She is horrible! Not guidance for the class at all. Karla is very fast-paced, and rude in person. She spends 10 minutes quickly teaching a lesson, and then just leaves the classroom when she's done, so you're on your own if you don't understand something. Do not take this teacher!

Had absolutely horrible experience. Rude to students. Appears helpful in class but one-on-one doesn't like taking time out of her schedule to explain things. Met once outside class and she was very short with me. Thought I was doing fine grade wise only to find out it is weighted and I am failing,and she never mentioned this at start of semester.

She was never available and when she was, she did not want to answer questions or be helpful in any way. The homework never corresponded with tests and in class lectures.

Condescending comments on graded work. Doesn't answer questions when emailed. Lectures are regurgitation of book definitions (reads them to you), on top of that they are very short and unclear. She then gives kindergarten version of a couple examples (much harder content in homework). She stops recording lecture before doing examples. Online class.

Teach yourself the concepts from the textbook. Karla never really explains anything in detail and blows through examples. Her test questions are vague and in a completely different format than what is shown in class, so be prepared for the unexpected. Gets defensive when questioned. Probably the worst instructor I've had all through college.

Karla is avery unpleasant person to deal with. This is the second time for me taking this course and I wish I would have taken the same instructor I had the first time. I know less now than when I started the class.

I already knew most of the stuff for this class from high school, but if I hadn't already had it, I would be lost. Most of my class mates seem lost and she does not seem to care. Terrible attitude.

It is a crime to charge students for this class the way Mitchell teaches it. You might as well set up a website and have a monkey monitor the class, for all the help or instruction she gives. If you need this class, you'd be better of taking it at the zoo.

Mitchells website is very disorganized and hard to navigate. I prefer a more organized layout and better lesson videos than I am getting in this class. I hate the online homework.

This is a rough online class. Very little help is given from the teacher, it is mostly online book online homework do it yourself. Good luck if you choose this class.

This is my second time in this class and already I am not getting it. I wish the teacher was more approachable but she is not. I have a tutor and if I make it through this class it will be thanks to my tutor because the teacher is really scary.

Worst instructor ive ever had

The use of the digital book and digital homework enabled this teacher to have minimal contact with students. While teaching myself the content, I like to imagine her sitting alone, eating bonbons. I received no help at all from this teacher, and should have taken it from someone more engaged in the actual work of teaching students.

I need to pass this course to continue toward my degree, and this teacher was not helpful to that goal. I even formed a study group outside of class, watched online videos to help, went to tutoring, but it seemed like the teacher wanted the students to fail. Terrible attitude, terrible class.

I had trig in high school and its just not that hard. Mitchell makes it harder than it has to be--almost as if it makes her feel smarter than us. The materials provided on the webpage are not very helpful or extensive. Its sink or swim with Mitchell, your on your own to learn this stuff.

Mitchell seems to have neither teaching skills nor the basic communication skills to successfully deliver this course. Take the reviews seriously and find another teacher if you need this class.

Wow, I get along with everyone, but this woman take the cake for bad personality. She seems to agress as a cover up for her lack of teaching ability. Bad choice, take the class from someone who can teach.

I miss having a teacher who took an interest in students. Mitchell is all about telling students to figure it out on their own. Doesn't even grade homework, lets the computer do it for her.

She makes math worse than it has to be. and makes students feel bad about themselves.

Oddly aggressive, this teacher seems to resent having to teach this course. She gives students the feeling that the material is beneath her and that it is so obvious she should not have to explain it at all. I hate coming to this class because I leave it feeling bad about myself.

She made me uncomfortable in class. I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt but found her to be mean spirited. Her lectures lack any sense of understanding of how students learn.

I was in her class for two days then dropped. I knew I would hate this class. She would not explain anything at all she would have a question and then simply solve it and not even tell us how she got the answer. If you are bad at math and need an explantion on how to get an answer right she is not for you

I stuck with it when so many students dropped her class, did all the work, got tutoring, but probably won't pass. She's one of the worst communicators I've ever encountered. terrible teacher.

This is a terrible teacher. Not only was she barely there for our class. I worked for ten hours on her practice final exam, only to find out that, oops, sorry guys, she gave us the WRONG TEST. It was from a higher level of math. No apology, just "here's another practice test". No admission of wrongdoing. She's awful.

Mitchell is insane. She posted the wrong assignment with a two hour deadline to turn it in. IT WAS THE WRONG ASSIGNMENT/TEST, FOR ANOTHER CLASS. An hour later she posts another one THAT WILL NOT OPEN and extends the deadline by 30 minutes. She's crazy.

I do not recommend this instructor to anyone who wants to be treated with respect. She is a Jekyll and Hyde type, one day decent, the next day she'll treat you like trash. Never admits when she makes a mistake. Basically a weak person who should not be given responsibility for the development of other humans.

I am mad at myself for wasting money on this class. The instructor was not helpful, the homework was online and gave us no feedback from the instructor. This is a bad choice. Take this class from a different school, not from here.

Avoid this professor at all costs! She was ALWAYS 10-15mins late to class, however still will dock you if you are even 5 mins late to class. She regularly ignores the curriculum to instead teach her own way, which is wrong half the time. She writes her own homework, gives extra just for fun and is an extremely technical and difficult grader. AVOID!

Mitchell is the worst type of teacher, very full of herself and her own importance. Unless you are one of her special buddies, she will not give you the time of day or even answer questions about the material. Her teaching is helter skelter, a real train wreck and her grading is never consistent. Avoid at all costs.

Taking this woman's class was an awful experience for someone returning to school from a few years' hiatus. All she did was recycle some ancient lectures and assign homework that was completely different. Tests were insanely overvalued and graded way too harshly. If you didn't follow her EXACT desired method, you didn't get full credit. Stay away!

I wish I had read the reviews before signing up for this teacher. She is terrible online and I can only imagine how she would be in person. Mitchell has a bad reputation around campus among students, but I thought I could just teach myself. It's a rare thing when the teacher makes learning more difficult than teaching yourself. She is confusing.

Worst online class I've ever had. I don't get the idea Mitchell would be any better in person. Avoid her at all costs.

really disresfectful and rude

Not sure why she teaches when she has no people skills or ability to deal with people (students) respectfully. Don't take Mitchell for any class. You'll regret itt.

Horrible. She dropped me because I "didn't do my work" which is further from the truth, I turned everything in before it was due. NIC tried to help me get back in her class, but her sad excuse was "there's an exam tomorrow that I'd feel uncomfortable with her taking." She doesn't respond to emails, and if she does it is a one-word answer... sad.

Bad teacher, unpleasant person.

I had the content mastered. Missed an exam for my father who died. She said no excuses and gave me a zero. Terrible terrible terrible professor. Turned an A into a C. She's the worst math professor at the school by far hands down. Rude short and mean with students, explains new concepts way too fast avoid avoid avoid

Online classes are usually flexible. I emailed her and asked if her test dates were available for change because my job schedules a month out and I would not be able to make the very small test window she had scheduled and after waiting 5 days she sent back "test dates are set dates" and dropped me from her class. Don't waste your time

Karla's personality is a hindrance to her ability to teach in that students who need help cannot easily get it from Karla. She seems to have animosity for students generally and an attitude of disdain for those who need more help. Her online classes are a nightmare to navigate.

Karla is hard to learn from and meeting with her is scary. She has a way of making students feel like dirt for bothering to ask her for help. She seems to think she is somehow above others and wants you to know it.

Her aggro attitude made it hard to learn from her. People are already on edge about math, so her negativity made that harshness over the top. I could not learn from her and others in my study group seemed to feel the same way.

I have never taken a class where the teacher gives you a quiz on material - and grades you on said material - a day before you start the next unit. BUT HERES THE CATCH: the quiz is on the material that you are learning in the next week. SO YOU ARE BEING QUIZED ON MATERIAL YOU HAVE NOT YET LEARNED AND GRADED FOR IT. DONT TAKE THIS CLASS!

Not very approachable nor helpful despite appearing so at first with offers to meet, etc.

As another student mentioned, you will be tested on material you have not yet learned. Hard to believe but it's most definitely TRUE. I'm an 'A' student and an excellent organizer and worker in my classes and yet I was shocked to see items on the quiz that I was not familiar with only to find them in the next unit's material. No excuse for it.

Responded to 2/7 of the total emails I sent, with curt responses that didn't even address what I was asking about. Ignored any emails that slightly inconvenienced her. Never discussed her late work or grading policies. The only "teaching" she did was (sometimes) posting recorded lectures from five years ago. Doesn't care about her students at all.

Worst math teacher I have ever taken! Spends lecture time not even teaching material just going through examples yet says attendance is mandatory but also ends almost every class after less than 30 minutes. Is super unhelpful and doesn't actually respond to questions when you email her. DO NOT TAKE HER!!

By far one of the least able teachers I have ever encountered. Her classes are short and disorganized. If you ask a question in person during office hours or by email, she is equally unwilling to answer. What am I paying for? She seems to be on a permanent vacation inside her own brain.

Mitchel makes this course unnecessarily difficult. It's like she tries to obscure the content rather than elucidate it. Simply terrible.

Mitchell is terribly awful at teaching. She is unapproachable when asked for help and the amount of problems expected of students is ridiculous. One of the worst teachers at this school.

We just had our midterms for the summer and she gave us a midterm review practice and we were allowed a note card for the test. I expected the midterm to be on majority of what the practice she gave us but no. The entire midterm had only one question that related to the practice, this exam set everyone up for failure.

One of the worst online courses at NIC, this class could vie for the least effective instructor in the history of education. Lots of homework, very little help, tests were unfairly based on one or two concepts, when each chapter involved at least twenty key concepts.

Horrible teacher. Does not care about her students, incredibly rude and dismissive if you have questions. Left my emails on open more times than once. DO NOT TAKE KARLAS CLASS. She is not a good or kind person as well as teacher.

Awful. DO NOT TAKE WITH HER. For my last project I was unaware that I had submitted my project in the wrong format. Rather than kindly letting me so I could immediately resubmit it she failed me. She was very uncaring and NOT Student centered. Don't waste your time.

Avoid this professor at all costs. She does not care about her students at all. She does not answer questions, and more than that she is dismissive and will belittle you for trying to seek help. She does not respond to emails, she shows up to class late consistently and leaves early so she is unavailable. She might be THE worst professor at NIC.

Impossible to get needed help, demeaning, recorded lectures need to be better, does not respond to emails. I have had to message her multiple times with questions and some I never got responses on.

Karla Mitchell is the hardest teacher and will not work with you. Hard to get ahold of her. Takes forever to respond. I will end it here because I have nothing else nice to say.

She is the exact opposite of a good teacher---does not care, cannot explain concepts, unfair grading, unkind personality. She might make a good prison guard

STAY AWAY FROM THIS DUMPSTER FIRE OF A PROFESSOR!!!! This professor will not respond to emails, is demeaning to students, will NOT provide any sort of answer to questions on the rare occasion you do get a response from her and are usually watch the lectures which are recorded, jumbled messes from her in person classes. Insanely rude to students.

RUN AWAY FROM DUMPSTER FIRES!

This professor is extremely rude and short when it comes to responding to emails. She has a mix of her recorded videos from her other semesters in the summer class. Very confusing! specially if your still learning your ways around canvas.

This is such an awful professor. She will take any reason she can to not grade something all together. On 4 occasions she gave me a zero on work with no explanation. I got in contact with her about it and it was such a fight to get her to fix HER mistakes. She gives incredibly unhelpful feedback on the rare occasion you can read the handwriting.

Karla is an instructor the school cannot get rid of, so she talks down to students and loves to let everyone know her time is more valuable than theirs. She's the most unhelpful professor on campus and will not respond to emails! If you are not great at math, be ready to go to the math center to actually learn. They're a lot nicer there, too.

The class itself the way it's set up you won't fail since you can retry the homework and the reading quizzes. BUT she will not explain anything to you and just tells you to refer to the videos in that course section which mostly are not helpful. She takes 3-5 days to respond to an email, she will not tell you what missed on a written test.

Wasn't not helpful at all. Very poor communication, wouldn't respond at all or sometimes respond weeks later.

I took this class twice with her! It was awful, but I needed to take the online math class. She does not communicate at all, she is a tough grader, and overall, she was rude and felt like I was talking to someone that didn't care or even try to care about her students. I would not recommend.

Mitchell is one of the worst teachers at NIC because she does not care about student learning and she does not have the skills to teach students the material for the courses. It's a mystery why they keep her on.

DUMPSTER FIRE INSIDE OF A DUMPSTER FIRE EMITTING TOXIC FUMES!!! Run (don't walk) away from this professor!! Do NOT waste your money on a class taught by a professor who is demeaning and will make it very clear it's an inconvienice to help you if you ask for help. Take this clas with another professor.

Worse class I have ever taken, I've never fail a class before I took Karla's class. I had to take this class twice in order to get my credit and even taking it a second time it was still very difficult to work with her.

Student learning is not a goal for this instructor. She lacks empathy and insight, which are both needed for successful teaching. I used to love math before taking her class, but now I avoid it at all cost. She does not use any teaching practices that enable students to succeed. It's like being force fed, even if the food is good, no one likes that

this teacher does not even know math. how do i get 7/8 on a hw and she gives me 7/50. MATH IS NOT MATHING!!!! omg and she even got mad at me for having knee surgery and changing testing day. i cannot stand her

The expectations for each assignment seem unclear at times. The lack of clear feedback complicates the issue, as it's hard to improve. The sheer volume of homework she assigns only adds to the pressure. There's a lot of assignments which are difficult, given the lack of clarity in her explanations.

idk how she has a job here still. everyone i have ever talked to about her has had negative experiences with her. never responding, says if she helps you with a question you don't get any points (hello you're a teacher that's literally what you do is TEACH),she's mean,and does not care about her students or her students futures. i hate her and math