<p>Has anyone used this site? is it fairly accurate and helpful in filtering out better professors?</p>
<p>Florida</a> State University - Florida - RateMyProfessors.com</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>You have to read the comments because the reason someone might give a professor a good or bad rating might not be pertinent to you or your learning style. It is a nice tool to give tips about the professor.</p>
<p>Also, sometimes there are no openings in the high rated professor's classes so you can't always get the one you want at the time you want.</p>
<p>There is another site called pickaprof that charges for a similar service.
I don't think it is worth the money.</p>
<p>i use it every time i have to pick a class...no one wants to get stuck with the professor who you can't understand or gives impossible amounts of work.</p>
<p>i also like the fsu teacher evaluations website, every semester students are advised to evaluate the teachers and the results are later made public, the surveys only give percentages not comments so you must make your own interpretations but its nice to see some numerical data.</p>
<p>[url=<a href="http://wapps.ucc.fsu.edu/sussai/main.jsp%5DSUSSAI%5B/url">http://wapps.ucc.fsu.edu/sussai/main.jsp]SUSSAI[/url</a>]</p>
<p>thanks for psoting this fsuuf</p>
<p>is there a way to find out more about the background of the prof ie what college they went to etc...when traveling to fsu last summer we met a very nice young grad student who was teaching summer english comp..we lost her card errr and havent been able to track her down (we called the english dept to no avail) we know she had done UG at UT so...</p>
<p>On the College of Business website, it lists all the faculty and in most cases a picture and a copy of their resume'. I would think they have similar information for most departments.</p>
<p>We found pickaprof to be a huge help and well worth the $5/semester. The only problems were with large lower-level courses like Freshman English (this was at Texas A&M). Lots of times the school would label all sections as being taught by "staff". Presumably that was to prevent students from choosing a section based on the quality of the prof teaching it. <sigh!></sigh!></p>
<p>FSU-UF - thanks for the SUSSAI link. The information definitely gives you another good tool to help with optimal scheduling.</p>
<p>TIMELY - it is true that some sections start out with "STAFF" making it difficult to determine who is teaching the course. Before drop/add is over, you can see who will be teaching the course and try to make adjustments if necessary.</p>