I took the lecture that was taught by both Professor Maloy and Professor Braybrook. Honestly the professors are both gems, but the course is difficult. You have weekly Launchpad readings that take a long time, but they post reading guides on CCLE. If you just take notes on what is on the reading guides and skim through the rest of the Launchpad readings, you should be fine. Since it's a flipped classroom, you are expected the learn the material before class and come to the lectures ready to apply the concepts you learned. You can miss a few clicker questions, but they do count for participation and are extremely helpful for the midterm and final. For all the midterms and finals, we had an individual and a group portion, and our final score was the average between the two scores. Maloy and Braybrook hosted problem solving sessions before the midterm and final, where they gave us practice problems and we could work on them individually or in a breakout room. Maloy and Braybrook are great lecturers and explain concepts very clearly. They are very approachable and patient, and they will answer any questions you have at the end of lecture or during office hours. If you need to take this class, take it with either of them

There are a lot of reviews about this class being tough, and maybe that was true before, but Professor Maloy was EXTREMELY accommodating during the remote learning transition.

His lectures were reasonably engaging, especially since the clicker questions (graded for participation, not correctness) forced you to pay attention. The online textbook and activities were a bit tedious, but they are very easy. You read through the textbook, do some brief quizzes (many of which have multiple attempts available) and you get participation points. It tracks your progress, and a lot of people lost points here for no reason.

Aside from the easy participation and clicker points, discussion worksheets were fairly simple and our TA went over everything in depth at the end of each session.

Exams were designed for our success. You completed the exam individually and then worked as a group to compare answers. If the group decided to change an answer, you simply filled out an answer change reasoning form to show that you actually understood the concept and learned. Then you'd be graded on your corrected collaborative exam (as well as your participation with the group.)

Even if this class were in person and more difficult, I'd take it again because Professor Maloy is a great instructor who genuinely cares about his students.

Overall pretty generic class. Nice prof. This starts off a bit like AP Bio, but don't get caught off guard or else you'll do bad (same with LS7B).

LS7A is tough but you're provided a lot of resources (reading guides, practice worksheets, problem solving sessions) to help and you should absolutely take advantage of them. They really stress the idea of giving you problems that demonstrate you really know the material and can make conclusions or do analysis rather than just regurgitate the textbook. Highly recommend going to problem solving sessions (super helpful) and putting effort into studying clicker questions, discussion worksheets and launchpad questions to get a sense of what kinds of things they ask for.

Launchpad is really tedious but very doable if you do a little each day. The online textbook has a lot of details that don't show up on exams so focus more on what's covered in video and class lectures.

Maloy is a great professor - definitely take the class with him if you can.

Maloy is a fantastic professor. He is extremely accommodating and understanding. As for every LS class, you have to purchase LaunchPad, the online textbook. If you buy it online, it gives you the option to buy it for one year. LaunchPad is pretty easy points, and although it is a lot, you should only pay attention to the learning objectives. We had an individual portion and then a group portion for the exams, which was extremely helpful. You have to answer why you changed your answer if you choose to do so during the group portion. Maloy himself is a wonderful professor. He has so much passion for this subject, which makes it way easier to stay engaged during lecture. All the lectures are recorded as well, but you have to attend to receive participation points via iClicker Reef.

A teacher who really seems to care about their students. Maloy is all about studies on learning so he uses a "reverse classroom" way to teach. You have to click through assigned readings on Launchpad (which by the end of the quarter I was not even reading because it was so long) before nearly every lecture for points. Exams I thought were pretty fair and mostly based off of the clicker questions for points during lectures and from the lecture slides. I'm not sure if it was because my class was online or not but we were allowed to work with assigned groups of 3-4 people and use our notes on going over the test -- probably why my average on the final and midterm were mid to low A's. Also Maloy is very accommodating to students (even gave us 100% on our final when BLM protests were picking up and many students were concerned about testing in these circumstances).

Dr. Maloy is an AWESOME professor!!! If you need to take LS7A (or any other class for that matter), I highly recommend you take it with him! I felt like he genuinely cared for his students' wellbeing (especially given the Covid situation amongst other things) and tried to accommodate students who were having a difficult time. His lectures are very clear and he clearly outlines which information is relevant to the exams. He also explains the clicker questions very thoroughly. Overall, 20/10 professor, would take him again.

Maloy really is the best, after having taken LS7B, and 7C, Maloy is still by far one of the best professors I've had over the entire series. He explains concepts really well and genuinely really cares about student learning. His review sessions/office hours around the midterms and final are really helpful and I would recommend attending, on multiple occasions he would talk about an oddly specific problem concept and then it ended up being on our exam. The 7 series tests are always a little brutal, no matter which prof you have, but having a prof who at least prepares you well for them definitely made this class a lot more enjoyable.

Maloy is a homie. He made the midterms group midterms for 48 hours and gave us 100% on the final because of the special circumstances. His lectures were really interesting and he is the nicest. Only downside is launchpad. Let's start a Maloy fan club

While Dr. Maloy himself is a great professor, this class itself was pretty annoying, and the whole "flipped classroom" approach isn't really one that works with me. With that being said Dr. Maloy is a very helpful professor. He frequently had office hours throughout the week, and he held multiple reviews prior to major exams in the class. In addition, if you ever wanted to meet with him privately he gave you opportunities to do so.

The tests are a pain in this class. However, if you pay attention during discussion section, study the clicker questions and the half sheets, you should get by pretty well. Apparently the CLC sessions the LAs hold are pretty helpful too, but I've just never been. Honestly, I could've done better in this class if I'd known these things, but I took this class as a freshman, and it took time for me to adjust to college and learn the necessary study methods.