Hi did any knew anyone if someone blurted out about Rate my professor in front of their prof. I knew someone who did. Although that teacher seemed calm and looked like his students really like learning his course and he seem to knew about it. Just my question is do many profs knew about that website? If not, will one mention to one professor may lead to the jeopardization of the website?
It’s not a secret. I’m sure all or most of the profs know about it.
They all know about it, at least where I work. And check it!
They all know.
We are a faculty family, and everyone we know has checked themselves to see what there is on that site. Not a secret.
Shhhh, you’ll give away the secret anyone with a computer can discover. 
We know about it. And we can often tell or figure out who wrote a particular comment. But most of us don’t bother checking it. I’ve checked it maybe once every two years.
They all check to see if they have a chili pepper. 
I have RMP & similar sites blocked on my computer so I’m never tempted to read reviews about myself.
I read too many reviews as a students lol. (Though I do read my students’ end of the year anonymous reports.)
I have RMP & ■■■■■■■ blocked on my computer so I’m never tempted to read reviews about myself.
I read too many reviews as a student to ever want to know what those say. (Though I take my anonymous end-of-semester reviews seriously.)
The profs know about and i am almost certain the worst professor i have ever had puts up reviews about herself just so she has a decent score on the site. The professor in question, is the gatekeeper of her major and will do everything she can to fail students including academic dishonesty charges. Her passage rate is 50%.
The academic dishonesty charges are all bs, yet are carried out because she is nice to all the faculty. The ITS department on campus has been investigating her for certain actions, such as tampering with students desktops in classrooms. And for whatever reason, her blackboard site has a habit of having students homework go into other students files on the site. Hence cheating charges. There not enough evidence to get her fired yet but i will party the day it happens.
Dailydog, that is the saddest storyI have read in a long time. She sounds mentally ill.
I’m a high school teacher. I’ve known about RateMyTeacher for at least a decade or so.
In the beginning I checked from time to time. I stopped when I got my first bad review: from a kid who was yelled at by the dean in the cafeteria and mistook my name for hers.
What I want is Rate my Students.
@stradmom you have that. Its called grades.
No, not really. My students receive grades based purely on academics. If you do well on the tests, you do well on the report card.
We don’t grade on likeability, work ethic, maturity, or a host of other factors. It’s all about the numbers.
In some classes, things like participation are counted. Essays are also more subjectivly graded. Being likeable and mature generally helps with that. And our jobs as students are different than yours at teachers. So, there’s a different raiting system. I take rate my professor with a grain of salt but its nice to be able to see people’s general opinions of professors because end of course reviews dont get published.
I don’t count participation-- it’s entirely possible to get an A in my class having never opened your mouth. (I don’t see why shyness should impact my assessment of the math you know.) And being likeable and mature has nothing to do with the grades my husband awards on essays; the grades would be the same if the papers contained no names.
I agree that it shouldn’t affect the math you know. I’m taking not- STEM classes where particpation counts.
I don’t see the issue you have with rating professors. I 100% had to explain basic high school geometry concepts to my statics professor and listened to hours of him lecturing about “wasting time” oh “how hard the class is” instead of actually teaching us content (and when he does that, I understand it better if I DON’T listen to him because he explains things so poorly.) You can be sure the university ratings and rate my professor will hear my thoughts about him.
Anoher physics professor I had spent every single lecture doing the assigned homework for us instead of teaching us the material traditionally. That class didnt fit my learning style at all because I reenforce the information by doing the homework myself (and no, doing different problems wouldn’t be as good bc he pulled questions directly from those problems for the test. After doing well on the first test I stopped going to class and instead spent that hour teahing myself from the book and doing the homework on my own. I got an A. He got a cautionary rating on rate my professor.