Does your school have teachers that charge you for notes/access to their websites?

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<p>i was clicking through ratemyprofessor for a certain school to see the opinions of faculty at a certain school(taken with a grain of salt because its mostly kids complaining about negative experiences and most schools have internal rating and evaluation forms) and i noticed multiple comments about a few teachers having online websites of their own where they would charge you to download notes online, study packets, or just access to the site in general. this was a bit alarming to me and im wondering if any other schools do this or if its a rare incident.</p>

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<p>I’ve never had a teacher charge me for powerpoint slides or anything like that, but I do have teachers that write their own supplement guides to the textbook and take exam questions from that. I also have teachers that use relatively expensive software programs to grade our assignments, HW and labs.</p>

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<p>The problem with the “internal evaluations” is they’re difficult to interpret. Nearly every upper division class at my school gets everyone saying “more difficult than average” or “extremely difficult”. But with ratemyprofessor you at least get some words to gauge difficulty by. Like who cares if the tests were brutally hard if there’s a nice curve?</p>

<p>I’ve only had 1 class where the prof charged for notes. But they’re really just photocopies from the textbook so it’s not essential. Otherwise course websites are free.</p>

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<p>I do have a teacher that makes us buy a “package” that includes the actual course book and his powerpoint lecture notes in book form (the exact same ones he uses in class) for a ridiculous amount of money. I’m sure his notes cost more than the actual book.</p>

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<p>Never come across it in my experience, but it doesn’t sound right at all. The question that begs to be asked is “what are my tuition fees actually paying for?” Textbooks are an expected additional cost, but paying for notes/course material seems a little ridiculous.</p>

<p>For those who have experienced it, how much does it typically cost?</p>