COMM 2010

The information in this course is not super difficult, and the homework and practice problems are doable but very time consuming . That being said the exams tend to be far more challenging taking everything "one step further." The real issue with this course is the unfair weighting of everything. I put in hours of work each week mastering homework and practice sets for it to only be 14% of my grade. The final is difficult and weighted WAY too heavily.. I was confident in my understanding of the skills learned in this class going into the final and came out of it with a score that resulted in my course grade dropping 2 entire letter grades despite doing well on the first two exams. The worse part of this being that he offers you no explanation for your final exam grade and refuses you the right to even see your mistakes!!! Professor Martin also is prone to sending super sassy and belittling emails to the entire class in response to select students behaviors which can be annoying

alright people. this is an online course. your grade in this class is not dependent on roger martin or his teaching, it's a result of YOU and your effort. clearly there is a higher degree of responsibility to an online course. If you are willing to put in the time and stay on top of the chapters, this class is very very doable and the material is not difficult. allocate appropriate time each week to learning and practicing, and i promise you will do fine. the tests were always fair applications of concepts in the book. Also, this is a prerequisite, it's not supposed to be "easy." Maybe instead of wasting your time complaining about your grades, you should be doing your work and studying for your exams. that is all (:

Class is very straightforward and tests are a fair representative of what is covered throughout. Doesn't take much work to understand the material and everything is very reasonable. Would most definitely recommend to a friend.

Y'all need to chill lol.

HORRIFIC CLASS. I am no longer following the McIntire track because of this terrible class! The amount of work in this course is ridiculous. I had to get a personal tutor who is in McIntire and was CURRENTLY learning material (in her accounting class) that I was learning in this course!! I learned more from her than from Roger's "structured" online course. Before each midterm you have work due the Sunday before that includes: a complete chapter, homework, and practice problems. You have to be able to complete and retain this information in week so that you know it for the test. ALSO LET'S BE HONEST... ROGER IS SO PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE!!! The course is incredibly challenging and weighed terribly. The amount of information you HAVE to understand weekly is ridiculous. You have to know how to do everything correctly because the test are mostly free response, so you know it or don't. I hope that you take my advice and ALL these students advice telling you to save yourself and NOT take this course.

I took this course to learn some basic accounting skills, and while I feel like I did get that to some extent, it was not worth the difficultly and immense amount of work and self-teaching. The exams are tricky and hard to do well on. You pretty much teach yourself the whole class, which is one of the many disadvantages of it being online. If you're taking this class to learn basic skills (aka not as a pre-Comm requirement), I would audit it, or better yet, take it somewhere other than UVA where you can focus on learning the skills rather than trying not to fail or trying not to get confused by poorly written questions. For the amount of tuition students pay at UVA, and the reputation the McIntire school has, the quality of 'instruction" for this class was ultimately quite disappointing.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. I REPEAT DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. unless you are really set on Comm school. The course is only online now, and I cannot even begin to emphasize how terribly put together it is. First off, there are practice problems and homework problems due each Sunday and they take up SO MUCH TIME. You have to read the chapter and take notes to actually understand it (which takes forever, especially when you have other classes to worry about), and the practice and homework problems are usually really long. I have never spent so much time on a class before. To top it all off, the homeworks and practice are literally ONLY worth 14% of your grade, when they take so much effort and dedication. The worst part of this class was definitely the final. Prof Martin made it cumulative (in a class that has way too much information) AND worth 40% of your entire grade (which is crazy considering it covers and absurd amount of information). Also, he likes to say that he really isn't trying to trick you with his questions. DO NOT BELIEVE HIM WHEN HE SAYS THIS. He goes out of his way to trip students up, which doesn't really prove anything about their competence in accounting. I literally had an A- in the class up until the final, because I put so much time and effort into learning the material, and the final was so unreasonable that I got a 50% and I'm ending the semester with a C (after studying for 16 hours straight in the library). The second midterm is also hard, but its nothing compared to the final. He also doesn't really curve, so he just really sets you up for failure and gives you no way out. Many people who did not deserve sub B grades in this class are failing or barely not failing, and I think that reflects on the teacher and the course rather than the slim possibility that literally everyone didn't prepare for the exam (when they were doing great in the class beforehand). It is a waste of tuition paying for an online course that does so little to actually help you. You teach yourself everything and really the only way to learn is to just read the textbook. I can believe Professor Martin actually gets paid for what he did with this class. This class seriously harms your mental health. If you can avoid it, please please please save yourself.

Stay far far away from COMM 2010. Over five hours a week are dedicated to doing the reading, practice problems, and homework for this course- only for it to have almost zero percent impact on your grade. The exams are not reflective of the material taught. Professor Martin chooses harder, more specific material to ask to separate the "good students from the great students." The final is worth 40% of your grade. Not to mention, you never actually get to see Professor Martin or receive any form of aid from him. The review sessions are led by young, ignorant and unprepared TAs just chasing a check. Save yourself the mental distress and do not take this class.

Professor Martin just doesn't know how to appropriately teach. I feel like I could have learned so much more if the tests actually reflected the material. Like, why would you save all the ridiculously hard questions just to put them on exams? Every single exam I studied ridiculously hard, went through every practice problem set available, and my grade still sucked. He could easily prepare us well for the exams and he just chooses not to. During exams for this class there's always one tiny little bit of information that could make or break your ability to solve the problem. It's honestly crazy that we have to know every minor tiny detail from this course considering how much material we have to learn. The amount of things we have to learn for this class is massive. I don't understand why the final has to be cumulative when students without exception will not have the time to review all the material in just a few days before they have to take the exam. That's another problem - while this class is online and has a lot of flexibility, the workload is crazy. not only do you have to do all the homework sets but then you have to go through every single one all over again in order to be even slightly prepared for exams. Then, during exams, he'll write questions that are insanely hard and then act like low test averages are "good". One time he actually emailed the class and said that two-thirds of the class scored above a 70% and then patted himself on the back for that "spectacular achievement". He also said that if you scored above a 70% on the exam you were "doing just fine". I DON'T THINK THE COMM SCHOOL CONSIDERS A 70% A GOOD GRADE. If students suck at a class, that's a combination of their individual work ethic AND the quality of the instructor. Pre-comm kids work so hard and deal with crazy workloads, so the work ethic part clearly isn't the problem....

This class is extremely work-heavy and ridiculous. Honestly, I kinda had fun with it at first because the material is challenging, but once I understood something, I was proud of myself. I scored above average on the first two exams and completely failed the final, which dropped my grade down a whole letter grade and a half (40% of your grade). On the final, Roger chooses the absolute most random and challenging questions that are MAYBE covered in one question out of the huge amount of practice questions you do. I felt pretty prepared to take the final and I was breezing through the review questions, but low and behold, I get F*CKED on the final due to questions that I do not believe represent our learning in the last couple chapters in the slightest.

The grade distribution for this course does not accurately display what students have learned and accomplished. Roger sits on a 6 figure salary and watches the lives of innocent, hard-working students plummet throughout the semester.