Reviews of professor Jenny Archibald

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I actually hate Jenny so much! I would not recommend her to any student ever. I recommend that you take the class with her husband BIOL 153. The flipped classroom actually make me want to die. She is a tricky person. She changes words up to make it impossible to understand what you are trying to learn. Everything is cumulative so good luck!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class was difficult not because of content but because she makes it difficult. In class we had iClickers, and we didn't get adequate time to read the questions much less think about our answers and select one. There is very little room for mistakes. There's a weekly quiz with 3 attempts, but they barely impact your grade. Very little EC.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I am extremely disappointed with the set-up of this class and the lack of support I feel. As a 100-level class, the difficulty is way beyond what it should be, test questions are very tricky and worded badly, you learn all of the content by yourself, and tests are 80% individual and 20% group. My best advice is to pick a different professor.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Quizzes and tests are written in the most unclear language possible, on top of making test grades inclusive of group exams. Participation is required via iClicker but if you don't get them right then you still do not get any points. Flipped format course so you do 95% of the teaching yourself from 8-10 pdfs filled with videos 3-15min made in 2020.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Archibald is a wonderful professor who lets you know actually what you need to know for the course and how she will grade. However, YOU HAVE TO DO THE HOMEWORK. It's not hard as long as you do the modules and go to class. Lots of extra credit and opportunities to meet with her or the TAs.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Hybrid classes are not fun.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Every test/quiz question was designed to trick you. Hybrid class that shouldn't be hybrid and every lecture isn't spent lecturing it is iClicker and group work. Actually worst class I've ever taken. It is basically a teach yourself class about PLANT BIOLOGY. would not recommend. try to get into honors (with her husband) he gives out A's.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class is flipped, and the actual class time is useless, but group work is important so you have to go. The worst part of being in class is that you can't listen to her talk on 3x speed like you can with the lecture videos. Every iclicker and test question she writes is worded in the most confusing way possible, like she's trying to trick you.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Tricking students when assessing them with wording and confusing questioning is absolutely unethical.  Students are here to learn and all that is being taught is that this professor is power hungry and wants students to feel inept. Her TA doesn't know what she means by questions and is unable to help. The professor shows little empathy for students