My overall rating on Professor Enkoutsa Koffi is mixed. The pacing was bad and the lectures were dry and there was a mild communication barrier (ie difficult time understanding the questions students were asking) The tests were fair and he was very nice and approachable. The same could not be said for my GSI, at least for the three times I showed up to discussion. I don't appreciate these sorts of remarks "that quiz was super easy, you all should have gotten 10/10" and "Here let me make this easy for you".

I think part of it had to do with adjusting to an online format. Professor Koffi obviously cares about his students and what he teaches. He spent too much time explaining the beginning details and subsequently rushed applications of partial derivatives. I think he could have done a better job at showing students how to solve problems that were to be on the midterms and homework. Particularly when it came to generalizing ideas I took for granted in single variable calculus. I think he should have spent more time distinguishing differentiability versus having partial derivatives and not being differentiable. Many students, including myself, continually asked clarifying questions on the matter but weren't able to figure it out in the end. There was a void there.

Last point: we never got our finals back. We got our midterms back. We should have been told that.