AI Rate Professor

Communication Studies

Miles Cochran

COMST1A · COMMST001A · COM50917 · 12 lifetime ratings

AI rating
8/100
RMP rating
1.0/5
Take again
0%
Difficulty
4.5

The decision

Run away—students consistently call him the worst option for COMST1A and say the class wastes time and tanks grades.

Best fit · Hardcore LearnerTough GraderUnprofessional LecturesHarsh FeedbackAvoid At All CostsFails Many Students
  • Every review is a 1/5 quality score with .
  • , and inappropriate lecture content dominate student reports.
  • Many students report , and feeling set up to fail.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

MissionImpossible

8/100

Most reported grades are F or drop, and students say he fails people even when work seemed solid.

Both online and and many failing outcomes.

Is the course easy?

Challenging

28/100

High difficulty ratings and fail outcomes and sparse guidance than dense academic content.

Online and ; online also tags lots of homework.

Is attendance flexible?

Varies

45/100

and not useful; others report it as mandatory with little benefit.

In-person often says non-mandatory but useless; and optional.

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

5/100

Zero take-again support and .

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Course guide

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Grading

Harsh

8/100

; students report Fs for one miss and grades that feel arbitrary.

Format shift

and in person.

Workload

Moderate

40/100

Some mention few graded items or lots of homework, but the .

Format shift

Online more often tags lots of homework; in-person stresses graded-by-few-things.

Teaching experience

Awful

8/100

Students call lectures useless, vulgar, off-topic, and unprofessional, with .

Format shift

In-person emphasizes uncomfortable personal digressions; online emphasizes meanness and silence.

Assessment method

FocusOnAssignments

30/100

Grades hinge on speeches, videos, and a .

Format shift

Both formats center speech or .

Luni fit check

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Course format

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Classroom format

In person

7 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

In-person reviews slam unprofessional personal stories, boring or , and ignored emails.

Main concern

Uncomfortable lectures plus fail-heavy grading with .

What students said

“Do NOT take this professor, while benefit from attending.”
COMST1A
“It appears he failed everyone and lack of acknowledgement to anyone's struggles besides for his own.”
COMST1A
“ !!!!!”
COMST1A

Remote format

Online

5 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

Online students describe him as mean, strict, unresponsive, and quick to .

Main concern

and a sense he wants students to fail.

What students said

“He's the meanest professor ever”
COMST1A
“This is the why he is so strict it's like he wants you to fail.”
COMST1A
“One of the weirdly strict and terrible professors I have ever had taken at Delta.”
COMST1A

Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

Reviews do not clearly describe proctored exams; risk comes from harsh speech and .

Speech-based gradingHarsh feedbackFew graded items

Assessment risk

Varies

45/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

and speeches, not a clearly documented exam format.

Few graded itemsHarsh speech gradingPoor feedback
“ and I failed.”
COMST1A

Online

Online comments focus on strict speech grading and .

Speech gradingNo retry on FSlow or no feedback
“I had people in my zoom call for my speeches but their videos were not on and still gives me an F without any retry.”
COMST1A

Student evidence

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Top student voice

“ time.”

Voice snapshots generated from 12 reviews spanning 2019-2025, highlighting unanimous criticism of grading and teaching. Credibility rating: High.

💀 Teaching Quality

8/100

“This professor was quite useless. The lectures are vulgar and unprofessional at times.”

🚫 Recommendation

5/100

“ ”

⚖️

8/100

“it's like he wants you to fail.”

😬 Classroom Comfort

10/100

“he will talk about unrelated stuff like himself and his wife kissing, which is not only gross but also very uncomfortable.”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • Lectures are very boring... and you don't really learn anything from them.
  • He also cusses a lot throughout the lecture.
  • mostly from youtube, which we could all do without his useless rhetoric.

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • a speech but will not get the A you are expecting.
  • and I failed.
  • It appears he failed everyone

Theme 3

💔 About Student Support

  • . So he is useless basically
  • No response. Emailed another time after that and got no response.
  • don't try to help you understand what you did wrong.

Data context

See exactly what the AI read.

Analysis sample

12

Recent reviews read by the AI

12

Lifetime ratings

88/100

Evidence confidence

Twelve fully negative 1-star reviews from 2019-2025 show strong consistency across online and in-person formats.

Inside 12 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 50
4 out of 50
3 out of 50
2 out of 50
1 out of 512

Course coverage

COMST1A10 reviews
COM509171 review
COMMST001A1 review

Reported outcomes

F results lead the reported letter grades.

10 reported outcomes

A range

1

A 1

B range

0

No reported values

C range

0

No reported values

D range

0

No reported values

F

5

F 5

No letter grade reported

4

Drop/Withdrawal 2 · Rather not say 2