Reviews of professor Amanda Oakley

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I loved Professor Oakley. You're really only graded on your lab and a quiz. The one thing about her is that she is very very specific on her lab formate. So keep that in mind when you're doing your labs, but other than that she is a really nice lady and will work with no matter what. If you do your lab in her format you will pass.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Oakley is okay I guess. She would often talk to us like we were in middle school and it always seemed like she was trying to recruit us for the geo dept. Most of us in the class just wanted to get our credit for our gen eds, but she goes into deep detail about everything and it was honestly the most boring class I've had. Fairly easy class

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
- lecture-heavy 
- hybrid class schedule (so even though the class was on Tuesday and Thursday we only met for class on Thursdays meaning we were in class for over three hours on Thursdays) 
- no textbook, doesn't post slides on canvas, no study material provided on canvas or in class
- super long and detailed test
- no textbook

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She more often than not uses the lab time as an extended lecture time. She grades her labs very tough, forget a question or format it wrong, you will get a 0 for the whole thing. Lectures never line up to what the lab is so you never actually know what's going on. She tries to convert you to major in geography more than she teaches the class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Always a red flag when a teacher talks about learning a lot from the way she grades and the workload rather than the subject of the class. Very lecture heavy, be sure to double check your lab format or you will get a 0.  Tests are pretty hard but are curved. She does a lot of pop quizzes about the syllabus so be prepared.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She posts a lot of videos to listen to and expects you to memorize everything in the textbooks. Your labs have to meet her format or you will get a 0. Her tests are very hard there was information on them that she never covered, once you answer a question you can't go back.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She not only will give you a zero on labs if the formate is wrong but also even if you miss a question. Instead of using lab for lab time she will lecture the whole time. I personally exhausted when going to lab since it was so much to try to grasp. She also can be very unclear about what she wants. She won't respond to emails until much later.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Oakley's nice enough as a person, but she has very inconsistent teaching methods. She uploads barely anything online, and she often used lab time as a second lecture. She gives multiple assignments throughout the year, but several of them are just for practice and don't count, even though she won't tell you this. Very frustrating.