that really cares for his students and wants you to do well. I took him online for a winter mini and its way better than taking a full semester course. Easy inquisitive assignments and 3 exams. Listen to the exam recordings and follow along with the ppts and you will do well.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you want a professor who: favors quantity of work over quality, moves paper & not your brain, is inconsistent (sloppy) with assignment references/instructions, penalizes you for following HIS instructions, adheres to his own personal answer key & not one generally shared by colleagues and Webster's, take his class. I did, and I will not again.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Fine professor

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
There are so many homework in this class. I am extremely exhausted. He has never been clarified students grade as well, that made me so confused. I feel down because I usually compare myself with other classmates. At least he is really attentive and care for his students.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is a newbie in EVC, but overall he is not too bad. The only problem is omg, there are so much homework and test after finishing a chapter in a book, he made us do some assignments outside the book as well. I'm feeling stressed at some point in his class cuz so much homework.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor McDonald is truly one of the best ESL teacher I have ever chose. He really cares about his student and always give accurate comments about assignments which I have done as well as explaining the questions of other students. My writing skill has tremendously improved, and I am more confident with my vocabulary when I finished this class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Awful, Just pure awful.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I took him during the fall 2023 semester. He was very funny and easy to approach. He definitely wanted students to pass. Some of the test questions were weird and very specific, but it wasn't too insanely difficult. I did not have fun with the inquisitives and watching an entire lecture every week, but it was bareable.