Reviews of professor Allison Oakes

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lecture is mostly gen bio review, but don't skip it because attendance boosts your grade. Lab is the real killer. Highly disorganized, too many lab reports due at once and many weeks you are working on multiple genetics labs. Keep a light coarse load when you take genetics lab or else it will start to hurt your other grades.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lots of lab reports due, she uses Kahoot to check attendance every week at minimum. Gives out blank worded handouts to fill during lecture.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lab was extremely hard, although my TA was great. She had us do 4 reports, but the last 3 were due very close to each other. There were random kahoot attendance quizzes in lecture, weekly homework, and normal tests. Dr Oakes is very knowledgeable in her field and seems to care for her students, but I feel like she would rather do research

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Really great class, taking another class outside of ESF showed me how easy her class was.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Oakes handled the transition online the best out of all my other professors. She does give out a lot of work and there's a lot of material to learn, but I feel like I ACTUALLY learned something from online school. Don't hate because she pushes you! Shes super caring and tries to relate to her students, and is a good person and great teacher.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Quite possibly the most unprofessional professor I've ever had. She did a flipped classroom, so we have to teach ourselves everything from the book and online Youtube videos on our own time. When we meet for lecture, she encourages off-topic discussions, swears like a sailer, and always replies to emails making you feel like you're an idiot. AVOID

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This is probably Oakes second year teaching the course. She often uses the Kahoot app to check for attendance. Useful handouts of the lecture topics are given in lecture so I just studied from them. Lab was very difficult since 4 lab reports were required and the last 3 reports were apparently due within two weeks of each other.