Reviews of professor Norma Ortiz-Robinson

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
If you take this class you obviously are going to have to put in some effort but she made the concepts easy to understand. There was biweekly homework online and only a couple tests with a quiz weekly. Overall she was easy to understand and did a great job teaching the class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This professor is extremely inflexible and not understanding. She will always find something to mark down on an assignment. There is a group worksheet due weekly. Especially for an online class the amount of group work was extremely unnecessary.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This was probably one of the hardest classes with the worst professor combination I have had so far at Grand Valley. Her lectures make it seem easier than the homework and test turn out to be. I learned the most from teaching myself through the online math book, even though most of the practice problems she gives never show up on quizzes and tests.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This professor is one that has a "do it yourself" policy. She prefers that you do the work and then ask questions, so If that is not your learning style do not take her. Overall I thought she was very helpful and her tests were not hard if you knew the material. She is very kind and caring of her student's success.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I was often lost and had to have a friend re-teach the material outside of class. More math-savvy people in the class seemed to be fine, but if you are not calculus confident it will be difficult. She gives partial credit for attempted answers and was overall helpful.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Reading the textbook is 100% unnecessary. Professor Ortiz does a really good job laying out the concepts and helping you learn the material, while transitioning you to doing the problem with her help and then on your own. The webwork is harder than the tests, so I would recommend the tutoring center. Nothing is on the tests that she doesn't cover.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This prof likes to assign videos outside of class and then re teach the material in class. so most students would stop watching the videos and just listen in class, until she stopped teaching in class on random days.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This professor is very harsh, and not very easy to understand when the material is being taught.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
It was a difficult class, but the professor taught the subject well and was always willing to help.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
While she taught all of the material she needed to, most of the work was self-taught and I often relied on outside sources to help me. There is homework due every week as well as a quiz almost every week. She moved at a fast pace, so at times it was hard to keep up. Her grading is fair, but the tests account for a large part of the final grade.