Reviews of professor Xiaodan Dong

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Dong is really nice and caring. The lecture notes are very important if you don' t have a book. You need to attend the class to know what it is about though. Papers cost me a lot of time and exams are hard, but she gave us many opportunities to do well in other assignments to increase the final grade.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Overall a very nice lady, lectures are dry but the class is fairly easy. Exam questions can be worded a bit poorly, and a large portion of your grade is on the group presentation. If you have good group members, you will be fine. Study for the exams, they are harder than you'd expect.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The professor was incredibly responsive and truly caring about students. I'm not very comfortable with numbers, challenging for me when dealing with data and calculations.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's a really nice lady, but not that great of a teacher. Her lectures are vague and her tests are confusing, which made this class so much harder than it needed to be. Basically the only points in the class were the three tests and three giant group papers. Also she does have a fairly strong accent which takes some time to get used to.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Class was a joke. Two papers: 4pg single space on simulation (if you dont win) & 20 page double space Sharktank. Weekly, online timed quizzes based on text. Her lectures were entertaining but I learned nothing. Shes very nice, but this class was a waste. The final was a JOKE. Everyone ran out of time. Hoping she changes things for future classes.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Two Tests, and two presentations. Pick your group wisely and fast as the first group happens within the first week. She is an extremely nice lady, and she is always willing to extend deadlines for the most part. Social media simulation was cool, but numbers are way way off to the point where it feels fake. Takes attendance