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Janice is pretty decent. I would completely recommend her over Maria but if you think the material will be boring, it is and I had to go to most classes otherwise I would have done horribly. Janice will take the time to make sure you understand. TA's were also great.
Janice is a sweet prof! The material in this class is SO boring but she makes it really interesting and as a plus is hilarious. She also is really helpful if you have questions about the assignments, exams ect.
Amazing professor. Would highly recommend taking any class with her. She's very resourceful and wants her students to learn. Not an easy A if you don't study.
HORRIBLE. take with a different professor. waste of time. doesn't teach course material and examinations are very difficult. so boring and not engaging at all. wastes a lot of class time talking.
Pretty good prof. She does ramble on and talk alot but she teaches the course enthusiastically and well. Group work was easy, midterm kinda hard.
Lectures were fairly engaging, and hands-on. Tests and assignments were very fair. She's helpful when answering questions. Janice is pleasant, but she rambles a lot, and is a bit of an odd-ball. The textbook is useless, and only necessary if you really, really need clarification on certain concepts.
Janice actually made this class quite fun (I know, hard to believe!). She is a bit weird, but in an endearing way. Excellent understanding and delivery of concepts. Easy course! Many people got A's.
She is very knowledgeable, and made this course very interesting.
Highly recommend this course with Janice; she is so helpful when it comes to assignments, and pretty much tells you what is on the test, which is open book AND cheat sheet. Very helpful professor!
Janice really is a good hearted person. Although the lectures are dry, the material is very relevant to the business world. Lots of employers look for the skills you learn in this class. I found the midterm to be more difficult then the final, but neither are too bad in the first place. Don't need the textbook, exams/assignments are from slides.
Class was very straightforward. Definitely did not require the textbook. Midterm was easy as were the assignments that were more or less group problem sets. Excel test is very easy. Should be guaranteed over 90% if you went to class
Janice was super nice and extremely helpful. Textbook was useless. Just study from the course notes. Group projects weren't bad if you went and got help during the tutorials or her office hours. Definitely take this class with her!
yak yak yak, she talks very fast in an excited manner. :) She is a great proff and very helpful. She makes sure that her students understand the subject, and gives good examples to make the lessons clearer. Oh and did I tell you how nice she is? I loved her, and you will too.
Janice is hilarious. I have no idea how she got through class material at all. She gets off topic so much but I love it. She covered everything pretty well, gave test and assignment hints and made me laugh along the way. She is super passionate about everything. She had an IV in her arm and still came to class lol. Assignments can be annoying.
If you've had Janice, you know she goes off-topic quite a bit and it gets really annoying with time. Other than that, the assignments are easy. Highly recommend getting a textbook because you are allowed to bring it along with a cheat sheet to the midterm and final. Does regular participation assignments. Practice test from AMIO helps a LOT!
Fun prof! Genuinely nice, goes off topic at times, but covers all of the material!
Great Prof, one of the best I've met going into the commerce program. She's helpful, will always answer questions and her material is fair, she doesn't try to trick students. Her assignments are easy marks and she'll help you with any problems you might have with them. she has a ton of stories, but they do help you learn(related) I'd recommend her
She really is a great prof once you get used to her fast talking nature. Really helpful when asking questions one-on-one. I would definitely recommend her.
Best prof at u of c hands down. Very helpful and tests are very fair if you know you stuff. Take as many classes as you can with her. I have taken 2 and both my favorite classes
A bit erratic at times, especially during her frequent tangents/rants about the Tim Horton's lineup, but overall a great instructor. There's three group projects so pray you get a good group!
Talks fast, but the content is easy to understand and a textbook isn't needed. Unfortunately, she will not help if you get a bad group. We raised issues with a group member not completing his work and still got a horrible mark. Just a caution if you get a bad group.
Janice is a great prof. She goes off on tangents quite a bit, but it's always entertaining. She tells you exactly what she expects for the 3 assignments and she will confirm if your answers are correct so they are definitely grade boosters. Definitely don't need the textbook just buy the note package she offers at the start of the semester!
very easy class, going to class and textbook are both not mandatory
Janice was a good prof but tended to get off topic. This caused us to miss a lot of content. Her exams are fair and she won't try to trick you. The assignments are very easy and will be freebie marks. The textbook is useless, just use the notes they give you.
She rambles on about stories, but that just makes the lectures more interesting/fun. The assignments are a breeze, but you actually learn from doing them. I am pretty sure that she bumped me up from an A- to an A just because.
There were a lot of assignments, which in a way was a good thing as you got to practice the material a lot and get a chance to get a lot of easy marks that didn't involve studying for a test. Prof was awesome! She was very nice, inviting and always there to help you, and was engaging in class. Would take another course with her for sure.
It's an easy class for anyone with an aptitude for business. Janice loves to ramble, but in a way that makes the lecture enjoyable. She's a great prof that will literally help your group work out parts of an assignment that you're stuck on. Groups are made by students that you keep for the semester, and work on all the assignments with (3)
Janice is awesome. More than willing to help and clarify. Her midterms and assignments are fair. Textbook is not needed at all. One negative - she does tend to go on rants about irrelevant topics often!!
She is very nice and incredibly helpful, but her lectures are often full of very long tangents where she will tell in great detail vaguely related stories from her life. The assignments are very fair but the tests will be tougher than you expect. Overall pretty good.
Janice goes off on tangents, but she's one of the smartest people you'll meet. She's always ready to help and the class is pretty straightforward. The entire class is like an Excel workshop. Go to tutorials before assignments. They really help.
THis is now the 2nd course I've taken with her (the other was OPMA317), and I found this course much more enjoyable. Lots of content overlaps from 317, but none of the new stuff is too tough. She gets sidetracked easily, but all the info you need is on the slides so it's fine if you miss a couple classes. Go occasionally for participation marks.
Great class assignments are graded fairly, easy to score an A but requires some effort.
Janice is an amazing prof who will just give you random marks if you ask for them. Seriously I would take every class possible with her.
Wonderful prof! Bursting with energy and enthusiasm. At first, you may think she is just rambling but everything she says is relevant and helpful. Course notes are very helpful and great preparation for her exams which are challenging but fair.
Janice is really nice, she explains things very well during classes. The assignments are not too bad, they are quite easy and she's an easy marker. The textbook is not needed as her slides and examples in class are sufficient. The exams are fair and she will curve if needed. The classes can be very boring and could feel long.
Janice is a wonderful professor! She does ramble at times but its not that bad. I didn't even buy the book as all of her notes are on D2L. Go to class if you can but its not necessary. The assignments are give away marks as long as you go to the tutorials. Both the Midterm and Final were harder than I thought so study carefully. Good class overall.
I did OPMA 401 and 403 with her, and found that both courses were easy As, as long as you read through her notes! She really knows her stuff,and she's always there to help you when you need it. I find her stories amusing, and they related to the content we were learning about! If you can, take OPMA 403 in block week!!!
I have had Janice for so many classes and will have her for many more. She is a great prof that will help you A LOT if you ask for it (she will straight up give the answers for assignments). Exams are fair- study the powerpoints. Usually the written portion is a lot more straightforward than the MC. Rants a bit but she is entertaining :)
If you don't know Janice, ask around. In fact, ask her - she knows EXACTLY how many times she's taught the course and how many students (coming up on 10,000 this fall). Amazing prof, hilarious, although repetitive, stories. Going to office hours? Make sure you have time, she's going to keep you there a while. You'll grow to love it.
Awesome prof, her powerpoints are extensive and clear, and tell you exactly what to know for the assignments and tests. The textbook is not needed whatsoever. As long as you go to class, go to the Friday tutorials, and work on the assignments with your group, then there's no way you can do poorly. If you skip class though, you're screwed.
Janice is a average prof at best. She goes on way too many useless tangents, which makes it difficult to focus during the lectures. She deducts marks on assignments for pointless mistakes and if you don't attend lectures tests are more difficult than the reputation they have. Janice is the best of the worst for this awfully boring class.
PowerPoint notes are very in depth, and a book isn't necessary for MGST391. Take MGST391 with a FRIEND(S). Your group will be determined on the first class and you get to PICK your partners. If you do not have teamates picked, you will be randomly assigned. Very difficult final exam multiple choice. OPMA403 with with her is good too
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Janice is nice and will get you through the course. Notwithstanding she will go on tangents about her colleagues though.
Janice really cares about her students and gives you all of the opportunity in the world succeed. Goes off on wild tangents all the time that make lectures somewhat optional and she could explain things more clearly but overall not bad.
Janice is an amazing prof. She really knows her stuff. However, she goes on tangents every single class, and then rips through the slides so we can stay on schedule, meaning she rushes over a lot of important material. Assignments are a breeze! She'll even check your work before you hand it in which really helps. Overall, pretty good and hilarious.
Janice is an awesome prof. Her course notes are comprehensive so you don't need to bother with the textbook. She also gives you 2 classes to complete the in class exercises (easy 100%). Written sections of her MT and Final are pretty much exactly the same as the ICEs, so if you just redo them enough time you're guaranteed a high mark. MC is tougher
Wonderful professor, truly cares about her students, extremely friendly and super knowledgable regarding the material. With that being said, the grading scale is harsh, and the assignments pump up your grade (easy 95-100%'s) and then the exams destroy you (MC mostly). With effort, it's easy to do decently well, but extremely hard to get an A (92%).
Janice is a great prof and keeps lectures very interesting with her stories. The textbook is not needed as the lecture slides are sufficient. The midterm and final multiple choice sections were super hard, but the assignments and written portions are enough to pull up your mark. Janice is definitely the best prof to take MGST 391 with.
Janice is amazing to listen to - she talks a mile a minute and you spend the whole lecture trying to suppress laughter. Attending class is a must, her ppts are full of info. Do the assignments exactly according to her standards and you'll be fine. Final was pretty difficult.
Janice always goes off on tangents but somehow manages to never fall behind on lectures. Group projects have strict grading guidelines, however just go to tutorials and you're guaranteed 95%+. Really enjoyed her class. Midterm was a little challenging but nothing impossible. The assignments really boost your grade.
I don't get why she has a high rating. She is always distracted, and teaches only 1/3 of the class. Talks about random things and skips through slides. It's hard to retain anything she teaches. Midterm, final, and assignments are so hard. TAs are helpful and make the assignments easier. I will never take a class with her, I taught myself everything
the assignment is fair enough, but the MC for final is really hard, but they are related to the assignment. Janice's lecture is pretty interesting, and she makes the class not that boring. She listed a lot of examples related to the topic, which is pretty helpful. highly recommend.
Her lecture are quite random and I spent more time browsing Reddit than listening. That being said, you should still attend her lectures as she goes through exactly how she wants the assignments done and the common mistakes people make. If you get it done early you can also just check it with her.
Shes good multiple choice on exams are hard and can be tough to properly study for
You will learn about the Keg.
For an easier course like MGST 391, Janice is awesome. She makes lectures really engaging and will tell you exactly how she wants her assignments and tests done. She's the course coordinator and has run this show for a long time. Definitely a good pick for this class.
You really have to pay attention in her class to do well. She is a great prof
I know this will be an unpopular opinion, but I absolutely loved MGST 391 and having Janice as a prof. The course covers several interesting topics regarding how businesses operate and Janice presents these topics in a very entertaining way. Everyone says she goes off on tangents, which she does, but all her anecdotes supplement the material well
Absolutely adore Janice! She is incredibly friendly and approachable. I have taken three classes with her and all throughout her notes have always been clear and detailed. She is very knowledgeable in the OSCM area. Listening to her talk is a blast. Would totally recommend to anyone (OPMA and non-OPMA majors alike!)
Janice was a great prof. Her notes were so extremely detailed and helpful that you never needed the textbook. Goes off topic sometimes but its pretty hilarious. Pray that you get a good group for your assignments or you could get screwed. Solver test was super easy, midterm and final were more difficult.
Janice was a good prof with very interesting lectures and stories. The final was really hard go over past assignments to do well.
She is an amazing prof and made the lectures doable. Luckily I could do OPMA 401 and 403 with her.
She's rlly nice but no offence she goes off so many tangents in class that are barely related to the lesson so it makes it hard to understand things overall. She skims through half of the slides or sits there while you read them yourself & then talks about the concepts as if you should already know/understand them perfectly.
Dr. Eliasson can be flighty at times and go off on tangents, but if you can decipher the message she is trying to get across, she is a solid prof. She clearly knows her stuff, and the material is not too too bad if you stay on top of it. The group projects can make or break a mark though, so go with people you know are willing to work.
Hard grader.
Rude to the students. Went over the material way too quickly. There was not enough time to study everything. The good thing was that she took out "hard" questions on MCQs and the exams were open-book. if she had only taught key concepts and incorporated other softwares than just Excel, this course would have bearable. The TA was pretty useless too!
She is very passionate about supply chain and operational management, gives many interesting stories during class. The tests were straightforward, highly recommend
Janice is very passionate and she does go off topic, but after this one day where she just went straight to the point and class became very boring, I don't hate her random stories. The midterm and final are hard, if you study well and memorize everything on the slides and do the assignments again you'll do well in her class.
Stopped going to class because all Janice does is tell stories and go on tangents, then reads and explains the notes to you like you're a five year old. Not a difficult course, and has little to no translation to Opm/SCM in application. Group projects, midterm and final were all fair. She is entertaining in class, but I opted to study instead. YMMV
Janice is a very caring prof but goes on tangents during class. She makes sure her students know she's there to help. the tutorial are extremely helpful for assignments as they basically do them for you and Janice also has classes dedicated to helping.
She goes on tangents in class but she's very to the point in her recorded slides. Class is a bit difficult if you aren't paying attention but she is really good at answering questions. Assignments are grade tough but if you read the rubric you'll be fine. Tests are difficult so study hard.
I found Janice to be mediocre at best, maybe it's because the class was online. Whilst she tried to explain the concepts, her explanations were a bit dry. She does try to help outside the class & replies to emails fairly quickly.
She prepares you well for assignments and exams. If you are confused in her class just go to her office hours and she will help you.
I have taken 3 courses with Janice- MGST 391, OPMA 403, and OPMA 401. All great experiences. I love Janice. She is very smart and nice. What I like about her the most is that she will go out of her way to help you if you show initiative in wanting to do well in her classes. Fair exams and assignments. Take a class with her if you can.
Janice is really straightforward and entertaining in class. She cares about her students and wants them to do well. While she does go on tangents in class sometimes, it does not take away from the quality of her teaching and instead shows her passion for teaching, while making an otherwise dry class enjoyable.
Janice was extremely helpful when it came to the assignments and always went out of her way to explain class concepts to help us do well on the assignments and tests. Her lectures are a bit dry but she does a good job at explaining the class concepts. As long as you can do the assignments and illustrative exams, you should be good to go.
Janice is definitely one of the best profs I've had during my time at Haskayne. She is funny, caring, and makes a real effort to make the class entertaining for the students. I wish she was my aunt or something so I could continue to chat with her outside of class! Such a wonderful person!!
Janice has been one of my favorite profs that I've come across. She cares about helping her students and her lectures and class examples make the content easy to understand. I also took OPMA 317 with her and will be taking OPMA 403 with her as well. If you have a chance take one of her classes, don't hesitate.
Professor Janice was great and accomodating. She answers questions clearly and spends lots of time helping students with assignments.
Janice is very clear with her teaching and ensures that the students know exactly what to expect on their assignments and tests. She is very easy to listen to and learn from. Her anecdotes are entertaining and support the topics she is teaching. One of the best professors I have had :)
Janice is one of the best professors I have had in Haskayne. You can tell she is extremely passionate about what she teaches. Her lectures are very interesting because she always has real life examples to go along with what she is teaching. She is also super organized and a very fast marker which makes life a lot easier during the semester.
Professor Eliasson is probably the best and most caring prof I have ever had. She's always willing to help and even gives us tips for our group assignments and she lets us know if our answers are right or wrong. She is also very accessible outside of class and replies to emails fairly quickly. I would absolutely take another class with her.
Best professor at Haskayne!! I've had several classes with Janice now and I don't think I have ever skipped a class. She is extremely enthusiastic, so funny, and she cares about students! Grading criteria very clear, there is no BS in any of her classes. If you show up to class and do the assignments you will do well! Highly recommend!
By far the best professor I have had during my time at Haskayne! The best thing about her class is how organized she is. The layout of everything from D2L to PowerPoint slides are perfect. Very clear directions about what is required for assignments and what is covered on exams. If you show up to class (although not required) you will do well.
Janice is honestly FANTASTIC. I went in knowing little to nothing about excel, had a bad experience in MGST 217 but this class had such a clear course format, 4 assignments 1 midterm and a final. Janice clearly tells us what will come on the tests verbatim and just follow her instructions to get a high mark in the class.
Hands down one of the best professors in Haskayne. She is very engaging with her teaching, and always has stories to share with students. Despite teaching 5 or 6 classes this semester, she never failed to make herself available for extra support when students needed it. She also tells you exactly what to expect for assignments and exams. LOVE HER
Janice is super nice, but her teaching style is all over the place. The assignments are all easy A's but the midterm and final are quite rough and amount to 62% of your grade, which is unfortunate. Janice often gets off track in lectures and tells personal stories instead of teaching actual content.
Online MC exams are challenging but everything else was easy. She tells you exactly what is on the in-person exams and the ICE/Assignments are easy to do well if you follow directions. I'm suprised some people complain about her story tellings, however I think they are hillarious and help me better understand the topics being discussed.
Awesome teacher. If you go to class she gives so many hints for the tests, so as long as you pay attention you should do well on them. Assignment grading criteria is super clear. Her classes are enjoyable to attend. Totally recommend her
Amazing professor, accessible outside of class, and really helps her students with their assignments. Online exams are a little harder than the in-person assessments. Content is pretty easy and could easily be a boring class. However, Janice is so funny that makes you want to attend classes just to listen to her.
Janice is a really good professor. You can tell she's enthusiastic about what she teaches. She also doesn't beat around the bush. Show up to class because she will tell you exact questions on the tests she gives. Online tests were harder for everyone than in person. Only thing I'd say is she talks a lot and repeats herself. Otherwise very good!!
I can see why some people dislike Janice's storytelling, but it helped me understand the content! Her online tests are tough, but the assignments made up for it! If you go to class, you'll be rewarded with hints for assignments and tests. Overall, I loved this class with Janice and considered switching concentrations because of her!
She genuinely cares about her students and constantly checks up on us to see if we are doing alright with our work. She provides graded homework that we walk through in class which encourages us to learn the material and get free marks along the way. She is clear and concise with points and slides and sets a golden standard for professors' conduct.
lowkey yaps a bit and talks fast. but she chill
One day you'll be studying for your midterm and realize every tangent was entirely related to the content and helped cement the concepts in your head. Also, my god, the course structure is by far the best of any class I've taken - heavy midterm weight takes away stress from finals, guaranteed 10-15% from activities, clear exam expectations, etc.
I've taken every course that Janice teaches and without a doubt, she is one of the best profs I have ever had. Her in-class exercises are probably my favourite thing to do and some might say she "yaps" a lot in class but it relates back to course content and it actually helped solidify certain concepts for me
Overall it is a very easy class with easy and well-explained assignments. Her lectures however, are very boring and easily get off topic. I highly recommend staying home and watching the lecture videos instead.
The multiple choice tests suck, so make sure to read through all the slides and look over your assignments cause questions could come from there. Do the @RISK assignment. You can get marks docked on assignments for something as menial as the title of the file, so make sure to look over the instructions carefully.
Janice is the best. Don't take this course with anyone else. She may go off topic a bit in lectures but it keeps things engaging and fun. She is extremely approachable and will help you with any questions you have about the assignments! Attend lectures if you can, she gives lots of hints about exam questions.
Janice was great, and caring and wants you to succeed if you try. She made the class enjoyable, and is very social and loves to talk, a lot!
Janice was an amazing professor. She is super organized. She did go off topic a lot, but I'm someone who enjoys that. Made it easy to form a connection with her. The class is not bad at all. Super easy actually. The only flaw I found is that there aren't many practice questions.
Janice is a lively professor who makes the content engaging. Online tests are tough, but the assignments help make up for it. Attending class pays off - you'll get hints for assignments and tests. Using unstuck AI alongside the class resources was super helpful for me.
I'm a third year student, and by far Janice has been the best professor in Haskayne I've taken. She genuinely cares about her students and wants to see them succeed.
Janice talks excessively, sharing countless irrelevant stories along with oddly specific test questions. The course requires significant time if you engage with her outside of class. It's quite unprofessional.
Honestly, not much to say. Great professor for a decently challenging class, makes it very easy to understand!
The class in theory is not hard, but she goes through the content too fast, but still manages to continue speaking about unnecessary topics.
the final had so much long calculation questions, there wasn't enough time for all of that. Also, it was so unorganized it honestly seemed like they didn't proof read or anything. No curve either, and with a C class average... it is what it is.
Brutally Designed Final - Be Prepared for Mind Games. The regular content and assignments were manageable, but the final exam was absolutely brutal.The questions were obscure, sneakily worded ("A&B, AB&C, Only A" style) and full of technical errors that made it hard to trust the wording. only curved by 1%, despite how broken the final was:(
68% of your final mark comes from exams (34 midterm and 34 final), and, as expected, they are brutally difficult. yap a lot in class. Welcome to MGST 391, where we use bad english and weird questions to level the curve at the end of the class.
Assignments were manageable, but don't let that fool you. You must master every assignment to the point where you could do them in your sleep. DO NOT underestimate this course, especially the exams. Regardless of how you study, it will still be a very long exam.
Class was easy with Janice, up until the Final which brought my grade down a level.
Don't get distracted by Janice always yapping and telling grandma stories during lectures, the exams are hard.If you slack off thinking the course is chill, the final will hit you harder than you expect.
Janice is overrated. the final is an absolute joke!!
Janice is a good teacher, but a bad tester. The content she teaches is interesting. However, the tests can be tricky because she's very sneaky. The class I was in did poorly on the final, and it'll probably be the same for you.
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No thanks 🙂
Lots of theory, pay attention to the sensitivity report on the midterm, make sure you know how to calculate every decision value and probability on the final, some of the questions in class will come from what she's talking about, but unfortunately they're not on the slides
Only A: Finished the exam but trusted none of my answers. A & B: Ran out of time and stared at the questions like they were in a different language. A, B & C: Lost faith in the exam, the prof, and my own brain midway through. Only B: Found more typos than actual solutions. Only C: Still trying to figure out what the question was even asking. ????
Final boss battle: reword the question yourself just to understand it.
Honestly, they should just make the assignment portion heavier. Midterm and final being 68% is brutal. Like, if you mess up even a little, your whole grade tanks. It's kinda unrealistic.
The material isn't that bad, but the pacing is all over the place. Important topics are rushed(like Chp6 in one week) and then she waste time on side conversations that don't even show up on the test.
She says the class average for Fall semester (with online final) was a B, but this semester everything is in-person. And somemore the tests are so hard — midterm average B-, final average C — so yea…
Enjoyed doing the assignments, felt like I actually learned something from them. She's sweet, but like everyone says, the exams are brutal.
Why no curve for the final tho :(
Not the same as MGST 217. To do well in this class imo, you really need solid statistics knowledge (mainly from STAT 213), and you also need to know how to use Excel and the @RISK software. It feels like Excel, but a bit more advanced. you need to actually understand the outputs and be able to explain them properly.
Janice 10/10, the exam 0/10. Loved her, hated my life during the test
Janice tends to overtalk with many irrelevant stories, while the exams focus on oddly specific details.The course demands a lot of time, especially if you engage with her outside of class. Honestly, it feels quite unprofessional.
Lectures sometimes lose direction, and you're left piecing things together yourself. If you're independent and can self-study, you'll survive. If you're expecting structured teaching, GL.
The course emphasizes simulation and decision-making, but the evaluation focuses more on memorization and interpreting confusing outputs under time pressure. There's potential for this to be a very practical, applied course, but the current structure feels misaligned with the real-world skills it's supposed to build.
MGST 391 really said: here's a simulation… now simulate your way through this exam too
Learn decision analysis… and how to decide if you should cry now or later.
Honestly not the worst class… until the exams jump scare you
Good class if you like Excel. Bad class if you blink during lectures.
Told me to model risk. Didn't tell me the real risk was the exam
MGST 391 in a nutshell: Build a forecasting model, optimize it, get confused by your sensitivity report, realize your queue is unstable, and then question if anything you modeled actually made sense.
Curve is unlikely to happen.Assignment instructions were long but doable, she'll give tips for them. The Excel Solver and Decision Tree quiz (16%) was OK. Midterm was alright but hard to score l high(class avg B-). But the final… wild. 58 MCQs in 2 hours and they kept interrupting with corrections. Final exam felt super disorganized.
4 Assignments (26%), Excel Solver Test (6%), Midterm and Final (68%). From my experience, try to aim for 25/26 on assignments and 6/6. Midterm and Final are tough though, likely around a C average, so maybe like 46/68 combined. If you do well in the assignments but not so great on the exams, you can still end up around a B- or C+ overall.
Wouldn't say the class quality is greathere's a lot of unnecessary talking in lectures and even on the slides. You really have to know how to pull out the key points onto your aid sheet.Otherwise, you'll end up wasting time flipping through everything during the exam and Janice likes to twist and turn the questions to trick you.
Janice is a bit overrated, the course isn't as easy as people say. A lot of people underestimate how tricky the content and exams actually are. Somehow this ended up being the lowest grade I got out of all my 300-level courses. I think it's mainly because the grading scale is high and there's no curve to help balance it out.
Finished the course with an A+ (96.29%), but honestly it wasn't easy. Knowing slides and assignments alone won't cut it, you need to really understand the material deeply and be comfortable with the software tools. Exams are tricky and detailed. If you want a strong grade, start early, practice a lot, and don't just rely on surface-level studying.
You can get full marks for all the assignments & quizzes but the midterm & final average is a C, making your overall grade crap. I thought I was learning about simulation when I was actually in a simulation.
I wouldn't say this class is easy, but it's definitely doable to get a good grade if you put in the effort. you need to study the PPTs in detail, know the content cold, and expect tricky, time-constraining questions. Her grading scale turned my would be B- to a beautiful C
She is one of the better professors to learn from, but the structure she set up as a course coordinator is the WORST I've experienced. The grade scale is ridiculously high, and the MC sections on tests are unreasonably hard.
I hated having to ask her questions. She was also very passive aggressive at times. The course was fairly easy to follow
Janice is an amazing prof. She will help you on all assignments so you get a A+ and is honestly just very caring overall. Her story telling can be long but she always makes sure to help you and answer your question. The written parts of the midterms and quizzes are basically the exact same as the practice reviews she gives you.
Janice is an awesome prof! It's hard not to do well on the group assignments since she is very open to questions and offers to check over numbers. She tends to wander off topic quite easily, sharing stories from her personal life, many of which are entertaining, but it is worth attending class since she gives hints about what to expect on exams.
Janice is a really great prof. She tells you if your answer to an assignment question is correct if you ask her, making it pretty easy to get 100% on the assignments. Written portions of the exams are almost identical to the practice questions/assignments, so fairly easy. She can go off topic, but overall she explains everything really well.
Really nice professor. Helps you whenever you need help.
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