Stephen Agyei-Mensah - Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA

Professor: Stephen Agyei-Mensah

Department: Computer Science

College: Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Clarion, PA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CIS317
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Dr. Mensah is a really good professor. He is always willing to help, all you need to do is send him an email. He does give a lot of homework, but it's easy and he is willing to give points back on certain things because as he says; there are a million ways to do one thing. If you fail any of his classes it's because you chose to.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CIS217
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

HORRIBLE. Sent an email before the semester even started to tell us not to email him with questions. Refused to correct a grading oversight he made after being asked three times to please go back and review a submission because it met all the requirements. Didn't respond to the last two emails asking if he'd fix the grade. He's not helpful at all.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CIS217
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I took this class online. I realize that online classes may not have as much professor student interaction. However, Stephen didn't teach a single thing. Not one. He gave you a My IT lab code and you did absolutely everything on there. Something I could've done without a professor. Everything is graded by the computer, so things are inaccurate.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CIS217
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Not awful but I definitely would not take him again. If you have some experience with Microsoft, you should be ok. Not the best lectures because you can't understand what he is saying half the time.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CIS217
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I didn't mind this class. There is a TON of work though, like 7 days a week homework. It is hard to understand professor but he will help you if you ask. He wants you to ask questions!

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CIS217
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

I do not recommend taking this professor. He is hard to understand and does not help the students much. The tests and assignments are hard and you only have one try to do them and he will not reset them. Basically if you mess one up, then you're out of luck.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: 217
• Grade Received: WD
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Can not understand him, will not help even if you in for help, teaches nothing at all! takes an hour to take attendance then wastes time trying to connect to wifi. Nothing was clear, if you are going to take this class I am sure you have heard not to take it with him!

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CIS217
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Dr. Mensah is a good guy, go to class and do your assignments and tests and you will be fine. He is very helpful and gives you multiple ways to contact him

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: CIS333
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

All the comments about Mensah on this site are accurate. He is never prepared for class, assigns labs from the book for a different operating system than what we are using & doesn't help when you run into problems. Doesn't respond to emails on weekends. Blames students for his own mistakes. Has a poor attitude when questioned. AVOID!

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: CIS317
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

This class was absolutely terrible. He offers little to no help, you are required to do all work outside of the class on your own. He required us to buy a $175 textbook that covered windows 7 although we were working with windows 8. Not helpful at all, very disrespectful to students. I am curious as to how he has kept his job this long. No good!!

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CIS217
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

If you want to work your tail off an fail every test take him. AWEFUL disrespectful. Blames everything on his students. Hard to understand. Every advisor knows how mch of a horrible teacher he is. Very rude. Bought the 300 dollar book used it once and it doesn't help. Complete waste of time going to class side he storms out. You can not ask him for help bc you will be in the wrong no matter what. Take someone else. Shouldn't even be a teacher here.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CIS217
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

He uses MyITLab which has glitches and makes mistakes a lot, resulting in bad grades. He blames the bad grades on students not studying. He tried completing the assignments in front of the class and couldn't do them himself. He offers little help, so don't expect an email response. I would recommend taking this class with another professor.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CIS217
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This class would've been so much better to take online, since he wastes class time looking things up that he doesn't even know or yelling at the class for our grades. He uses MyITLab, which commonly makes mistakes, for every assignment. He wasn't very helpful when I emailed him about problems I was having with the program.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: CIS217
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Awful professor. Doesn't teach anything. Uses Myitlab and it doesn't even work. Class barely works if you have a mac.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CIS317
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Be prepared to hear something that is wrong almost everyday in class, and I'm not talking about misspeaking, just being wrong. Labs are easy but time-consuming, lectures a bore (tell us about working at Verizon again!), and the two exams are crazy (didn't bother to remove questions about old tech i.e. floppy drives and modems).

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CISX
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Very hard to understand AND taught the first 3 weeks of the semester from africa using VOIP through the classroom speakers. Needless to say no one went to class because you couldn't understand a word. Thinks he is always right and above everyone else. Boasts about being upper managment at verizon. If he was that good he wouldnt be teaching here.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CIS217
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Uses my it lab which makes many mistakes and is extremely frustrating at times. Easy A if you do all the quizzes and exams. Class isn't mandatory but sometimes he gives extra credit if a lot of people aren't there. Class isn't really necessary if you're using my it lab it goes over all the stuff online and tells you how to do it.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: CIS303
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Horrible teacher, worse attitude.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: MULTICSCI
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Dr. Mensah is tough, but covers a large amount of information. He incorporates a decent amount of hands-on work into his courses, which few other professors do.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CIS301
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Easy going. A list of all assignments is given in the syllabus so you know when everything is to be turned in. Papers were graded fairly. As long as you show up, do your assignments and study for the tests using his study guides, you are good to go.