To put it plainly, if you take him you'll have a homework each week (no exception) with on average 25 exercises but it can go as much as 40, which takes on average 7 to 15 hours. It's a heavy workload, especially when you have him in 2 classes (would not recommend at all, I had 60 to 80 exercises a week just with these 2 classes, it was a nightmare).
He doesn't drop any grade (not flexible at all on that), but you can give back all homework until the last day of the last week.
For the test, it was covid so we had 24 hours, it was honestly not that bad compared to the homework and the course. Everything was doable, but clearly not in 50 minutes as he said, more in 5 to 6 hours. But doable, not impossible.

Do not take this class

easy exams (extremely similar to what he shows in review sessions, often the same or with changed numbers), lots of homework including several proofs (however he lets you turn it in as late as the end of the quarter), unclear lectures with messy handwriting (only worth going to for fun because koffi is a nice wholesome person)

pros:
- very easy exams
- can turn in homework at end of quarter
- cool professor

cons:
- poor lectures
- lots of homework
- poorly paced class (you will definitely not be on schedule don't bother looking at the class calendar)

Koffi is overall a fantastic professor. The tests are very very straightforward if you did the first half of the back problems in the textbook. His exam review sessions are very helpful and you can score 75% without studying if you just attend them. Sometimes his lecture becomes big and hard but his prerecorded videos are small and soft. It is easy to lose marks on his midterms due to silly errors because they consist of only 4 qs but 25 marks each holy damn Barack Hussein Obama! He is also very cute and unpredictable so even if you do not understand his material because of his accent, you will have so much fun in his class. He does not look down upon pets in class since he loves animals. I would definitely retake this professor if it was possible. If any of you have a tattoo however, then I suggest you find a different professor. Good Luck everyone.

Koffi is a very nice professor. Even though sometimes I cannot understand what he said during the class, it doesnt quite matter lol. His lecture slides are VERY USEFUL. If you dont have time to attend his lecture, make sure you go over his lecture slides and understand every SINGLE EXAMPLE QUESION so that you can perform well in HW and the exam.

There are some tricky questions in the exam in which the wording is weird. You might lose some points on that but the other calculate-based questions are easy. Be sure to get clear with basic concepts. The workload of this class is not that light but not that heavy as well, you can manage that within a day or two for the weekly homework.

Koffi Enakoutsa is certainly a professor of all time. If you don't have a strong math background, the lectures will be confusing, and even if you do, you'll have to focus extremely hard on what he's saying because of his hard-to-read handwriting and french accent. Luckily, the textbook and practice problems from the assigned homework helped me pick up the concepts pretty well, so if you're someone who can learn well from a textbook, the lectures will feel like a waste of time. The homework, while lengthy and sometimes unnecessary, was a good way to keep me on track with the concepts taught in class.
The two midterms and final were easy because the review sessions he hosts cover the tests' questions, so I highly recommend watching the recordings for the review sessions and using the practice midterms he posts on Canvas. He often reuses and changes the numbers from the practice tests on the actual tests, so make sure to review those. Your TA will also know what questions will be on the midterm and final, and they might host their own review session if they're nice (shoutout ang chen and zachary tu)
The grading weight is pretty standard, with 10% being homework, 5% quizzes, and the other 85% being tests (either 22.5% per midterm and 40% final, or 30% best midterm and 55% final, he takes the better of the two) and it's pretty easy to do well on the quizzes and tests if you follow the stuff above. The homework will be annoying and very long, and he lags behind schedule on teaching, so it'll feel like a lot to learn towards the end. Late homework is accepted for full credit up until the last day of week 10, but I recommend staying on top of it because he will assign a lot at the end anyway. He also posted a homework assignment after the final ??? which a lot of ppl skipped lmao.
Overall: this class wasn't as bad as other ppl say here, but he's not the best teacher and you will have to rely on the textbook, your friends, and your TA. The other reviews glazing him are from himself lmao and the reviews calling him the worst are imo not accurate. If you're looking to have a strong grasp on the concepts, try to take someone else. If you want an easy A, this is honestly not a bad option. If there's no one else left and you're forced to choose this professor, you will be fine, but you will have to put in a lot of effort yourself to understand the concepts well.

- Lectures very hard to understand
- Nice guy, he dropped some quizzes and lets you submit homework any time
- Tests very easy as long as you go to the review sessions, very similar or even same questions

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.

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.

Grading:
10% Homework &
5% Discussion Worksheets &
22.5% Midterm 1 + 22.5% Midterm 2 + 40% Final OR
30% Best Midterm Score + 55% Final
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There is one homework assignment per week, he extends deadline till the end of the quarter for many of them. The homework assignments get pretty hard since he includes problems from the back of the sections, but they're doable if you go to office hours or find a study group. Find a good study group you can compare answers with because around 80% of the homework assignment is few questions graded on accuracy and rest is for completion.
Midterms tend to be easier than homework. The questions are similar to his review sessions so make sure to attend those and understand how to do those problems fully. Finals are similar, but the questions are somewhat harder. Make sure to not silly errors on tests like me because those cost a lot of points.
He uploads pre-recorded lectures online and also some in-class recordings. He also uploads review session recordings. Make sure to watch them.
Sometimes, his lectures can be hard to understand. Make sure to read the book then.
The content isn't easy, but it's possible to get an A-/A if you do all the homework and start studying for midterms/finals a week in advance. I would recommend this.