Reviews of professor Derek Schraner

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Derek is the best. EID100 is a pretty light course and Derek makes learning it easy. The textbook is pretty dated but still important. The key to passing this course with flying colors is to take notes of everything he says in recorded lectures. Do that, have the textbook at the ready and do the discussion posts and you will ace it! Best prof ever!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
CRI 300 has time consuming assignments. Assignment content is vague meaning you can create whatever you want as long as you follow the clear guidelines that are provided abt application and such. I submitted complete GARBAGE and got a 98 in the course. People who complain more than likely got bad grades and can't follow instructions. class is easy.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Lots of things to work on, but gives really easy marks (doesn't matter if your work is good as long as you've followed the instructions). His lectures have nothing to do with the work. He has an extensive FAQ page so he doesn't have to answer your questions, his feedback is just telling you to look at different sections of the FAQ page.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I loved this class! You will be able to learn a lot since Professor Schraner will give you complete lectures. You won't have any exams, but be prepared to have assignments/participation marks due every week! Participation marks are worth 20%, as well as the discussion posts! The assignments are pretty vague, which allows you to be fully creative.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Horrible professor who cares about himself and not his students.  Hard marker.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
My previous review was removed, so here it is again. Assignments are incredibly easy if you have any experience using Adobe software, and Prof Schraner is an easy marker. However, the lectures are horrible and almost impossible to sit through. Prof Schraner is obsessed with his FAQs which are useless and annoying to go through. Avoid this class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you can avoid taking CRI300, do it. Overall, assignments seem fun to do, but his instructions are so vague. He does not clearly state his expectations of what the assignment should be and what you need to do, making it impossible to meet his standards. His emails are incredibly hard to understand and are barley helpful.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He deducted 15 points just because I miswrote the name of a file. He is not interested in communicating-helping, he has a 50 page FAQ file, and he keeps telling students to check it instead of answering or explaining- even on the assignment instruction page. He looks organized; but it is more confusing since there are too many files for everything.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
If you know basic Photoshop Illustrator or After Effects this class is easy. His instructions are clear. The only issue is that his lectures are boring & lack information. If you can read you're fine. There's no exam, but his assignments are time-consuming. He drops your lowest grade for quizzes & assignments making this class useful during finals.