CourseRank!

November 12th, 2009 | by John Tran |

Not sure which classes to take next semester? In need of a back-up plan if you can’t get what you want during Phase II of Telebears?? Wondering whether you should take Political Science 179 or not? (do it.)

Well, there is a new tool available to help you answer to all these questions (and so many more). It’s called CourseRank, and although it may not be able to read your mind and plan the perfect schedule for you (that website is still in development…), it will definitely help you compare classes and decide which ones might fit in best with your preferred course load and major.

So what is CourseRank?

It’s ‘The Ultimate Course Guide’. You can search for courses by keywords, terms, units, ratings, and time commitments in order to find classes that will fit in with your schedule, filtering out those you don’t want. Once you find a course you’re interested in, there is a description of what it entails along with ratings and reviews to help you make your choice. All kinds of other information like book lists, individual teacher reviews, and bar graphs of the grades people have received in the class in the past are also available. Plus, if you want even more information, you can submit a question for other CourseRank users to answer for you. This is a fully comprehensive site that has pretty much everything I can think of to help a student decide if they want to take a class or not.

Plus, CourseRank has a weekly schedule and a long term planner to help you map out not only this semester’s basic schedule, but also a plan for your future here at Cal.

So why join?

Well, other than the personal benefit of being able to use this incredible tool for FREE (most similar websites require payment), we really need more people to start using CourseRank. It’s still in its beginning phases, and we need students to review courses they’ve already taken and help build up the site. It’s constantly growing, and if Cal can get a majority of students to both use and contribute to CourseRank, it can become an extremely helpful tool in planning schedules here at UC Berkeley.

So get involved! It’s as easy as logging in and ranking a few courses, maybe writing a few quick reviews. It doesn’t take long, and it can be a great way to vent about the philosophy professor you couldn’t stand last year or to share how much fun you had in Physics for Future Presidents. This can be a fantastic resource for students here at Cal, and all we have to do to use it is to contribute to its database! J

So go to www.berkeley.courserank.com and enjoy! J

-BearBlogger

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