From the 10:35 mark and forward i'm all kinds of confused. All render info in the demo no longer looks like that and don't know what to input and where. With the exception to motion blur it's all different :(
Hi Skyler,
Blender uses a completely rewritten Cycles since 3.0.
If you use the following Settings, you got similar to the teacher's Settings in 2.80:
But:
I wouldn't touch Performance.
But: if you are Rendering on your CPU, you should probably (depending on your CPU) stick to a Blender Version from before 3.0.