Reviews of professor Danielle Smiley

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I don't understand all the hate about this professor. I think she is good, exams are manageable, and she lets you have a small cheat-sheet. She is very nice and energetic, and it's a joy to see her do her thing.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is a bad lecturer. Figuring out the course material at home was a must. The tests were of average difficulty (except the final) but often had almost nothing to do with the homework. She was accessible outside of class, you could dig up some of the concepts by asking her 1 on 1. Worst option for diff eq., chose anyone else/  unknown professor.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Smiley is a very kind person but her lectures were very confusing and riddled with mistakes. She does allow a notecard on the exams, but they still were difficult.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Grading is 4 exams (drops lowest), weekly quiz, 4 group maple assignments and a weekly homework. Exams are extremely difficult. Gives as much partial credit as possible. Many mistakes during lectures, and I mean a lot. Very nice person but an extremely difficult professor. The final was very difficult too.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Overall Smiley was a very kind and caring person but struggled to communicate the information with the class. Her tests and quizzes were graded very generously, and I genuinely appreciated her effort towards the class. That being said, she made frequent mistakes during notes, homework was incredibly hard, and the final was borderline undo-able.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Smiley is extremely nice, but very disorganized. She often made mistakes during her lectures that the class had to correct. I took the class in high school, so I understood her lectures and did pretty well. She gave weekly homework, weekly open notes quizzes, and test that allotted cheat sheets. There are many opportunities to succeed.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Five tests, drop one, last three you have access to Maple (prepare to learn Maple cause your grade depends on it). HW is often far more complicated than what is shown in class and far worse than the test questions. Tests are all fairly easy except the final, and she is an easy grader for the most part. Learn Maple.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Smiley has the capacity to turn Euler and Newton into dummies. I have never had a teacher explain math so awfully that I feel as though I just unlearned the subject. Her lectures are confusing and her work is always riddled with mistakes. Pair those two things together and you have a recipe for painstaking academic failure. AVOID IF POSSIBLE!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ive been seeing all these rate my professor reviews saying the MAT 2705 final is gonna be hard. studying for it atm. Pray for me guys