AI Rate Professor

English

Charles Sheldon

ENG102 · ENGLISH101 · ENGLISH102 · ENG101 · 258 lifetime ratings

AI rating
22/100
RMP rating
3.4/5
Take again
26.39%
Difficulty
3.3

The decision

Avoid him for ENG 101/102 unless you and can tolerate opaque late grading.

Best fit · Hardcore LearnerHarsh Essay GraderNo Canvas Grades Until EndIn-Class Handwritten EssaysUnclear CriteriaBoring Old-School Lectures
  • Grade rests on a few in-class handwritten .
  • Students often learn their course grade only after the semester ends because Canvas is unused.
  • Recent reviews are overwhelmingly negative on communication, organization, and fairness.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

MissionImpossible

18/100

Many say an A is nearly impossible because of and few graded items.

Both formats report tough grading; .

Is the course easy?

Challenging

32/100

Content is basic grammar and reading, but and vague research rules make the experience hard.

In-person reviews dominate and .

Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

18/100

and several students report harsh absence rules or .

; online evidence is limited.

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

22/100

Would-take-again is about 26% and recent comments .

Older in-person reviews are mixed-positive; .

Course guide

See how this professor fits your week.

Grading

Harsh

16/100

; as Cs and Ds with nitpicky deductions.

Format shift

from in-person students.

Workload

Light

62/100

Only a few major essays and a , but each item is high stakes.

Format shift

In person is graded by few things; some online short sessions felt heavier on essays and reading.

Teaching experience

Poor

28/100

Students call lectures boring, late, and unhelpful, with messy notes and .

Format shift

A minority of older reviews call him caring; .

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

78/100

Almost the entire grade is three timed in-class .

Format shift

; online still centers on a few essays.

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Course format

Compare the in-person and online experience.

Classroom format

In person

43 reviews

High confidence · Best fit for Hardcore Learner

In-person English sections feature boring , and grades that stay hidden all semester.

Main concern

very late feedback.

What students said

“It's spring semester, and I havent gotten my grades back. .”
ENG101
“3 in-class, handwritten essays that we do not get to know the prompt of before class & he grades them very harshly”
ENG101
“I would never recommend this teacher ever he has 4 things in total for your grade and he never tells you the .”
101

Remote format

Online

7 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

Sparse online , and weak email response.

Main concern

Grades posted long after the term ends with .

What students said

“ ! He does not submit grades until you beg him to do so, very bad with answering emails”
ENG102
“Never answers emails. . . Graded all of the assignments a month after the class ended.”
ENG101
“to be ... I will say he is older so have patience, but hes great!”
ENG101

Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

Assessment risk is high because unknown-prompt timed essays and a .

In-Class Handwritten EssaysUnknown Prompt Day OfHarsh RubricFew Graded ItemsLate Grade Release

Assessment risk

Strict

28/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

prompts revealed the day of, plus one high-stakes research essay.

In-Class Handwritten EssaysPrompt Day Of8-Page Research EssayNo Canvas Grades
“Tests are in class only and only essays. You get the topic day of and you learn N O T H I N G”
ENG101
“He grades on a total of 3 in-class essays and 1 research paper.”
ENG101

Online

Online evidence mentions few essays worth a lot and .

Few EssaysLate Canvas GradesHarsh Grading
“there's 3 essays that are all the same & short but ”
ENG102
“ tell you. good luck”
ENG101

Student evidence

See what students actually said.

Top student voice

“DONT TAKE CLASS. He grades super harshly. 3 essays 1 research paper. I think it's genuinely impossible to get an A in the class”

Voice snapshots generated from 50 reviews with and grade opacity. Credibility rating: High.

⚠️ Teaching Disaster Risk

28/100

“This is genuinely the . Awful boring class”

📉

16/100

“I think it's genuinely impossible to get an A in the class or any of the assignments”

🗂️ Grade Black Box

20/100

“No grades posted on Canvas the entire class, not even after it ended.”

🚫 Recommendation

22/100

“For the sake of .”

Theme 1

📝 About Essays and Grades

  • Only graded the research essay.
  • Average grade for and D's
  • he marks off every little thing.

Theme 2

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • reads off a paper
  • Classes are boring
  • he talks so much and you can never understand what he's saying

Theme 3

📬 About Communication

  • never answers emails
  • rarely attends his office hours
  • you won't even know your grade until the end of the semester

Data context

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Analysis sample

50

Recent reviews read by the AI

258

Lifetime ratings

86/100

Evidence confidence

50 reviews with a long time span and and few high-stakes essays.

Inside 50 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 5101
4 out of 547
3 out of 529
2 out of 539
1 out of 543

Course coverage

ENG10121 reviews
ENG10213 reviews
1019 reviews
ENGLISH1023 reviews
1022 reviews
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Reported outcomes

No letter grade reported results lead the reported letter grades.

41 reported outcomes

A range

8

A+ 1 · A 7

B range

11

B 11

C range

9

C 9

D range

0

No reported values

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

13

Drop/Withdrawal 4 · Incomplete 1 · Not sure yet 7 · Rather not say 1