AI Rate Professor

Communication

James Maritato

COMMV01 · COMMV10 · COMMV16 · COMM70109 · COMMVO1 · COMM31991 · 53 lifetime ratings

AI rating
14/100
RMP rating
1.5/5
Take again
9.26%
Difficulty
4.6

The decision

Do not take James Maritato unless you have no choice and can tolerate harsh, non-constructive criticism.

Best fit · Hardcore LearnerHarsh degrading feedbackTough graderHigh drop rateRude communicationRun away
  • Students overwhelmingly describe rude, condescending feedback that criticizes without teaching how to improve.
  • and subjective, with and late grade bombs.
  • Even students who earn As say never again because of stress and humiliation.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

MissionImpossible

18/100

Even strong students report tiny errors wiping scores, pass-fail style zeros, and As that feel lucky rather than earned fairly.

Online reviews stress late grade bombs; and papers.

Is the course easy?

Challenging

28/100

Course content is community-college comm material, but vague instructions and harsh standards make it feel much harder.

Both formats call the class not intellectually advanced but practically brutal to pass cleanly.

Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

30/100

as required, and skip-class tags warn you will not pass.

In-person leans more mandatory; online is mixed but still often flags participation and .

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

10/100

because students feel degraded, not taught, regardless of the grade earned.

and in person, with only rare hardcore exceptions.

Course guide

See how this professor fits your week.

Grading

Harsh

12/100

; minor errors, captions, timing, or wording can destroy scores with little recovery.

Format shift

; online emphasizes long critical emails, in-person emphasizes live critique.

Workload

Heavy

30/100

Speeches, peer reviews, papers, and GE-style class.

Format shift

Online peer-review loads and .

Teaching experience

Awful

18/100

Students say he does not teach improvement paths and instead delivers rude criticism that destroys class climate.

Format shift

A few older positive outliers exist, but the large majority across formats rate teaching as hostile.

Assessment method

FocusOnAssignments

35/100

Grades revolve around speeches, peer reviews, papers, and participation more than traditional exams.

Format shift

Both formats emphasize presentations and .

Luni fit check

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Course format

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Classroom format

In person

21 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

In-person students describe mandatory participation, public humiliation, late arrivals, and a hostile peer-review climate.

Main concern

Classroom tone is degrading and attendance or presentation style can .

What students said

“ be fired.”
COMMV10
“This professor creates a negative learning environment for a debate course that should be comfortable.”
COMMV10
“ ! berated me for my accommodation needs”
COMMV01

Remote format

Online

29 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

Online students report wall-of-text degrading emails, , and frequent withdrawals from public speaking and intro comm courses.

Main concern

, and grades can crash late in the term.

What students said

“RUN FAR!”
COMMV01
“I ended up withdrawing with a W just because I didn't feel like being slandered .”
COMMV01
“This guy is over critical and doesn't give any credit for even trying to follow his instruction.”
COMMVO1

Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

Assessment centers on strictly graded speeches and assignments with little mercy and .

Harsh presentation gradingSubjective speech rubricsNo late work

Assessment risk

Strict

32/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

presentations and papers rather than software-proctored exams.

Live presentation critiqueParticipation heavyAppearance sometimes graded
“You WILL get marked down on your appearance if not up to par.”
COMMVO1
“he will absolutely use his students to ruthlessly tear you apart in peer review.”
COMMV10

Online

Online reviews do not clearly prove webcam proctoring; risk comes from harsh speech and .

Harsh speech gradingNo late workLate grade dumps
“You can do exactly as he directed but he'll find one minor error and .”
COMMV01
“ . I went from having a B to a 42% because I made a mistake on 1 assignment.”
COMMVO1

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“The only reason you should enroll in this course is if you hate yourself!”

Voice snapshots generated from 50 reviews across online and and grade risk. Credibility rating: High.

💥 Teaching Climate

18/100

“If you have any self love/ .”

👎 Recommendation Rate

10/100

“ .”

🪓

12/100

“he'll find one minor error and .”

📧

15/100

“ .”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • He does not know how to teach.
  • Loves telling you everything you did wrong but will not tell you how to improve.
  • He is rude and goes by whatever he wants too.

Theme 2

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • This was by far the luckiest A ever.
  • I got an A. Never again.
  • Most grades are pass or fail so beware.

Theme 3

💔 About Classroom Climate

  • Terrible environment
  • berated me for my accommodation needs
  • Never cried harder over a professor/class in my life.

Data context

See exactly what the AI read.

Analysis sample

50

Recent reviews read by the AI

53

Lifetime ratings

90/100

Evidence confidence

50 reviews across years with high consistency on rudeness, harsh grading, and .

Inside 50 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 52
4 out of 52
3 out of 54
2 out of 54
1 out of 542

Course coverage

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Reported outcomes

No letter grade reported results lead the reported letter grades.

43 reported outcomes

A range

10

A+ 2 · A 4 · A- 4

B range

9

B+ 2 · B 6 · B- 1

C range

7

C+ 2 · C 4 · C- 1

D range

1

D 1

F

1

F 1

No letter grade reported

15

Drop/Withdrawal 13 · Not sure yet 2