Review guidelines

Write about the teaching

The useful review answers what another student would want to know:

• How clearly were the lectures explained?
• Was the marking fair and consistent?
• How heavy was the workload?
• Did the class start and finish on time?
• What would you tell someone taking this course next year?

A hard review is welcome. "The lectures moved too fast and the slides were hard to follow" is useful. So is "the hardest course of the semester, but I learned the most in it."

What we do not publish

Insults about the person. Write about the teaching, not the teacher's appearance, family, religion, or intelligence. "The explanations were unclear" is a review. "He is an idiot" is not.

Accusations we cannot check. Claims about money, favouritism, harassment or any misconduct. We have no way to verify them, and publishing them could seriously harm someone who has done nothing wrong. If something like this happened to you, take it to the department, not to this site.

Contact details. No phone numbers, email addresses or links — yours or anyone else's.

Abusive language. Swearing and slurs, in any language or spelling.

Anything that is not a review. Empty text, random letters, advertising, or messages meant for a person rather than for other students.

What happens after you submit

Every review is checked automatically, in seconds.

• If it passes, it appears straight away.
• If it does not, you are told why and you can edit it and submit again, up to three times.
• If you believe the decision was wrong, you can appeal once instead. Appeals are read by a person, roughly once a week. You will only hear back if the decision changes.
• It is one or the other, not both. Sending an appeal ends your remaining attempts: that review can no longer be edited or submitted again, whatever the admin decides. If you would rather fix the review than argue for it, edit and submit it again first.

No teacher, and no other student, is ever told who wrote a review.

Reporting a review

If a published review breaks these rules, use the Report button on it. When enough students report the same review, it is hidden automatically until someone looks at it.

Report a review because it breaks a rule, not because you disagree with it.

One thing to be clear about

These are unverified student opinions. We cannot confirm that a reviewer actually took the course, and we do not check whether anything in a review is true.

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