First of all, the tests are extremely unfair. I practiced homework problems, textbook problems, examples in class, practice tests, etc to strongly prepare for exams, but, on the exams, they would ALWAYS put problems on there that were a great deal more difficult or different than anything we had ever seen. This was not fair. The tests should reflect the same kind of problems that we have worked, not a great deal more difficult problems. It was like they taught us how to swim and then threw us into a river with a current that would drown the best olympian athlete. Second of all, the amount of work that was expected of us once quarantine began was ridiculous. I have four other classes on top of this one, yet Dr. Dornshuld acted as if this was the only class any of us had. We had to turn in on top of our homework and extremely difficult labs, our handwritten notes for each chapter with a high amount of example problems worked out as well. I do not have time to do any of my other classwork because I am constantly doing chemistry. I understand that this was in an effort to make us learn the information, but it should have been optional for extra credit.
Also, for the last chapter, he didn’t upload any lecture videos as he had for EVERY OTHER CHAPTER and expected us to go teach ourselves through the book. Chemistry is not a subject that I can learn through a textbook; I need to have things explained out to me. Naturally, because the homework for the last chapter was due on the day of our test, and we weren’t being tested on this homework, and there had been no emails about it, I assumed we were no longer doing it. But he chose to only relay this information to those who came to his office hours, so if you couldn’t attend office hours, you were screwed for knowing that you needed to learn chapter 21 on your own. Overall, good teacher before quarantine, terrible teacher online, though, as well as completely unfair tests year round.