Reviews of professor Brent Lao

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Lao does a terrible job of engaging students online. Most, if not all students sit on his online lecture twice a week without saying a word, and leaving more confused than before class started. Class covers very difficult material, but he does a terrible job of explaining and engaging students. Then he questions why test grades are so low

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Lao is a fantastic professor. I took this class online, but I feel like I still got a great experience. I took it for graduate credit, and I really appreciated all the guidance he gave me for the master term paper! If you email him, he will always do his best to help! He takes his time going through concepts and it's easy to follow.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Likable but hard to take. Tests were difficult and often had things set up in ways never taught to us. For one test he had to explain how to do it during the test because no one knew what it meant. No homework so only tests and one project+ participation decide your grade. For the project, we were given very little direction. Great guy okay teacher

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Brent is such a nice guy. He grades the tests so much easier than he could. He even offered to give people failing extra work so they could pass the class. As long as you put some time into studying for the tests the class wont be bad. Id take Brent.