Reviews of professor Thomas Shelly

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Before you read: This was an online class taken Spring 2020. Thomas Shelley made little effort to grade anything that has to be manually graded. It is 4 weeks after my first test, still no grade. There is one more week of class. Participates very little in class discussions, does not participate in pre-test discussions. Inconsistent with quizzes.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took this class spring 2020. Shelly dropped me after the date that I could switch classes without warning. He stopped responding for two weeks to me, I started getting behind in the class which is mostly my fault but his teaching was lazy and not helpful. He wouldn't respond to questions about the assignments until wayyy after they were done.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Tom is a nice person, but I often felt tricked in his class. He'll always teach you super easy examples and make you comfortable with easy problems. But the test is the complete opposite of that. He'll put things on the exam that you barely went over in class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Math 97 is a very course. Shelly Thomas seems like a fine teacher. I took this course over the summer online. I highly suggest to not take online math classes because it is very hard to learn. You basically teach yourself from homeworks and videos. Its really hard to get questions answered. Easy class if you take it in person. Do not take online

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
He said there would be quizzes but I never took a quiz, he rarely responded in discussions, & never put any exams in the gradebook during the quarter. He took too long to assign new HW every week, & eventually removed all HW due dates mid quarter. Also made all exams open book. You won't learn anything if you take a class with Shelly.