Chris Moyes - Queen's University at Kingston, Kingston, ON

Professor: Chris Moyes

Department: Biology

College: Queen's University at Kingston, Kingston, ON

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: BIOL102
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He has prelecture powerpoints of him talking over the slides and honestly if you watch those and take notes you don't need to go to class. He gives clear outlines of what he wants you to know. He may not be the best lecturer in person, but his prelecture slides are very clear and give a lot of detail. His quiz questions are hard though.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: BIOL102
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

I used to like biology, then I took Moyes' class.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: BIOL339
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Lectures are all over the place. If you don't go you will miss things that are not on the slides because his slides are not very good. A lot of small assignments that can bring down your grade if you do not pull full effort in to each. Very hard marker. Not very personable or approachable.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: BIOL102
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

I love him.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: BIOL102
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Material was presented very straightforwardly for the most part. Review the lecture videos before the exam and you will be fine.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: BIOL102
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

The exam was not hard, which was good but the lectures were terrible. He has a tendency to mumble or just assume that you already know something. You will do fine as long as you pay attention and get the key concepts.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: BIO102
• Grade Received: INC
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Have your IClicker ready before hand bc he give you like 2 seconds to read and answer the question by the time he stops the IClicker machine. Be prepared for questions that seem to make no sense, sometimes he has funny jokes .ya

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: BIOL102
• Grade Received: INC
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Multiple choice questions sound easy.. until this class. Lectures were okay, Moyes made okay use of iClickers for interactive lectures, but often went too quickly over the most important information, sometimes hard to pick out the important information.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: BIOL102
• 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:

Man, Christopher Moyes. Let me start by saying that this man has the most monotone voice in history. He's a smart guy (wrote some of the textbook) but made lectures extremely boring. Doesn't explain things too much.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: BIOL1O2
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Dr. Moyes made the very interesting topic of genetics pretty boring with his monotone voice. On the upside his slides are very clear, always posted online and include key terms and passages of the textbook to read.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: BIO103
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Asks helpful and relevant questions during lectures that are likely to show up on the exam

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: BIOL102
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Very interested in what he's speaking about but otherwise he's mediocre.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: BIOL102
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He was really unhelpful and unclear for all his lectures, he essentially read off the slide and his explanations were very weak.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: BIO102
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Mumbles a lot and his voice is hard to properly hear. He has no direction in his lectures just a bunch of jumbled talking .

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: BIOL202
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Great professor. makes lots of great jokes and is totally dreamy.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: BIOL202
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Moyes is a great prof. the material is a bit dry, but he keeps you entertained with hilarious youtube videos. he is extremely nice and even gave us two alternate dates to write the midterm to try to make everyones schedule better, which was very nice of him. his tests are pretty fair, but you need to study.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: BIOL339
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This guy was ALL over the place in his lectures. His short answer questions on the midterms were fair, but his MC questions on the final were absolutely ridiculous (hard). But he's very quick to respond to emails. Didn't find him so personable in person though. Not someone I'd be personal friends with!

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: BIOL537
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Amazing prof with an unusually good looking lab

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: BIOL330
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Sooooooo dreamy

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: BIOL338
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

A good teacher who expects a lot from his students. If you can pull your weight, you'll do great.