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Anisha Madappa
Issue date: 1/16/09 Section: News
DUReview.com, a Web site designed to enable Drexel students to see which teachers are right for them has had thousands of visitors and approximately 11,000 posts since its launch in 2002.
"It allows you to take the class that better fits the kind of student you are," Aakash Patel, a Drexel alumus, said.
The site was started by Grant Dilibero in his sophomore year.
"It kind of left everyone without a similar site" Dilibero said. "I threw something together for myself, just to try to get something out there that was equivalent."
Word of mouth spread fast when Dilibero put up the new site.
"It wasn't hard to spread the word," he said. "I put flyers up around campus literally one time… but it just kind of took off" Dilibero explained.
The sites are very similar except for the visual format and a couple new features. In DrexelReview the teachers are rated out of 10 and are given numbers that correlate to how good they are as a teacher. In DUReview, however the teachers are rated out of 5 and are given stars for selected categories. In addition, DUReview has a forum where students can comment on specific classes that they have taken, more detailed information about a teacher, where to find textbooks, and site suggestions.
The site has over 900 professors that people have rated based on a scale of 1 to 5 in fairness, workload, attendance, how enjoyable the class is, how much the teacher cares for students, whether they would take the class again and overall.
Though DrexelReview was taken off the web, Undergraduate Student Government Association (USGA) put it back up. In the future, Dilibero and the USGA are trying to combine the web sites to give students more information about the teachers at Drexel.
"I heard about DUReview.com, during my first term of freshman year when I was applying for classes," Ayushi Desai, B.S.,M.D., said. "It really helps when you have a couple professors to choose from, and you don't know what any of the professors are like."
Though DUReview.com is mostly frequented by students, "the idea of the site was to benefit the students and the teachers both equally" Dilibero said. "[Though] there are a lot of people that write negative things on there, […] I've gotten positive and negative responses back from teachers."
Dilibero said he has gotten positive feedback from professors; however, there are other teachers who have complained about some of the posts and Grant has had to take those comments down. Posts are taken down usually because of obscenities, derogatory and general bad mouthing of the teacher and not the teaching.
Because any post that is written can automatically go online and is not approved, Grant has made a "Report to Moderator!" link underneath each comment. Now when a student or professor sees an inappropriate comment, he or she can report it and Grant will make a judgment on whether it should be taken off the site.
This article has been corrected.
"It allows you to take the class that better fits the kind of student you are," Aakash Patel, a Drexel alumus, said.
The site was started by Grant Dilibero in his sophomore year.
"It kind of left everyone without a similar site" Dilibero said. "I threw something together for myself, just to try to get something out there that was equivalent."
Word of mouth spread fast when Dilibero put up the new site.
"It wasn't hard to spread the word," he said. "I put flyers up around campus literally one time… but it just kind of took off" Dilibero explained.
The sites are very similar except for the visual format and a couple new features. In DrexelReview the teachers are rated out of 10 and are given numbers that correlate to how good they are as a teacher. In DUReview, however the teachers are rated out of 5 and are given stars for selected categories. In addition, DUReview has a forum where students can comment on specific classes that they have taken, more detailed information about a teacher, where to find textbooks, and site suggestions.
The site has over 900 professors that people have rated based on a scale of 1 to 5 in fairness, workload, attendance, how enjoyable the class is, how much the teacher cares for students, whether they would take the class again and overall.
Though DrexelReview was taken off the web, Undergraduate Student Government Association (USGA) put it back up. In the future, Dilibero and the USGA are trying to combine the web sites to give students more information about the teachers at Drexel.
"I heard about DUReview.com, during my first term of freshman year when I was applying for classes," Ayushi Desai, B.S.,M.D., said. "It really helps when you have a couple professors to choose from, and you don't know what any of the professors are like."
Though DUReview.com is mostly frequented by students, "the idea of the site was to benefit the students and the teachers both equally" Dilibero said. "[Though] there are a lot of people that write negative things on there, […] I've gotten positive and negative responses back from teachers."
Dilibero said he has gotten positive feedback from professors; however, there are other teachers who have complained about some of the posts and Grant has had to take those comments down. Posts are taken down usually because of obscenities, derogatory and general bad mouthing of the teacher and not the teaching.
Because any post that is written can automatically go online and is not approved, Grant has made a "Report to Moderator!" link underneath each comment. Now when a student or professor sees an inappropriate comment, he or she can report it and Grant will make a judgment on whether it should be taken off the site.
This article has been corrected.
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