Dr.Maloy's lectures are very engaging. His method of "reversed classroom" is challenging but I got a lot from it. The online textbook is absolutely USELESS. It only provides basic information. If you want to ace midterms and final, do not waste your time rereading that piece of garbage. Go to his office hours as often as you can, especially the ones he hosts towards the time for midterms and finals. They are so crucial for acing the tests. Honestly, I learned more from his office hours than his lectures.

He is so patient with every student and with every question. Don't worry about asking a "dumb" question, because somehow, Dr. Maloy will connect your "dumb" question to some other mind-blowing concept. Honestly, one of the best professor one can hope to have.

I've heard so many people complain about the exams of the 7 series, and I don't get it. People who don't do well in this class are not studying correctly. SO many materials are given in this class, but you really only need a couple of them do well. Launchpad is good to learn a vague background about the material, but after that, it's irrelevant. Do not use it to prepare for exams, it will be a waste of time.
There are four things you should care about when studying for a 7A exam: lecture slides, iClicker questions, Discussion section handouts, and the handouts given in class. That's literally it. If you understand the concepts given on these, there's no reason why you should't be able to get an A in this class. These specific materials help familiarize you with the types of questions that appear on a 7 series exam. I got high A's on both of the midterms by studying the material listed above and rarely ever doing launchpad in depth. I feel like people who don't do as well place too large of an emphasis on launchpad. The final was more difficult and was worth double what the midterms were, but I still got a low to mid A through minimal studying via this method.
This class is total points, which is really good. About 100 come from midterm 1, 100 come from midterm 2, and 200 come from the final. The class is ~750 points, so all of the other points come from participation. DO NOT miss out on these easy participation points for your grade.
Maloy is a really good lecturer and is one of the most engaging professors I've had

Super nice guy, and he is really passionate about what he teaches and his students' learning! One of the few professors that cares about his students as individuals and really wants to make everyone feel welcome! Lectures are really engaging, but I feel like sometimes the lectures would be too surface level compared to the required readings. However, he does use the flipped class room model so that is probably why.

I have mixed feeling about Professor Maloy. He is super engaging and helpful during lectures, but I am not a fan of his flipped classroom approach and emphasis on group work. Launchpad was a waste of time and money. It didn't help me prepare for the exams and its only worth reading if you need some background info. It won't actually teach you anything of substance. He frequently forces us to work in groups which can be hit or miss depending on who was placed in your pod. If they are nice enough to help you it can be great, but if they aren't or just as clueless as you, then you are pretty much screwed.
Discussion worksheets are challenging and the TA's don't really explain the problems or help you when you need it. (Neither do the LA's for that matter). They just expect you to figure it out with the group. I had Marcus as a TA and even though he means well and seems nice enough he has led me to question if he himself understands how to do the worksheets on several ocassions. Both the LA's and TA's call you out and keep pestering you with endless questions about the material during discussion section instead of explaining the concepts we are studying. This was really annoying and made me hate going to these discussions. I just wished they would leave me alone! I don't like being put on the spot like that.

Overall I would recommend this class to other students. It is evident that Professor Maloy is a wonderful professor who deeply cares about his students. I just wish that he replaced Launchpad with a different program and selected capable TA's for his classes.

Flipped classrooms honestly suck. You basically have to do all the learning yourself with Launchpad, not to mention it's a large workload and it's worth $125. Attendance in lecture is mandatory with clicker questions and most of the time, they aren't very helpful. Maloy is a pretty straightforward professor, but this quarter he had another professor beside him. This professor is hard to understand and does not explain the content very well. Midterms are difficult. If you are NOT required to take this class, don't take it.

Originally, I was not going to write this review because I felt like the only one who experienced these problems. But, after seeing another student share similar concerns, I'd like to also share my opinion. It was almost impossible to contact this professor. He originally said he would not give his email out because he checked CampusWire more often, which is completely acceptable, except there were multiple occasions where he did not log onto CampusWire for 4+ days straight in a 6 week Summer Session (you can check when someone last logged on via DMs). When he did log on to CampusWire, he often only upvoted student responses instead of actually answering the questions themselves, even when some questions were left unanswered for 3+ days. Additionally, he made multiple mistakes on his first midterm and instead of acknowledging them, he just wrote on the answer key that one answer was "more correct" than his incorrect answer (even though there was only one actually correct answer). Students won't bother checking answers they already got right when reviewing the answer key, so many students were left making the same mistake on the Midterm II and Final Exam (I could tell because one of the review questions another student made for future exams was similar in concept and I had to explain it to fellow confused students). Despite this, as long as you take this class with a friend so you can ask questions to them, this class is an easy A.

TAKE THIS CLASS WITH HIM! You've probably heard that the LS 7 series is tough, and this class was tough. BUT I highly highly highly recommend taking it with Dr. Maloy! He makes it much more bearable. His lectures and explanations are amazing and very helpful. I like that there are a lot of different categories that go into the grade. The exams were difficult but fortunately, the exam grade is based on the average of the individual phase and the group phase so even if you didn't do so well on the individual art you still have a shot at a higher grade. Launchpad can be super boring and overwhelming at times but if you don't wait until the day before to do it all it's ok. But yeah do take this class with Maloy if you have the opportunity to!

POINTS BREAKDOWN:
- 68 points for iClickers
- 90 points for midterm 1
- 120 points for midterm 2
- 72 points possible out of 80 for weekly discussion participation (so you can miss one discussion and still get full points)
- 10 points for CCLE Reflections (which I found useless, but they were easy points)
- 45 points for launchpad PCRQs
- 45 points for launchpad PEQs
- 45 points for launchpad assignments
- 200 points for final
- Extra Credit: varies by quarter I think, but for Fall 2019, there was like 5 or 6 EC points available
- TOTAL POINTS (w/out EC): 695 points

Yeah, this class is hard. This quarter, the class was taught by two professors, Maloy and Braybrook, but from what I saw Maloy teaches most of the content. Both professors were good lecturers, they had an abundance of office hours during the quarter and before tests. Lecture structure is a lot of active participation, and the iClickers are a big part of that. During lecture, there are a lot of iClicker ?'s, and you are expected to work them out with the people around you because they can be quite challenging at times. If you don't like to participate and the TA's see you, they WILL come up to you and challenge you to work out the problems with them. You're not safe anywhere, even in the back of the classroom sitting on the floor. Once, when Braybrook was lecturing, Maloy was going around and caught a bunch of us in the back not actively participating. He worked with us for the rest of the lecture, making sure we knew what was going on. While it can be annoying, especially because my lecture was at 9am and I didn't want to be doing anything at that time, it is really nice that the professors and TA's/LA's are so insistent. It makes you feel like they really care that everyone is getting the most out of their lecture time.

DO NOT DISCOUNT THE IMPORTANCE OF LECTURE. Go to all your lectures!! As you may have read/heard before, launchpad kind of sucks. It's good for background info I guess, but the professors are really going to let you know what you need to understand from launchpad. And what they talk about is what's on the tests, in excruciating and often confusing specificity. Take advantage of study sessions hosted weekly by your LA's, I never went (my bad) but I heard they were super useful for practicing how to answer the questions as they are formatted on the tests. And they're formatted wack af, so you need the practice.

Don't fall behind, try to work with others as much as you can, and by God, take advantage of the resources they give you in the form of office hours and study sessions. If I had done all these things, I probably could have gotten an A-, or a solid B if I tried a little more. This class is honestly really difficult, but it can be easier if you don't fuck around and actually focus. These professors aren't dicks, they want you to succeed. So good luck and happy studying! You can do it :)

Ok, let me start and say this class was REALLY easy. Doing the prep material he gave is sufficient and the concepts are not really that difficult to begin with. However, this man does not communicate well with his students. He doesn't give us his email and instead uses campuswire, which he frequents about every 5 days. Many times people send him a DM and he doesn't respond. Additionally, sometimes he gives additional questions and does not provide the answer to them, leaving students arguing with each other as to what is right. On the first midterm, he made a mistake on one the calculations, and while he gave credit to both the wrong and right answer, he never said in class that the questions answer that he initially accepted was wrong. So, many students kept using this incorrect methodology to solving the question which could have been so easily prevented if he just announced he made a mistake and told students how to do that question the right way. You should definitely take this class especially if you did well in 7B, but be warned that if you tend to communicate frequently with the professor, that isn't happening.

Pretty hard class. Very annoying exams. i feel like it tested how well exam could be taken and not how much I had learned. Dr.Maloy is a very nice person, but this class is not my favorite, simply because of how exams are structured.