Pros: - none Cons: - Spends too much time teaching basic math, and no time at all on the theorems and topics you need to know - exams are impossibly hard, most people don't even finish in time - Treats her students like children during class - Examples in class are not very helpful Overall, not a very good math professor.

I had Prof. Rizzie for Linear Algebra at UConn. It was the worst mistake of my life. After day 1 I knew she wasn't a good professor. After I failed Exam 1, I started going to any other professors lecture. I got As and Bs on EVERY SINGLE of my remaining assignments from that point on. I learned more in another professors class and by teaching myself

Professor Rizzie just started teaching here at UConn, and she is not off to a good start. if you want a math teacher who will thoroughly explain problems and theorems and actually help you learn the material, then professor Rizzie is not for you. if you're looking for useless classes and some of the hardest exams, she's the teacher for you.

Throughout all the lectures she gave, none of them actually helped teach me linear algebra. she spends the whole time reviewing basic topics, and not going in depth with examples and explaining the theorems. quizzes and tests are impossibly hard, and you pretty much are left on your own to tach yourself the class from the text book.

Prof. Rizzie seems to know her information, but does not convey it well. She doesn't explain answers when asked, or does an awful job. The homework assignments are ridiculous. Hours and hours spent on a single assignment to have her nitpick the most trivial things and take points off, it's absurd. Also expect group projects the whole semester.

Each homework is only out of 20, and the points are very disproportionate. Doing over 20 problems, only to get a low score just because three problems are randomly chosen to be graded for 12 points. The homework counts as 30% of the class grades. And the syllabus is unclear about grading policy; what is A- and A?

She is very picky in MATH 2710, but much more lenient in her other classes based on the comments. Since she doesn't check every homework problem carefully, when time comes for the exam, some problems on the exam are similar to the ones she didn't check. And these problems will be very hard for some people.

She's not really good at lectures. The quizzes and tests were fairly easy, but honestly, no thanks to her. I basically had to learn everything by myself because she teaches everything in a really complicated manner. She just overcomplicates simple topics

Lectures were awful and unclear, didn't go over topics well

Constantly makes typos and does not address them until after the fact including on exams then does not give extra time. She gives homework that takes forever consisting of 20+ proofs and gives half of the points for completion and then randomly picks two for grading for the other half. She does not care about the success of her students. Bad Prof.

Take with another professor if given the chance. Did not learn a single thing in lecture and the only reason I went is because the clicker questions were mandatory. Exams were tough and she made it seem like they were so easy and made it seem like we were the stupid ones.

Two things need to know before you take this course: 1)The average Quiz score in my class is 6/10; 2)the average Exam score in my class is around 72/100; Here is the question: What is the expectation of your score/GPA in this class?

She hardly explains any concept important. The in-class lecture will not be necessary if participation is not part of the grades.

Does not teach whatsoever. Copies definitions and worksheets straight from the textbook. Barely have any notes to go off of. Exam was 80% individual and 20% with a group, so rip to those stuck in groups where nobody knows what's going on.

The calculus exams are 15 multiple choice questions with NO partial credit given. Seems crazy for a math class to be multiple choice, have never heard of that. The class is online and students are encouraged to ask each other questions through piazza, but questions rarely get answered correctly on there. She seems to be awfully clueless

The tests are nothing like previously practiced. Would often go from high marks on quizzes to extremely low on tests due to their level of difficulty. The online course consists of another teacher doing instruction videos which are often unhelpful. All in all: be prepared to attempt to teach yourself.

There is so much going on in this class, worksheets every week, 2-3 HW assignments and 2-3 quizzes on webassign, exams every 3 weeks, and participation requirements in the discussion board. I think the material isn't so difficult but the overload of work for just one class is absolutely ridiculous and unfair. Also there's no curve, on anything

This professor dont know how to present the lecture properly. She always require us to do the group discussion. In my opinion, this does not improve us. Also, tons of homework and difficult exam make me feel overwhelmed. Her lecture really has no nutrition. It makes me difficult to understand each concept. Also, no extra credit for this course.

Rizzie does not teach. All she does is give worksheets and expects you (and your group members) to figure things out for yourselves. Every week you have 2 preview activities, 4-6 in-class worksheets, and around 15 online homework questions. There is also a quiz every week (that there isn't an exam) and your grade depends on your group members.

N Worst prof I've seen in Math department. M She gave heavy assignments for us to do in the class, before the class and after class and she taught nothing in the class. S I never used Rate My Professor and she makes me do so. L The exam is oral which is ridiculous for math course.

Asks a ridiculous amount out of her students just to provide NO instruction whatsoever. Expect to teach yourself the entire syllabus. Our class was nothing but group discussions to solve homework problems. No lecture, no slides to reference, no notes, no nothing! Stay away if you can, easily one of the least adequate professors I have ever had.

I emailed her to ask for help and she told me to go find a TA or read the syllabus even though I did. She was very rude. I was having trouble because it was online and shifted things during COVID and she still acted that way. Honestly would avoid her at all costs if you take Calc 1131Q

Her lecture classes are completely useless and dont help at all. There are online videos that give you all the information that take like 3+ hours to watch. You need a good TA otherwise youre screwed. Definitely do not recommend.

Her lectures are pointless, success in this class depends on which TA you get. Don't choose her, any other prof is better

Only does online lecture and in those she doesn't really teach she just briefly goes over topic. You learn each lesson by watching a video that she post of another professor teaching it, so essentially you have to teach yourself. Although the class and test are hard, the quizzes and hw help boost grade. She also curved our test.

As someone who took ap calculus in high school, avoid this prof at all costs. I only have a good grade bc my ap calc teacher actually taught, and i remember from then. Erin expects you to learn by watching her colleague's online lectures. My ta teaches the lessons more than she does- and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Good luck if u have her!

Seems nice as a person, but lectures were useless and her as a prof didn't have anything to do with me passing. My TA was wonderful and he taught us basically everything. One good thing -- can get up to 20% back on exams, but i'm not sure if that will continue after this semester.

The best way to describe her teaching ability is terrible. She has lectures that are useless and gives terrible feedback. You better hope to have a good TA because that is who is going to be teaching you.

SHE DOESN'T PROVIDE ANY GUIDANCE. ASK ANYONE FOR 2710, her answers were vague they weren't in any sense guiding. She expects your answers to be perfect, but half the time she's not even teaching. ITS JUST ANNOYING. YOU ARE TEACHING YOURSELF FROM THE (WOW) FREE TEXTBOOK. BUT SHE DOESN'T EXPLAIN AT ALL WHAT THE TEXT MEANS.

In my opinion, Calculus I isn't that hard of a subject. However if taken with erin rizzie, it makes it that much harder. I had learned more in my discussion section over the lectures. If taken with her, get ready to self learn everything

Absolutely horrible lecturer. Retook because advisors recommended it, biggest waste of time. If you remember calc 1 from high school and did well, I would NOT recommend retaking the class. I succeeded from prior knowledge. Her lecture notes are illegible and she answers repetitive questions nonstop. I stopped going to lecture entirely.

Teaches math like a middle school english teacher. Many written reflections about your learning, a million assignments due each week, and a bunch of other really strange things you wouldn't expect to do in a math class. I got an A in differential equations but I have a B in this class due to the tedious and odd grading system

I see maybe 15/160 people show up to lecture each day. Its mostly just group work on Desmos and her teaching of concepts in minimal. 95% of what you lean is from the videos she posts from a professor on YouTube each week which take a couple hrs to get thru. The rest is dependent on your TA. Weekly quizzes and 5-6 exams. avoid her if you can!

Terrible, avoid if you can. Don't think I learned one thing from lecture all semseter. She gives "activities" instead of teaching, which are usually 3-7 homework problems, and you have to turn in on average 6 of them a week. It's A LOT of busy work, so it's good that 2210Q is a pretty easy class.

She grades really weirdly and the rubric is super specific. She gives really specific feedback but sometimes feels unnecessary. She gives you time to revise assignments but doesn't tell you how long you have to do it then everyone misses the deadline. Super vague and not very helpful in class. All you do in class is activities.

Avoid at all costs. Treats 3/4's as F's and my exam that is supposedly a 75 as "F-level"

I got 3/4 questions on an exam correct and that 1 question I got wrong was 90% correct. she gave me a 0 on it. If you don't get a 100 you will get a 0 no in between. By far the most ridiculous grading I have ever seen and she should be in jail for even coming up with that grading system.

I'm sure it would have gone a bit better if it was an in person class, but the grading is far too tough and there are really no partial credits given on the tests, and honestly the only reason I have had any good grades is because of my TA.

Dr. Rizzie is the WORST professor I have ever had during my 4 years at UConn. She uses another UConn profs lecture videos, probably because she's incompetent. I emailed her with concern within the first week over this issue and she told me "if my lectures aren't helpful then don't come" so I stopped going and taught myself the entire course.

The class itself is not THAT hard... If you watch the online lectures and spend 10 hours a week on just calculus. She doesn't teach (you have to watch someone else do her job online), she is unhelpful in her office hours, and the exams are only like 10-15 questions each, so getting one wrong drops your grade. If you can, pick literally anyone else.

Where do I even start? First of all she stopped posting her lecture recordings (probably because no one would go). Second, she's genuinely MEAN, same with her TAs. She embarrassed me for asking a question during lecture, and I fully saw my TA laughing at people's quizzes at one point. You're better off going to SI and teaching the course yourself.

lot of writing until satisfied and this is not even a writing class! never taught class no effective notes. only read the book before. the grade is ridiculous, if you didn't provide enough question to others presentation, you will get the grade with your lowest achievement, then the homework you did are all wasted.

Just a really weird class build and grading style that is very time intensive and annoying. It's not too difficult but she grades the homework's looking for every detail to be right and if it's not you have to do it again.

She does not have rizz.

Worst math class I have ever taken. She doesn't teach you but just writes back simple sentences back to homework problems that doesn't explain to you how to do it, but just whats wrong with your submission. You submit after learning the material yourself and then you have to figure everything out by yourself. The content of this course also sucks.

Lectures weren't helpful at all, and she rarely explained anything clearly. Exams were graded harshly and I had to self-learn the course. Don't take her class.

I had to drop this class because it was unnecessarily hard. She does not teach you during class and instead makes you watch videos outside of class (which can take about an hour of your time every single day of the week) and then do questions during class. If you have never taken calculus before this class, you will struggle. Do not take this class

she literally does nothing, she should be fired tbh , don't know why shes getting paid to do nothing

Asynch was terrible. Terrible way to start UCONN, she seemed to not really care either. The videos are old, and he is awful at explaining math. Now I have to take calc 2 in summer.

If you want someone who actually teaches, this course is not for you. She assigns a LOT of work & has weekly quizzes, the lectures AREN'T EVEN HER! She takes other profs lectures and uploads them. The only saving grace was the SI. If you take her course and find yourself struggling PLEASE WATCH THE SI! She did give test corrections at the very end.

Used other professors lectures and didn't teach Lecture was just gizmos and a attendence quiz at the end Minimal teaching Doesn't really do her job Please take someone else she sets you up for self teaching and failure GO TO SI only way I passed

Rizzie definitely wants you to succeed and do well, however this class is overloaded with busy work. Extremely tedious grader, expects very certain answers with work to show. Assigns a paper and portfolio, never had to write this much for a math class.

We learned via videos we were supposed to watch before the lecture, but they didn't reflect any of the material we needed to know for tests or quizzes. The videos were also not hers but someone else's. Had in lecture group assignments that were not helpful, and the lecture was going through examples instead of explaining.

Professor Rizzie assigns an insane amount of work. Her class takes up so much of my time its absurd. On top of that, she is not incredibly understanding with having too much on your plate academically. Her class has honestly had such a negative impact on my semester I strongly advise you to avoid her at all costs.

Very nice professor, lenient with grading, gives opportunities to revise work, content was easy. HOWEVER... Workload was insane. Will be doing ~10 assignments every week, this class WILL stress you out, even if you're on top of your stuff. Not worth taking it with her, even if it seems tempting because of how "easy" she makes this class seem.

As the review below me suggests, don't do it. Had no other choice than Erin and feel cheated that I will have to retake. Slides are bloated with useless material as she rambles about info that is useless/not sufficient to solving the amount of busy work problems. I think the Calc courses are all formatted the same so pick literally anyone else.