Reviews of professor Amanda Smith

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Doesn't follow the syllabus and assigns extra unnecessary work that piles up and leaves students with an unreasonable amount. Prof. also has very illogical due dates so often times if the due date is late in the week, in order to do well you must turn it in much earlier.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
If you need a class that requires minimal work, take one by Smith! She changed the syllabus a bunch which resulted in less work required than before. Class was mandatory due to daily quizzes at the beginning of each class, but you can just have someone send you the password to take the quiz online before class ends.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Amanda gives really good feedback, I became a better writer because of her class. She can be harsh if shes in a bad mood but overall a good teacher.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She's nice but can be moody. The class wasn't necessarily hard and it's relatively easy to get an A if you put in the effort. The assignments she gives are doable, but it seems like she was just giving us work to do before we got to the actual projects and the instructions for some of the assignments were unclear and vague.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Gave no feedback despite me asking. Constantly was rude when I tried to set up appointments and help sessions with her, will not listen to feedback about anything going on. She was also a really hard grader, this is an intro class there is no reason to grade harder than the regular. Good luck getting an email back in the next 3 days.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Amanda does not teach, she just gives assignments. She grades based on if you met the assignment criteria but does not teach students how to improve. She also has bad days a lot and will single out students in front of everyone. If a student gives her an attitude back she will kick them out of the class. Would not recommend taking her class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Gave no feedback, pretty much. Highlighted some things in red and doesn't clarify. I have to reread and try an interpret what is wrong based on the rating in the rubric. Instructions for projects are scattered across multiple documents. Heavily weighted towards the projects. Discussion posts and quizzes are tricky.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Terrible. She is demeaning and talks down to her students. She has no respect for anyone without a PhD. Her grading is very vague and she doesn't give any feedback. This class is fairly easy, but the teacher makes it quite unenjoyable. This class is pretty pointless and Amanda Smith makes me want to drop out of CSP. Easy A though.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Amanda is super enthusiastic and easy to talk to. She is also super comprehensive and fair. I loved her class, there was reading homework but it did not feel heavy, she also works with peoples schedules to meet up and talk about essays, allows rewrites and gives extensions when u ask (a couple days in advance). She is honestly my fav teacher @ucsc