Hui Liao | PlanetTerp

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Hui Liao BMGT364 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/16/2024	Super easy class but also the most boring class I’ve ever taken. Attendance is mandatory even though you could skip every lecture and still pass.
Hui Liao BMGT364 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/23/2024	Dr. Liao is objectively good at teaching. I did enjoy the connections she made and some of the real life applications. However, the class itself is not very useful and she doesn’t do much to prove otherwise. The only reason to attend class is for the participation points, which are so annoying to get because she basically handed us a sheet of paper and made us write answers to stupid videos. The first midterm was open notes and open book but then she randomly made the final closed book to prevent cheating??? No real reason just “to avoid the use of chat gpt”. This may be a nonissue but I think it’s ridiculous to completely change the format of your exam two weeks before the final. The text book is the most boring read ever. That’s not her fault but she makes her questions so intensive that you have to suffer through the reading. The class is just unnecessary and I feel like I am leaving the class having learned almost nothing of substance.
Hui Liao BMGT364 Expecting an A Anonymous 04/12/2024	I wanted to leave a note to address a few of the more negative things about Professor Liao. For most if not all BMGT 364 sections, the entire grading is done by the TAs. Prof. Liao has been incredibly fast to answer myself and my teammates on any questions we have and is always very understanding about excusing students from class. 364 is a 100 level skilled class disguised as an upper level requirement. All you need to do is show up to class, do the in-class participation assignments, and make sure to do the weekly assignments. Exams are multiple choice with a cheat sheet. If you're enrolled in Smith to learn about business concepts and not to just float by, I highly recommend taking Hui Liao.
Hui Liao BMGT364 Expecting an A+ ptailor 05/25/2023	Professor Liao is very sweet and tries to make the class engaging but the course itself is pointless. It is all common sense with a lot of unnecessary busy work. There was only a midterm and final and she allowed a cheat sheet for both. The TA graded pretty easily and the exams weren't weighted much at all so I basically maintained over 98% the entire semester.
Hui Liao BMGT364 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/25/2022	In short, I would not recommend this professor. For further detail, she has a TA do all of the correspondence, absence excusing, and grading. Students should not have divulge personal reasons for absence to a fellow student (TA). On top of that, the TA was a bit of a picky grader. You have to jump through hoops if you miss class because there are a lot of participation points in attendance. The amount of points per class appears to be arbitrarily applied. Concepts that are surface-level covered for a paragraph or two in the textbook will pop up in quizzes and exams requiring you to apply the information in deeper concepts than you were taught, so they don't make sense. For a low level class, there are too many assignments and too much application needed. She seems very nice in class and tries to be engaging. No so much in virtual correspondence, but that may just be because it's virtual. She speaks pretty quietly so it's hard to pay attention. Final exam prep is a joke. One class was labeled as a review class, and all she did was hand out a printed piece of paper with the chapter objectives on it and told us when the exam was. No review, no specific material to cover, except to tell us the final would cover the entire textbook (which has an enormous of subjects, concepts, subconcepts, rules, applications, and terms similar to others that mixing up would make you wrong). Out of a class of over a hundred, where 90% of the questions were multiple choice not a single student even got a 90. Even though you could have a sheet of notes. That's not a student problem. She seems really knowledgeable on the subject matter, but may be more a professional than a teacher. You can get an A in this class. But you will hate the process.

Hui Liao
BMGT364

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
05/16/2024

Super easy class but also the most boring class I’ve ever taken. Attendance is mandatory even though you could skip every lecture and still pass.

Hui Liao
BMGT364

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/23/2024

Dr. Liao is objectively good at teaching. I did enjoy the connections she made and some of the real life applications. However, the class itself is not very useful and she doesn’t do much to prove otherwise. The only reason to attend class is for the participation points, which are so annoying to get because she basically handed us a sheet of paper and made us write answers to stupid videos. The first midterm was open notes and open book but then she randomly made the final closed book to prevent cheating??? No real reason just “to avoid the use of chat gpt”. This may be a nonissue but I think it’s ridiculous to completely change the format of your exam two weeks before the final. The text book is the most boring read ever. That’s not her fault but she makes her questions so intensive that you have to suffer through the reading. The class is just unnecessary and I feel like I am leaving the class having learned almost nothing of substance.

Hui Liao
BMGT364

Expecting an A
Anonymous
04/12/2024

I wanted to leave a note to address a few of the more negative things about Professor Liao. For most if not all BMGT 364 sections, the entire grading is done by the TAs. Prof. Liao has been incredibly fast to answer myself and my teammates on any questions we have and is always very understanding about excusing students from class. 364 is a 100 level skilled class disguised as an upper level requirement. All you need to do is show up to class, do the in-class participation assignments, and make sure to do the weekly assignments. Exams are multiple choice with a cheat sheet. If you're enrolled in Smith to learn about business concepts and not to just float by, I highly recommend taking Hui Liao.

Hui Liao
BMGT364

Expecting an A+
ptailor
05/25/2023

Professor Liao is very sweet and tries to make the class engaging but the course itself is pointless. It is all common sense with a lot of unnecessary busy work. There was only a midterm and final and she allowed a cheat sheet for both. The TA graded pretty easily and the exams weren't weighted much at all so I basically maintained over 98% the entire semester.

Hui Liao
BMGT364

Expecting an A-
Anonymous
12/25/2022

In short, I would not recommend this professor. For further detail, she has a TA do all of the correspondence, absence excusing, and grading. Students should not have divulge personal reasons for absence to a fellow student (TA). On top of that, the TA was a bit of a picky grader. You have to jump through hoops if you miss class because there are a lot of participation points in attendance. The amount of points per class appears to be arbitrarily applied. Concepts that are surface-level covered for a paragraph or two in the textbook will pop up in quizzes and exams requiring you to apply the information in deeper concepts than you were taught, so they don't make sense. For a low level class, there are too many assignments and too much application needed. She seems very nice in class and tries to be engaging. No so much in virtual correspondence, but that may just be because it's virtual. She speaks pretty quietly so it's hard to pay attention. Final exam prep is a joke. One class was labeled as a review class, and all she did was hand out a printed piece of paper with the chapter objectives on it and told us when the exam was. No review, no specific material to cover, except to tell us the final would cover the entire textbook (which has an enormous of subjects, concepts, subconcepts, rules, applications, and terms similar to others that mixing up would make you wrong). Out of a class of over a hundred, where 90% of the questions were multiple choice not a single student even got a 90. Even though you could have a sheet of notes. That's not a student problem. She seems really knowledgeable on the subject matter, but may be more a professional than a teacher. You can get an A in this class. But you will hate the process.