Lazy Teaching Staff

Half my classes have a really unorganized CUlearn page.

Well, that's normal, especially in less technical courses/departments. Unfortunately, even with all the time to prepare, I wouldn't expect instructors to suddenly put extra effort into the cuLearn experience to make the online version of their courses more like normal ones.

Given that it's really not hard at all to have an awesome, organized cuLearn page, though, I'd agree that the instructors here are lazy, yeah. They could fix it up right now in less than half an hour.

Lecture slides seem to be a copy and paste from the textbook, which no elaboration.

Fairly normal. I'd actually expect slides to have less info. The elaboration might be in what the instructor says.

Tutorials are basically just office hours where the ta just sits in a discord call, and if there's no questions for a while, they will leave.

Makes sense; that's not too different from regular tutorials, other than the lack of tutorial/lab assignment. If there's no graded component to tutorials, you can safely ignore it unless you need the extra help.

Office hours only by appointment for 2 of my classes.

Sucks but potentially not a big deal.

Many classes have optional tutorials for extra help, so you could look at this as the course actually providing extra support than normal.

The ta for GEOG2014 changed the tutorial time for this week because he wanted to get a headstart on a camping trip!

This happens sometimes, but I'd complain to the instructor about this one.

The ISCI2000T prof only just this week made the CUlearn page, and contacted its students for the first time since the

That's pretty awful. Consider complaining to the Faculty of Science somehow.

What does everyone else think?

Personally all but one of the courses I checked out (I spent some time enrolling in and dropping several courses to check them out on cuLearn) are doing a really great job, except just one. Maybe you got unlucky, or your courses are in different departments from the ones I checked out (mostly COMP/PSYC/language)?

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