Reviews of professor Alex Montoya

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Alex consistently fails to provide feedback on any assignments, making for little to no opportunities for improvement. His grading system for mid terms includes marking correct answers wrong on multiple choice because wrong answers are crossed out. He has also outright told us he will not answer our emails, making it hard to communicate with him.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Honestly one of the worst professors I've had here. If you can avoid him for Animation 1 absolutely do. His lectures are weak/confusing and his exams a literal joke. As in memorize 1 random quote from 1 random powerpoint. He demoed brand new programs such as After Effects in less than 20 minutes and made himself seem very separated from the class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I tried to give Alex the benefit of the doubt, knowing that he has many other classes that he teaches. However, there was an extreme failure to communicate with students; he will not reply to emails, does not provide feedback on projects, and gives impossibly hard exams with absolutely no prep. Classtime is useless. Avoid him if at all possible.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
No feedback will be given to explain the grades that you receive for projects. He is a fan of calling out people in front of the lecture hall. Students who had to attend funerals and missed the midterm were not given the chance to receive full credit, they were penalized automatically. Incoherent slideshows, lazy communication with students.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I had him for 2D digital, he knew what he was talking about but it was kind of hard to understand him, which is probably why he reads from the PowerPoint. He doesn't usually give regular feedback, but if you directly ask him for some he gives pretty good feedback and tips. He can't answer questions if you don't ask them.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Alex doesn't seem like he knows what he's doing. He lectures by reading off a powerpoint, and he straight-up lied to my class about what was on his midterm. He doesn't give feedback on work, and gives different amounts of time for people to complete the same labs. If you miss his tests for any reason (even hospitalization), prepare to get a 0.