AI Rate Professor

Graphic Design

Summer Winston

GD20 · GD15 · GD90 · GD55 · GD51 · GD62 · 29 lifetime ratings

AI rating
26/100
RMP rating
2.0/5
Take again
24.14%
Difficulty
3.5

The decision

Avoid if and real instruction; only take if the course is required and .

Best fit · Self Taught ProPoor communicationLate gradingLittle feedbackBusy workUnresponsive emails
  • Dominant complaints are ignored messages, grades posted at semester end, and .
  • Many call online sections disorganized busy work with weak teaching of design tools.
  • A minority of and knowledgeable but still messy.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

FairEffort

52/100

Some students still earn As, but and opaque criteria make an A unreliable without heavy self-direction.

Online stresses harsh re-grades and delayed scores; .

Is the course easy?

Standard

45/100

Content is introductory design, but and .

Online often feels DIY; .

Is attendance flexible?

Optional

72/100

; in-person varies but is often flexible.

Online evidence is mostly optional; .

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

24/100

and repeated worst-professor language outweigh the few positive notes.

Online is harsher; in-person has more mixed but .

Course guide

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Grading

Strict

30/100

and graded-by-few-things tags recur with median-based harshness and surprise re-grades.

Format shift

; in-person also calls grading hard.

Workload

Heavy

25/100

Many projects, thumbnails, and .

Format shift

Online and .

Teaching experience

Poor

24/100

Students say lectures wander, slides are weak, and they learn little design skill from instruction.

Format shift

Online is especially weak on teaching; a .

Assessment method

FocusOnAssignments

28/100

and portfolios with limited timely checkpoints.

Format shift

Both formats are project-heavy; older in-person GD15 also mentions tests.

Luni fit check

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Course format

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Classroom format

In person

11 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Effort For Reward

In-person is mixed but still often critical of organization and late grades; some praise passion and beginner-friendly design process.

Main concern

, and delayed grades.

What students said

“The biggest and communication. Overall, super nice prof, just kind of messy”
GD20
“didn't learn much assignments are filled with busy work that have no real goal or lesson behind them”
GD51
“If you schedule enough time to do the work, it pays off.”
GD55

Remote format

Online

18 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

slow or , and little actual teaching.

Main concern

Communication blackouts and .

What students said

“Summer didn't grade over half of the ended.”
GD51
“Disappeared for 4 weeks of the class, assignments make no sense and are graded harshly.”
GD90
“ simple question through email”
GD20

Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

Reviews ; assessment is mostly projects with inconsistent clarity.

Project-heavyPeer reviewsLate final gradingOccasional tests

Assessment risk

Varies

45/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

and, in some history-of-design style courses, tests not always aligned to discussion.

Large projectsPeer review feedbackSome tests
“So... many... projects. It was barely the beginning of the semester, and suddenly we .”
GD62
“Some content on the material.”
GD15

Online

Online comments focus on projects, unclear assignment text, and .

Project submissionsUnclear assignment promptsGoogle link submissions
“There was or textbook to follow. Each week it was unclear what we were supposed to learn.”
GD90
“I only got feedback for 1/9 projects.”
GD51

Student evidence

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Top student voice

“Summer seems like a great person, but she is a horrible professor. ”

Voice snapshots generated from 29 reviews across online and . Credibility rating: High.

📭 Communication Failure

20/100

“ .”

🕒

25/100

“Summer didn't grade over half of the ended.”

👎 Overall Recommendation

24/100

“One of the ”

Theme 1

📬 About Communication

  • simple question
  • Doesn't answer questions asked anywhere except in
  • Not

Theme 2

📊

  • grades aren't submitted until the last day of the semester
  • In

Theme 3

🎨 About Teaching Value

  • I can hardly recall anything she's tought us
  • I feel like I learned nothing from the course

Data context

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Analysis sample

29

Recent reviews read by the AI

29

Lifetime ratings

82/100

Evidence confidence

Twenty-nine reviews with a strong negative majority and consistent themes of unresponsiveness and .

Inside 29 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 53
4 out of 52
3 out of 53
2 out of 55
1 out of 516

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Reported outcomes

A range results lead the reported letter grades.

28 reported outcomes

A range

11

A 8 · A- 3

B range

6

B+ 3 · B 2 · B- 1

C range

1

C+ 1

D range

1

D- 1

F

1

F 1

No letter grade reported

8

Drop/Withdrawal 3 · Incomplete 2 · Not sure yet 3