Reviews of professor Melissa Gibbs

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Hardest class. Pointless work that does not correlate to real life. Lectures are just orders and families that she just runs through. Projects take 12+ hours of outside work and do not help you learn anything. Makes students feel stupid for asking questions she can't be bothered to even acknowledge (let alone answer). No rubrics for assignments.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Gibbs is certainly a passionate professional, just not a good teacher. In Introduction to Biology II all our grades are attached to others as we have many group activities. She is also a very tough grader and picks on the smallest things, even if they are not relevant. If you can, DO NOT take Dr. Gibbs.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I thought to stick out her class this year, even with all the bad reviews.. My mistake. Dr Gibbs is unfair with her grading, and unapproachable even if you have questions about the material outside of class. She literally makes you feel dumb for asking. She has such an unfriendly attitude and her lectures are boring and unorganized

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Gibbs is a very knowledgeable professor and her lectures are interesting (if you are into marine biology). Her biggest issue is that she is a very tough grader but does not always specify what she wants on assignments/tests. She also does not post slides, so be sure to listen to any detail she says in class because it will be on tests.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Luckily my class was not for credit, so I could just tune her out. Her lectures were very dry, she didn't read classroom dynamic at all, she would go on super long tangents and forget what she's supposed to be teaching us, and wouldn't explain anything or take questions. A graded class with her would be awful.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
You read then you are tested on it she cant teach and if you ask her a question she says it could be that

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Thankfully the class was not for credit! Topics in the class are things most students already know and she goes at length on these boring topics. If you have a question, she will answer it short and sometimes answer a completely different question. For a no credit class shes fine, but I would hate to take a for credit class with her!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Did not tell students what she was looking for on assignments and then gave them poor grades for it. Gave mostly false information on what to study for exams. Not very kind or approachable.