Reviews of professor Marvin Jackson

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The best professor! Every week has a planned out schedule with daily due dates. Pearson Revel online textbook for reading along with quizzes. Always has discussions with quiz to videos, typically are 30 min or 1 hr. Shows EXACTLY what we wants for exam essays, terms, and other assignment. Final exam is optional with more than 455 overall points!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I would never take again!! He took a very long time to respond to any work, quizzes, and questions. His grading was bad, and there was no extra credit given! This was supposed to be a history class about America, and it ended up being an African American history class! There was hardly anything about the USA, or any of the wars we went through etc.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took this class Summer 2022. As expected, there was a lot of homework. There are 4 exams, but the lowest grade got dropped. I took notes for the lectures, and did the study guides which definitely helped. There were discussions, in which a few did help on the essay portions of the exams. I would definitely take this class again as it was online.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Jackson was one to remember. He did a great job maintaining the students' attention, and assigning a consistent homework scedule. His grading is unique and based on points rather than percentage. A 93% can be a B which is a little odd. His homework can be challenging at times, his lectures long, but overall he is a great teacher.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
 The class is easy and very informative. I learned a lot in his class. It can be a lot of writing but it is very useful during his Exams. I would definitely recommend taking his class. I took both 17A and 17B and I really enjoyed both of them.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Class can be completed at your own pace. He doesn't except late work but the work is pretty easy.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Good teacher, however he has a decent amount of lectures and discussions.  As long as you pay attention and participate youll be perfectly fine.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
His lectures are passionate and savvy. His classes are very suitable for learning new things. However, the homework is too much and irregular. Sometimes, there is no time to watch the lecture videos. There are so many events, people, and vocabulary that it is hard to grasp the whole picture. I wish it could be divided into two semesters.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Best history teacher I've ever taken at Merced. Clear grading criteria, Drops lowest test score, uses revel, and one essay question per exam 5 paragraph minimum. He was very helpful with everything I am not a history person and he was very much helpful and always answered back to emails fast.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
A pretty good amount of work for an online class. Must buy the textbook to complete work through that and on Canvas. Weekly discussion boards and the exams are particular but he teaches exactly how to do them. You have a 3 hour window to complete the exams once you begin.