Reviews of professor Paul Foster

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Good, knowledgeable professor, for the most part. For an online class, I was disappointed with how long it took to grade things. I didn't know if I was doing anything wrong until the end of the semester. He uploaded videos showing us most if not every step we needed to do for the assignments. Ended up being a good way to learn.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The professor is very nice and helps a lot during office hours. Unfortunately, he does not respond to emails, so you do not get a lot of feedback when you have questions throughout the week. Getting back grades also takes a long time, which makes it a bit hard for quizzes and exams.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor is very friendly and helpful. Has mandatory check-ins over videochat three times a semester. Also has videochat office hours. Very easy to reach out to. Answers all your questions thoroughly and professionally, even the ones that are obviously stupid. Tests are rough, all short answers.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This teacher is very qualified, regardless of what others say. He gives an inside look into what working as a networking professional would be like. Foster also is very reasonable and caring about each person. Online correspondence may be lacking so take in person if possible.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor had no idea what he was doing in the course. Tried asking for help and to fix some assignments, but would always never follow through on what he said. Professor is a very nice person, but is extremely unqualified to teach the course. Might as well have been an asynchronous online course with how useless the class sessions were.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The Best Professor I've ever had. Caring for each classmate in school/homelife, gives great lectures knowing a lot about each subject. If you have any problems with anything just talk to him whether it's during class, after or in his set up Zoom Meetings. Assignments were straightforward, along with tests (which he checked). Works hard teaches well

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I had him in person and he walked us through the labs, personally I think it was much easier than the online course. A lot of people showed up to his office hours, but I think most of the in class section was fine. Paul has very clear expectations of us, and definitely lives by his motto "I'm here to teach you not trick you"