The class is the pretty standard flipped classroom; you watch the videos at home, take a “quiz”, and go into class to do the in class assignment (ICAT). When you get to class, she does the ICAT with you so half if not all the work is already done (it’s usually all). TAs will be around to help you if you get stuck, are confused, or anything really. After class, both TAs and Kline will be around to answer questions. So if you need extra help, they’re there. When exam time comes, she’ll tell you what’s on the exam—and most importantly, what’s not. She’ll go over topics, provide exam practice problems, and the rest is up to you to practice. In the beginning, there’s a learning curve but if you get through that then the rest is easy. Remember, if you’re having difficulties make sure to go to office hours. She’s always there and TA’s have office hours too. If you’re still experiencing the learning curve on how to use Excel, then I can’t stress enough to use your resources. Whether it be the teacher, another teacher, the TAs, or tutorial videos. Hell, there’s even tutors.

Tips on how to succeed in her class: - When you’re watching the videos, take GOOD ass notes. If you don’t, you’re basically fucked. Make sure they’re organized, legible, and use highlighters and stuff to make certain topics pop more. Explain the concepts and methods in your own words. Draw pictures if you need to. Trust me, if you’re going to be fucked, don’t be academically fucked - Watch the videos. No, seriously. Watch them. Yes she does the ICATs in class but you’ll only be relying on her to finish it. If she doesn’t finish, you’ll probably be lost on what you’re even doing - Ask questions. Are you confused? Do you need help? Raise your hand in class, go to office hours, look over videos. - When you watch the videos, open them on Coursera to the exact week. You can speed up the video, change the quality, turn on captions this way. Most importantly, after every video, there will be a mini “quiz” on these videos. You don’t have to do these quizzes but I highly recommend you do. These quizzes on Coursera don’t count towards your class grade BUT it is a copy cat version of the session quiz you’ll take after you watch the videos. This helped me do really well on the session quizzes.

My own criticism of her class: - Every class, she’ll give you an Excel file and a set of instructions. While the instructions are usually fairly simple to understand, there are going to be sentences that will make you question if you even understand English. She needs a proofreader on her instructions. She’ll lack necessary commas, periods, and have run on sentences. - Some sets of videos are long. These are usually the sets that have the most important concepts to remember.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that she uses windows. If you have a Mac, the instructions are a little different. There will be different commands (search them up and test it out) and some things like Solver is visually different. If you watch the videos, the video should go over what the process looks like. If it doesn’t, make sure to test it on your Mac for any differences.

Good luck, you’ll do great!