Reviews of professor Jake Powell

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Absolutely loved this class

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Jake has created a very good online course, I enjoyed most of the assignments. Some of the rubrics were difficult to understand, and grading sometimes took quite a while. This course seems to be focused on a handful of large projects. I didn't find any assignments extremely difficult, and it was relatively easy to keep up.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Not accessible outside of class, lots of big assignments were unclear, but it was super interesting to learn about, and I enjoyed watching the lectures. The weekly quizzes feel really rushed. Otherwise its super easy, and there are so many extra credit opprotunities.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Class wasn't to difficult just a lot of big assignments that take work. The grading for the large assignments is done by a TA who never gave feedback for improvement. Quizzes were a hit or miss, spend hours reading chapter/articles, watching hours of lectures for 10 questions that were irrelevant to the material. Overall easy A if you work for it.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor is a tough grader for an intro class. Points are deducted for little to no reason. 
I would not recommend this unless it is absolutely necessary for your major. Spend hours reading the chapters and watching lectures to have insignificant facts from one sentence be on the quiz. Very dull.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Wasn't the most thrilling class I've attended. In-person class attendance was mandatory (and totally unnecessary). He's easy to reach outside of class though, and I did learn some interesting new things. No tests in this class, which is really nice, but be prepared to work hard on his projects. Weekly quizzes are given.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
So boring. And kind of pretentious. All he did was try to recruit people to be in his program and talk about his job as if he singlehandedly was saving humanity. Thinks he's funny, but the class was torturous to sit through.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He does not respond to emails, and randomly leaves the country to teach a travel course. Not professional at all. Syllabus is unclear. Take a different professor.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Feedback on major assignments is minimal.  Turned in the final project with no sort of feedback on the other 3 assignments that were precursors leading up to the final project. Watch the weekly videos and read the articles and the quizzes are fairly easy.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The amount of videos and readings is too much in my opinion. You don't get enough time to take the quizzes.  He doesn't communicate with you when you need help until the last minute. He won't let you look at the problems you got wrong so how do you learn on what you need to improve. He also won't give you any feedback whatsoever.