People makes jokes, sometimes funny and sometimes unfunny. As a teacher I've experienced the moments where my jokes fall flat and my students just go.. "That's lame" right to my face. I laughed with them, but I was very embarassed myself. I can't think of a reason why anyone would report a professor because of some dry jokes, unless they are always really really offensive. It feels like a stuck up thing to do. If it were me, I would just roll my eyes and sit through them, it's 10 more minutes after all and i might miss an announcement if I leave. Most of all, it's online lecture, you have a lot more freedom of what you can do whilst listening to his lecture and if you stuck in his class. Once I reported a professor who was very annoying and unfair, and the result backfired to me. In academia setting, you must see professors and lecturers as your boss. If a boss can get away with it, your professors and lecturers can.

I wouldn't report him, but I would likely leave early. Can he tell when you're no longer there? Sometimes people start up traditions they can't stop, even when it stops being fun or interesting for others. It sounds like he doesn't want to break his joke habit. Why get in the middle of it when listening to the jokes is avoidable?

I am good at ignoring anything I don't like and finding other ways to occupy my mind when I don't want to listen to something. I probably wouldn't want to go through the hassle of reporting the instructor, since that would most likely just be a waste of my time and annoy me even more.

I could always use that time to read, or look over my notes, or do some other productive thing while waiting for him to finish his jokes. To me, that is a better solution than leaving early, just in case something happens that you don't want to miss.

Another option would be for students to start asking questions about the material during that last part of class, so you all can direct the situation in a productive manner. I could come prepared with a list in order to always be ready with a question for those last ten or fifteen minutes, and that way I might be able to keep him talking until he ran out of time for jokes. Even if the students could just get him talking about where he went to graduate school or something, that might be better than hearing the jokes.

Since it's online, I would say you can spend the last 10 minutes working on something else, just barely listening. If he starts talking about something relevant, clue back in. I wouldn't say it's worth it to report him, since a class is only, what? ten weeks? You may as well just make a note not to take any classes with him again. Boring, dry jokes are par for the course for a lot of professors. Be grateful that you don't need to laugh along, since it's online.

Just let it go. Get your degree and move on it's on-line you will probably never meet this poerson in your life and everything can't be a battle. Your there for a Degree not to bee a critic.

I would probably mute that site, and go on surfing or doing something else, unless the jokes are part of the curriculum, and he is going to ask you questions about them.

I wouldn't report him. What he is doing is not unethical.

I would be tempted to leave early, but as quesara says I think the best solution would be to check your e-mail or Conundrums during that time. If he does make an announcement or something else useful amid the jokes that way you won't miss it. At the same time, you only have to sort of half listen to him.

I think the mute option was invented for instances like these, however, it should be used with caution. Use the educational experience of sitting through the bad jokes from the professor as a lesson in preparing for business meetings for the future.