Roxanne Canosa - Rochester Institute of Technology

Professor: Roxanne Canosa

Department: TBD

College: Rochester Institute of Technology

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CSCI661
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Wonderful professor, good sense of humor, kind and caring.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CSCI661
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Good professor and good human being. Tries to teach well and I can say she is above average in teaching. Submit all the homeworks on time and do the quizzes well, you will definitely get good grade. But the grading criteria is wierd. 87% A, 77-87% B, 77% C. That's ridiculous because there is no difference between 77 and 86.9, meh!

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: 661
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Clear grading, lots of homeworks and quizzes. Do well from starting.

Rating # 4

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

Super clear teaching. Super fast grading. Course very organized. Really liked the way she she teaches.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CSCI471
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

She's a good professor. Grades assignments promptly. Lectures are pretty good. Prepare for group projects and presentations. Would likely take this professor for more classes.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CSCI661
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Great classes, she really loves teaching.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CSCI261
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Great at connecting theory to real world problems. Very prepared and the course is highly polished.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: PCOMM01
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

All in all a pretty good course. Interesting and fun mostly. But a lot of writing (daily). I would take her for ProfComm over any others. She helps a lot to get you ready for coop.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: AI455
• 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 course learned a lot and fun too. Exams were hard but ok if you go to class and don't sleep.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: AI455
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Lectures directly from slides, which are provided online anyway. She gives homework, but doesn't collect it (instead gives the solutions) and it isn't a part of your grade, providing no incentive to do it. Exams are awful, as they almost never match the homework problems or examples in lecture slides. Overall, a hard course taught rather poorly.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: AI70
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

I love her. I wish all my professors were like her. Helpful, nice and very good with the material which was not so easy to learn. Take if you can get.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CS01
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Overall she's okay better than most cs professors. Textbook is only used as a reference you don't really need it.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: INTCS241
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

This professor is fairly good for teaching the material, which in my opinion is alot squeezed into one class. However, this style of teaching is the same throughout RIT. Also, the professor herself does not grade the homework; they are passed down to Teaching Assistants.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: PROFC01
• 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:

She is a great professor - very nice and willing to help. Helped me get coop job and gave lots of feedback on resume. Sometimes late letting us out so keep her on track. Overall, highly recommend.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: PC341
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

I don't know anything about her other classes. I assume she is competent there. But she is an absolute joke for Prof Comm. Show up to class, raise your hand to say something inane once per class, and do her little diary entries and you will be all right. Some presentations and a resume project, but they're easy to ace. Made fun of her all quarter.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: AI455
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Creates 4 question tests and says they aren't meant to test your knowledge of the material. Projects involve more trying to figure out how to exactly fit her specifications than doing anything useful. Stated in class that your grade doesn't matter and you shouldn't worry about it, then grades harshly. Will not listen to reason or contrary argument.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: PFCOM02
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

She's a great teacher. Very strict about following directions on the homework but the work isn't hard. She tries to make the classes fun with discussion. Easy A if you do the work the way she specifies.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: OS1
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Overall, very good teacher. Gives a clear idea of the material, very fair, homework is reasonable.

Rating # 19

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

Very easy - writes the EXACT CODE (not the psuedo code) on the board, it's basically just copy/paste what's there. You don't exactly learn a lot in lab but that's a different ball of wax. Just copy what she has on the board and you got a 100% on the lab - easy easy. Take if you can get!

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CS3
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Good teacher in lecture, I'm against her philosophy that "a lower grade will build character" - which was her response to a low 70 being the average of the first test. Though when it was all said and done and the dust settled, I had a B - if you just show up, listen in lecture, do the projects and lab, this class is cake.