Vivian Mozol - University of Calgary, Calgary, AB

Professor: Vivian Mozol

Department: Chemistry

College: University of Calgary, Calgary, AB

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CHEM209
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

So here's the thing about Mozol. She's a very nice person, and if you ask her questions, she will answer them. The issue is, she doesn't answer them clearly. To be honest, she is never clear. Lectures, tutorials, tophat questions. It's all very vague and you will end up more confused than before you asked something. Just buy the textbook and read.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CHEM209
• Grade Received: C+
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Mozol isn't a terrible person - she's very open to answering questions and helping students. She just doesn't teach well and ends up making you teach the course to yourself. 209 is about 75% Chem 30 anyway.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CHEM209
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

She simply cannot explain the easiest concepts, even those from high school like c1v1c2v2. You are literally better off learning from the textbook. Also, her top hats are horrible, where half the time her answers are wrong. If you plan on attending her lectures for some reason you better invest in noise cancelling headphones to do other homework.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CHEM201
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She simply cannot do simple math. She is unable to add valence shells and does a whole example in class only to realize at the end that 6 valence shells plus 6 valence shells does not in fact add up to 10 valence shells. She is scatter brained and jumps around in topics too much only to confuse you more. I suggest taking this class by yourself.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CHEM209
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Not alot to learn in this course but her tophats are bs because she doesnt even know her own answers to the questions and marks the most stupid one. Mozol must also hate the trees becuase she goes through about 50 periodic tables a day. Most of the lecture is spent asking the class questions we dont know the answer too.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CHEM209
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Get ready to use khanacademy and the textbook because her teaching is garbage. Switch out if you can, but its still possible to get a good grade without her. Skip class? She uses TOPHAT to quiz you without teaching you since she expects you to be ahead of her teaching. She is always trying to find ways to grade you unfairly during tophat. Goodluck

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CHEM201
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Mozol trys to make her test fun and informative, but actually does the exact opposite

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CHEM201
• Grade Received: INC
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Awful. She's horribly bad at teaching, and gives the hardest and trickiest questions on midterms. SHE'S TRYING TO MAKE YOU DO POORLY. I have her for Chem 209

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: CHEM211
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Chem 209 Dear Mrs. Mozol. If you are reading this, please stop with the tophat... Mozol focuses too much on tophat instead of lectures so I feel we are wasting too much time. I just wish we spent more time learning the concepts and doing questions rather than tophat.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: CHEM201
• Grade Received: Audit/No Grade
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

WELP. did not want to give this teacher a 1, but the truth is the truth

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CHEM201
• Grade Received: Audit/No Grade
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Wonderful. Just. Wonderful. Top Hat might just be the best thing to happen to CHEM 209. The time wasted because of Top Hat is incredible. Instead of helping students, she loves to confuse them. If it wasn't for Top Hat marks, I would never attend a single lecture. Good Luck and Have Fun if u end up in her class.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CHEM201
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Hilariously bad. Tophat is the worst program a prof can use. Literally does not help AT ALL. Better have a textbook handy cause she does NOT TEACH.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CHEM211
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Vivian treats you like adults, which is why so many students criticize her. Chemistry is never straightforward with yes/no answers, so if you ask a basic question, she gives you the truth, that while we make assumptions for jr. level chem, in real life, it is not always going to work like that. She pushes you and doesn't coddle you

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: CHEM209
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: No
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Mozol definitely tries but doesn't quite understand how to teach students. The material isn't difficult but she confuses us more than she explains concepts which doesn't help. Get ready to read the textbook a lot. Rely on google and external sources and it will be much easier.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CHEM209
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: No
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

There's no clear explanation on how grades are awarded on tests/quizzes and will try and dock marks anyway possible. Did poorly on a quiz in tutorial and need Tophat grades to replace it? Oh well too bad, all the Tophat responses are out of 1 rather than 0.5 now. Have a question that needs to be answered? The answer is "it depends".

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CHEM209
• Grade Received: INC
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: No
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Please don't take this class with this prof, you'll regret it.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CHEM209
• Grade Received: C+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: No
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Honestly amazing professor. She's very clear about what needs to be shown to get full marks on quizzes/tests, very lenient marker. Minimal homework and textbook is not needed as she nails all the important details down. She's honestly excellent at explaining and teaching. 10/10 would definitely recommend.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: CHEM209
• Grade Received: INC
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Very contradictory, she seems to have her own ways of explaining things that are not consistent with explanations found in the textbook/trusted sources. Youre own your own with her. Would high not recommend.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: CHEM201
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Very disorganized and goes off-topic very easily. Obsessed with Tophat and wastes a lot of valuable class time making us partake in activities that she deems helps us. I'd advise buying the textbook and reading ahead.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CHEM209
• Grade Received: WD
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

This prof is hilariously bad. Uses Tophat as an excuse to get out of teaching. Makes students get into groups and do activities that do not contribute much to what we are learning as an effort to burn off class time. Very unclear and there is a discrepancy between what gets tested/quizzed and what is being taught in class.