Pick-A-Prof

Colleges and Universities A-Z The University of Texas at Austin
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<p>Pick-A-Prof has recently changed their site to myEdu, but is it the same thing? I'm not a member and I'm viewing their homepage. It doesn't say that they still show grade distribution for professors, just a bunch of other random things. Has the site expanded or completely changed, what's the deal?</p>

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<p>Its the same thing, but improved. If you have an account with pick-a-prof, click login on the pick-a-prof site and it will take you to MyEdu. There you just sign up, and it will ask if you have a pick-a-prof account. If you do, just enter your email address and make a new username and password for MyEdu. After that, you log in because you’ve already paid for the services. Its really cool. You have to get used to it, but afterwards its really worth it.</p>

<p>It has the degree plans for the school and major, professor info, grades per teacher, grade averages per COURSE, course difficulty based on course load, and a bunch of other stuff.</p>

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<p>It’s the same. Except it’s still a work in progress. Meaning, there are a lot of broken features and some of the interface quirks can be annoying.</p>

<p>But, it’s still just as useful. In fact I think they recently got another semester’s grades, since I noticed some grade distribution changed.</p>

<p>The #1 glitch right now is that in the “plan my schedule” thing, some of the professor’s class’s times are messed up. My SOC 302 class is on T/Th/Th and only the second Thursday time is showing as a class time. It assumes the other two don’t exist. This is not a big deal since it’s not like I need that feature to plan my schedule.</p>

<p>Here’s a few screenshots:</p>

<p>Grade Distribution:
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<p>Sample Professor Review screen:
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<p>A new “plan all your semester” feature, uses drag-and-drop:
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<p>That glitch about times I was talking about:
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<p>Still a VERY useful website IMO.</p>

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<p>Thanks, it looks a lot better than Pick-a-Prof! </p>

<p>Only problem I have is that I didn’t have to pay for pick-a-prof because I was in a community college and it was free for some reason. MyEdu wants me to pay even though I never did for pick-a-prof :(</p>

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<p>LOL. Dr. Hicklebottom.</p>

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<p>It screwed up the database of some of my classes for some reason! Really frustrating. Some of the classes listed just have sections and no lectures, and vice versa. Hope they fix it soon.</p>

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<p>what are the advantages of having the free account?</p>

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<p>None. It’s only for looking up stuff about colleges and doesn’t give you access to grades or reviews.</p>

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<p>I liked Pick-A-Prof better. You could get a full listing of student reviews on one page. Now you have to page through them five at a time. The old screen formats made the useful information more obvious, but the new screens visually emphasize crap I don’t care about, and the important content is in ordinary type. MyEdu is supposed to be some kind of online planning guide for your entire college career, but who needs that? I just want good information presented in an easy-to-find and easy-to-read format. My Pick-A-Prof membership expired this month, and I’m not renewing.</p>

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<p>If you go to a UC school, use Veechi Classes on Facebook. It’s free, has grades and ratings, and is easy to use.</p>

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<p>Once they fixed the schedule chooser to be more user friendly, I liked it a lot more. It’s great to use now, since they fixed the glitches.</p>

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<p>I think Swannekin is somehow connected to Veechi. First post, and it’s about using Veechi for UC schools in the UT forum?</p>

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<p>I know this is bumping an old thread but MyEdu is now free so you can log in via Facebook and view grade histories (to be taken with a grain of salt) and professor reviews by peers.</p>