Dear Colleagues,
The new course evaluation system is set to open on November 16, the ninth week of the quarter. We used to encourage faculty to begin evaluations in the seventh week, but that was due mostly to the time required to schedule, administer, transcribe and process them. Tabulation will now be done instantaneously once the evals are closed, following grade submission (except for tenure candidates).
The good news is that instructors no longer have to arrange for evals to be administered or submitted by anyone. However, since the evals are integrated with Canvas, there are some required preparatory steps.
• All courses MUST have a published Canvas site, even if Canvas is not used for any other reason in the course. See me or a colleague who uses Canvas if you do not know how to do that.
• Faculty who have never used Canvas in a course still need to complete the Canvas introduction and quiz in order to publish a course.
Some other things to keep in mind:
• There are no paper forms for the newly-negotiated Form E, the form that most courses use.
• Instructors will receive an email message when the evals open. The message will contain a link to the eval reports.
• Students will receive an email notice of the availability of the evaluations when they open and one email reminder before the evals close. All students who log on to Canvas will also see a pop-up reminder to complete the evals every time they log in until they have done so.
• Students can use phones, tablets or computers to complete the evals and can pause their session and return later two times before completing the survey.
• Instructors can remind students in class or on Canvas to complete the evals, and can track the completion rate to see how many (but not which) students have completed the evals.
Based on the return rates during the summer trial of the system, it may not be necessary to give bonus points for submitting a completion certificate screen shot to encourage completion, but that and other methods of increasing response rates are still possible.
Please let me know if you have any other questions about the new system.
Scott Bessho
Assistant Dean and Evaluation Contact
How do I get a screen shot of the completed survey so I can prove to my instructor that I filled out the course evaluation survey? I filled out the survey and closed it before I remembered I needed to get proof of completion. Ideally the new course evaluation system would send a email thanking us for taking the survey so we could use that as proof of completion.
Specifically I need to prove I took course eval for 5430/Lifespan 200, Maggie Siebel instructor. thank you. diana.heileman@bellevuecollege.edu
You may try contacting the student Help desk for your issue with the course evaluation survey. The link is: Help Desk
The Evaluations are cumbersome. 1st) forcing students to complete an evaluation makes for hasty responses or not completing the forms. I found myself in a sticky situation where I needed to get some information for my tutor quickly so I was forced to not give an evaluation. I basically nulled all the responses and stated the reason why I did so which was unfortunate bc the instructor really needed some feedback. 2nd) the school should consider allowing students to complete the evaluations post finals since the finals are part of the instructors performance. 3rd) Students should be given the option to evaluate courses withdrawn from – I was unable to this as Canvas would not give me access to the course post withdrawal.
Thank you for your time and consideration of these points of weakness in the evaluation process.
Respectfully,
Honeylieg V. Wiltse
Thank you for your feedback on the evaluation system. We’ve only been using it for a year, so it’s helpful to know what students think. I’ve passed your comments along to the system administrators and suggested we have a place on Canvas where students can post feedback about the system.