Reviews of professor Helen Nichols

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Nichols was really nice - she knows that research intimidates most students and she told us that in the beginning. I feel like she went out of her way to make this course as good as possible. I don't love research but I can appreciate the effort she made to help us enjoy it.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great professor - generally she was easy to work with.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She can be quite disrespectful, not good at providing feedback/support, does not follow her own syllabus, expects students to get vital information from one or two discussion board threads. As someone who was a research assistant, I don't think she's qualified to be teaching this class. Avoid taking her class if you can.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Nichols was unresponsive and didn't respond to students in a timely manner on the Ask the Professor, email, nor provide ANY feedback. The class itself has a lot of group work each week. The class concluded and half of our assignments, paper, and presentation has not yet been graded so I had no idea what my grade was until it was published.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Great experience! She was accessible and as helpful as she could be. I know she did not create the course content so sometimes the material was not well organized, but I know that was not her fault.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Majority of grade is a group project - all sections have this requirement, regardless of professor. Dr. Nichols gave extensions any time I asked, but she was serious about the request needing to come in advance of the due date (but she does state this requirement early on in the course).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The course had some issues, but Dr. Nichols did not design it - but she was very accommodating and understood that there were problems with the course.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Most of your grade is a group project, which I don't love - but the professor is understanding and tries to help wherever she can. Would def take a course from her again

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
There are many group projects and sometimes directions are conflicting, but the course is not designed by Dr. Nichols and she has no control over this problem. Therefore, she was very accommodating about inconsistencies and never held them against students in her grading, in order to make things fair.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Nichols was super responsive, gave great feedback, and was kid. I don't love group projects but Dr. Nichols worked hard to make these projects accessible and not a chore (which they feel like in other courses).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Easy course. Just keep in mind that she will not review assignments prior to the due date, but Dr. Nichols is super responsive with specific questions.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Not easy to communicate with. Very conflicting information in modules vs syllabus.