EF151 Fall, 2011 Feedback

Rate the overall quality of the EF 151 lectures.	46% (152/333) Very good (1) 43% (144/333) Good (2) 9% (29/333) Average (3) 2% (7/333) Marginal (4) 0% (1/333) Poor (5) 0% (0/333) N/A (0) Avg: 1.68, NZAvg: 1.68, sum=560, cnt=333, nzcnt=333
Rate the overall quality of Prof. Schleter's effectiveness in presenting the material.	61% (202/333) Very good (1) 33% (111/333) Good (2) 5% (16/333) Average (3) 1% (4/333) Marginal (4) 0% (0/333) Poor (5) 0% (0/333) N/A (0) Avg: 1.47, NZAvg: 1.47, sum=488, cnt=333, nzcnt=333
Rate the overall quality of Dr. Bennett's effectiveness in presenting the material.	60% (201/333) Very good (1) 35% (115/333) Good (2) 4% (14/333) Average (3) 1% (3/333) Marginal (4) 0% (0/333) Poor (5) 0% (0/333) N/A (0) Avg: 1.46, NZAvg: 1.46, sum=485, cnt=333, nzcnt=333
General comments/suggestions on lectures: 2.  I think the examples that are done during the lecture really help me understand the material that we are talking about that day. I also really like the clicker questions. And, there can never be too many demonstrations. 3.  I loved EF even though it was difficult. It has been worth it! You guys are hilarious, and you have great presentation skills. 4.  I really like the tag team teacher style. 5.  Loved lectures, Professors Schleter and Bennett did a great job of breaking down the material making it easy to understand. 6.  The lectures are good, but very fast. 8.  The EF lectures were truely the best lectures out of the classes that I took this semester. 9.  Powerpoint Presentaions are not effective in terms of teaching. 10.  Both professors were great, made the material easy to understand, and kept it interesting. 11.  Keep up the good work! the lectures are fun and interesting! 12.  I thought the lectures were really good--the professors seemed enthusiastic and the more fun examples made the class more interesting and easier to stay focused. Plus, it was very helpful to see each example from the lecture notes worked out methodically, from start to finish and have the notes in front of us. 13.  The lectures were really enjoyable. It helped me get into physics. 14.  I loved all the hands on examples. They demonstrated the concepts really well, and kept us alert. 15.  The lectures were very good. They were informative but left room for the homework to be thought about which heaped me a lot. 16.  Time is the only issue. 17.  Nothing wrong. Perfect and entertaining 18.  class size is far too big to fully understand the material 19.  None 20.  They were alright overall, could use some work though. 21.  Lectures were truly a learning experience from in class examples and the relation to recitation and homework. 22.  The lectures should be more focused for students who haven't had any physics courses. 23.  Both were great! very entertaining, interactive, and fun! 24.  Try not to cram everything in at the last minute. Several important concepts were not as well reinforced because of time constraints. 25.  Some of the homework problems were much harder than the example problems. 26.  Less time wasted at the beginning of and throughout the hour talking. Get into the material. 27.  good pace, and the jokes help keep you awake and alert. 28.  lectures were fun and entertaining as well as informative. I liked how they showed real life applications with what we were learning. 29.  Lectures are entertaining and also helped me learn. 31.  I enjoyed the examples they did with physical objects. 34.  none 35.  Try to explain new concepts a little bit more 36.  Very Entertaining 37.  more examples 38.  the problems in lecture were good. But a lot of the time the problems were very different from the homework and didn't help. 40.  They have great banter. 41.  Great very interesting 42.  The lectures were very beneficial. 44.  I thought the lectures were good 45.  Good examples 48.  Fun and informative 49.  Keep the humor in the lectures 51.  Lectures were overall pretty well run. As long as you do the homework, lectures will make sense. 55.  Good lectures. I just wish they had done more examples that were more in depth and more like the homework problems. 56.  Both are good instructors 57.  Focus on presenting the example better. The clarity of drawing it on the screen is poor. 58.  They were pretty good. 59.  Love having them both here. 60.  Need to go over things more thoroughly for people that haven't had physics before. 61.  None 63.  Schleter is funnier 64.  none 65.  useless in comparison to the homework 67.  They are very engaging instructors. 69.  I believe the lectures are done very well. 71.  Super job! 72.  Lectures were really good overall, maybe just slow the pace down some. 74.  Great Instructors. Very helpful and good class. 76.  nope I really enjoyed them. 77.  More Examples! 78.  helpful 79.  I really enjoyed the lectures. I cannot even think of any suggestions. This lecture was run very smoothly and effeciently. It was also enjoyable and at times, funny,. 80.  Great funny lectures. Really helped understand the materisl 81.  lighting was bad sometimes 82.  Keep doing the cheesy jokes and ut clicker questions. 83.  the lectures were very informational and the professors kept it interesting 84.  Excellent approach to problem solving. I found this class very exciting. 86.  Slow down some. There were some homework problems that were not covered well in lecture. 87.  n/a 88.  ya'll did well catching each others mistakes quickly. 89.  Make sure to have time to work out all of the problems during the lecture and maybe do a few more homework examples. 90.  well done 91.  It would help if notes were given out earlier. The one thing bad about this class is that you had to wait on the next lecture to do the next homework. Having to put the homework off when I had time to do it killed me. I had to wait to learn it and then stay up all night doing it. 92.  The examples didn't really help when working on homework so maybe make them more similar to the homework problems. 93.  The lecture is the best when it is you two not anyone else nor just one of you. 95.  They are very lively and entertaining. Teach very well also. 96.  They made the class fun to go to. 97.  Material was presented in a fun and interesting way. 98.  Lectures are well put together and having them videoed is a big bonus. My only criticism is that I found some HW problems to be beyond the material covered in lecture. 99.  The lectures were very informative sometimes I wish they would have been longer so that we could go over more material. 100.  At times during lecture there are times when sometimes it is hard to catch on to the concepts. For instance, going over torque. Have a better way of explaining torque. 101.  I enjoy the lectures. They are very lively and keep my attention. 103.  I really enjoyed lecture 104.  I thought lectures were really good. Both teachers did a good job of making it as fun as possible with a huge class. 105.  Lectures are very good and entertaining. However, I didn't like when one proffessor wasn't there, and there was a fill in. I feel like it was always very scrambled and unorganized. I also tended to not understant those sections. 106.  learn how to use the pen better when writing notes on the big screen 107.  It was hard for me to understand what was going on in some of the lectures when I had to figure out what numbers to plug into equations instead of them showing us and explaining it more fully. 108.  I think this class overall is done very well. I really can't think of a way to make the lectures any better. From a students view I guess I could see where it would be beneficial to have more examples in class that resemble more of what the homework looks like. 109.  Don't skip as many steps on the harder problems. 110.  Lectures were awesome and my favorite part of the course. 111.  i loved this class!! 112.  Do not rotate multiple times during lecture. Have one do one every other day. 114.  favorite class despite the long nights. 115.  I think both professors do a great job with lecture. They do a great job of making the material interesting. I really think they have mastered the two-teacher strategy. 116.  None. 117.  You all explained many things very well. 119.  You all helped me stay engaged in the lecture and presented the material well 120.  They're pretty funny sometimes, and are very informative, although completely useless to an aspiring computer engineering. I understand why a mechanical engineer would need this material, for sure, but for computer engineering? It just seems a bit pointless. 121.  Both Prof. Schleter and Dr. Bennett made EF lecture a fun environment. The lectures were not boring so it was easy to learn and pay attention. Overall, the lectures were beneficial and successful. 122.  It was sometime confusing when the professors would write down an equation and then immediately place numbers into the equation without explaining some of the variables. 123.  They were very helpful 125.  Very informative, sometimes weren't thorough enough on concepts. 126.  i enjoyed the lectures. 128.  Overall, lectures taught the material in a clear way. The examples were always helpful, except sometimes the homework had questions that didn't have examples from class to look at. 129.  My favorite class by far. 131.  On occasion, the lectures did proceed perhaps too quickly, though this was mainly due to time constraints. Aside from that, the lectures were extremely beneficial to understanding the material. 132.  Normally pretty good. from time to time it was confusing but thats part of learning the material and i understand that. 134.  keep doing what you are doing 135.  Lectures have gone very well this year. The pace is very good and so are the professors. 138.  No comment. 139.  I think it presents the information well, and it is a good format for class. 140.  I really enjoyed the lectures. Prof. Schleter and Dr. Bennett made it pretty fun and i loved the demonstrations. 141.  Do more problems, and explain the plugging in of them, i know its simple algebra but its hard to follow sometimes 143.  instead of showing an equation and saying hey this is how we work it. showing how to get the equation is must more effective. 144.  lectures were instructive and helpful, and some of them were even kind of fun. the demonstrations were a good way to help visualize the material. i really learned a lot in this class and was impressed with the professors' abilities to teach such a large class. 145.  It's perfectly fine 146.  Overall the lectures were very good, however a problem I noticed is that while a lot of general problems are covered, many specific ones are not. I know we are supposed to think and problem solve, but I have spent many hours on a single problem before, all because of a simple arbitrary difference between it and the lecture example that no one mentioned and is highly unlikely for one to simple know it. So this could be frustrating. Otherwise, the lectures were good. 148.  I enjoyed them. 149.  Pretty fun. Tedious problem solving could be more interactive for those of us who are slightly ADD. 150.  GOOD CLASS. 151.  Lectures are somewhat boring but full of information. It is to one's own benefit to attend them. 153.  N/A 154.  More time would be nice if that can be arranged. 156.  lecture examples were not nearly as complicated as homework problems 158.  overall, i learned a lot in this class and they were very good at presenting the material. 160.  Schleter and Bennett both did a great job keeping the lectures both fun and engaging. They always explained things well and are excited about teaching the class. I always looked forward to EF lecture. 162.  I had a very tough high school teacher that I did not understand, but these professors helped me through physics and made it fun. 163.  The lectures started out strong at the beginning of the semester, however by the second module and onward the lectures oversimplified the material (or perhaps the exams and homework overcomplicated the material) and so there was no longer a match-up between what we did in lecture and what was required on the homework and exams. Some ability to extend the lecture material is expected, however, definitely not to the extent that was required on the homework. Some homework assignments had NO connection whatsoever to what was presented in lecture. I know that I am not the only one who came to recitation the next day and was completely confused on how the homework connected to lecture. Very disappointing, and the disconnect needs to be addressed. 165.  very good. fill the time and are very interesting 167.  Lectures are always a fun experience. It's great to be taught the information by professors who clearly know what they're talking about and enjoy sharing their knowledge with students, even when the subject matter gets a bit dry. 169.  This class was very well organized and put together. I really enjoyed it. 171.  n/a 173.  Aside from the occational technical hiccup, everything was fine in the teaching of the class. 174.  I did not like how during some lectures, we did not get to cover all of the material. And often, the material that we didn't get to go over was the material on the homework. It'd be nice if our lectures could be just a bit longer ... even 30 minutes .. i know it might not be possible, but it would help a lot. 175.  Really great lecturers, that made class very good and effective. 176.  Always managed to keep them intresting. 177.  Work at least one harder problem in lecture, because when I get to the homework I struggle with figuring them out. 178.  make them longer! this was definitely my favorite class this semester, they are both such good teachers and so interactive i dont see hoe you could miss a lecture 179.  Both Professors do a great job making the material clear 180.  The perfect mix of fun and learning! 181.  I enjoyed lecture, however sometimes the professors went too quickly for me to follow. 182.  I felt like I learned a great deal of the material needed for homework in the lectures. Only needed the book on a few occasions. 184.  they were good, it wouldn't hurt to work more difficult problems 185.  I wish it was possible to work more of the problems in depth, step by step, as opposed to showing the first part and then being given the answer. The trickiest part in solving many of the problems was in the middle, which ends up being skipped over. In the end though it's hard to fit everything in with time constraints. 186.  Dr. Bennett and Professor Schleter worked very well together. Their banter and good humor kept people engaged and contributed to the effectiveness of their lessons. It was easy to see the lectures were well planned and thought out. 188.  The examples given are too simple compared to the homework and exams. 190.  The lectures need to be a little longer so that we aren't rushing at the end of the class period 191.  The professors are really great lecturers and make the class fun. I really enjoy any visible display because it makes the material easier to understand. The clicker questions are a great idea because it keeps you involve during lecture. 192.  None in particular. 193.  n/a 195.  The lectures are good. I just didn't like it when we would be out of time and we rushed to finish parts of lectures because I struggled on those parts on the homework. 197.  They were very helpful in explaining what I couldn't understand on the homework. 198.  None. 200.  I like the tag team approach. I feel like some things could be explained more clearly though. 201.  I felt like we were learning too much too fast. Also the homework was a lot harder than the examples during lecture. 202.  Good Stuff 203.  Great job of making them fun and interactive. 204.  KEEP THINGS IN VARIABLE FORM FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. I had the hardest time following examples because values were plugged in as soon as possible, so it was impossible to see what we were doing while solving. 205.  Some of the lectures did examples that we never did on homework or on tests. Also, some of the homeworks had problems that we have never worked out 206.  Lectures were overall good however sometimes they were hard to follow. Especially when assumptions (like answers) were made as class time ran out. 207.  I was never bored in their lectures. 208.  The lectures were actually really enjoyable to me. I learned a lot. The speed was a little quick during some lectures because I have never taken physics before so I really had to play catch up. But by the end, they were great! 209.  This has probably been my most enjoyable lecture. 210.  IT is good as is. Good if you pay attention and are on time. 211.  Using students to demonstrate usually wastes time 212.  The lectures seem to consist primarily of the professors working example problems while the students observe. There is little to no actual teaching going on, and I feel like I gained (through lecture) virtually no conceptual understanding of the material presented. 213.  i enjoy them 214.  Promise that the "Very Good" ratings are not me just going through and clicking. I believe the lectures where excellently paced and delivered in a manner clear enough to apply to differing situations found in the Homework. Not sure if yall's jabbing at each other is in good fun or if you actually meant it though..... 216.  I thought using the clickers during lectures were helpful because they helped me focus more on paying attention. They were unhelpful sometimes when I didn't have enough time to get a right answer. I also thought the lectures could have more problems similar to homework, especially on the last modules. 217.  Made a good pair of teachers. 218.  I learned a lot in the lectures, although a few times there were items on the homework that we had not covered in lecture, or had just skimmed over. 219.  each recitation seemed to be recovery from the lack of effectiveness of the lectures, and Dr. Bennett's speech impediment, though not a severe one, was still very frustrating at times 220.  They helped, but didn't always prepare me for the homework. Which I guess was the point.... so.... 221.  Sometimes rushed to finish covering material. 222.  concepts explained with physical objects on stage were the most effective--just a tennis ball or a rod can go a long way 223.  Very good besides clicker question malfunctions. 224.  The only suggestion I have is that we should work harder example problems in lecture instead of easier ones. 226.  The lectures were good. I understood the material and wasn't bored out of my mind. 227.  Really love the class, literally didnt have to open the book once, and that made the class so much better! The discussion board is a massive help, overall loved the class. 228.  maybe include different applications for the given formulas 229.  n/a 230.  Use lazy dog in every module, multiple times 231.  Very easy to understand and learn from. 232.  The last two modules were too fast in my opinion. 233.  you guys are amazing. 234.  none 235.  Best lecture I have had so far in college, never dull and always interesting! 237.  I have learned a lot, but the lectures move quite fast and they do not cover problems on the level of the ones assigned for homework. 239.  Love the tag team. 241.  I do not like Dr.White's lecturing techniques as well. 242.  They were very comedic! Keep it up! 243.  Very good and interesting. Every once in a while they should do a very hard homework problem on the lectures though, 244.  N/A 245.  I really like the way the class is structured. I learned alot from the professors. 246.  I think that you did a GREAT Job 247.  Love demos! 249.  n/a 250.  Lectures were effective, but the majority of learning seemed to occur at recitation. 253.  Harder questions during lecture. 254.  very entertaining and informative 256.  Loved it 257.  more examples demonstrating the variety of applications each lesson covered 258.  N/A 259.  Very fast. sped through the lectures. 260.  The back and forth way that prof. Schleter and prof. Bennett present the material while making it entertaining really drew me in and had me paying more attention than I normally would have. 262.  During lectures, demonstrate how to approach the homework problems. 264.  Oftentimes seemed to go a little fast to learn anything at lecture. More often than not (especially in the last two modules) I would just copy down all the problems and stuff while in the lecture, then decipher it later... 265.  Sometimes covered a few slides way too fast. 266.  lectures were a little drawn out. I believe more time should be spent talking about specific problems that could apear on HW. 267.  none 268.  Lectures were very good. They were as interesting as could be with physics, and the material was presented very well. 269.  Overall, the lectures keep me interested and cover the material very effectively. 271.  Overall a very good, engaging lecture with many examples. Practice using the clicker program. 274.  There is much material to cover in a small amount of time. The more complicated pieces of the class were hard to try to learn on my own. 275.  Very good job. I learned a lot 276.  It was never boring. They like to entertain and teach at the same time and I personally think Bennett and Schleter have great chemistry when teaching together. 277.  Maybe go a little mor in depth about simultaneous equations 279.  One of the best learning environments I have ever been in for any class. Loved everyhting about how the class was taought and graded. Hard not to learn alot from these teachers. Great all around class and teachers. 280.  Dr. Bennet is an amazing proffesor 281.  Lectures were very clear and both Schleter and Bennett were very easy to understand and explained the material very well 282.  The lectures are well-choreographed to help students learn. 283.  the lectures were good but maybe use more examples in lectures 285.  Uhhh! 286.  Enjoyed lectures. Bennett and Schleter made it interesting and informative. 287.  I thoroughly enjoyed the "Abbot and Costello"-ness of the lectures. 289.  Overall, it was really good lectures, I love the way both of you teach together, filling in for one another and taking playful jabs at one another. This class was my favorite class of the semester. 290.  I learned a lot in the lectures and enjoyed them while I was at them. THe notes from lecture helped a lot on the homework as well. 291.  I love going to EF lectures! (: Dr. Bennett and Prof. Schleter are so much fun and always keep class interesting while effectively teaching us the material. For a field of study that requires a lot of work, it is great to have professors who teach well and are motivating. I wish they were both teaching EF 152 next semester. 293.  Lectures moved too fast. I feel there was a lot left uncovered when it came time for the homework. More thorough examples would be extremely helpful. 294.  THey were good at helping with homework 296.  they both did a good job of making a huge class seem not as big 297.  Very well done, showing physical examples of what we were studying in action was helpful, and the clickers helped give immediate feedback on whether or not we were understanding the material. 298.  Lectures were good overall a little fast paced though. I understand there is a lot of material to be covered in a short amount of time, but it would be better to spend more time and go into further detail in one or two examples on some of the harder and longer problems instead of using more to explain the idea. The visual demonstrations helped a lot. 299.  I love how we are learning and it is fun at the same time! 300.  Occasionally (in the beginning) it seemed as if the professors assumed all students had been exposed to physics in high school. I was entirely new to physics. I was often confused initially because there seemed to be bits of missing information that were never even mentioned. This made asking questions difficult, because I was unaware of exactly what I was missing. 301.  The lectures were great. They kept me interested and taught me everything I needed to know. I never looked at the book once. 302.  more writing space in notes 304.  None 305.  The only problems with the lectures arose during the homework, but the professors were very effective at clearing up any problems we had. 306.  none 308.  Relate a little more to homework problems during lecture 310.  Pretty enjoyable class. Sometimes went to fast 311.  Very good. You go at a slow enough pace for everyone to follow along. Your examples are good also. 312.  They definitely kept the lectures entertaining which is important to me. 313.  The girl substitute was mediocre. 315.  i like how the professors involve the students. 316.  Lectures were good. I am glad that the class lectures are led by two professors and not one. Together, they make it more interesting and fun. 317.  The lectures were very helpful. I liked how we had a copy of the power point and that the lectures were available online. 318.  I liked both of you! The only part i did not like is that the homework and the notes do not run hand in hand. I cannot figure the homework out with just my notes. 319.  I love your enthusiasm and ideas of how you teach the modules. 320.  everything is great! 322.  none 323.  engineering is ballin 324.  none 326.  Good. They weren't boring at all. I like all the examples. 329.  Slow down. 331.  Learned a lot in lectures. Only suggestion is show more difficult problems to help students be able to see how to do a problem. 332.  Great class 334.  Lectures were very interesting, and it was easy to pay attention because of the humor and visual aids.

Recitations
Rate the overall effectiveness of the EF 151 recitations.	32% (106/333) Very good (1) 42% (139/333) Good (2) 21% (71/333) Average (3) 3% (11/333) Marginal (4) 2% (6/333) Poor (5) 0% (0/333) N/A (0) Avg: 2.02, NZAvg: 2.02, sum=671, cnt=333, nzcnt=333
Rate the overall effectiveness of your EF 151 TA.	50% (166/333) Very good (1) 35% (116/333) Good (2) 12% (39/333) Average (3) 3% (10/333) Marginal (4) 1% (2/333) Poor (5) 0% (0/333) N/A (0) Avg: 1.70, NZAvg: 1.70, sum=565, cnt=333, nzcnt=333
If you had any interaction with the recitation coordinator (Frances) please rate her effectiveness.	23% (75/333) Very good (1) 35% (118/333) Good (2) 10% (32/333) Average (3) 4% (12/333) Marginal (4) 2% (6/333) Poor (5) 27% (90/333) N/A (0) Avg: 1.46, NZAvg: 2.00, sum=485, cnt=333, nzcnt=243
General comments/suggestions on recitations: 2.  I would have liked more time to go over the material for that day instead of just doing a few problems. 3.  I loved Houston. He loved teaching us, and was enthusiastic. Frances was rude every time I spoke to her, but maybe that's just because I see her at 8 am. I also think she can be a distraction when she just drops in on classes and speaks out randomly. 4.  The team projects were pretty fun. 5.  Geoff was the best GTA ever! He was fun but was able to help us with any questions when needed. 6.  The recitations were very helpful in understanding materials. 8.  I thought that the recitations were good. They really helped me out when I didn't understand the material. 9.  More helpful than lectures. 10.  Great time to ask questions, Houston (TA) knew what he was talking about, helped out a lot. 11.  None 12.  My TA was awesome and really good at explaining the problems we worked in recitation, but I found the recitations that were more concept question based or group demonstration to be less effective than the ones where we had to build things or work problems ourselves because it was easy to let the TA do all the work and not think problems all the way through ourselves. 13.  The recitations also helped me really get into physics. They were fun and gave an easy way to learn physics without feeling like you're slaving over notes, etc. 14.  I thought that they were really well done. I especially liked that we switched groups every module. 15.  Recitations helped me the most. It helped me understand physics more than the lectures and ask more in depth questions. 16.  nope. 17.  Perfect again 18.  I love being down in the workshop 19.  None 20.  They were good overall, but they need more questions that are relevant to the tests. 22.  I feel like recitation should be focused on approaching different types of physics problems and teaching different strategies on how to solve them. 23.  I had a great TA. He was very knowledgeable and personable with students. 24.  Very fun. 25.  It would have been helpful of we had went over more homework problems in recitation. 26.  He couldn't really answer my questions and that was frustrating. 27.  they were very much needed in order to learn the new material 28.  I was never able to learn the material from the recitations, It wasn't that i didn't understand it there but it just wasn't working for me is all 29.  Some recitations were a little more helpful than others, lectures definitely are more effective. 30.  Do more project work in class 31.  Geoff goes a little fast sometimes but I really enjoy his teaching. 33.  Unorganized. 34.  none 35.  I liked the hands-on stuff 36.  Good, occasionally felt dragged out though. 37.  beter TA's 38.  good. but maybe have some relate more towards the homework. 41.  Great Houston rocks 42.  They made learning easier. 43.  N/A 44.  Todd was a great teacher. Although, I think recitations should have taken more time to discuss material learned and review that rather than focus completely on projects. 45.  Houston was very good at answering questions and Frances did a great job of helping with our project. 49.  All good 51.  Many recitations were boring. They could be made more exciting. 52.  None 55.  Usually a little too slow. 56.  They are kinda useless to understanding material 57.  They help relate to the real world but are otherwise useless. 58.  They were pretty good, but sometimes I felt they were pointless. 59.  pretty good overall. 60.  Houston is great. 61.  None 63.  Francis was great in est 13 64.  none 65.  nothing 66.  Chris is great! However, we seem to go off track sometimes during class. 67.  Not always that engaging or interesting. 69.  recitation honestly seems a little boring. My TA is great and when the practice exam problems come i find it very helpful but the rest of the time it seems like a waste of time. 71.  Just terrific! 72.  Recitations were not very helpful with learning the material, it seemed they were somewhat different than the material in class 74.  good 75.  none 76.  more organized. 77.  n/a 78.  They helped me apply and understand the material. My TA was good at explaining the material when we had questions. 79.  My TA was excellent. She was fun and always willing to help. Recitations were productive and effective. Each helped with my test performance. Frances was willing to go over the top when helping us with the rube goldberg project. 80.  Recitaations were good in helping me understand how physics works 81.  fun 82.  I was in the first reciation of the day, so I found myself correcting the TA often. 83.  make the TA enthusiastic 86.  Geoff did an exceptional job with answering homework questions. He was also a great help other classes, like Cal 3. In addition Geoff used comedy to make recitation enjoyable everyday. 87.  n/a 89.  Give more heads up on incoming team projects, but besides that I have no complains. My TA was great. 90.  i would have liked to have seen more help on the homework problems, but we usually just jumped straight to the recitation material. 91.  I feel like it should be more about what we're covering and what we have trouble with instead of doing a lot of projects. 93.  The TA should know the material a lot better than he did sometimes. 95.  I love my TA. 96.  Recitations helped clear up any questions. 97.  Some recitations were helpful, others were not. 98.  n/a 99.  It was a good class just too early in the morning that the class was not always the most responsive that early in the day. 100.  Sometimes, I felt that recitation was not that interesting. At times some of the questions had long paragraphs, which I did not see why we were doing that. 101.  Recitations are also very lively and enjoyable to go to. 103.  I like recitation 104.  Recitation helped me understand the concepts better because of the smaller setting, so I really liked it. 105.  I feel like recitations sometimes confuse me more than help me. Make sure the TA's really explain each concept before they start working on the actual assignment. 106.  thanks for the help 107.  none 108.  I don't really see a benefit in having recitation twice a week. I feel most of the time we just work some problems of read through how to do some easy examples. This would be a better use of time if it was used for direct questions on what we do not understand or problems we dont understand in the homework. Or at least be able to have some Q and A once a week and keep the recitation the same for the other day. 109.  Very good, fun, learning environment. 110.  I did not find these as effective as they should have been, and did not think that they were all necessary 111.  great! 112.  More in depth on the material. 114.  projects were kind of fun 115.  My TA truly knew the material but he seemed to assume we knew more than we did. I didn't have physics in high school so some of this stuff was a lot harder for me. Good teacher, but he assumed we knew stuff we didn't know. 116.  Recitation seemed somewhat pointless to me. I did not learn anything and it was only very loosely based on lecture. I think recitation should be more about understanding the concepts and working more problems similar to the homework and tests. Recitation was fun, but I did not learn from it. 118.  liked it 119.  N/A 120.  Todd=truth. 121.  Recitation was a great way to apply what we learned in lecture to "real world" scenarios. 122.  It would be helpful to provide more time for homework help. 123.  Shorten recitation 125.  Helpful, seemed like TA should have been able to help students more with their questions about concepts. 126.  Todd was a great recitation TA!! 127.  I feel like a lot of the time we did not have enough time to get it thoroughly explained to us 128.  Recitations were always pretty helpful. It would be nice to sometimes be able to ask questions on homework during recitation. 129.  Frances is not an inviting person with rather negative comments on most subjects. 131.  Recitations may have been more effective if more emphasis was placed on purely conceptual examples and applications, rather than an assortment of problems related to the material. 132.  Houston was excellent. 134.  no comment 135.  Recitations usually helped to clear up any questions from lecture. My TA was very helpful and also helped outside of class with help sessions. 138.  Group members can make or break a recitation. If you're grouped with people who won't cooperate it makes things difficult for everyone. 139.  Good to break into small groups. I also love having a built in reveiw session. 140.  I wish we had more time on the other projects. 141.  Kinda boring 143.  i have none 144.  recitations were very helpful. patrick did a great job as my TA, and recitation helped me understand some of the things i might not have understood in the lecture. 145.  Maybe try to have a recitation for every topic. Some topics weren't covered because of timing or a project. 146.  Frances ran Estabrook 13 with an iron fist, but she got things done and kept people safe. I can respect the take-no-prisoners approach. Recitation never did much for me. The projects were fun and often instructive, but on a regular basis and I never gleaned much from the recitation. I don't know if this was due to the TA or the set up. 149.  Recitations were incredibly helpful and interactive. 151.  Recitations are more hands on about what was taught in lecture and makes it easier to grasp the ef concepts. 152.  The recitations are very helpful. If anything is shady, Patrick clears it up. 153.  N/A 154.  All of the modules don't get covered proportionally. 156.  recitations were very helpful 158.  I liked that we used real life things to see how it relates. 159.  nope.jpg 160.  I really liked the hands on examples and experiments that correlated with what we were learning in lecture. 162.  Helped out because more one on one time. 163.  VERY IMPORTANT: DO NOT REQUIRE STUDENTS TO WEIGH THEMSELVES AND SHARE THAT WEIGHT WITH GROUP MEMBERS. For one of the center of mass exercises we needed to do this, and perhaps as a woman, I am particularly sensitive to this issue, but no one besides me and my doctor should need to know my weight. I do not think you fully grasp the extent to which people struggle with their weight, and having to share that even among a small group of students? Not acceptable. Overall I felt as though the projects in recitation were totally geared towards the guys. I'm not sure how this could be improved, but I think you are doing a disservice to young freshman girls who are trying to break into a male-dominated field, with having so many recitation exercises geared towards the guys. In fact, a lot of the terminology thrown around, related to cars and tools and things, I was not familiar with in the slightest. Not everyone coming in to the class has that sort of background knowledge. Just a recent example- a flywheel?!? Never heard of it. Also, all those tools in the woodshop of Eastbrook, good thing I was in a group with guys, because I don't know the first thing about construction. ALSO THE TIMING OF THE FINAL PROJECT: Unbelievable and cruel and poor management. The information about the final project wasn't posted until Friday, which meant that we could not discuss meeting with our group until the following Tuesday, exactly one week before leaving for Thanksgiving break. During that week leading up to Thanksgiving, I had four exams, two quizzes, numerous homework sets, and two OTHER major group projects. I had carefully budgeted my time, and I did not have time to work on yet another group project. What should have been done? The information about that project should have been posted at the very beginning of the module four, so that we could schedule meetings and get things rolling, without trying to cram it all in. I understand that you probably believe a lot of students would have procrastinated anyway- well then, that would be THEIR problem. And perhaps, a lot of the students in the class did not have quite the course load that I had this semester- but you can't assume that, and for someone like me, it was pretty near to impossible to find anytime to work on the project, which meant we were throwing something together last minute the Monday before the project was due. 164.  none 165.  some things seemed a little drawn out on the explanations 167.  My interaction with Frances was limited, but on the few occasions that we spoke, she was very upbeat and got a laugh out of me. I appreciated all the behind-the-scenes work she did to make recitation possible, and her oversight of Estabrook 13 during the final project was great. 169.  Also very well organized, i loved it. 170.  little more descriptive on some of the earlier team projects 173.  More hands on examples, it really helps to do rather than simply learn about something 175.  It helped alot on understanding what we heard in lecture 178.  maybe more time for questions about homework 180.  Patrick was my TA. I would just like to say that he was awesome. He presented the material effectively, he encouraged us to think for ourselves, and he was willing to put in extra time and effort to help us learn. Plus, he is funny. I would not be passing this class if it were not for those recitations. Thanks, Patrick. 181.  I really liked recitation. It helped me grasp the material more effectively. 182.  More overview of the homework. 183.  Very helpful 184.  I really liked doing hands on stuff. Seeing the material applied was cool. 185.  Recitation was different than I expected and I enjoyed it. The learning atmosphere as opposed to a "I'm headed to lab" sort of feeling was relieving. Over all, great experience. 188.  The projects are generally useless and show nothing useful. Also, when giving an assignment to roll a marble down a tube, please make sure the tube is big enough for the marble to roll. 190.  A few more hands on things besides the team projects would be useful 191.  Sometimes, the recitation felt pointless and sometimes it was very beneficial. 192.  None in particular 193.  n/a 195.  Chris was very nice. I just had trouble obtaining help in the class because of all the other things going on in it. I liked it though. 197.  It was helpful to work in a group of students who had the same troubles as I did and we could solve problems together to better understand the material. 198.  More of a focus on problems similar to homework and tests and less on models and project like things would have been more beneficial for me. 200.  Recitations are fun and interesting, a great way to review the material and clarify meanings. 201.  I really enjoyed the hands-on projects in recitation. I learn best with hands-on learning. 202.  Nothing 203.  Too much was given to us at first. 204.  . 205.  They were a good way to better understand the concepts 207.  Encourage students to ask questions 208.  I liked the hands on/experimental recitations a lot. To see how the things we learned actually worked was awesome. 209.  Geoff is the man. 210.  TA could be more sure on the things they are teaching us. 211.  none 212.  The recitations are supposedly smaller classes where students can ask questions and receive instruction, but the entire time periods of recitation seemed to be allotted to merely reviewing what was already said in lecture. I would prefer most of the recitation time slot be left open for the students to ask questions to the TA and receive personal instruction on things they do not understand. 213.  im not too crazy about my TA 216.  The recitatiosns helped me with the problems on the homework because the reciation problems had similar elements. 217.  More review on problems. 218.  These sometimes felt like a waste of time, or lasted a little long. I did enjoy the opportunity to work in small groups, to do more practice problems, and to do real-world application of the lessons learned. 219.  very well done and the interactive aspect added interest 220.  They were fun, and informative, but it would be nice to have some time specifically for Q/A about homework. Too, I missed a couple of group project grades, which I completed because I forgot about the online form.... honestly, I felt a bit cheated about that. 221.  Recitations help more than lectures. 222.  Patrick was always very open to questions and willing to explain concepts one-on-one and never assumed the students knew something they might not - always asked if everyone understood before moving on 223.  Tania was great. Really enjoyed it. 224.  Maybe spend some time going over the tougher concepts. I liked the projects and labs but I feel like i would have benefited more from working more problems in recitation. 226.  Recitations were way too early for me. 8AM 227.  Really like exam reviews in recitations, I found them to be alot closer the what we did on the exams, more stuff like the roller coaster and final project, gets you more involved than just sitting there listening to the TA go over stuff that has already been talked about. Maybe make the last fifteen minutes HW questions. 229.  n/a 230.  try to get done with some time to spare to allow questions on homework 232.  they were more effective at the beginning 233.  Very good and helpful people :) 234.  none 235.  recitations were fun and helpful on material I didn't get in lecture. 237.  They helped me understand the concepts that I did not necessarily understand from lecture. 238.  It was really good and im hoping to get the same TA next semester 240.  they were usually helpful. homework was harder than recitations 242.  I had a great TA who really helped, but his personality was a little lacking when he taught. Still, he taught us well. 243.  none 244.  N/A 246.  Don't try to teach new things just review and reinforce the old things 247.  Demos! 248.  Recitations are like any other class in which you will get out of it as much as you want to. 249.  Don't have it to where groups areas assigned based on test scores. It is not fair for those who do well to get stuck with someone who doesn't know the material and causes an impact on their grade when a project is due. Students work best when they select who they work with. 250.  Recitation was enjoyable with Geoff as a TA. Frances, however, was incredibly moody and temperamental. 253.  Recitation very rarely helped me. 254.  i learned alot in my recitation class. 256.  Fun tasks 257.  sometimes they didnt seem to flow with the lectures 258.  N/A 259.  Houston was a great TA. He deserves an award. Explains everything well. 260.  I like having time to just see all these engineering concepts we're learning about in action. It was like proving that they all worked and that was really nice. 262.  Recitations should clear any confusion presented during lectures. Geoff Conklin was readily available and always willing to assist us during exam review. 264.  I felt like a learned more at recitation and when doing the homework than I did in the lecture... 265.  None 266.  Loved Todd! SECTION 5C!! 267.  Geoff was a really good TA 269.  Recitations definitely help me understand the lectures better. Whenever I need help with something, it's almost always covered in recitation. 271.  A little too early in the morning, but other than that it was ok. 274.  The recitations to should more closely resemble the homework. Yes we learn a lot, but sometimes it's better to actually see some of the problems given then just to read about them. 275.  I learned a lot 276.  Not always the most helpful with homework but the concept questions were of course always on the tests so that was helpful and Houston (my TA) has a lot of knowledge in engineering. 279.  Recitation was also very helpful and I have no complaints. My TA did a good job overall. 280.  I did not learn anything in recitation 281.  Very helpful and fun as well. Enjoyed the cool experiments and examples that they had. 282.  The recitations were good at helping me practice the new materials and get a better understanding about what was taught in lecture. 283.  They helped a ton with the material and my TA Patrick was awesome!! 285.  They were a joke 286.  Liked recitations because of the more personal and hands-on feel compared to a 400+ person lecture. 287.  Don't schedule the final over Thanksgiving break. 288.  Recitation was a very helpful part of the class because you had more interaction with the TA and he answered you questions in more detail than the professors do because he has more time in recitation. This helped me understand more than lectures because it was hands on learning. 289.  The recitations were great at helping me understand the more confusing parts of the material better. 290.  Overall I liked the recitations, but sometimes the tasks wouldn't seem completely relevant, but overall I gained quite a bit of knowledge from them. 291.  Patrick was awesome! I really hope he will be my TA again next semester for EF 152. He is very receptive and patient with students. He is very prompt in responding to e-mails and returning portfolios. 293.  Recitations were taken to lightly. I had a late in the day recitation and we never went over in depth explanations of the problems. 294.  These helped me actually understand the material. 296.  Patrick was a great TA 297.  Patrick did a good job explaining the material to us. Anything from the lecture I didn't understand was usually cleared up after recitation. 298.  none. 299.  I love my TA Patrick! he is good TA. 300.  Recitations were enjoyable and Geoff is an engaging, knowledgeable TA. The format of the class (per the recitation packet), however, is not conducive to students gaining an understanding of the material, in my opinion. The practice problems were nearly useless. I was frequently behind, not due to a lack of incredible effort; and when I was behind, I did not feel justified in taking class time for help, but I was also unable to find extra time to attend SI sessions at school. Further, if the EF151 online homework had been more printer-friendly, bringing it to recitation would have been much easier. 301.  Recitations were perfect for reviewing material, asking questions, and catching up on anything I missed during lectures. 302.  more review 304.  None 305.  Recitation was probably my favorite part of this class because it cleared up any issues I had understanding the material. 306.  none 307.  I felt like there were times when the recitations became less effective because it became like another lecture. It seems to be designed to be a more applied learning session, and I think that is a good thing; however i it needs to be refocused. 308.  n/a 310.  Really helped with details of lectures 311.  None 312.  They were very helpful for questions and extra problems and for going more in depth on the module 313.  Chris Bates 314.  Maybe more of an open ended style rather than a lesson each time. It was like doing homework problems except I had to get up in the morning and walk to Estabrook to do them. 315.  my TA was awsome. 316.  The recitations were good, especially the extra attention given by the TA. 317.  Patrick was a great TA and he really helped certain concepts click. You could tell he really knew the subject unlike my TAs in other subjects. 318.  recitation did help alot 320.  it's good enough 322.  none 323.  way too early. i'd do better in the class if it weren't so early 324.  I do not usually rate individuals so low but I honestly do not think that Tania should be a TA for this class. Too much of our time was used for reworking recitation problems that the students and the TA had received different answers for. Approximately 50% of the time that these situations arose the students actually had the correct answer. I did not feel as though I could ask her for help with problems because of this. She is an incredibly nice person but I would not want her as my TA again. 326.  I could have used more instruction. 327.  Recitations seemed at times pointless because there was a lack of helpful suggestions especially for homework. I feel like adding a 15 minute homework help would give a little more reason for participation. 330.  good 331.  Awesome job Patrick thanks for all the help. 332.  Todd was a great TA 334.  Enjoyed the projects

Web Site

Rate the overall quality of the EF 151 web site.

64% (213/333) Very good (1) 32% (105/333) Good (2) 4% (12/333) Average (3) 1% (2/333) Marginal (4) 0% (1/333) Poor (5) 0% (0/333) N/A (0) Avg: 1.42, NZAvg: 1.42, sum=472, cnt=333, nzcnt=333

General comments/suggestions on web site:

3.  I think the website is well designed as well as easily navigated. 4.  The website has everything you can need on it. 5.  Website is easy to follow and find what like is necessary. 6.  I have no suggestions. It was a great website. 8.  It was good. I had some problems with logging in. 9.  More helpful or interactive discussion boards. 10.  Very simple and easy to use/navigate. 11.  NONE 12.  Much easier to use than Blackboard! 13.  This website is very helpful. I don't know what I would have done in this course without it 14.  I was pleased with the website. 15.  It seems that the system for this website is better than the web assign on blackboard. It is also kept very up to date. 16.  None. 17.  perfect 18.  Shouldnt put ungraded items in as zero. it leads the students on as though the are doing worse that they are 19.  A very helpful tool 20.  very easy to use. 22.  Very nice web site. 23.  Very helpful website. 24.  Best online system for any of my classes, hands down. 25.  Some of the "hints" could have been more helpful. 26.  None. 27.  I have had no trouble from it 28.  web site was amazing it had everything on there, i wish other departments had websites like this. i liked the easiness of finding my TA's to figuring out what i needed to make on the next test. 30.  Website has everything I would need. 31.  I much prefer this to masteringchemistry, though I didn't like how there would be hints referring to the example in the book which some people (like me) didn't have. 34.  none 35.  I like the way it's organized 36.  I am so happy you didn't use blackboard. 37.  none 39.  Present whats due in the next week in an obvious place. 40.  Great organization. 42.  Website was very good. 43.  N/A 44.  Web site is good. 45.  The EF website is much better than my other classes when it comes to homework assignments and other surveys. 46.  Notifications for team project work as well. 48.  Like being able to discuss with professors and other students easily 49.  By far the best website I've dealt with since I've been in college. Makes every other class look terrible 51.  Website is perfect. 52.  None 53.  Can be confusing at times, but all the UTK websites are. 55.  Easy to use 56.  none 58.  I liked how the website worked 59.  very useful and organized 60.  None 61.  None 63.  Easy to get around 64.  easy to use 65.  nothing 66.  You guys do a great job with the announcement. If I need to check if my portfolio is due the next day in recitation, I just get on the EF page and find out! It's a lifesaver! 67.  None. 69.  The site is quite efficient. 71.  Web site's fine. 72.  website was very well put together 74.  No 75.  the log in sessions are timed out too quickly 76.  I think it is put together well. 77.  n/a 78.  it was easy to use. 79.  The website was a huge help. It helped to lay everything out so that it is easy to see. I think there was one time over the semester when it wasn't running, but overall, it wroked well and was a big help. 80.  easy to understand 81.  helpful 82.  I think the clicker numbers should be shown for the end of winners in the last lecture. 83.  very organized and easy to navigate 87.  n/a 89.  I really like the set-up of the EF website and have no complaints. 90.  There was a lot to keep track of, maybe condensing it some way would help. 91.  It's well organized and easy to use. 93.  So much better than blackboard. 95.  Nothing. 98.  N/A 99.  Easy to understand 100.  The website was very helpful and easy to use. At times it was only frustrating because when the internet on campus was out it was hard to do the homework. 101.  I like the website. It is easy to understand. 103.  It was helpful 104.  It is easy to find the things you need and I like that EF has its own website outside of blackboard. 105.  n/a 106.  organized 107.  none 108.  This is the best website I have ever seen for a class. 109.  Very helpful. 110.  Discussion board is the best thing ever. 111.  none 112.  Awesome 115.  I love that EF has its own website that is tailored to this class specifically. 116.  Very user friendly. 119.  N/A 120.  No suggestions. Quick, easy-to-use, and ridiculously useful. Although that dark orange color for the side menu is atrocious. Consider changing. 121.  I absolutely love this website, especially the discussion board. I like how we are able to do pretty much everything for this class on the website rather than 20 different sites. 122.  No comments 123.  Homework system was great 124.  allow password saving, as for some reason my browser cannot save my password and I have to manually type it in each time 125.  Website worked well for the students, I thought. Everything was easily accessible. 126.  none 127.  love the discussion board and how the calendar and notes and everything is right there 128.  The online lectures were extremely helpful!! 131.  The website should remain as is; it is highly efficient, and seemingly coded rather well. I experienced no issues with the site throughout the semester that could not be traced back to an error with my computer. 132.  Well set up 134.  no comment 135.  Everything worked fine. 138.  No comment. 139.  None to mention. 140.  None 141.  Very good layout 143.  its very easy to use 144.  none 145.  It's good 146.  Sometimes you had to log back in after literally a few seconds of inactivity which got annoying, but overall it's solid. 149.  Website is much, much better than Blackboard or any other site I've used. 151.  Website crashes occurred more than once, this is a problem. 153.  N/A 154.  none 156.  easy to use 158.  none 159.  nope.jar 160.  Easy to navigate. Useful. 162.  very hard homeworks but it helped out alot 163.  None. 164.  none 167.  The web site is great. It is well designed and maintained. I enjoy using the site because all the information I need is exactly where I expect it to be - the organization is perfect. The web site is truly a pleasure to visit and use compared to the absolute disgrace of a web site utilized by other classes, BlackBoard. 169.  Very organized. 171.  n/a 173.  Did not fully understand the discussion until later in semester. 175.  none 177.  Very helpful. Easy to find everything I needed 178.  very helpful 181.  Sometimes it would not let me log in. 182.  Works as well as it needs to. 183.  Homework can be annoying, but not as bad as mastering chemistry. 184.  It really is one of the best online homework websites I've ever used. 185.  Nothing wrong with it, solid web site. 186.  The website is very user friendly and well organized. 188.  The website is very good and feels very solid. Sometimes a bit of script gets displayed on the homework problem pages, but it doesn't seem to affect anything. 190.  It's good because it leads you directly where you need to go depending on what you're looking for 191.  Really easy to use. 192.  Sometimes the login becomes bugged and makes you log in for each question or just simply will not let you log in. 193.  n/a 195.  great...love that I get extra credit all the time for being good. 197.  Helpful when I need help on the homework and also if I ever missed the lectures. 200.  This website is gorgeous. It is well organized. I particularly like the links to the other engineering sites, this is very helpful. A few suggestions: for the online practice exams, show the correct answers. 202.  Everything's well organized and needs no changes. 203.  Very helpful and well put together. Discussion board was great. 204.  . 206.  Website was organized well. 207.  More discussion board monitors 208.  I wasn't used to online stuff after high school but it turned out to be really good. The discussion board helped a bunch. 209.  I would forget to do feedback forms. 210.  Just keep it as is. Maybe display extra credit opportunities in a different manner ( more noticeable). 211.  kept me updated 212.  The website appears to work quite well, actually. 213.  none 214.  User-friendly, however there is some rough edges in some of the side-bar categories such as the Online HW which looks like someone forgot about it. Homework crashed on me once and erased all my answers but Dr. Bennett was quick to help me out with it. 216.  Website is perfectly fine. 217.  I can't find exam info. 218.  It was sometimes a little glitchy, especially with links. Also, it was sometimes confusing when something has a link, but had not been posted yet, for instance, the final project. It might be helpful if the Announcements page sent out an email with the information on it as well; it was kind of easy to miss stuff posted on there. 219.  it was extremely beneficial to keep track of current grades and due-dates. the discussion boards were also crucial. 222.  While the discussion board was almost NEVER a help and is probably more trouble than it is worth to maintain, the mere fact of 110 point possible for homework completed a day early redeems it (this saved my grade where poor-to-fair grades on exams lacked); the only problem here was needing to fully understand the material to complete the homework and the fact that help sessions are designed to fall only on the days homework is due for 100 % credit... 223.  Good. 226.  It's way easier to use than Blackboard 227.  Really easy to find everything you need. 229.  n/a 230.  change the layout of the discussion board. always had tiny font and it was hard to tell who are TAs and students. 234.  none 235.  Well designed website. Very cool and much better than blackboard in my opinion 237.  I sometimes get logged out for no reason while working on homework. 238.  Im impressed, who ever programmed that did a good job 240.  its good 242.  The entire website is completely organized, and I like it! 243.  very good and informative 244.  N/A 246.  I wish on my mac that I didn't have to log in every time I clicked on a link 248.  None. 249.  n/a 250.  The website is pretty handy. Emails notifications would be a nice addition. 253.  Perfect website features. 254.  very good 255.  I know that such a large class makes it logistically impossible to have more written hw but having to plug in and get a number exact on most physics problems makes the hw last atleast 2x as long as it would othwerwise. 256.  I like it 257.  its a good site. i like the discussion board. it could be more organized though 258.  N/A 259.  Very organized. 260.  Very simplistic layout and everything is easy to find. 261.  Infinitely less annoying than Blackboard. 262.  N/A 263.  NA 264.  Very well laid out. 265.  The discussion board was very helpful. 266.  The discussion board needs to keep all conversations available. even when work is uploaded because it was making the discussion a personal thing and not something to help other students 267.  none 268.  Great web design. I was shocked when I saw the mobile version. 269.  I really enjoy working on this web site. It's much, much better than having to use Blackboard and never gives me any problems. 271.  Needs pizazz 274.  Very phone friendly. A huge plus for anyone with a smart phone. 275.  It was a little confusing at first 276.  easy to navigate, very helpful, very organized. 279.  Had everything I needed and very well organized 280.  It is very well orginized 281.  Very easy to navigate and use 282.  The website is easy to navigate for the most part. 283.  It is very user friendly. Way better than blackboard 285.  Better grade calculater 286.  Fairly easy to use and navigate 287.  n/a 288.  On some days durning homework I had to login after every try of the homework and it was very annoying. I don't know if that was a problem with my computer or the website but I wanted to let you know about it. 289.  Whoever is the website creator is amazing. Great interface and very user friendly. And the mobile site is another great idea. 290.  The website was very helpful and was updated promptly, it was also easy to navigate. 291.  The website is easy to navigate. 292.  I hope I never have to use Blackboard: love the EF site. 293.  Great website! it is easy to use 294.  None 296.  at the beginning of the semester it was said that the book was optional. however most of the homework hints were out of the book so it would be helpful to either tell the students up front or change the hints 298.  Really well set up site. 300.  Aspects of the site are excellent. Navigation is easy, and the available material (lecture videos, HW discussion board) is quite useful. 301.  I love how organized this website was. The only thing I could think of to improve the website would be to forward the announcements to our utk emails. 302.  need reminders when homeworks are due 304.  None 305.  The website would freeze or lag sometimes, and on occasion, this error would delete my submitted answers, but this happened very infrequently. 306.  none 308.  n/a 310.  Very organized 311.  None 312.  It's great and easy to use. 313.  None 315.  none 316.  The website was good. 317.  Absolutely great website. No complaints. 318.  it was good 319.  This made homework so much less stressfull. 320.  great 322.  none 324.  none 326.  Very helpful. 327.  Web site is well done. 330.  very good 331.  Very easy to navigate. 332.  Made it easier for me to study 334.  None

Textbook

Rate the overall quality and usefulness of the textbook.

2% (5/333) Very good (1) 7% (24/333) Good (2) 13% (44/333) Average (3) 12% (41/333) Marginal (4) 13% (43/333) Poor (5) 53% (176/333) N/A (0) Avg: 1.69, NZAvg: 3.59, sum=564, cnt=333, nzcnt=157

How often did you use your textbook?

7% (24/333) Weekly (1) 8% (26/333) Monthly (2) 20% (66/333) Rarely (3) 13% (43/333) Bought, did not use (4) 52% (174/333) Did not buy (5) Avg: 3.95, NZAvg: 3.95, sum=1316, cnt=333, nzcnt=333

Should a textbook be required for this class?

5% (17/333) Absolutely (1) 23% (77/333) Probably (2) 72% (239/333) No (3) Avg: 2.67, NZAvg: 2.67, sum=888, cnt=333, nzcnt=333

Assume that a recommended textbook costs $150. Would you purchase an electronic version instead of a printed version?

5% (17/333) Yes (1) 5% (16/333) Yes, if e-version was $100 (2) 33% (110/333) Yes, if e-version was $50 (3) 32% (105/333) No, I prefer a real book (4) 26% (85/333) No, I wouldn't purchase either one (5) Avg: 3.68, NZAvg: 3.68, sum=1224, cnt=333, nzcnt=333

General comments/suggestions on the textbook:

3.  I didn't buy one. I borrowed from a friend. I learned more from lectures and lecture videos. 4.  The textbook presented the material in a much more difficult manner. I did not get any help out of it at all. 5.  Decent text book, some of the examples were confusing. 6.  I used the textbook ocassionalky, but I don't think it would be worth the money. 8.  The textbook was really helpful on some of the homework problems. 9.  Don't reference the book as a hint when no one has the book. 10.  Wasn't used very often. 11.  None 12.  I didn't find the textbook very helpful, even when specific examples were cited in homework problems. I also tried to use it to get a different explanation of the topics we were studying, but I found it difficult to follow. I don't think a textbook was necessary for this class 13.  I just didn't use it much because I don't like textbooks. 14.  I found the text hard to follow and not very clear. I would recommend looking for a more comprehensive text. 16.  Did not have one. 18.  The text book examples did not help in any shape, form or fashion. 19.  None 20.  textbook sucked. find one that is easy to comprehend for someone whose never had physics before. 21.  Some examples in the book as pointed out in homework were drastically different from the assignment. 22.  N/A 23.  I have rarely used my textbook. 24.  N/A 25.  I never used the textbook. It was a waste of money and should not be required. 26.  If so many of the homework question hints are going to be from the textbook, you need to emphasize that instead of simply saying that it isn't mandatory. 27.  I feel like it would be useful if I did have it. 28.  I prefer not to use textbooks 30.  Did not buy one. 31.  The professors lecturing and homework examples and discussion boards and practice exams teach me better than textbooks because of how I learn. 34.  none 35.  I didn't use it much, but it helped when homework hints referred to specific examples. 36.  Wasn't very helpful in all honesty. Lecture slides explained everything better. 37.  none 42.  Didn't have a textbook. 43.  N/A 44.  Textbook did not help much in regards to the class. 45.  I did not buy one and my friends that did buy one rarely used it. 46.  One with a lot of examples. 49.  None 51.  I never used it. 56.  It is helpful, but probably not necessary 58.  It was helpful in reviewing physics rules but isnt required because of the powerpoint slides. 59.  none. 61.  None 63.  N/A 64.  none 65.  Yes, If e-version was $20 66.  I did not buy the book, however, I should have, as many of the hints on homework problems required me to look at examples in the text. Not sure how they would have helped, as I did not get a chance to look at these examples. 67.  There shouldn't be one. 69.  I wish i was told at the beginning of the year about the text book because i believe it would had helped a lot. 71.  In this new age of interwebs and what have you, science text books on basic concepts are only useful for practice problems. 72.  No textbook 73.  It's a good reference. 74.  No 75.  stop making hints textbook examples 76.  I wish I had gotten one. 77.  n/a 78.  it was okay. kind of hard to follow and understand. 79.  I didn't buy a textbook, and I did fine without one. 80.  if the hints in homework are going to be from the textbook them make it manditory 81.  never took it out 82.  N/A 83.  since we did not use it much, when it was time to use it the information seemed like very foreign material 85.  The textbook examples are very hard to follow. 86.  The text book was near useless and offered no form of help. 87.  n/a 89.  I didn't seem to help all that much, or at least the examples that the homework said to look at for help. 90.  I didn't like the whole "suggested" textbook thing. Had I known that so many of the homework problems would be in the textbook, I probably would have bought the thing at the beginning of the semester. 91.  It wasn't really needed. I used a friend's book to look at text examples when the hints said to but they didn't help me at all. Asking a friend or looking over notes is what made the problem make sense. 92.  It seemed like many of the homework problems were explained in the book but because the book was optional I did not buy one. It would help if the website at least stated that the textbook is helpful in understanding homework problems. 93.  Not needed. 95.  I did not use mine much. 98.  N/A 100.  With the hints, the book did not always help with the homework problems. I found that frustrating. I only purchased the book because I never had taken physics until I got to college. 101.  It was annoying when hints were textbook 5.1 and a textbook was optional for the class. 104.  I have my brother's textbook from when he took the class and I did not even open it. 105.  I didn't ever need/want the textbook. I would suggest not using one. However, it was frusterating on the homework when the hint was a textbook problem. 106.  the equations in the text book have different characters than used in class so it was hard to follow in the textbook 107.  none 108.  Well I think I bought the new textbook and a few times while doing the homework a hint would be to look at a certain section or example and it did not match with the new text. I read the textbook every module and I do think it did help me understand a little better but it is hard to say that it was worth what I payed for it. I can use google for free to look up worked physics problems for help. 110.  Very helpful on some HW problems, when the right example number in the book is given in the hints. 111.  none 112.  Follow the text book by the modules. Include in lecture 115.  The examples used different notation or wording for the problems than we used in lecture. Looking at textbook examples never helped me. Eventually I just stopped opening the book. 116.  I only used it when I was desperate or when the hint said to refer to the text. 118.  none 119.  N/A 120.  It's worthless. 121.  Although i did not use the textbook alot, when i did use it, it was extremely helpful especially with the homework. Also, when i was unable to grasp a concept that we talked about in lecture or recitation, the textbook would always help. 122.  On the homework do not reference the textbook since it was not required. 123.  N/A 125.  Never really used it. When I consulted it, wasn't much help. 126.  kind of confusing 127.  useful if you just wanted to teach the material to yourself and skip all lectures, otherwise useless. lectures and discussion board explained everything 128.  I did not buy it. 131.  While the recommended textbooks were the 12th and 13th editions, the hints on homework were constructed around the 12th edition. I possessed the 13th edition, which made most hints referring to specific textbook examples useless. 132.  N/A 134.  if hints on homework was not out of the book there would be no real need of textbook 135.  I didn't have a textbook. 138.  The problems that the homwork tells you to reffer to often do not help with that specific homework problem at all. 140.  We need a better text book. 141.  none 142.  Textbook is completely useless for this class. 143.  it should b required 144.  N/A 145.  N/A 146.  The textbook was useful for general information about concepts, but some of the examples the "Hints" suggested were useless, and if a specific problem is hanging you up then the Textbook is no help. If you don't understand the broader concept, then the book is more useful. 149.  Did not buy and fared very well in the class. I would recommend to those who struggle in math or physics. 151.  Did not purchase one. 153.  N/A 154.  The homework and exams lean heavily on lectures and recitations. Textbook is rarely cited. 158.  too confusing 159.  nope.gif 160.  Didn't have one. 163.  The only thing that bothered me was some of the homework hints gave textbook examples, when the textbook was listed as optional for the course. But it really wasn't that big of an issue. 164.  Made problems more complicated than they were many times. 167.  I chose not to purchase the textbook, and never regretted that choice throughout the semester. 169.  N/A 170.  usually helped with problems i was stuck on 171.  n/a 173.  Useless even when used for a hint. Left me more confused after reading. 175.  none 177.  Glad that it is not required, because I felt like I got by without the textbook fine. 178.  pick one that has better examples, some of them were really confusing 182.  The examples were vague in comparison to some of the homework problems. 184.  Didn't buy it. 185.  I didn't use it and I was rather disappointed in many of the cases that went something like "refer to section/problem x.x in your textbook" for homework help. 186.  none. 187.  The website and lecture videos make the text useless 188.  What's a textbook? 190.  Either make it required or get more examples from the book so that people don't waste their money 191.  It was pretty handy to have when the homework was tricky. 192.  N/A 193.  n/a 195.  I was told that I did not need a textbook and I really didn't ever need it because I had help that I found from people that already had the class and that was better than a book. 197.  N/A 198.  It was used fairly heavily in the hints on the homework for a book that was not required. That was rather irksome. 200.  The examples suggested from the homework site often didn't help much. It seems that some topics are hidden, and the book could definitely be better organized. 201.  If you are going to suggest a book please tell us the lecture before what pages we should look over for the next lecture. I feel like that will help out a lot. 202.  Didn't really use it. 204.  . 205.  I didn't get one 206.  Textbook is definately not needed for this class. 207.  Hard to relate what professors were teaching to the book at times 208.  We really didn't need them. 209.  Don't need a book. 210.  I didn't have the textbook so i can not comment or speculate. 211.  n/a 212.  The textbook, much like the lectures, seems to consist of example problems without an explanation of the concepts, particularly on a basic level. Without a basic, conceptual understanding behind it, knowledge is essentially useless because you cannot trust it. 213.  none 216.  N/A 217.  I was not aware of a textbook until it came to homework. Hints involving the textbook were the only times it came up. 218.  i never bought this, and it did not seem too necessary, even though many of the hints centered around use of the textbook. 219.  instead of having homework hints refer to the textbook, incorporate more actual concepts into hints and the homework and understanding will go much smoother 220.  Stop requiring it. I'm sure I will keep the book for future reference in my career, but I only opened it once, and it wasn't really helpful at all for that specific problem. If anything it should be suggested material, not required. I really wish I had my money back. 222.  Incorporate the text more, especially in examples provided. A uniform set of variable would also help (e.g. just use v1 and v2 rather than v0 and v1) 223.  E book! 224.  some of the variables were different which was a little confusing 226.  I didn't ever use the textbook, so I don't know how good it was. 227.  Lectures were good enough that I didnt need the book. 228.  I found the same text book on amazon for 3 dollars so I would check there first 229.  It would probably help a lot but the class can be done without one. 230.  n/a 234.  On the hints in the homework also say the example in the new edition. 235.  I didn't buy a text book. I still did very well without it since the lectures were so good. 237.  Internet. 240.  it probably would have helped 242.  I regret not purchasing a textbook. It may have helped even more. 243.  none 244.  N/A 246.  Most of the Hints for Textbook References were wrong 249.  n/a 253.  No textbooks needed! 254.  The class did not require a text book, however doing the homework was almost impossible without it. Either make it a requirement or make the homework easier. ie when giving a hint dont say "homework example 10.4" 257.  i didnt understand the set up of the book 258.  Cumbersome 259.  Make the book required. The students will be more likely to buy it and therefore use it to study. 262.  The textbook is difficult to comprehend at times. 263.  NA 264.  I don't think the textbook for this class is any help at all... 265.  did not use it much... did not help. 266.  Didnt need it 267.  none 268.  Kind of unnecessary. 269.  I only used or read the textbook whenever I needed help with homework. Most of time I was able to get it on my own, so I never really used it. Also, since we don't really use the textbook, some of the material in it doesn't apply to our class. 271.  Didn't see a need, lecture notes are much clearer than the book. 274.  A textbook should be required for this class but perhaps something that is has more detail in it. The book is like an only english speaking person reading latin. Some parts are easy to look over but some parts I needed to read over 6 or 7 times just to get the general idea they were talking about 275.  N/A 276.  I bought it from ebay for $7. Didn't use it too much but it was only $7. 279.  did not use it much, but it did help on some problems. 280.  i used it a total of two times 281.  Wish i would have bought one. If i had known there was a textbook for the class i definitely would have bought one. 282.  The textbook was not used often except for a handful of times. 283.  Actually use the textbook if you ask us to get one 285.  Didnt use 286.  Didn't really like how the textbook was written. It made it harder to understand concepts than it should've been. Also, it's really expensive for a book I hardly ever used. 287.  Although it was recommended but not required, a majority of the hints offered for homework were to look in the book. 289.  I bought mine for $15 and that was including shipping, so it was a well spent $15 because I used it more than once a month. 290.  Whenever I used the textbook it really only served to confuse me more. 292.  I had purchased an online version but hadn't used it in the 30 day trial period so I got my money back. I don't think I ever really could have used it and I did fine without it. 293.  Many students did not buy the textbook; but it would be extremely helpful if the we were sent additional worked out example problems either in pdf from the textbook or just problems like the homework. 294.  none 297.  With the discussion board and help sessions, there is little need for the textbooks with the course. 298.  It helped to have another way of approaching the material. 300.  The textbook was virtually impossible to decipher in the time I had to make attempts at it. The concepts as presented in the lecture packet were oversimplified. It would have made things easier if switching between the lecture packet and the textbook were not like going from grade school phonics to high school grammar. 301.  Something that annoyed me was that some of the hints on the homework referred to pages in the textbook... which most of us did not buy. There might as well not be any hint for the majority of us. 302.  none 304.  None 305.  The only problem with the textbook is that it wasn't required, and a lot of the homework help was in the textbook. 306.  none 307.  I got along fine without it 308.  n/a 310.  N/A 311.  None 312.  I didn't use a textbook so I don't think they were necessary. 313.  N/A 314.  Don't ever make a hint a reference to a page in the textbook. I don't know anybody who has it and it's really frustrating that that's the only hint on some difficult problems. 315.  none 316.  I did not buy one. 319.  I barely used the textbook because I found it didn't help as much as instuction did. 320.  lecture note is so much better than the textbook 322.  none 323.  NO 8 AM CLASSES. I DON'T WAKE UP EARLY ENOUGH FOR THOSE. 324.  none 327.  The textbook is useless. 330.  pretty close to useless 331.  I just never got anything useful from the book. 332.  I didn't like it 334.  None

Clickers

Rate the overall effectiveness of the clickers in lecture.

32% (106/333) Very good (1) 44% (147/333) Good (2) 17% (55/333) Average (3) 5% (15/333) Marginal (4) 2% (6/333) Poor (5) 1% (4/333) N/A (0) Avg: 1.97, NZAvg: 1.99, sum=655, cnt=333, nzcnt=329

Did you use your clicker in any other class this semester?

12% (40/333) Yes (1) 88% (293/333) No (0) Avg: 0.12, NZAvg: 1.00, sum=40, cnt=333, nzcnt=40

How did you obtain the clicker that you used this semester?

79% (264/333) Bookstore (1) 5% (17/333) Friend/Family (2) 6% (19/333) Already owned (3) 3% (10/333) Other (4) 0% (0/333) Did not buy (5) 2% (7/333) Laptop (6) 5% (15/333) Phone (7) 0% (1/333) iPod (8) Avg: 1.65, NZAvg: 1.65, sum=550, cnt=333, nzcnt=333

General comments/suggestions on the clickers:

3.  I think the clicker is fun, but I hated buying it. Have you guys considered renting them out? 4.  I did not use my clicker in any other class this semester, but many classes are starting to use them now. 5.  Clickers are a great idea to take attendance and give points to students who actually come to class. 6.  The clickers are somewhat useful, but are expensive. 8.  I really liked the clicker activities. I would suggest to anyone who has a smartphone or iPod that they get the $15 per year service instead of the clicker. 9.  I hope I use it in other classes in college. 10.  Great way to check attendance/give credit to students who showed up to lectures, keeps students involved. System occasionally did not work. 11.  None 12.  I like that it allows students to participate in a large class. 13.  The clickers gave a great way to get into the lectures. 14.  They are a great idea and I enjoyed using the clickers because it made the lectures more interactive with the students. 15.  i like having the clicker questions. they help me understand more of the concepts taught in class. 16.  Fun stuff. 17.  nothing 18.  yea 19.  A good tool for lectures helps break up the time. 20.  good idea for the extra points for the class, but not really effective in learning anything. 22.  They were helpful in such a large lecture seeing how it's the only feed back the professors get. 23.  Gave students an incentive for going to class. 24.  A little on the frivolous side, but fun and interesting regardless. 25.  I liked the clicker use, but I think that sometimes we wasted valuable class time doing clicker questions that were not relevant to class. 26.  Good system. 27.  basically the only reason I kept coming to class, so very useful! 28.  I liked figuring things out with it. and if the who class did bad on a section it made me feel good knowing i got it right. good for confidence 30.  I think clickers are a beneficial addition to lecture. 31.  I didn't enjoy buying it or using it but I can see why they help. 34.  internet SUCKS in auditorium for online clickers!!!!!! 35.  I like them :P 36.  Helpful and kept you accountable for going to lectures 37.  none 38.  good. made the class more involved some. and was a good way to give us more points towards our grade. 41.  Great way to get involved 42.  I liked clicker questions. 43.  N/A 44.  Clicker questions were fun. 45.  Good easy grades 48.  Good idea, easy grade. 49.  None 51.  They became annoying towards the end but were overall necessary. 53.  Great way to stay involved in class! 56.  They help, but are a little pricey 58.  I hated clickers. 59.  pretty good learning tool 60.  Had trouble logging in quick enough. 61.  None 63.  It massif easier to follow allong 64.  none 65.  nothing 66.  It definitely delivered incentive for me to go to lecture. I only missed one, maybe two lectures all year! It helped a lot. 67.  None. 69.  Honestly i believe the clickers are not very efficient for the class. 71.  Added a wide variety of spice and adventure to lectures. 72.  clickers were a good time 73.  At the beginning of the semester the session Id would go out. 74.  No 75.  not helpful for anything except attendance 76.  helped me get involved in lecture 77.  n/a 78.  i like how they give you a grade even if you get the answer wrong bc it takes me awhile to fully understand material. 79.  The clicker system is great. I would keep the same 75% rule to allow for technical problems, forgetfullness, or excused absences. 80.  good way of staying tuned into class 81.  bad if you forgot it 82.  Highlight of the lecture in my opinion 83.  kept the class attentive 86.  Clickers are an incentive to attend and stay awake during lecture. 87.  difficult to answer clicker qs with calcs in them 89.  I really like the clickers, it gives you more an incentive to attend the class and adds an easy grade to obtain. 90.  good system 91.  More information on whether they can be used later or if it is only good for a semester/year would be awesome. I just don't know where to find it. 93.  Interesting. 95.  Nothing. 98.  N/A 99.  I enjoyed the clicker questions to see how the class anwsered as a whole 100.  I like using the clickers. It gives the students an opportunity to interact with the teachers. 101.  I liked the clickers. 103.  useful 104.  I like the clicker system because it is an easy way to get an accurate participation grade for such a big class. 105.  They are a good idea! 106.  not worth the price 107.  none 108.  I was a first timer on this and had my doubts at first. After getting it registered and using it, it wasn't that bad. I didn't love it, but it wasnt't awful. 110.  Fun stuff. 111.  none 112.  Got me to come to class 115.  Interesting tool. I like that it takes attendance and the questions are fun to answer. 116.  Seems like a great idea. 118.  none 119.  helps boost grade a little 120.  It was a good idea. 121.  Clickers are a good way to earn easy points and test your knowledge without feeling much pressure to get the anwser right. 122.  no comments 123.  Good way to get attendance 125.  Didn't find these very helpful. 126.  none 127.  good way to help me pay attention 128.  They were good to help us think. 131.  The clickers certainly made lectures more interactive; something that was quite beneficial. The use of clickers should certainly continue. 132.  Easy grade. also helped on material that i wasn't familiar with. 134.  no comment 135.  Clickers worked well. 138.  I liked being able to answer questions on the clicker, but for some questions typing in your answer instead of selecting one would be better. 139.  None to mention. 140.  The clickers seemed more affective than using other forms. 141.  meh. 142.  Not so many clicker questions. 143.  none 144.  none 145.  Good way to take attendance 146.  N/A 149.  Thought to be a very effective system. 151.  Good way to learn and should have more questions. 153.  N/A 154.  Stimulating and entertaining. 158.  very good to see how students are understanding the material and makes you pay attention 159.  nope.png 160.  Liked using them. Felt like it was a good reward for going to class. 163.  None. 164.  none 167.  I really enjoyed using clickers, and felt they supplemented my learning during lecture. The bugs encountered using the web clickers were disappointing, but not an issue for physical clicker users like myself. 169.  I feel as though they were kind of unnecessary 170.  didn't always have enough time to finish the questions 171.  n/a 173.  Awesome, wish it had been in my high school. 175.  none 177.  Good for making people pay attention. Kept me on task during class. 178.  liked them 180.  Keep the clickers. They are fun. 181.  Give us more time to answer. 182.  Works as intended. 184.  I like having them. I sure wish we would have gotten 100% just once! 185.  Really great way to involve the students. 186.  I thought the clickers were a great way to get the class involved, but getting them set up did waste class time on some days. Also, they are kind of expensive and setting them up online wasn't always easy. 188.  Too many students take them as a joke. They are a joke. 190.  Sometimes you can't get the answer in and the question closes, so you should leave the question open a little longer just in case this happens 191.  Great idea. 192.  Sometimes the question goes by too fast. 193.  n/a 195.  Awesome!!! 197.  Good conceptual questions asked that helped me understand the real world implications of these physics concepts. 200.  I like them, very effective. 202.  Kind of seem like a waste of money since anyone could go in for someone else with there clicker making it seem like they went. 204.  Too expensive and not necessary. 206.  Did not always respond well, so i missed a few questions i could have gotten. 207.  Good idea, but manually entering a number is a pain in the rear. 208.  They kept us in the lecture. 210.  It wasn't clear to me the first few week that i had to re-register my clicker because i assume since i was retaking the class i believed my clicker was still registered in the system. 211.  some questions require more time 212.  The clickers were annoying and I do not understand why attending such a worthless lecture is a part of the grade. Even if the lecture had been better, why is attendance graded? Attendance signifies no knowledge gain or otherwise academic ability. 213.  none 214.  I like the idea of active-lecturing and I support that a participation grade can come from it, however I don't believe students should be penalized for wrong answers. Oftentimes the countdowns were too brief. I think that if you didn't penalize, you would still see similar statistics of students paricipating/getting correct answers. Try it out for a semester and see if it is comparable. 216.  See above on lectures. 217.  I'd like to see other teachers use clickers. 219.  it was good to have the interaction, but the price was a pain. 220.  Need more time on questions requiring calculation. Often I felt rushed and so I just pushed a button. (some credit is better than no credit) Also, the correlation between clicker and attendance, I feel that the clicker grades are used more to gauge attendance. I left my clicker at home, but was in lecture on several occasions, there should be some way of still getting credit. 221.  Thought they slowed down lecture too much. 222.  ask more concept questions; ask fewer or no questions wherein calculations must be done--realistically, a lecture class of 400+ students doesn't really allow for questions to be asked (even if you ask if there are any questions) so if I don't understand something how am I going to know how to answer the question about it a minute later? 226.  The clickers keep everyone interested. 227.  Love the funny questions 229.  n/a 230.  make them cheaper 233.  The clicker questions go by really really fast. Most of the time its really hard to understand the question, because of time pressure. 234.  none 235.  A cool way to do lecture 238.  It helped people get involved, just give more time for questions 240.  it didn't always work 242.  The iPod/iPhone app is amazing! 243.  made the class fun 244.  N/A 246.  Very Useful made sure that we knew the material 249.  n/a 253.  i love the clicker questions to make us think. 254.  I understand the need for the clicker, but if the intention was to learn from the clicker, it was not accomplished. I liked being interactive in class, but i did not learn much from them. 255.  It's difficult to get problems in alloted time sometimes and it's easy to accidentally not answer the question. 257.  fun to use 258.  N/A 259.  Clickers make all the students show up for classes. 260.  I thought it was a very interesting way to keep the class engaged while also taking attendance without interrupting the lecture. 263.  NA 264.  Going back to the fast lectures, it is hard to answer math intensive questions. There really isn't much time for understanding the material when you're struggling to keep up with copying down how problems are solved... 265.  None 266.  Didnt always register. over all a poor evaluation of attendence and cooperation 267.  none 268.  Good stuff 269.  I really like using the clicker. I wish more classes would do it. It's also an easy way of seeing who actually attends lectures. 271.  Work on it. 274.  I think the clickers are a great way to test the knowledge. It kept me paying attention in class and I constantly tried (more often failed) to stay a step a head during class. 275.  It caused me to go to lecture 276.  good. 279.  Overall worked great, no complaints. A suggestion would be to have some kind of beep or noise as a noification once the 5 second countdown starts, because sometimes me and other people around me I noticed would be looking down trying to figure out the answer and the time would run out before I even got to make a guess and that is 7 pionts lost. 280.  they were helpful 281.  Easy to use. 283.  They should only be graded for completion, not correctness 285.  Sucked 286.  Clickers are a good way to help keep people accountable for coming to lectures and keeping engaged in what the lecturers are saying. 287.  n/a 289.  I bought the year subscription on my laptop then started using my iPod after I found out that ResponseWare had an app. It is a great way to ask the whole class questions andsee how many understand the concept. 290.  I liked the idea, but overall I feel like they didn't add anything to the class. 292.  I should probably buy an actual clicker; more reliable and I would be able to lend it to someone when I'm gone. 293.  Clickers are great at insuring students participate in lecture 294.  None 296.  the clickers didnt always work which hurt grades 297.  Definitely useful for getting immediate feedback on how well you are understanding the material. 298.  none. 300.  The clicker is a fantastic tool. 301.  You should make sure people know about the downloadable clickers before they invest 50 dollars in the clicker at the bookstore. 302.  too short of time to figure some of the answers out 304.  None 305.  This is a good method for checking attendance and earning extra points. 306.  none 308.  n/a 310.  Wish the grades kept up with the clickers all year 311.  None 312.  Easy grade so i obviously love them. 313.  Obnoxious 314.  I lost mine and never got a new one. Seems like a cheap attendance grade masquerading as a teaching tool. 315.  none 316.  I think it's good to have the clickers, especially in such a large class. 317.  I really made some lectures fun. I love trying to think on my own in the middle of a lecture, and the funny/joke questions kept class interesting at times. 318.  too expensive 320.  internet didn't work sometime. 322.  none 323.  I hate those things. It makes it hard to skip lecture. 324.  none 327.  Cool way to participate 330.  fun 331.  Clickers were a great way to keep the class interactive keep doing it. 332.  Phone did not work well 334.  good encouragement to attend lecture

On-line Homework

Rate the overall effectiveness of the on-line homework.

40% (133/333) Very good (1) 44% (146/333) Good (2) 11% (38/333) Average (3) 4% (12/333) Marginal (4) 1% (3/333) Poor (5) 0% (1/333) N/A (0) Avg: 1.81, NZAvg: 1.81, sum=602, cnt=333, nzcnt=332

How many hours, on average, did you spend on each week on on-line homework?

Average: 8.0036036036036

How did you generally work the homework?

55% (183/333) By myself (1) 35% (115/333) With one other person (2) 11% (35/333) In a group of three or more (3) Avg: 1.56, NZAvg: 1.56, sum=518, cnt=333, nzcnt=333

How does the system compare to other systems you may have used?

2.  I like the online homework. It's easier to me to have it online than a paper version of the hw. 3.  I like the homework system. Sometimes it's hard and way too time consuming, but it helps me learn. 4.  It is a much better online homework system. Comparing it to masteringchemistry and other masteringscience programs, it blows them away. 5.  I don't think I have ever used an online homework system before, I really liked it easy to use, don't have to carry around a book and paper. Can access it from any computer which is really nice. 6.  I worked alone at first and then compared with a person. If needed, I went to get help with friends. 8.  It is a lot better than mastering chemistry. 9.  Was not penalized for the wrong answer on other system. 10.  I find it simpler and more practical. 11.  Very useful and interactive. I liked the structure of the homework. 12.  It is better than mastering chemistry which is the only other system I have to compare it to, because you don't have to worry about losing points because of a weird format you have to put your answer in. 13.  I like this system much better compared to conventional homework methods. My heart raced whenever I got a 'ding' and a correct window showed up. 14.  I liked the immediate feedback and I liked it way better than the "Mastering (subject)" because it was helpful and not as ridiculously picky about sig figs in the answers. 15.  It works a lot better 16.  It was more effective. 17.  Better than others 18.  The system is ok. the hints and discussion board helped a lot. The online system however is not good though because you can just keep putting answers in. I personally, would prefer not to use it and do it by hand. This would better prepare us for the tests 19.  It is much easier to use and more effective. 20.  havent used other systems like this. 21.  n/a 22.  It was alot better than web assign. 23.  This homework was set up nicely. I liked the fact that we could still work on it even after the due date. 24.  Phenomenal system. Best at the university (in my experience). 25.  The system was great. way better than any other system I've used. 26.  I like the homework system. There's just too much of it. 27.  I have used mastering chemistry and web assign, and I feel like this is much easier to use. 28.  I liked it, i generally like the whole design of the online portion of this class. 30.  Much better 31.  It's better. 33.  Better. 34.  N/A 35.  I think working in groups would probably have helped.. 36.  Very good 37.  n/a 38.  I haven't ever used any systems like this before. 39.  I haven't used any other systems, but this one seemed easy to navigate. Some problems were overly difficult and almost none of the examples shown in class were extremely helpful on the homework. 40.  It was helpful and challenging but not over the top hard. 41.  Better than anything 42.  It is very effective. 43.  N/A 44.  Usually they were very close. Typically a rounding issue was the culprit for different answers. 45.  Much better 47.  Very similar 48.  Much better, good job. 49.  Perfect 50.  it works well vs. mastering chemistry/masteringphysics. 51.  It is the best system I have used yet. 53.  Have never done online homework before college. 54.  The online homework was frusterating at times when there were multiple assignments due on the same day. 55.  I haven't used any other system like this one. 56.  It is very effective.. wouldn't change it 58.  I havent used any systems like this. 59.  i liked it more 60.  Better 61.  Better 63.  Itseasier to understand... Especially with the discussion board 64.  It is much more simple to use than webassign 65.  better 66.  It is far superior. 67.  More challenging. 69.  i honestly like how the system works in comparison to my other online homework. 71.  It's fine. 72.  much more organized and helpful 73.  This system is awesome! 74.  It is better 75.  it is good 76.  much better ! it was better organized. 77.  A lot more work. 78.  It was okay. The discussion board was helpful if i couldn't get a problem, but it was extremely frustrating when you can't understand a problem and end up guessing ten times only to get it wrong. I like that you can punt the question, but i think if you punt you should be able to see how to work out the question. I wish it had shown me how to solve it, without necessarily giving me the answer so i could work it out myself. for my stats class after so many tries it gives you the option to see the solution of a similar problem that has different numbers and then instead of giving up like i do with ef, i try to work through the problem. 79.  This is the only online system for homework I have used. It is effective and helpful. 80.  its ok. some problems are a little to tough for an online type deal 81.  never done online 82.  I haven't used other systems. The hints and discussion groups were very succussful. 83.  it prepares you for exams better than any other out there 84.  Excellent 85.  The homework system is very good. I like that all the homework was do every week at the same time. Also I liked that there was a discussion board that you could use for help. 86.  Group work makes the endless amount of homework speed up and increases my understanding of the homework. 87.  works well 89.  I runs a lot faster and smoother than other programs such as the mastering ones but also works well if you are working with others. 90.  It was very effective at making you learn the material 91.  It is a lot better than webassign or masteringchemisty. It is more specific and provides a place for questions if we're struggling with something. 92.  It's better than other online systems. 93.  It's very similar. 94.  It's better because of the use of hints and discussion. 95.  Much better. 96.  The online homework was very effective. 97.  This homework was very effective, the discussion board was very helpful as well. 98.  The system is the only one I have used but it was very good. 99.  I have never done homework online before 100.  I like this system better. I liked that we had discussion boards to help with the homework. 101.  It was very easy to maneuver around. 103.  It was very time consuming 104.  I like this system better then Mastering Chemistry and Webassign just because it is easier to navigate. 105.  I like it. It is effective on understanding the problems and giving you a variety of examples to you. 106.  i liked it, work on my own time 107.  I haven't used any other systems. 108.  I'm just glad you could work for the 110% 110.  AWESOME!!! 111.  its better 112.  It is better. 113.  pretty well, the only class where i could actually see other peoples advice on the problem 114.  different than any previous experience 115.  Never used a system like this, but I really liked this system. 116.  This seems much better than all the rest. 117.  I think it worked well. I hate having papers to keep track of and the online system told me if my answer was incorrect or correct instead of making me wait until someone grades it. 118.  alright 119.  harder 120.  It's a fairly good system, and not finicky and dumb like MasteringChemistry. 121.  Out of all my classes, i spent the majority of my time working on EF homework. However, spending so much time on the homework helped me understand the material more. Overall, I am grateful that we were given homework in the manor that we were given. (the discussion board was a lifesaver) 122.  It was much better than some of the mastering homework software. 123.  At the top 125.  Better questions that build upon each other. 126.  very effective 127.  i dont know 128.  This system is the best one I have used so far. 129.  better than any other math online homework i have had 131.  Compared to Mastering Chemistry and WebAssign, the system for EF was much more effective and user-friendly. As of yet, it is the best system I've used for online homework purposes. 132.  Very effective 133.  I have never had a class that required answers to be submitted online. It was easy to use and I never had any big problems with the system. 134.  best that i have used so far 135.  I have never used an online system for homework before. 136.  average 137.  This system is much cleaner and smoother in comparison to the systems used by my other classes. 138.  I have not used other systems. 139.  I liked it. It was a good way to reinforce material. It was user friendly. 140.  It was vastly different but I liked it. The hints and discussion board became useful. 141.  bad. 142.  About the same. 143.  N/a 144.  it was my first online experience in a class. i don't like having to write everything out on engineering paper, but it did help me when i went back to study my homework for the exams. 145.  Definitely better than WebAssign 146.  I definitely prefer the layout much more. 147.  The online homework is awesome, beats "MasteringPhysics" any day. 148.  I enjoy the system because it is consistent, and I know what to expect. 149.  It is the best system I have used. 151.  Never used any other online system before. 152.  It was a lot better than others. I used Mastering Chemistry and it did not help me at all. 153.  Similar to other physics homework systems used in high school. 154.  Immensely better. 155.  a lot easier to manage 156.  much better than webassign 158.  better 159.  different 160.  It was easy to operate and I like the hints and discussion board. 162.  pretty effective 163.  It is comparable. 164.  It is better than most that I have used. 165.  I really like the fact that it offers us multiple chances to get it right for little penalty unlike mastering homework where you get five tries. 166.  better than others 167.  The system is far superior to any other system I have ever used. 168.  it is easier to use than other systems i have used in the past 169.  This is the most affective i've personally worked with. 170.  haven't used another system 171.  A lot better because most the answers are not just numbers you have to put symbols and different things in, which makes it impossible to get the right answer entered in. 173.  Unique, never had one quite like it 174.  I like the way that the online homework system works. The hints and discussion board are really really helpful. 175.  it is more effective 177.  I have never used online homework in high school, but we did use the online system in chemistry. It was easier to use than the chemistry since it is done by the professors themselves. 178.  it really helped drill the material into my head 179.  same 180.  This is the best system. 181.  I like it way better than the system Blackboard uses. 182.  I enjoy this system because of the community that is presented with the discussion board. 183.  Much better than mastering chemistry. Although, the questions sometime's seem unclear. 184.  great! 185.  It's a fantastic system, in most cases better than others I've encountered. 186.  It was much easier to use than other systems I've used. 187.  better 188.  The system itself is very good. 190.  This is the only system that I've used, but I like it 191.  The system is really efficient. 192.  It has its pros and cons. Pros: Easy to do homework, quick, efficient Cons: Server errors can be annoying, Cannot punt instantly 193.  I like this system a lot and it is very understandable. 194.  It's better. The discussion boards are helpful. 195.  I like the fact that I get immediate answers and that there is a try penalty because it motivates me to want to get the question right the first time. 197.  It was very different. 198.  Pretty good. 200.  It's beautiful, streamlined, and efficient. 201.  I enjoy that it gives me multiple chances. 202.  IT's different because i've never had to do physics homeowkr online. 203.  I think a larger group may have been better to bounce around ideas, but would have provided more distraction. 204.  It is very good up until Module 3 or 4 because the content became so subjective it was hard to get help. 205.  It is much better than the masteringchemistry system. 206.  I like the system how it gives direct feed back and hints. 207.  First online system I've used 208.  It doesn't. 209.  It's much better that masteringchemistry 210.  Its pretty well put together. it is very easy to use and understand. 211.  never used anything like it 212.  The homework system was easy to navigate and use, especially the ability to work online. 213.  it is good 214.  Very straightforward, and pretty forgiving. If anything, if you are going to try and throw students a curveball by requiring unit conversions/whacky units, draw more attention to it in the problem. Lost a lot of points to that even though it is mostly my fault. 216.  Better than my mastering chem online homework. On the EF hw we are able to use the discussion board to give and receive help. 217.  It was much better than chemistry. 218.  Never used a system like that before, so it took some getting used to, but it was easy to use after you initially figured it out. 219.  this was my only online homework, so i do not have any comparisons 220.  on par 221.  It was more difficult. 222.  similar to MyMathLab; this one is a little more user friendly in terms of entering solutions into fields; MyMathLab has no extra credit available; best of all, this system is included in the course (access to MyMathLab requires purchasing the text new for the code) 223.  N/A 224.  It was tough and alot of work but defnitley increased my learning and cut time studying for the exams. 226.  It's interesting. I like that we have to keep trying til we get it right. 227.  I really like the system we used, really easy, only messed up when internet was being slow. 229.  About the same. 230.  never had online homework 231.  This is the first system i have used. 232.  simple to use yet hard 233.  Much better. 234.  haven't used any other online systems. Better than written homework though. 235.  Very good, only went down i believe once in the semster. Very easy to use. 236.  Good 237.  It is better than Mastering. 238.  a lot better, i really like the interface. 239.  I really like the discussion board and the immediate feedback with the answers. 240.  it is the only one i've used 241.  i like it better than mastering chemistry 242.  It was way more organized than any other I have encountered! 244.  Better 245.  I liked the way the homeworks were set up. 246.  Haven't used others 248.  I prefer working by myself so that I figure out the problems for myself and gain the experience by doing so. 249.  n/a 250.  It works as well or better. 251.  I haven't used any other systems 252.  The only other system I used like this was in the EF 105 class. 253.  I like the homework system much better than mastering physics. 254.  not close to any system i've ever used. 255.  It's very difficult to plug things into the note system and atleast with my physics experience I like to work things out on paper and go over it instead of only getting credit for the correct answer. 256.  I'm a freshman But better than mastering chemistry 257.  not a fan of online 258.  N/A 259.  The system works better than any other. 260.  It's a lot better. This system is very simple to use, gives hints when you're stuck, and has a discussion board. 261.  Best system I've ever used for online homework. 262.  I have never used anything similar. 263.  NA 264.  Far superior to the online homework systems of the other classes (that I've been in thus far). 265.  Works much better than mastering chemistry. 266.  better than others i have used 267.  none 268.  Very good 269.  It's a lot more user friendly than all my other classes. Also, the questions were easy to understand and most of the time didn't give me any troubles. 271.  It flows nicer than mastering chemistry. 273.  average 274.  This system is one of the best systems I've had to use for classes. 275.  It is better 276.  don't have any other online homework system other than ef 105 278.  its good 279.  favorably 280.  i like the 110 percent system 281.  I have never used any other systems. 282.  It has been very helpful as the homework was well-constructed and the spread of the homework was even and fair. 283.  better than blackboard 285.  alright 286.  I like the EF system more than others I have used. 287.  I've never used an online homework system before, but it was very effective. 288.  It is alot better than the Mastering Chemistry system because it is less picky about your answers. 289.  It is so much better than the one other website I used in Physics class in high school, Web Assign. This system was so much better than that site. 290.  It was completely new to me and I liked it. I feel like it was easy to track what I have and have not done. Many of the problems were difficult, but it was extremely rewarding once it was figured out. 291.  I like the online homework system. I appreciate the hints and discussion board. I also like the ability to get partial credit if I am not able to finish the homework by the 100% deadline. 292.  I love the EF website. Much more intuitive and easy to use than blackboard. I hate having to use it for some of my other classes. I hope I never have to use their version of the online homework program. 293.  I like this homework system MUCH better than Mastering physics and webassign. 294.  It is really effective in making you get the answer eventually instead of giving up. 296.  its the first time ive submitted online homework 297.  It's similar to the online homework system used by the chemistry courses. 298.  The system works extremely well by giving you instant feedback on whether or not you have the correct answer. The system also has a cleaner layout than most making it easier to use. 299.  good, yet too much of work! 300.  I have never used a system that checks answers, so I cannot compare. I do enjoy easily printed pdf files, though, which other classes offer. 301.  This system was very easy to use. 302.  i like it better 304.  Relatively user friendly 305.  N/A 306.  a lot better 307.  it was well organized and followed for the most part what was covered in lecture. It was definately long though, I spent several hours on each assignment 308.  it's better 309.  Different in that it grouped problems. 310.  Much better 311.  Good, the homework system is the best I've used at UT 312.  The online is easy to you unlike other online homework systems I've seen. 313.  Similar. 314.  Never did any other online systems. 315.  i like it better than mastering chemistry and webasign. 316.  This is the first system I have really used for online homework. It was quite organized. I appreciated the fact that due dates would turn red when the deadline approached. 317.  The EF has been the best so far. 318.  it is pretty helpful 319.  Less confusing, and I love the immediate feedback. 320.  too much homework. 321.  It was about the same 322.  its better 323.  i dunno 324.  n/a 325.  Much more user friendly. 326.  It is very effective. 328.  Don't really have anything else to compare it to. 329.  There is no way of avoiding doing the homework and still pass so it forces students to do the homework and has immediate gratification for getting a right answer. 330.  awesome 331.  Seemed to be very effective and with very minor problems. 332.  I liked it 333.  It is the same. 334.  N/A

General comments/suggestions for improving the system:

3.  Make the hints more "hintful". I hate when I see one that says to look at the book because I shared with someone. Haha 4.  Get the word out a little earlier about being able to post work so the professors can see it. 5.  No suggestions 6.  Maybe get more earlier hours for help sessions 8.  It looks great. 9.  I don't like being penalized for the wrong answer. There should be a 10 answer limit. 10.  N/A 11.  none 12.  The homework system was pretty easy to use and it was nice to finish an assignment and immediately know your score. 13.  Maybe include examples of problems in the hints. 14.  Keep the early completion bonus. 15.  none 16.  Do not get rid of the 110% extra credit. 17.  nothing perfect sysetem 18.  first one 19.  None 20.  i think its good. 22.  Everything is good as is. 23.  Great the way it is currently set up. 24.  Hints could be a little bit better, and less hints pointing to the textbook only. 25.  Some of the homework problems were too hard, I wasted alot of time when I would get stuck on a particular problem. 26.  Less of it! 27.  it was fine 28.  nothing i found everything to be running welll 30.  Works fine 31.  see above answer on the website 33.  N/A. 34.  none 35.  Have easier problems.. 36.  give better hints and reference the right sections in the textbook 37.  n/a 38.  make the lectures closer to the actual homework. 42.  They homework helps me learn better. 43.  N/A 44.  No suggestions 45.  Great 48.  Pretty good so far, no suggestions. 49.  none 51.  None. 56.  none 58.  It doesnt need any improvement. 59.  none 60.  None 61.  None 63.  Group homework maybe? 64.  none 65.  Don't make such a large jump between lecture and homework 66.  I love the hints, and how every so often, there would be a freebie question. I also loved how I would automatically know my score on the homework. 67.  None. 69.  I DO NOT LIKE HOW on the day before if we try a problem for extra credit and make a mistake and come back the next day we still get penalized with the same amount but to the next grading scale as if we made a small mistake of the day of 100%. This does not seem fair for those who do the work early and try to get help on the discussion board and those who do the work the day of a hundred can check the board and get a higher grade than those who tried it early. 71.  Nothing wrong with it. 72.  system is good as is 74.  No 75.  none 76.  I would not change anything. 77.  less homework 78.  okay. 79.  The system is great! It also serves as a convenient review. 80.  none 81.  i hate homework 82.  N/A 83.  new ways for students to find hints if they are completely stuck 85.  I think the system could use better hints. 86.  Nothing, fairly good system already. 87.  make a sort of system that reads your incorrect answer and gives a specific hint to that mistake 89.  I have no other suggestions, it is a great system. 90.  none 93.  It's fine. 95.  Nothing. 97.  Maybe give hints other than see textbook example, because most that I know of do not have the textbook. 98.  N/A 99.  The system works and it was interesting and convenient to use 100.  There is nothing that I can say to improve the system. 101.  The announcements page was very helpful. 103.  make homeworks easier 104.  Nothing 105.  n/a 106.  none 107.  I didn't enjoy how some of the hints they gave us told us to refer to a certain problem in the textbook, when they told us at the start of the year that we didn't have to have one. 108.  I like having the HW due on Monday and Wednesday. However I did not like the double homeworks due on the same day. This took forever and I spent every Sunday working these homeworks and then the ones I couldn't get I would go to the study session and let Todd (The Best TA in Engineering Fundamentals) show me where I went wrong. 109.  I like the fact that students can get extra credit for being proactive and working on it early. 110.  No improvements 111.  none 112.  It's okay. 113.  maybe try and use some other interface where students could upload problems and maybe let other students help them out 115.  None. 116.  The system was fantastic and I liked it better than any other program I have used. 118.  none 119.  N/A 120.  None. 121.  No improvements needed 122.  no comments 123.  Nope. Pretty good system 125.  More approaches to concepts; solving for different values within the same concepts. 126.  none 127.  it was great 128.  It did have a few times when it didn't work, but other than that everything was great! 131.  No improvements need to be made. 132.  the extra credit that was awarded for doing it early was very useful. 134.  no comments 135.  Having two lectures worth of homework due on one night is kinda hard to pull off. 138.  Spread the homework out more. 139.  None to mention. 140.  None 141.  none 143.  N/a 144.  The textbook hints didn't help at all since i didn't have a textbook, so maybe other hints besides that. 145.  Sometimes it had a tendency to be a little buggy 146.  The homework can be rough when it has material we hadn't really delved into, so it involved a lot of self-teaching. 149.  More leniency for those who enter answers at midnight. 151.  Problems more similar to ones that will be on a test. 153.  N/A 154.  Better hints on some problems. 158.  none 159.  nope.bat 160.  Good stuff. Can't think of anything. 163.  This homework was one of the most frustrating experiences, and I think it was DETRIMENTAL to my learning the material, rather than helpful. Homework problems were so convoluted that it was almost impossible to figure out whether one had actually grasped the concept that particular homework was about. For instance, you could be working on a question about rotational motion, and get the wrong answer, because some units needed to be converted, and you had done that incorrectly. But, because the rotational motion was the *new* concept, one would become convinced that one was not grasping rotational motion, and an error was being done in that step, and so the problem would be done over and over and over again, until finally the missed units conversion was caught, and fixed. By that point, the stress level is high, the basic concept is completely lost, and nothing has been learned or properly retained. When you make problems so UNNECESSARILY complicated and complex, you are not teaching anything. That is just one example, but so, so, so many of the homework problems this semester were something along those lines. Cramming too much *extra* material into a question not related to the concept you're supposedly trying to teach through the problem, requiring too many opportunities for errors, and thus, completely confusing students, to the point where nothing is grasped. If your own TAs can't handle the homework problems? Not a good sign. I think you're really failing quite a number of students in this regard. Homework is supposed to be an opportunity to practice and learn the material, and because of the poor formatting of homework, no one is learning anything, and thus the low test scores. Why can't you just make the homework something that follows the lectures and exams more closely? Why make it so difficult, unless you're intentionally trying to prevent people from grasping the material in order to create a "weeding out" type class. And if that really is the goal of this class, I'm hugely disappointed. People are paying thousands of dollars for their education, hundreds just for this course alone, and to purposefully create a course in which a good number will fail? For shame. 164.  none 165.  I thought it was very good. Update the hint icons to match the textbook because i got didnt find them a few times. 167.  More hints, especially where only textbook hints are available. 169.  It was really good! 171.  n/a 173.  any guess used on a 110% day does not count against the 100% day 175.  none 177.  I like how the discussion board is monitored a lot. I also liked how you could display your work to figure out what mistakes there might be. 178.  after you punt a question, give an explanation on how to work it 181.  Not having multiple windows open. 182.  Present the data at the beginning of homework in a more clear manner. 184.  dont touch it, i love it! 185.  Carefully designed hints would allow for better comprehension of material. 186.  None. 188.  The due dates are strange. Why should there be multiple assignments due on the same day? Just extend the first assignment. 190.  I like that you give multiple tries without taking away too many points 191.  No punting. 192.  None in particular 193.  n/a 195.  More helpful hints. Less hints that say to look in the book because, honestly, a majority of the kids in EF don't have a book. 197.  Overall, very good system. 198.  Making a printed version of the homework could be made easier, and would limit the amount of grunt work involved in recopying it to engineering paper. 199.  It would be better if there weren't so many "hints" which required a text book. 200.  The hints referencing examples from the book aften don't use the best possible examples. 201.  I think that we should be able to check our variables to make sure they are right some how. You should have a drop down menu with all the variables we would use in that module and we select which one we wanna check. 202.  fine 204.  . 206.  System worked well although some of the online homework was way too difficult because similar problems were not covered in class. I still have a few unanswered questions. 207.  None 208.  Maybe more hints not from the book. 209.  The only problem with the online homework is that the hints would give textbook examples for help and i am sure like many i never purchased the textbook because it isn't needed for this coarse. 210.  Maybe when we login there could be an immediate alert to tell a person that his/her homework, feedback form, etc. is due. also it could alert a student that they are running out of time on an offered extra credit assignment. 211.  make questions not so difficult 212.  Homework worked well, I think. 213.  none 214.  FOR THE LOVE OF GOD TAKE OUT ALL THE HINTS THAT JUST SAY "TEXT BOOK EXAMPLE X-X" OR IF YOU DON'T TAKE THEM OUT ADD A MORE USEFUL ONE IN. NO ONE THAT I KNOW IN THIS CLASS ACTUALLY OWNS A TEXTBOOK. 216.  N/A 217.  Don't change anything. 218.  There was a few times when someone I was working with could get a "correct" answer by working a problem the wrong way. This proved very confusing when working in a group, but would probably be hard to fix, and is very rare anyway. 219.  online homework is a great idea, because you could work on it whenever and the grade would be immediately inputted 220.  better hints, and more guided hints. Often, the feed back after submitting the wrong answer was telling me to do something, which I had already done correctly, which is really not helpful at all. And none of the hints should tell me to look in the book, it should detail what it's referencing. 221.  Simplify. 222.  do away with the 'punt' feature - why encourage NOT finding the solution? 223.  different, but good. 226.  Some homework problems need better hints. 228.  maybe a you're close system where some kind of if statement could prompt you that you are within a domain 229.  n/a 230.  like the 110% if you get it done early 232.  none 233.  Keep it up. 234.  On the hints in the homework also say the example in the new edition. 235.  a lot of the hints had to do with the text book. It was annoying since I didn't purchase a text book. 237.  Good enough as is. 238.  No more text book hints, doesnt help if you dont have a text book.. 240.  it was hard, but it usually helped. but i never knew if my answer was close to correct, which it often was but i didn't know it because the system didn't let you know how close you were 242.  Decrease the amount of homework problems! 243.  somehow promote to work homework in groups via some incentive because it is very easy to fall behind if you're by yourself ex: module 4 for me 244.  N/A 246.  None 248.  I live in the engineering community so any time I needed help, I had several people to help me. I believe it is a dissadvantage to anyone who is not on the engineering floor. 249.  n/a 250.  Hints shouldn't suggest to use the textbook, seeing as the textbook is optional. 253.  na 254.  extremely hard homework, especially without a text book. 255.  More hw discussion. The recitation has little to no discussion involved. Ends up being lab work or rehashing out lecture material. 257.  handouts are the way to go. maybe a pactet of homework given at the beginning of each section 258.  N/A 259.  The amount of homework and difficulty was terrible. 260.  Don't give so many hints that tell the students to refer to problems in the text book if you make the textbook an optional thing to get. 261.  Have less hints rely on the textbook. 262.  N/A 263.  NA 264.  Some questions seem hard/completely different than lecture...but I guess that's so we learn something... 265.  None. 267.  none 268.  Nothing 271.  More pizazz, better hints 274.  I would recommend widening the parameters of the answers. Some of the homework problems I would use a different method than what the site has down and I would be off by a small fraction and still get it wrong. Over all for the shorter homework problems (that only required one equation or two) it was quite amaing. 275.  N/A 276.  it's fine. 279.  everything worked great 280.  better hints 281.  Nothing needs to be improved. 282.  No changes 283.  its a great system; maybe have example videos for difficult questions 285.  better disscusion board 286.  Lots of homework, but interface was alright. 287.  Offer an explaination if the problem is punted other than just the answer. 289.  Keep up the great work. 290.  I can't think of any way to improve it. 293.  The homework at times was extremely hard to understand and took out a huge chunk of time. For example, my homework grades directly correlated with my Organic exam schedule. When exam time would come around EF homework could not be a priority. EF is not the only difficult class for many students. It is a lot to ask to expect us to complete that amount of homework, especially when most of the problems required at least an hour of work. The homework problems were never explained well in lecture or recitation. 294.  none. 298.  none. 299.  tooo much of homeworksssss! 300.  I have never had online homework that was impossible to print. I am accustomed to pdfs readily available. For EF151 HW, initiating a print job for every page would have taken an eon as well as wasted paper excessively. Initially, I manually captured screen shots, saved individual jpegs, and compiled the multiple files into a pdf to print. I also tried using MS Onenote to capture screenshots and create a pdf, which was more efficient. Both methods took ridiculous amounts of time. Surely there is a means of making the homework printer friendy. 301.  Something that annoyed me was that some of the hints on the homework referred to pages in the textbook... which most of us did not buy. There might as well not be any hint for the majority of us. 302.  none 304.  None 305.  Maybe don't take off so much for multiple attempts at a problem. 306.  none 308.  n/a 310.  Don't have two homeworks due the same night. 311.  None. 312.  Don't take points off for incorrect answers. 314.  Better hints. 315.  none 316.  For some reason, I often had to retype my password each time I submitted an answer for the online homework. This does not seem necessary. 318.  i liked the online homework just don't like how much it is worth in our final grade 319.  It all ready works great 320.  don't require homework writting. 322.  none 324.  none 327.  No homework due at least 2 days before tests. 329.  Don't double up the homework on random nights. I was surprised on multiple occasions that i actually had twice as much homework due that night. 330.  maybe make the UI a little nicer to look at 331.  Keep up the good work. 332.  It all works pretty well 334.  None