Reviews of professor Ola Tannous

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Approachable and carring

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Her grading criteria is often (always) unclear, and the group project was a mess (less than 2 weeks to fully implement). Her assignments, rubrics, and exams are riddled with typos and inconsistencies, but her expectation of detail for the project is extreme. Doing well on the midterm/final was partly contingent on whether your WPM was high enough.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ola is not a professor you ever want to take. She is extremely difficult to understand in lecture and her lab assignments are just as confusing. The TA's couldn't even decipher her instructions. She grades based on unclear criteria. She said she was going to curve the final grades then didn't. If you have ANY other professor options, pick them.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor made sure we understand the material she gives extra handout to ease the material

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Her teaching ability is pretty much nonexistent (*insert meme of dog holding its own leash*). Her homework assignments, exams, and project all have unclear instructions and are usually riddled with inconsistencies. She takes an extraneous amount of time to reply to emails. Do a favor for your own mental health and don't take any classes with her.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Re-took this class because I did poorly the first time (got an A the second time around), instructions are difficult to understand due to wording on labs and other assignments, hard to get a hold of outside of class, unengaging during lectures and overall not helpful during the class at all.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ola is probably the worst CS professor at IIT. She is hard to understand and her expectations are unclear. Everything from the lectures to the homework is useless . Her tests are confusing. You better get the book for her class, because you're probably better off teaching yourself than trying to understand her.