Reviews of professor Donald Riley

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Started every lecture with a comic from Dilbert. Teaches a technology class but has no idea how to use a computer... Quizes often refer to a specific minute or detail from a video that you are required to watch outside of class. 2 hour guest speakers that have nothing to do with the class. Avoid if possible.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Avoid if you can but if you have to take this professor, his lectures are very long and monotone, and information-heavy. He has 2-4 readings (usually long) outside of his lectures (also content-heavy) assigned weekly where you're quizzed on them along with the lecture content. Group assignments are easy but his quizzes are tough.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Attendance is mandatory. Quizzes based on power points and the outside readings but I feel as if it's not clear. Did well on the assignments but the quizzes are a different story. Not much is graded and no extra credits. Took him because he was the only professor I could take. Avoid if possible!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
It is almost impossible to earn a good grade in this class due to the lack of graded material. Also, Donald is very boring and it is hard to follow or know what information to retain for the quizzes since he just spits it all out without any organization. Also, the students who were friends with the TAs got lots of help on quizzes and such.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I seriously have no idea how someone can be so horrifically bad at their job. Merely reading lines off of PowerPoint slides isnt teaching... his lectures are the surest cure for insomnia that I can think of, as he has an almost magical ability to suck all the fun and excitement out of anything. Absolutely miserable. Avoid.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I would rather not reflect on this class because I think I have ptsd from it

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Avoid if you could

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The quizzes the professor gives in this course are next to impossible. I would read all day and still get 70% on the super specific questions he asks. The lectures are in the same monotone manner for 3 hours straight. The professor doesn't engage the class at all and goes extremely slow through the similist of concepts.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
HIGHLY recommend you do not choose Professor Riley for this course. Lectures are not engaging and he reads the slides word-for-word verbatim. Assigns quizzes that are extremely specific and expects you to be able to come up with in-depth research about random firms. Extremely frustrating, by far the worst professor at Carlson I've had thus far