Review rules

ADA Ratings works only if reviews are honest and fair. Write the review you would want to read before choosing a course.

A good review

• Describes the teaching: lectures, materials, workload, exams, grading and feedback.
• Is specific — what worked, what did not, and who the course suits.
• Is about a course you actually took with this professor.

Not allowed

• Insults, personal attacks, threats or harassment.
• Comments on someone’s appearance, private life, religion, ethnicity, gender or health.
• Accusations you cannot back up, or anything you know to be false.
• Personal data of anyone: phone numbers, e-mails, addresses, social accounts.
• Spam, ads, or text unrelated to the course.

How moderation works

• Reviews with offensive language are blocked when you submit them, in English, Russian and Azerbaijani.
• Anyone can report a review with the Report button under it. After several reports the review is taken off the site until a moderator checks it.
• Moderators restore reviews that follow these rules and remove the ones that do not.
• A professor’s average rating appears only after three reviews, so one review cannot define anyone.

For faculty

If a review about you breaks these rules, use the Report button under it and choose the reason. Reports are anonymous and reach the moderators directly.