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Reviews (86)
She's a nice lady, but I don't consider her a very good math teacher. Her tests were really hard even with an allowed "cheat sheet." Her lectures are okay, but really aren't all the helpful. I would recommend taking someone else.
Class was easy, available for extra help when asked for
Worst teacher I've ever had. I was more lost after taking the class than I was when I went in. She admits to the class that she doesn't know how to do the problems and has had to have a student stay after class to help her with a problem in Chapter two. I highly advise anyone to take someone else.
So helpful, gives extra time when needed, and extra credit!
I believe that she does not know how to teach she goes extremely to fast and is not helpful
The most AWFUL teacher that I ever had! Way too fast! I didn't learn a thing and most of the class failed! I DO NOT RECOMMEND to ANYONE!!! EVER!!!
Good Teacher Helps you whenever and however she can
She was a very nice teacher who gave a lot of extra credit, but her teaching style wasn't that good.
always willing to go over more examples, if the class doesn't understand something she is more than willing to explain and demonstrate and she is pretty easy about due dates ex if you aren't understanding she will understand. Online stuff isn't the most fun but it works. Pretty easy to do!
She goes way too fast. She will not slow down even if asked. Her tests are hard. Your cheat sheet won't help. Her teaching style is extremely poor. If you understand math and it comes naturally to you go for it if not I would look for a new prof. Her expectations are way too high for a math 101 class......
This last semester she taught 23 credits and it shows. She was disorganized constantly tired got through what she had to get through as quickly as possible with litte regard to whether the class really understood the material or not. Online portion of the course was dumb and that was mostly what you dealt with. Choose someone else, not worth it.
We hardly used the book at, all of our assignments were done using Hawkes.. a terrible program and caused a lot of issues. Donoghue made a lot of mistakes while teaching, some of her methods were good but she didn't teach us the way it was on Hawkes, leaving the class frustrated and very confused. Shes a nice person, but not a great teacher
Waste of time. Was barely at class herself because she is always sick or tired. never emails you to let you know if class is canceled and because of this we didn't even get to finish learning all we had to learn. teaches extremely fast and makes things more complicated than what it is. can probably talk her into extending deadlines but not worth it
Very nice lady, but extremely disorganized. Missed half the classes due to being sick, which led to us not learning all of the material. Good teaching style and helpful, just taught way too slow in the beginning and then too fast in the last few weeks to try and finish everything. Lets you use cheat sheets on tests.
good teacher! she seems to care about your grade and covers the material well.
We correct her in class daily. we kind of made it a game. but if you have never taken calculus before, do NOT take her. She doesn't teach it at all!
Very smart lady;however, she gave entirely to much online homework. You are also allowed to use a page of notes on your tests, but your tests are very hard. It's a class I'm glad is over.
well she doesn't come to class often. teaches very slow. all homework is online and she always pushes deadlines back.
I've learned more on my own doing the online work than I have in class! Messes up almost every problem, very slow, repetitive, and disorganized. jumps into topics quickly and covers little to nothing before moving on. terrible!
Sits in a chair in the front of the room for the ENTIRE class (never stands up or engages with students) & writes her lecture notes on an overhead projector while mumbling numbers & concepts you'll never understand. Consistently late, boring, disorganized. Online homework helps your grade & lenient with deadlines but TAKE A DIFFERENT TEACHER!
Do not take this class all homework is online. She gives way to much and if you donor do it each night it is assigned you will fall behind.
All of her homework is online, if you miss a few you end up being behind a lot. She makes a lot of mistakes. Doesn't really engage the class and just sits around while writing everything on an overhead projector. I already hated math but she made it worse. I highly recommend that you do not take her.
While she is nice and provides lenience with her endless amounts of online homework, she makes the class confusing and nearly impossible to complete. Her tests are also 70% of your grade. If you aren't good at math to begin with, PLEASE take a different teacher. You will likely end up withdrawing or dropping the course if you don't.
All homework is online on MyMathLab. She wasn't really great at teaching. MyMathLab taught the lessons better than me, so I was always confused during class until I did the online homework, which she gave a lot of. If you don't do the homework online, she'll open it back up if you just ask. Tests weren't too bad. I wouldn't really recommend her.
Literally the worst experience I have had in a math class. All online homework, professor does not know the material, constantly makes mistakes, tests are weighed too heavily. AVOID.
She was very nice and helpful, but what really irked me was the online math homework. I probably wouldn't take her again just because of the online homework. She was a pretty gracious grader, though.
Out of all my classes, probably had to study the most for this class. The professor is very kind and willing to help others. Depending on how you pay attention in class is how you will understand the lesson. Homework is all online but get 100% no matt what.
NOT BAD, YOU NEED TO WORK HARD OUT OF THE CLASS. WEB-ASSIGN KILLED ME "ONLINE ASSIGNMENT" .
Lots and lots of online homework. It helps understand the topics, but there is only so far a computer goes. Other than that she's a good teacher.
Honestly a sad excuse for a teacher. She barely knows the material and needed to be corrected by students multiple times every class. She cancelled a total two whole weeks of class during the semester. The only reason I did an exceptional job in the class was because I had a calc class in high school. She's not suitable to teach at a high level.
Terrible experience.
Usually doesn't know what she's teaching and students will correct her. The tests are heavily graded and if you fail one or two, it'll be difficult to get an A or B. She does let you use a cheat sheet on the test though.
A lot of online homework, but it reinforces material. Constantly corrected by students. Takes forever to grade tests. Didn't finish going over all of the necessary material for our final before we took it. Tests very heavily weighted. Very sweet lady and is willing to answer questions and give extra help if needed but I wouldn't take her again.
Homework is super easy because it is online and you do not know how to do it to get an A. Tests are really hard though because I really don't think she knows what she is doing. She'll get a problem wrong and try to justify it and teach it wrong until a student corrects her. You better know calc going in or else you teach yourself.
I never really struggled with math until this class. She assigned us papers that did not have to do with math. She gave us tests, which were not online for an online class, and they were difficult. Also the tests had to be completed and turned in exactly how she told us. She did let us decide which chapters we preferred to complete.
You get 5 skips before failing. You have constant hw between webassign and paper hw and never submits grades. It's the end of the semester and the only grades in are chapters 1 and 2 and we're on chapter 6. Just does problems on her tablet all class. 10 question hw assignments are literally worth 100 points. You can have a cheat sheet on tests.
Please don't take her. Take anyone else. I would do the right thing on the test and there wouldn't be enough work for her and she would mark it wrong. I hated this class.
Took this class online. She waited until the end of the course to grade most of the assignments, leaving me unaware of my grade throughout the semester. Assigned a lot of homework and projects that did not have much clear direction. Often needed to give extensions because there was no way to get all of the work done on time.
OMG DROP HER CLASS. Dont even try.. you will not pass. Shes the most awful professor at RMU. She refuses to stand in class and cant write on the board. She cancelled class once a week. We were able to have a cheat sheet for the exams and I still failed. She assigns 10 hours of my math lab every week.
She is the worst professor I've ever had. She canceled class more times than you are allowed to miss to fail the class. She would consistently do problems wrong and I would correct her. If you ask for clarification, she can't even explain her own work. I took Calc for two years in HS and she still couldn't teach anything. DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS.
This was the only class that I have failed. The class schedule was never the same from week to week and we had weird 6am due dates mixed with 11:59pm due dates. The class was so disorganized that I had no idea what was due when because stuff was either not posted when it was supposed to be or poor communication.
As I type this I am taking a brief reprieve from the final exam. Despite the fact that this is an online class, this is the most ridiculous class I have ever taken. I have no idea what this woman is thinking. Hours upon hours of homework. Ridiculous quizzes. Am I a math major? No, but I certainly felt like one after taking this class.
Dr. Donoghue is a very nice lady who always responded back to my emails. However, this class is challenging. A lot of homework, three exams, discussion board, & a big excel project. Grading was very rough, but even though it was a lot of work I was able to get it done in time. If you need to take this class, just make sure that your decent in math!
Never uploads assignments on time and takes forever to grade.
Descriptive statistics is very easy , but the course gets much harder when inferential statistics is introduced. The professor is willing to answer questions, but never uploads assignments on time and takes forever to grade them. A majority of the graded material consists of 3 large exams and a confusing excel project. A "C+" is not typical for me.
She is the worse professor ever! I had a B 4 weeks into the class then it dropped to a F and never came back up. I met with her each week so she could try to teach me stuff and didn't just wrote it down and expected to know why things are the way they are. The excel project sucked because I don't know how to use it and she didn't know them either.
I read the reviews here before taking the class and they are all spot on. The online assignments would take me 8 plus hours and this is no exageration. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS if you have a heavy workload in other classes. YOU WILL FAIL. She is a very nice lady and well help (extensions ,extra time) if you ask her. The work is just insanely hard
If you need to take calc, find someone else! Took this as an advanced track course and the homework was extreme. Id do homework for 20 hours a week in written work, then another 10 hours online. Graded very hard, exams are extremely hard. Never graded in a timely manner. Always cancelled class. Would avoid at all cost.
This class is challenging. I didn't expect my life to revolve around statistics, but it did. The amount of homework required per week was 20+ hours (no exaggeration) in addition to 2-3 quizzes, written tests every 2 weeks, and multiple projects. No online lectures, Q&A sessions 2x week which were useless. Get ready to teach yourself. Misery.
Just really irritating
She grades a lot of assignments very late, so whatever your grade is throughout the semester is probably not what you will end up with by the end of the semester. Normally have 10 webassigns a week, a quiz for each chapter, written assignments and some paper tests. The workload for this class is A LOT compared to other classes.
She gives a ton of homework and doesn't teach anything. I took her online class, and she would just make us look at the textbook and then do homework and take quizzes. She took forever to grade things so your actual grade for her class was a surprise at the end of the semester. I would not recommend taking her class.
I took this course online with class meetings for an hour once a week. Professor Donoghue seems like a very nice person and is happy to answer questions, but the course is very homework and quiz heavy. She did offer bonus and participation points. Overall, I was glad I had taken calculus during high school and already knew most of the material.
Please do not take this class unless you want to fail. She does not grade anything, and when she does she does not give feedback. You can do the problems correctly, but if you do not do it her way you are screwed. Please take any other professor, because I used to do great in math until this. Even took stats in high school and got an A...
Could be that math just isn't my best subject, but this class was near impossible sometimes. So much homework that is due in a very small time span. I was literally doing an hour or more of work every day for this class. Didn't know about some assignments cause she didn't even announce them. She's a nice lady, but her class was a mess for me.
Never in my life have I taken a more scattered class. Half the classes were canceled or moved to an online setting that was incredibly inconvenient for me and my peers. We were also required to complete online lessons and quizzes in addition to regular class material, which felt more like I was taking two stats classes that did not match at all.
Please never take this professor ever. I have spent hours each day completing her assignments and tests and I am not majoring in anything related to math. Her class makes my blood boil.
She is the worst. Take anyone else
Goes weeks on end without posting anything to blackboard and expects us to know random due dates when nothing was mentioned about them and were never assigned in the first place. Lost my assignments and try to blame my ability to use technology. Even thought I have the receipts and time stamps to prove my work. I would never take her again-
Never met a professor that disappears for weeks on end and expects students to keep up with sudden due dates, random tests on material covered weeks prior, and confusing assignments. The workload is ridiculous. The online homework takes at least 8+ hours a week to complete (not an exaggeration). Never answers her emails either if you need help.
She sucks.
Does not line up class lectures with online assignments, does not truly teach, just does problems and assumes you get it. Terrible teacher and communication skills. Does not explain anything well at all, just assumes you get it. Awful, never taking again.
She doesn't put in grades EVER. Tests are random. You will do a billion math xls and not get a grade for them. If you submit a written assignment as a pdf and there is a sliver of a table in the background you get a 0. She's a nice lady but a horrendous teacher.
Has to be one of the worst professors that I have had this semester. Forgets to post things at times and randomly posts assignments and changes due date without making an announcement to the class. Terrible with communication and never responds to emails in a reasonable time. It usually takes her multiple days to respond to an email.
DON'T TAKE HER CLASS! I took calc in hs, so I already knew a lot of the material, but her inability to communicate makes her class so frustrating. Everyone is failing and she refuses to curve. The tests are difficult and she doesn't tell you what will be on them. She "gets sick" for weeks at a time and expects you to know the material. 0/10.
I had her for Stats and thought she was a good teacher and very nice. If you talked to her about struggling with the ALEKS assignment she would extend the deadline for you to complete it. Answering questions in class helps in understanding the material. She also asks all the time if anyone has any questions and is available over email or in person
A LOT of homework. If you want to keep your sanity, stay away. On top of each ALEKS section taking 1.5hrs to complete, then knowledge checks after, THEN chapter tests in ALEKS, which take 1-2hrs themselves. THEN there are projects & exams on top of this given in class. She misses class often w/ little notice = Google Meets. She seldom grades!!
Horrible, changes test dates halfway through the day they are scheduled for and does not allow students to take the test on the scheduled date. The worst professor I have EVER had in terms of communication. Clearly does not care about the students.
Somewhat a hard class coming from someone who is not the best at math. She might call on you to answer a question so be ready. ALEKS takes so so so much time to do if you aren't understanding the topics. If you ask she will most likely extend the due dates. She canceled class a lot due to health issues but had to attend google meet for attendance.
Very very nice lady, she can be okay sometimes, but frequently we just do a few problems in class and then we are expected to know how to do them. It is very difficult. She will extend due dates if you need extra time due to lack of understanding. She is available for office hours though. Some concepts are very difficult to grasp with her style.
SO MANY ALEKS ASSIGNMENTS. Grades hard. Doesn't give feedback. Also only puts grades in at midterms and then finals. You will not know your actual grade in the course unless its right after midterms or your finalized grade.
Don't take!
prof. donoghue is very nice when talking to her one-on-one. she assigns a lot of ALEKS homework and quizzes (which can take hours). don't sit on your phone during class because she will call you out. she will also call on you frequently, so be ready to answer questions. tests are not easy but not extremely difficult - cheat sheets are allowed
For your own sanity do not take her class. YOU WILL FAIL
Don't take her. So much homework that takes hours to complete. Due dates for homework and online quizzes change frequently and has caused me to complete them late. Theres only two tests (20% of grade) and a final (25% of grade). I finished applied calculus with an A, I'll be lucky to have finished this one with a C.
An utter sadness to witness. Grades are not viewable until midterms/finals. Even graded assignments intended for review/instruction are not returned, making them completely pointless. ALEKS is terrible, she only uses this for homework (which can exceed 3 hours per week). Only 2 exams + the final. No review problems, frequent mistakes on blackboard.
Way too many Aleks assignments that aren't helpful at all. Takes too long to grade things. She acts like her course is the only course you're taking. Awful professor. Cancels class often
Horrible. Way too much homework.
Probably the worst professor I'll ever have. She assigns so many written assignments, as well as online ones that is enough to be its own online class.Cancels class frequently with little/no warning.The worst part is that she does not put a single grade in until midterms and still only grades a couple things.Overall I will avoid her at all costs.
Absolutely horrible. Do not take an 8-week math course with this instructor. First week of class she claimed to have trouble accessing WebAssign. Around the 5th week of class, she was missing for an entire week. Very lazy grading. Changed the way she graded assignments and screws students over. Excessive amount of work, very few things are graded.
Ms. Donoghue is a great teacher and a fun person but one class period she started rambling on about feet and eventually it got physical and he started sucking the toe nail polish off of one of her student's feet! L Professor!
She picks on indian people bruh.
She needs to retire. She's nice as a person, but absolutely horrible as a professor. She only teaches using Aleks, cancels class regularly, picks on random people, refuses to curve, and weights her tests like crazy. AVOID HER AT ALL COSTS! You think you'll be fine, but you won't.
Hands down the worst professor I've ever had. Very senile, thinks highly of herself, picks favorites and unfavorites in class, disregards students' disability accommodations, loses her train of thought, straight-up cancelled classes while we were supposed to learn the material our final was about. I've never seen someone who needs to retire more.
Very nice lady but horrible professor. It is currently the week of finals and I have yet to receive grades from beginning of October. Rarely responds to emails. Cancels class A LOT. The blackboard shell is a mess. ALEKS assignments sometimes took me hours. Due dates change often. Tests are very hard.
The homework is ENDLESS. There are only two tests, both of which are 20% of the final grade. I, to my own fault, did not realize this, and I am now cramming to try to get a 100% on this final tomorrow, which is 25% of my final grade. I have rarely found myself struggling with math, so I was pretty laxed going into this course- BIG MISTAKE. Study.
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
74%
Textbook Required
50%
Grade Predictor
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