Reviews of professor Lisa Zhang

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Goated professor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She's one of the best profs at UTM. I've never enjoyed a lecture as much as I did in hers. She is SUPER engaging and loves to get to know their students.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The final exam was difficult but everything else in the course was smooth and easy to follow.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is good at explaining the concepts even though the tests were difficult! Inspirational lecturer overall

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
CSC324 (A-) and CSC311. If you have to take her courses: skip lecture, read the slides/textbook, and then go ask questions in office hours. She is smart and helpful but her lectures do not connect with me at all, as if they are recap for people who already know the content. I finished both courses having learned very little.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I'm not sure why Lisa is receiving such low ratings here, I had a great time in this course! We had readings before class, and she'd go over the material in detail during class. Assignments were a bit difficult, but that is to be expected in this course, and she gave lots of help/clarifications, and was always available in the course Discord.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
hope she never teach again

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Assignments and tests were notoriously hard, and required a great deal of time and effort to get through. Lisa is decent at teaching but like some of the other comments have already said, she is not sympathetic or lenient. If Lisa is coordinating, do yourself a favour and RUN.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very well organised.

I have ADHD and she is my favourite professor because how easy it is to organise myself for this course, and she also provides recordings that help a lot.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She is a great prof, I learned a lot from her. She really wants us to learn.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lisa unfortunately is the professor of many cs courses at UTM, and it is so hard to avoid her. She's not good at slowing things down for people to understand. She grades ruthlessly and has such devastatingly difficult exams and assignments. She rambles about concepts in lecture briefly as if we're immediate experts it's frustrating. Never again...

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lisa is intelligent but struggles with abstract teaching and a uses a linear approach. Inconsistent deadlines, large assignments near exams, ineffective exam reviews, and poor communication on Piazza were major issues in this course. Ambiguous assignment instructions and harsh grading added unnecessary stress. My peers felt like this as well.