Tends to skew issues/events to fit his personal opinions. Does *not* know his stuff as much as he seems to think. Lack of research on his part was obvious on many points. Good thing he doesn’t teach history.

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Likes suck ups and seems to grade to that scale. If you want to pass his class, become the teachers pet.

Who told him he could teach? This is the worst class I have taken in a long time. He does not care about his students, and he does not know what he is doing half the time. What a waste of time and money. Yuck!

He is very rude and doesn't offer alot of instruction, yet isn't shy about calling a student uneducated. He takes forever to grade papers and is so spastic he hardly makes sence. However, he claims to "fly by the seat of his pants" and still do a great job, but he lacks focus and hardly teaches anything

I had no idea that online experience could be so bad! Utterly dull and lazy teacher, not helpful and does not teach at all. half of the time there was no work, but big paper at the end of the quarter.

had an online class with him. Had Bb problems which i explained, Vanbelle procedes to insult the grammer in my email. Tells me I "need a better grasp of english before i take his class." Aced engl 161, besides how does he know im not an ESL student? Confrontational, insulting and apathetic, really doesnt care what happens as long as he gets paid.

This guy is a way below average teacher. He is unhelpful, mean and shallow. He never grades our papers on time and never really cares if one has learned anything! I am sorry I took his class!

He hit on me and my friend when we went to ask for help. my grades started to go down after that.

AVOID this teacher at all cost! He is very flaky, missed 4 classes, only returned one assignment, never used books (that I paid over $150 for), didn't use blackboard, bad communication, and most of all...I never knew what my grade was in the class or how to improve because he never graded or returned papers on time to get his feedback. AVOID him!!

Would never give full credit on any assignment. Values quantity over quality.

Van Belle did not participate in online discussions and gave literally no feedback until the final week of class. Easy A, but I would have learned just as much googling essay prompts.

Very boring no inspiration at all to motivate you to keep going in this class he's not good at communicating and he only participates at the end of the course. Avoid him

Greg is an irresponsible teacher. He takes forever to answer an email. He does not give you good feedback. He posts his modules late, and expects you to finish them in time but he never posts them on time. I very much disliked taking this class with him.

Absolutely avoid his online classes. I had straight As on every assignment before receiving a C with no feedback, and never receiving a grade on my final essay. Overall, he was barely involved in the class, and hasn't responded to my requests for an explanation for months.

He started the class out by requiring everyone to ask him a personal question about himself. He is very arrogant and little help to his students. Gives absolutely no feedback and disliked his teaching style very much. His instructions for assignments are extremely unclear and had many questions that he did not answer. Avoid him if you can!

Gave absolutely no feedback with any of my essays that he graded a B with. What is he getting paid to do? He hands out grades with no explanations or feedback. I learned nothing in his class and felt entirely on my own throughout the entire class. Terrible instructor. He mad as little effort as possible and it was perfectly clear to the students.

I took online class and it was awful. He does not give any feedback. He seems like he cares more about traveling around than his students.

he was literally the worst teacher ive ever had. he would make us submit the final draft to a discussion a week before submitting it as a final essay. he had a week to give us some feed back about our final drafts but we received nothing. i ended up just turning in my essay how it was. got a C with out any feed back

I have never taken a class like this one. I did not learn how to write and there was nothing.

I had this professor for English 101. He gave zero imput on my essays. Not one comment, not one tip, not one improvement thought. If you give me 155 points out of 200 and don't even explain what I did wrong whats keeping me from making the same mistake in my next essay? Silly way of teaching if you ask me.

Hands down, hardest class I have ever taken. I'm sure Greg is a nice guy but I'm not sure if he really cares about his students' success or not. He gave bad grades without any constructive criticism, takes forever to grade other stuff and gave zero explanation for assignments. He needs to change his way of teaching ASAP. Don't take him for now.

This was the worst class I have ever taken at EDCC, the professor is very unclear when giving feedback (If he decides to give any). I had a technical difficulty turning in final and Van Belle said it was fine and he would still grade it normal- he didn't. He gave me a zero and I got a 1.0 in the class. I'm a 4.0 student so this really hurt my GPA.

Terrible instructor. Wastes much time talking about himself and his personal interests, spending little time on giving direction and/or feedback for assignments. Shows no interest in the success of his students and does not grade in a timely manner. Feels like flying blind.

Terrible teacher. He talks way too much about his personal life and he takes forever to grade assignments. Doesn't respond to emails in a timely manner. Lots of discussion posts that I doubt he even reads. Does not give feedback on story reports, so you don't know how you're doing on any of them so you know what you can improve in the future.

Took this class online and it was very disappointing. Greg had plenty of mandatory discussion boards which he did not participate in. He would go off the grid for days, sometimes over a week without hearing from him. You won't get grades on your previous work before your next assignment is due, or if you do, you only have a day or two. Frustrating.

Literally the worst teacher I have ever had

I was incredibly disappointed with his course. I took this course as an incoming college student, hoping to expand my creative writing horizons. Unfortunately, his teaching method is small minded, unprofessional, and does not allow room for creativity in his creative writing course. I wouldn't recommend him to anyone interested in pursing writing.

the teacher does not teach to much but gives a lot of tests. his courses are hard to get a good grade

He is very difficult to get in touch with concerning any questions regarding the subject material or with help on assignments. The one time I was able to touch base with him regarding an assignment he said he was travelling for a two week period during the quarter and didn't get back to me with feedback until just before the assignment was due.

Lazy and ineffective, can't teach, does not give feedback and very helpful.

It's not an English class, be prepared for that. If you want an English class choose a different teacher with a different outline. It's a fake sociology course designed around social justice issues and sports. (So, if sports isn't your thing, definitely do not do). The class is more about social justice. If that fits you, it'll be perfect!

Very disorganized canvas, impossible to find what materials go with what assignment, just a huge scavenger hunt each day to find out what you're supposed to turn in. Takes long to grade assignments. English is often my strongest class as an honors student, but this course drained me. Barely an English class, nothing but sports and social issues.

Greg Van Belle was the worst English teachers at Edmonds I have seen. He was a big procrastinator who grades assignments at last point of his due date, and he was just lazy in class. He told us to buy 2 textbooks but never used them.

I had Van Belle before for my Eng 102 class where he made us buy expensive textbooks but never used them. For this online class, he was incredibly hard to get a hold of. He didn't grade over half of my assignments until after the quarter was over. His criticism was confusing and I had to make him clarify his suggestions.

This was the worse English class I have ever taken. I learned nothing. Greg Van Belle graded our essays without a rubric so he took off so many points for no reason. In office hours, I asked him about the things on my essay he took off 20 points for. He said he "felt" like it wasn't organized enough at the time, then slightly adjusted the points.

Do not take this class. There is a lot of hypocrisy in his teachings. At the start of the quarter, he lectured about sending professional emails and how he would not respond to students if their emails were not up to par, but his email responses were very rude and informal. He also would not show up to office hours during midterm week.

Worst class ever, some ratings say he is professional... are we talking about the same guy? Did not come to office hours, did not respond to emails, and slowest grader ever.

He is extremely awful. So much work and he will miss half your classes.

Do not take Van Belle if possible. His class was the most disorganized class I have ever taken. Super confusing, doesn't use rubrics, or any grading standard and he tends to flake during office hours and meetings a LOT. I learned nothing this quarter. If you do not have a strong English writing base, AVOID this class at all costs.

Takes forever to respond by email, very vague language and rude responses. Leaves you very confused about assignments and has a very disorganized canvas structure.

Grades too harshly. Gave zero grades for being "slightly" off the mark. Slightly off the mark does not justify a ZERO out of 100.

Don't take Van Belle. He's so awful, so rude, disorganized and always flakes. The one time he showed up to office hours, he checked my essay and said it looked great but then graded it so poorly for no reason, even he said "it was missing a little something." What does that mean? So unclear and unfair. Even he doesn't know why he took off points.

horrible. don't take him.

I waited too long to drop this class because I thought things would get better. They didn't.