Enakoutsa is a very nice professor and truly wants every student to succeed. This is his first quarter here and he had a rough start with the pacing and had to post additional videos which I was not a fan of, but he quickly adapted and was more efficient. The homework amount was very reasonable, and going through slader for problems I did not know how to do helped a lot. He was not required to explain the conceptual part of the math, but when he did I didn't follow what he was saying very well.
The material for 32A is computational, and he does a good job at going through examples and answering questions and I would most definitely choose him again for this class if I were to go back, but for a non computational math class such as 32B I would be hesitant to choose him. His tests are very reasonable and GO TO THE REVIEW SESSIONS. He goes over exactly what you need to know and I found them very helpful.

Koffi is pretty good. He is a very caring and humorous professor who obviously cares a lot about teaching. However, his lectures are sometimes a bit dull and not that helpful. I can't really say much about the lectures since I stopped going to them ever since week 2 (I think). Reading the book is essentially how I learned in this class. There are free versions of this book online, and Koffi's tests are very very easy (24 hrs during COVID-19, but idk will that change or not). The homework is way more difficult than the actual tests themselves, and overall it is not hard to get an A in Koffi's class. To summarize: easy A and read the book.

No human being with a functioning brain should voluntarily take this class. Unless you have no other lectures open and your existence on planet earth was threatened if you didn't take this class, there should be NO reason to be taking ANY class with this guy. You can't understand what he's saying. You can't understand his handwriting and notes. He's behind on material but expects you to catch up on your own and gives BRUTALLY EXCRUCIATING questions that are ridiculously nonsense on the final to intentionally screw you up. Imagine learning an entirely new chapter (5 days before the final) because he told you to, and then getting the hardest question of that chapter on the final. Also, he doesn't know how to efficiently operate a keyboard, because 90% of the time it's impossible to even understand what he writes in his emails due to typos and outright NONSENSE sentences. If you struggle in this class and send him an email to ask a question or submit a regrade request, you will get the most morally corrupt, vile, degenerate, inhumane response known to man. If you want to be a functioning human being who contributes meaningfully to the betterment of society and the world, DO NOT take ANY class with this guy.

Koffi is a really great guy and a really nice professor overall! He is very accommodating and tolerant of late work, homework questions, or just general confusion about the material. People mentioned that he has an accent, but I personally didn't think it was a learning impediment in any way. The tests that he writes are fairly straightforward and easy so you don't need to worry too much about them, especially with 24 hour test policy that the math department has for COVID. He does his best to ensure that the class that he teaches isn't a horrible experience for us, and he puts in a lot of his own personal time (3 office hours, being available all day on zoom for test days, review sessions outside of class led by him) to ensure that there are recourses. If you have the option, I would say take him!

Koffi is a really nice guy and is super tolerant of late homework. He's an extremely approachable and helpful professor overall. I'd say the workload for this class was extremely manageable, as he usually only gave one assignment each week, which could be completed in a couple of hours. I will say that in lecture he is sometimes unclear and makes small mistakes in his work. His tests were pretty long and difficult, but I think that was the case for all math classes this year due to the new 24-hour exam policy. This was a pretty easy class overall.

****Keep in mind this review is for this class virtually****

Koffi isn't the best professor to ever exist. But if you're taking this class online, you'll literally be fine.

If the homework is scaring you, realize that no matter the teacher, you have to study one way or another. If you do the homework properly and ask questions when you're confused on it you won't need to study for the class. This is around 5-7 hours a week.

This quarter, we had weekly homeworks (20% of grade) two tests (each 25%) and one final (30%). He did something that wasn't on the syllabus this quarter and gave us quizzes that were each 10% of the two test scores. They were meant to boost your grade but they were 30 minute timed, so they hurt my grade. Test questions can be fairly difficult. But all tests are open note and you have the FULL 24-hours. So if you know what to look for, the tests can tedious but easy to score well on.

The textbook is your bestfriend. His lectures are just the textbook but *DO* attend lectures and review sessions; 3 questions from his review sessions ended up being on the final.

As many people said Koffi can be hard to understand in both his handwriting and accent but there's only so much he can do. Tbh, I don't think the prof matters hugely for Math 31B just because they are under rules set by the Math Dept, like being ordered to follow the book and make all tests 24-hours.

I have never taken a class with students feeling so divided over the quality of a professor. People often joked about how all the positive bruinwalk reviews of Koffi are him with a bunch of fake accounts, and... Koffi is the exact kind of man who would do that. He is by far the worst professor I have had the misfortune of taking at UCLA, and truly should not be teaching. You will learn more if you skip class, don't even try reading his lecture notes (which are years old and all in cursive) and just read the textbook like its the religious text of your choice.
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This brings up another issue: this class was so incredibly unorganized. Since week 1, Koffi was constantly 3-6 lectures behind schedule. The problem was that discussion sections didn’t take this into account, so the TA’s were always ahead of schedule. We were learning about TNB frames in section without even knowing cross product in lecture. Weekly homework also covered material from 1-2 weeks ago, which just completely threw off my groove. When I asked Koffi if he could post the upcoming homework earlier, he refused and responded with a rude email.
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We all know Koffi is a poor lecturer. And if that was the only thing bad about him, he wouldn't be that bad. He actively fostered an unhealthy learning environment, taking the time out of each lecture to call the students on zoom lazy (literally for minutes on end). Now, I always attended lecture in person, but the fact that he wasted our time when he was already 2 weeks behind was… frustrating. He also went on tirades during office hours and review sessions about literally anything other than math. Oh, he also accidentally posted his response to being rejected from a job he applied for in the zoom chat. So that shows you where his priorities lay. Not with the students.
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His midterms are slightly challenging, but nothing unexpected. The final was significantly more difficult, with lots of conceptual material asking you to prove whether conditions are true/false. This is content that he never mentioned in review sessions, and explicitly said he would not be including on the final. Though the homework (taken directly from the book) always included the challenge questions at the end of each chapter. Homework assignments took very long (because they had lots of challenge questions).
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Koffi crammed a weeks worth of lecture material into the weekend before finals week, and assigned 2 or 3 weeks worth of homework during finals week. And held lecture during finals week. He also held virtual lecture on a federal holiday. This man expects you to treat this class like it is the only class you are taking.
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Whenever I asked him a question or emailed him, he was extremely combative and outright rude. I’m not exaggerating when I say I felt like Koffi was low-key being a bully. I was having a conversation with him via email regarding grades, and after initially addressing him in the first email with “Dear Professor Enakoutsa, I hope this email finds you well…” I followed standard email etiquette and in my second email to him in the chain, continued the conversation without readdressing him again. Well, he did NOT like that and said: “Hi: Have you forgotten the format of the email? Koffi E”. All because I did not begin every email with “Dear Professor Enakoutsa”… I felt like he was just enjoying his power trip, which is such a shame.
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Overall, Professor Koffi Enakoutsa (as that is how he likes to be addressed) near single-handedly made me change majors. Professors in the math department don’t need to try and make math enjoyable, but they shouldn’t actively make the process of learning math dreadful. And that is where Enakoutsa fails.

He's a very kind professor and is very helpful, but unfortunately, he isnt really clear or consice with his teaching. His ideas are choppy and all over the place and I could barely follow through with his accent and low-quality microphone ( I took him during the quarantine btw). He holds extra office hours every now and then, but i'd have to rewind the lecture videos every 5 min to fully understand what he's explaining.

Koffi is an extremely nice and affable professor, but that doesn't make up for how difficult it is to learn the material in his class. He goes over material extremely fast and skips steps all over the place, which makes understanding him through the live lectures almost impossible(I had to watch youtube videos in order to supplement the topics). The worst part isn't his bad handwriting or his really fast pace (even for a summer class) it's the raw amount of hw he assigns. He assigns 15-30 problems per lecture and they tend to be long, complicated, and harder than the tests problems. DO NOT wait to do these if you take him as he grades them for accuracy and they count for 20% of your grade.
Overall I wish he was better at teaching because he is very excited for people to learn and did give a generous extra credit opportunity in the form of a real-world math project, however, this class can be much easier if taken with other professors.

Class was mostly a review of Calc BC and I was beyond thankful I took it because everything taught in this class was so confusing in comparison. The only reason why I did well was because I already knew all of the material. The year started off very well, Koffi was very positive and helpful but this nice demeanor changed as the quarter went on. Towards the end he got very upset that people were not attending lectures despite the class being recorded and attendance not mandatory. Tests did not reflect the homework or questions went over during lecture. I easily spent at least six hours on every test so I was glad the math department made it mandatory that all exams were 24 hours. All I can say is that I’m glad this is the last math class I need to take.