Student Comments
Many students have provided very encouraging comments at the end-of-term evaluations, and here is a collection of comments. Listed below are student comments for just one course.
In Fall 2020, I taught Making Financial Decisions, a Non-BBA level core course at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Here are some nice things my students said about this course.
| 1 | Professor Lei has an amazing website with so many resources to keep students informed about the class. Also, the access to practice questions before the exams was very helpful. Simply having a discussion section was so helpful. It was a place to go deeper into concepts we learned in class and practice them at a slower pace so everyone could follow. |
| 2 | amazingly well into the online format. I really liked how accesible TA’s and Prof. Lei were despite everything being virtual. |
| 3 | Everything about this course worked well. The lectures were informative and there were seemingly unlimited resources outside of lecture that supplemented the learning. |
| 4 | Best course website I’ve seen. |
| 5 | Qin is a very well-prepared and organized leader. He is a master of this material and is an excellent course administrator as well. |
| 6 | The course website and all of the content on it. Very helpful! Thank you for a great semester. |
| 7 | I really liked how Dr. Lei asked for feedback throughout the course and made an effort to implement suggestions from students. I also feel like he really cares about his students’ performance and was passionate about the material, which is rather unique. I also liked the Trivia questions, because they helped me to make sure I understood what Dr. Lei was teaching in Lecture, and also held me accountable for watching the lectures. |
| 8 | Keeping a very organized website with plenty of resources (including the lecture slides and sliced videos of the lectures) to ensure students have the necessary materials to succeed outside of lecture. |
| 9 | It was great that all of the lectures were recorded and that they were uploaded to the site so quickly. |
| 10 | I think that Professor Lei is a very good lecturer and I really enjoyed how he provided a lot of materials for us to study. |
| 11 | I loved how everything was organized on the website and how the lecture videos were slices. The homework and practice exams were very helpful. |
| 12 | The course website is great. I really appreciated all of the practice exam materials. |
| 13 | The abundance of material was excellent, and everything you needed to know for the class was online. Prof. Lei was always extremely well prepared for every unit and wanted to help his students any way he could, and made sure to emphasize that. |
| 14 | Qin Lei was a great teacher, it was obvious how much he cared about his students. |
| 15 | Course is extremely well organized with lots of available course materials (homework solutions, sliced videos, etc). Homework problems are useful for understanding content and exams reflect what is learned through lecture and practice problems. |
| 16 | Lots of additional resources were provided on Professor Lei’s website-very helpful. |
| 17 | Most of the synchronous lectures went smoothly and felt as though they would in person. |
| 18 | I think the edited videos and the sliced videos really helped. It made it easy to find topics that I needed to focus on more and contributed to my success in the class. |
| 19 | The materials online were really insightful and helped me understand the course material. |
| 20 | The trivia and homework assignments were a wonderful way to keep students on top of the topics we were learning. Giving students groups to discuss trivia and class concepts with was very helpful because it gave us a direct outlet with which to discuss problems with, one that many people wouldn’t have had unless it was given to us. |
| 21 | The resources provided for the exams was amazing, I thought the homework was very helpful as well. |
| 22 | I liked that lectures were recorded, because some times the pace of lecture was a bit fast, and watching the recorded video was nice so I could pause and absorb more of the material. |
| 23 | The teaching overall was pretty good. |
| 24 | I honestly think it is great and that Professor Lei really wants students to succeed. |
| 25 | Lots of resources for independent studying and practice exams for each section within each exam allowed me to feel like I had done everything in my power to prepare for each exam. |
| 26 | The staff (Professor and IA’s were excellent) and so was structure |
| 27 | Very well organized, slides were clear and concise. |
| 28 | The course provided a lot of practice on problems before the exams. The course was also very well organized and had a lot of resources |
| 29 | I think Qin Lei was a great teacher. |
| 30 | Professor Lei’s preparedness and clarity in explaining things. He also provided many opportunities for us to get help. |
| 31 | Having a OneNote doc so that professor can show his work. |
| 32 | Offer slides and pdfs for further studying, as well as lecture recordings. |
| 33 | Structured website with content to review |
| 34 | i think everything is great |
| 35 | Extremely well-organized! Tons of resources to help students succeed! |
| 36 | as I said before the trivia questions were great and helped reinforce what we just learned |
| 37 | Professor Qin Lei was really helping, and tried him best to encourage students to do better. |
| 38 | daily homework with assigned groups |
| 39 | The amount of resources available |
| 40 | Great teaching, and available materials really helped. |
| 41 | Well-prepared and knowledgable instructor, office hours, informative course website. |
| 42 | Resources, lecture notes, examples, teacher was always accessible outside of class. |
| 43 | Well prepared professor |
| 44 | All the resources to succeed are easily accessible. |
| 45 | the professor explains the concept very clearly |
| 46 | The discussions were helpful as we went through practice questions. |
| 47 | the trivia questions and teams were a great way to help all of us get to know a few classmates that could be a nice resource |
| 48 | fully online |
| 49 | Watching Zoom synchronously with a mix of slides and OneNote problem breakdowns. |
| 50 | The TA’s at office hours were great! |
| 51 | Great job sharing slides and lecture recordings |
| 52 | All great |
| 53 | Showing how to do problems on the calculator |
| 54 | Great communication and resources. |
| 55 | Course website, email communication, lecture recording. |
| 56 | I think think the synchronous lectures along with the recorded lectures were extremely helpful. |
| 57 | Asynchronous, and a rule that you should watch the recordings within a timeframe. |
| 58 | fully online |
| 59 | very comprehensive |
| 60 | I think the HW style is very logical and helpful. |
| 61 | SO many practice questions. |
| 62 | All great |
| 63 | flexible teaching format. |
| 64 | website, resources |
| 65 | Quick to reply to students and abundance of available material online to review |
| 66 | Having all assignments and course outline organized. |
| 67 | The material is useful |
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