Reviews of professor Raissa Ferron

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Fine at teaching the information, and a nice person, but that doesn't make this class worth it. Difficult exams (even the brightest never exceeded a 92), unhelpful notes, an absurd grading policy, and labs that often felt like doing a ton of work for no reason. Upsides: little homework (labs made up for it), class was often cancelled

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class is basically the biology of Civil Engineering - all memorization with boring lectures that make it hard to stay focused. Ferron's extra credit assignments are a huge grade booster at the end of the semester, but that's only to counter how she hurts the class by giving extremely difficult exams and throwing out random pop quizzes.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Ferron is sweet and clearly cares about her students & their success even outside of academics, which I appreciate. However, her class was unnecessarily difficult and she gatekeeps notes (posts incomplete lectures to Canvas on purpose) and gives pop quizzes. Exams are multiple choice and can get quite difficult, due to large amount of material.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ferron is a lot of fun to learn from. She makes the class interesting and you will learn so much in her class. However, it is a lot of work - mainly with the labs. You have to devote hours (3-10 hrs) to the labs each week. Do not procrastinate ANY assignments in her class because they are lengthy. But in the end, it is well worth it. She's dope.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
DO NOT take materials with her. Her tests are full of esoteric information often not related to anything in class. Grading policy is ridiculous.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Overall a terrible online course. I did not see her rating until just now, and I think it's perfectly justified. The communication for this course is terrible, with labs that have poorly communicated instructions, quizzes that are paced suffocating (two in one day or one three days in a row.) I like materials as a field, but don't take Ferron.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dedicated and connects with her student.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She only gives pop quizzes on days she knows students have better things to do than class (football games, before holiday breaks) which is just mean. Labs take 10-12 hrs every week and then the tests and homework have nothing to do w what we learned in lab. And tbh I don't like her personality. She thinks she's a saint but she's just not.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
class itself is alright, she's not a bad lecturer. She gatekeeps notes, however, so if you miss a day youre on your own. The labs are what suck for this class. Inordinately long, tedious, boring... you don't get much hw for the class itself and the exams aren't too bad but the labs truly get you. Most time consuming class of the semester. GL