Reviews of professor Emily Sands

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Sra. Sands is a wonderful spanish teacher! She constantly made sure the class understood the content and was lenient with grading. There are a lot of workbook assignments but they are fairly easy to complete.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Señora Sands takes forever to respond to emails and frequently posts assignments on the day they are do and expects them to get finished even though they take a lot of time. She frequently takes points of for minor errors and expects students to speak at an advanced level. Would not recommend!!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Sra. Sands was nice, but her class is way too much for an introductory level course. The amount of homework she gives for every class would take me hours to do and there was oftentimes extra things due that she made no mention of the class before. Tests are broad and difficult, I was happy to get a B in the class and am usually a straight A student

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The coursework should have been slightly reduced in my opinion regarding the online nature of the course. You are expected to teach most of the course to yourself. Sands is a lazy grader and takes forever to respond to emails, which has been clearly noted in other posts on this site. Her lectures are not clear and are usually brief and not helpful.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
FLS102 was better than FLS101 i.m.o. bc it was more one-on-one (smaller class sizes). Professor Sands had engaging exercises that helped with practice/studying, however, she was not always clear with assignments/material and would oftentimes get upset when students didnt understand (may have been because she was pregnant). Would recommend though.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dislike for this class is an understatement. Mrs. Sands made it very hard to learn and understand Spanish, I truly wanted to learn the language but after this class, I don't want to ever take another class. There is soo much homework that it made it hard to study. There is conversation present. that were so hard I dreaded them but got to stay home

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She gives a lot of homework and she is not super clear on how to do some assignments. She was not the best at communicating and getting back to me about certain things. Her class was very engaging and she always kept it fun but she definitely had her favorites.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class is designed as a flipped classroom, so make sure you look over the vocabulary, grammar rules, and do the MindTap homework before class. You only spend a few minutes of class reviewing the material and mainly do group work to practice your skills. Professor Sands is pretty understanding overall and not a harsh grader on assessments.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
She does an okay job teaching the material, but she speaks too fast since the considering we're not native speakers. She can be defensive or strict when she doesn't need to be since the students aren't doing anything they shouldn't be. She's an okay professor, but her personality isn't the best - like she's forever a frustrated or annoyed person.