Reviews of professor Daniel Okamoto

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Honestly I think he is a really nice person. I really enjoyed all of his classes. He does iclicker so be ready to attend his lectures. The tests and quizzes are all online and are not as hard as some people make it seem. Unless you are not even going to class nor opening canvas then you'll obviously fail. He curves all of his tests!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very tough professor. Made it very difficult to balance classes with the test. Makes it seem easy with open textbook exams, but these exams need you to know the details. Failed the first open textbook exam, but after studying for hours on my own, I was able to pass the next few. Nice professor though

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Class was actually very interesting at parts, and he would bring in some of his own experience in lectures where it made sense. Not too hard, textbook reading isnt required but will help. Homework assignments basically make sure you know everything for the tests. Some material on tests that wasn't in textbook or lectures. Overall good professor.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
You can tell he is very passionate about what he does. Lectures are expansions on the power points and has daily lecture quizzes so attendance is mandatory.Tests are open note and online but still require studying, slight curve. Recitations and textbook not necessary but helpful. Homework does not hold a lot of weight but helps; can be hard.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He's good if you don't actually want to learn biology. Open book quizzes and tests, so you can just google everything. Lectures are useless; he goes too fast for you to take notes or understand unless you do the reading, but he doesn't add much to the textbook content. Also makes you buy iClicker (like $15).

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I found the class to be easy with just some quizzes and unit exams (4 units) but the content isnt verbatim so you must study. He tells you exactly what you need and recitation is great for answers and hes great at responding to his emails!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
While this course was lecture heavy, the content was delivered in a concise and understandable manner with many opportunities to ask questions, which were all respected and fully answered. I also found the exams to be very easy and properly reflected what we learned in class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
If you are looking for a biology professor who makes you interested in the subject, do not take this class. Class is easy (online testing) but effort and materials to engage students was not very good. Bio has plenty of materials that help you learn outside the class, but if you are interested in a teacher who can teach well,look for someone else.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He was not a horrible teacher, but if you want to learn... he sucks for that. His lectures are all over the place and he talks more about his research project than the actual course. I got a 89.69 as my final grade and. responded to me with "it is what it is" when I asked if there is an possibility for him to bump me up .3. Who does that... be fr.