Reviews of professor John Laaman

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The instructor posted many videos for each lesson that covered a lot of information that I would recommend taking notes on for the tests. The tests were average in difficulty, as it depended on the attention you gave to the video lectures. He gives great feedback on assignments and answers all questions. The only tests were the midterm and final.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
To preface this rating, I was taking 5 classes so maybe I am a bit biased. To start, he has a weekly discussion and response that was unreasonably annoying, a quiz of 6 questions in 5 minutes. Weekly readings that were boring and in old english. Aside the discussion and quizzes, he has 2 exams for a combined 50% of the class grade, so dont mess up.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Laaman's online class was not as bad as the ratings made it seem. He lets us skip up to 4 quizzes and discussions w/ no penalty. Quizzes are 5-6 questions, but you'll be fine as long as you review your notes before. If you're not good at note-taking or reading/writing, I don't recommend this class. His lectures made history easy to understand.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I took the honors section. For the honors section of his class, he had an assignment where we had to write a speech about slavery, and we were assigned to either be pro or anti-slavery, and it was very awkward and uncomfortable. The lectures are mostly him talking with minimal PowerPoint information. Just write down the most important concepts.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I don't know why Dr. John has bad ratings. He is a really nice professor. He lets you skip 4 Discussion/Quiz. The lecture doesn't last than 4 or 7 min each which is easy to go through. He has a 5 min quiz which was hard for me but from everything was a good class. He also gives you extra credit that will pull you grade up.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Solid professor and fair grader. He gives great comments on assignments that help when your writing the next assignment so if you read the comments you should be able to get an A. Apparently a couple people in our section were caught using chatgpt and reported to the academic honesty board so be aware that he looks for that

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
If you take his online course the only way to get information is from the boring and monotone lectures or textbook. If you want to review anything you better have extremely thorough notes or a free 2 hours to watch lectures again. The quizzes are only 6 questions and often include a question that was not gone over in the lecture or book.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Laaman overall is an okay professor. If you can read a chapter and watch his lecture video while taking notes throughout the semester, you will do fine. This also includes a weekly discussion comment and response. Do not opt out of optional weeks, two exams include random questions on videos/lectures. I did not enjoy the test,a little difficult