Reviews of professor Alicia Wood

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Wood really wants everyone to do well and continued to remind us that not getting an A in a class is not the end of the world, so that took a lot of stress off. She asks you to participate on the board but it really helps solidify the concepts that shes teaching. If you do the reading and the homework, you will get a good grade.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Took 356 in hopes of learning User Experience as a process and maybe even some UX tools. Instead, we spent 3 in class days talking about how to construct a sentence and another learning how to draw stick figures. Overall, just disasppointing. Prof. Woods is respectful and kind enough as a person, but the course wasn't a good use of time.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is not good at teaching at all, the classes are pointless because she can't answer any questions and the practice code she writes is useless. You pretty much have to teach yourself from the online textbook and go to the TAs for any questions you have. Overall one of the worst teachers I have ever had.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Wood is extremely kind and caring and easy to love. She was very willing to help students out who were struggling. However, you can tell that teaching is not her forte; she was often a little scattered and sometimes hard to follow. Attendance was required for your grade, but most of the learning happened with the online textbook.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Great professor. Totally takes the time to make sure people understand. Very helpful lectures. Pro at CS without the mannerisms of the typical computer scientist. Great class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Wood doesn't care about her students and isn't lenient with the subjective grading in the class. She won't work with you on things if you ask for help or clarification. Her class was essentially "do what I like, because I say so". There are no exceptions. Take any other professor if you can.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I loved Professor Wood. I could tell that she cared about how we were all doing. I met with her outside of class multiple times and she was more than willing to help me on whatever I was struggling with, even when it came to specifics in main labs. This is a tough class that requires a lot of work but I never felt that I was without help.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Teacher rarely answers questions in class. Any questions that are asked the teacher usually just refers to the TA's. It's mainly the TA's that teach the class and answer the questions.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Great at handling questions and is always willing to help. If you're confused she is so happy to meet during office hours. Gives great opportunities in class to learn and experience the problems for yourself.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I dont know why others say she is so nice. She is very difficult to work with and unforgiving