Reviews of professor Luis Ortiz

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The course itself is tough despite the professor. Make sure you understand all his slides and double check your mistakes on homeworks, as the exams will be similar to the homeworks. Very respectful and patient professor, try his best to answer my questions and make sure I understand his explanation!!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Alright ima keep it a STACK with you guys. His test are like 20 pages long and when taking it online you have pretty much no time to complete. But his final exam is not too bad and he curves final class grades so as long as you don't have below 50% you should pass the class. When I took it he curved the class grade at least 15%. Could be worse .

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very bad professor. Do not take him, he is rude, doesn't care about you, and his exams are incredibly difficult. His lectures are useless, don't watch them just look on the internet. Exams are 60% of the final grade. The homework and exams are nothing like the lectures. Please just take a different professor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Respectful. Great communicator. Understanding. Be ready to write a lot.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This professor is obviously knowledgeable on the topics he teaches, but has a difficult time teaching. It is not only the language barrier, and he wasted a lot of time with unnecessary math that nobody understood instead of using that time to teach us about algorithms. He thought we had all taken stats before his class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Great Professor! CIS350 is the first difficult class that you take here. Many are not ready for it and blame the professor. Ortiz will be more than willing to sit down with you in office hours and explain everything to you (even past office hours). His classes are the definition of "The more you put into it, the more you'll get out of it".

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Communicate with him and he is flexible. He really cares about his students

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
You will be graded by discussions, papers, quizzes. Nothing is multiple choice, it is important to make sure you write as much as you can and clearly write what you are trying to say. He has a lot of classes going on at the same time, so it may be difficult to get your grade back quickly. Just make sure you do your work and you will be fine.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Class started ok until he had to amend the syllabus because due dates on Canvas did not match up with due dates on syllabus. Also has a habit to lock assignments until the week they are do, making group projects extremely difficult to complete. Also group work for an online class clearly does not work. Great professor otherwise though.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Tough grader for sure, and I was sorta scared to reach out with questions and concerns, but he and his TA were always there to help and he even offered to have a 1-1 zoom call to work through things. His lectures are definitely long and boring, but if you can muster every ounce of concentration you have into them they're not awful. TIME COMPLEXITY!