AI Rate Professor

Humanities

Javier Zaragoza

SPAN1 · SPNSH001 · SPAN002 · SPAN001 · 9 lifetime ratings

AI rating
30/100
RMP rating
2.2/5
Take again
16.67%
Difficulty
3.3

The decision

; only consider in person if you can handle grammar-heavy Spanish and fair but serious testing.

Best fit · Self Taught ProGoogle Forms exact-match gradingTest heavyTough grader onlineSelf-learn onlineStronger in person
  • Recent online SPAN reviews are harshly negative and weak online teaching.
  • Older in-person reviews are much more positive, praising hands-on grammar help and conversational Spanish.
  • because current online experience dominates student frustration.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

32/100

Online exact-match tests and student still earned an A; in person is fairer but still serious.

Online evidence is much harsher; and reachable As.

Is the course easy?

Challenging

34/100

Online difficulty is high due to format and self-learning; in person is moderate but grammar-heavy.

Online difficulty ratings run high; .

Is attendance flexible?

Varies

55/100

Several online reviews mark attendance not mandatory, while .

Online often optional; .

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

22/100

Would-take-again is about 17% and recent .

; older in-person reviews are more mixed-to-positive.

Course guide

See how this professor fits your week.

Grading

Harsh

25/100

and exact-string Google Forms grading dominate .

Format shift

Online is harsh; in-person described as fairer.

Workload

Heavy

30/100

Lots of homework and .

Format shift

Workload complaints concentrate in online reviews.

Teaching experience

Poor

35/100

Online teaching is ineffective and self-taught; in-person teaching is stronger but cannot offset recent online failure.

Format shift

poor online, good older in-person.

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

78/100

so much of the grade, with Google Forms quizzes and exams dominating online.

Format shift

Test-heavy tags are strongest in online SPAN001 reviews.

Luni fit check

Weigh these signals against your actual schedule.

Get help balancing workload, grading, and timing when no option is an obvious fit.

Course format

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Classroom format

In person

4 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Effort For Reward

In-person students often praise hands-on conjugation strategies, real-life Spanish, humor, and .

Main concern

Grammar-linguistics focus and immersion style can intimidate beginners at first.

What students said

“ ! He wants his students to understand, speak and be able to read Spanish.”
SPAN001
“He is the first teacher that actually helped us learn to speak conversational spanish”
SPNSH001

Remote format

Online

5 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

little to , Google Forms quizzes that , and poor tech adaptation.

Main concern

and stressful.

What students said

“He uses google forums and if you dont put in the exact answer that he put as "correct" you get it wrong.”
SPAN001
“the guy didn't lecture, used Google forms for quizzes and tests”
SPAN001
“He simply uploads a bunch of files and expects you to self learn.”
SPAN002

Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

Online exams on Google Forms mark wrong for and unforgiving.

Google Forms exact-match answersTest heavyTough graderCase-sensitive wrong marks

Assessment risk

Strict

28/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

and assignments are described as fair overall, with occasional vocab outside the textbook.

Fair tests/assignmentsOccasional outside-textbook vocab
“ , though occasionally they use vocab outside textbook.”
SPAN001

Online

Google Forms quizzes and tests require exact matching answers; capital letters or minor input differences can mark correct ideas wrong.

Google Forms quizzes and testsExact answer matchingTest heavyNo real lecture
“The "answer" is "mijo" I wrote it with a capital M. I got it wrong.”
SPAN001
“ so much of your grade and make zero sense.”
SPAN001
“ and unless you are fluent in Spanish you won't catch his mistakes.”
SPAN002

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“ ... thats it. so much of your grade and make zero sense.”

Voice snapshots generated from 9 reviews (5 online, 4 in-person), highlighting online grading pain and . Credibility rating: Medium.

🖥️ Online Teaching Failure

20/100

“He is not an effective online professor and gloats about having taught since the 80's.”

📝

25/100

“if you dont put in the exact answer that he put as "correct" you get it wrong.”

🏫 Better In Person

70/100

“He is the first teacher that actually helped us learn to speak conversational spanish and not just work in the text book.”

👎 Recommendation

22/100

“Avoid! Avoid! Avoid! He is terrible at teaching Spanish in an online setting.”

Theme 1

🖥️ About Online Experience

  • didn't lecture, used Google forms for quizzes and tests
  • expects you to self learn
  • rarely shows up to online office hours
  • Spare your nerves. .

Theme 2

🏫

  • !
  • great strategy for memorizing verb conjugations
  • helped us learn to speak conversational spanish
  • will even come early to class to tutor those students struggling

Theme 3

📈 About Difficulty & Grades

  • Test heavy
  • if you just need this class to graduate, HE IS THE GUY!!!!

Data context

See exactly what the AI read.

Analysis sample

9

Recent reviews read by the AI

9

Lifetime ratings

68/100

Evidence confidence

Nine reviews with a ; recent online consensus is strong but older in-person sample is smaller.

Inside 9 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 52
4 out of 51
3 out of 50
2 out of 51
1 out of 55

Course coverage

SPAN0016 reviews
SPAN0021 review
SPAN11 review
SPNSH0011 review

Reported outcomes

No letter grade reported results lead the reported letter grades.

5 reported outcomes

A range

2

A 2

B range

0

No reported values

C range

0

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D range

0

No reported values

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

3

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