Professor Braybrook is a wonderful person and decent lecturer. She is extremely funny and interesting as a person, but she sometimes stumbles a bit when it comes to teaching. She can make certain concepts unnecessarily confusing. One time she did not know something about a certain concept and had to be corrected by Professor Maloy. However, as she taught the last half of the class, she began to teach much better.

She’s a very nice person who is knowledgeable about the content she teaches in the course, but sometimes she doesn’t explain it as great as it could be explained. I took the class when she taught it with Prof Maloy and he was great. The class is flipped so you’ll have to get used to doing hw and quizzes online before lecture. The exams can be a bit tricky, so you’ll definitely need to take time to really understand the underlying concepts.

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 :)

Dr. Maloy and Braybook make a good pair. Their personalities complement each other and overall makes the class more interesting. She is very kind and easy going. I get the feeling she genuinely cares about her students and their understanding of the material. Sometimes I think she can benefit from being more concise and giving direct answers. Overall, highly recommend.

I definitely would recommend this class because it is very well structured if you are into flipped classroom style of learning. The material is very much a review of AP Biology. I took it with Dr.Maloy and Dr.B which was really cool because they would switch off lecturing and pick topics that they were passionate about. It is easy class if you are into Biology.

Professor Braybrook is very nice and helpful to her students. I took her class with Professor Maloy and they complimented each other very well. I definitely learned a lot from her lectures and I liked how she utilized clicker questions a lot. She may not be as good as explaining concepts as Professor Maloy, but I believe it was still worth it to attend her office hours. She is very knowledgable about certain topics, especially the ones she lectured on. The class itself was pretty difficult though. You definitely need to spend time studying and mastering concepts.

I took LS7A with Maloy and Braybrook winter 2022 (they taught the class together). There is no way anyone in my batch didn't get an A-- they made it in a way where as long as you pass, you get an A. The Launchpad assignments were super boring (every LS7 professor uses launchpad though so there's no getting away from it). Braybrook is actually a great professor though and she is very understanding. Her and Maloy are both great at both in person and online teaching (personally I even think they're better at online because when one of them talks the other answered questions in chat which was very helpful). They're cool professors!

A large part of your grade in this class comes from doing assignments on different websites. Make sure you are frequently checking when every assignment on every website is due, as I lost a lot of easy points due to the complexity of the grading system.

I took Dr. B in a course where Dr. Maloy also taught. They kind of did a switch off on who was leading 3/4 of the way through the course. Dr. B was really nice. She was open to joking around once in a while, and I liked the dynamic that she and Dr. Maloy had.

The class isn't super easy, but it isn't wildly hard either. There were launchpad assignemts due every tuesday and Thursday in the morning. Lots of reading. I didn't do alot of it, which could be why I got a C+. Their lectures are engaging enough, they allow for questions, we had learning pod groups where we're supposed to collaborate with them at the end of the class on an assignment. The assignment isn't for points, it's just for learning. The midterms and final were a multiple choice test you'd do by yourself and then you'd go over that test with a group of students and you'd discuss what the answers were. If you realized one of your answers was wrong, you'd write why the answer was wrong and what the correct answer was. That really helpful for my grade
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The course itself is a class you have to keep paying attention to. You have to give it at least your 80% attention to get a good grade. Read the assigned readings, pay attention in class.

Discussion wasn't attendance mandatory, but you should go cause you go over the right answer during discussion. Furthermore, I would suggest making a friend for those weeks where you have take home discussions.