It would be great to have a survey built in to each course so that when an instructor closes a course it sends out a link to a course/instructor survey. Results could be send to Academic Dean and/or Dept. Heads.
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Deborah Forteza Quick question, though it may be a little unrelated...how do you all make sure that you get good surveys from students? We used to do paper surveys on the last day of class, then we went with an online survey provider, but we went back to paper surveys because students would just not take time to fill out our class surveys. Even if we let them out of class early to go take the survey, they don't.
Is there a good (and "legal") way of motivating them to do the e-survey?
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Bev Atwood We've been using Survey Monkey (tedious, labor intensive) for course evaluations, with a set of standard questions. Language courses have an additional question that pertains to them only.
- Our faculty would like the ability to add non-standard questions to get feedback on individual changes in teaching methods, etc.
- The faculty would also like the ability to sort the data for individual classes.
- Our Provost needs to be able to track changes from term to term or year to year or by instructor, to aid in the annual evaluation process.
- Evaluations need to be hidden until grades are finalized.
- We'd love to have an incentive for students to respond to course evaluations. Our track record is poor. When they were done by paper, in the classroom, we'd have 100% participation, but when finals are looming, the best students do not take the time to respond. Can you think of some kind of incentive? Perhaps a toggle that forces them to at least say no thanks, before they can view their grades?
- We have name optional on all responses.
- We'd like a combination of multiple choice or 1-5 rating, and essay.
- And since others commented: We do Dean and Peer Evaluations as well -- Both would be bonus features.
Thanks! We'd love to have this ready soon.
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George Gunn We just discussed this at our faculty orientation today. Very positive responses to the idea of a Populi based course evaluation. Hope you have it ready soon.
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Registrar ASAOM Just ran it buy our leadership team and they are so excited. Love the no response no grade! Hope it is soon...
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Bev Atwood Course evaluations should be completed a week or two before grades are finalized: If students can see their final grade before they evaluate the course, it could color their responses. At the same time, the student needs assurance that faculty members will not see the evaluations until after the grades are finalized so the student can speak freely without fear that the teacher's grading could be negatively affected.
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Damien Kurek Would be a great feature and would cut down on a substantial amount of paperwork.
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Dave Kropf Any update on a timeline for this? Thanks!
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Adam Sentz @Dave - I can't make any promises as to a specific date, but I can tell you that course evaluations are high on our list of things we want to add. Stay tuned!
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Dave Kropf Thanks for the über quick reply!
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Dave Kropf P.S. Our avatars are startlingly similar.
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Dennis Hixson There will be great rejoicing around here when that day comes. Hopefully by the end of this semester!
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Brendan O'Donnell @Dennis, And 49th Parallel and UPS will also be rejoicing that day, right? Right? Ya get my drift?
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Dennis Hixson St. James can count on the rejoicing.
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Stephen Roy We are approaching the end of our first semester using Populi and next week we'll be doing course evaluations. It would be great to be able to do them using Populi. I know you are hoping to add the feature but any idea as to when this might be? Cheers.
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Nancy Ray Are we getting any closer to having online course evaluations where the students MUST respond in order to see their transcripts?
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Joel Wingo Can't WAIT for this!
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Nancy Ray I love Clint's idea about the link going out when the course closes and the results going strait to the Academic Dean. The only thing I would add is a lock on the student's grade visibility until they complete the survey.
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George Gunn I agree with locking students' grade visibility until they complete the survey. Great idea. Also, having the surveys going straight to the Academic Dean or some other designated official is a good idea. And I'll add my voice to the chorus of voices hoping to see the online course surveys available soon.
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Joel Wingo I completely disagree with locking students' grades until they complete an evaluation. If final grading has already been completed and the student has paid her tuition balance there should be no reason to withhold grades. If each instructor were to require an evaluation as an assignment, that would seem fine.
Also, the student's final grade might be an important factor in how she responds in the evaluation. What if the final grading was bungled? Wouldn't that be important information we would want included in the evaluation.
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Mary Parker Any update on when this might happen? I understand it's high on your list of things to add.
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Adam Sentz @Mary - I can't give you a specific date, but stay tuned to this forum and our blog and you'll be the first to know as soon as there's something to know. We've planned on having this feature since before we had customers, and we're still committed to implementing it.
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Brian Zylstra Can I ask why it has been so long in coming? If this has been a planned feature for several years at this point, what is holding it back from becoming a reality? Clearly it's a highly desired feature.
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Adam Sentz @Brian - We have a finite amount of time and resources to put towards development. Every day we have to make decisions about what is most important to work on at that moment. If I had to boil down why we haven't been able to get to course evaluations yet, it would be because making sure that features we already have work well enough for our current customers often takes priority over working on brand new features.
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Isaac Grauke @Brian also keep in mind that the feature request forum doesn't capture the full scope of feedback that we receive. Our users were clamoring for library, as well as the overhaul that we gave courses and financial aid (for example), even though we didn't have specific feature requests on those items. We hear from people via support requests and phone calls in addition to the forum, and some of the ideas (especially big picture ones - "build us a library!") don't often show up in the forum. We take all that into consideration when we decide what to work on.
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Chris Chiacchierini We are using Google Docs for this now but would love integration, particularly with the ability to track compliance while having responses remain anonymous.
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Christal Fehr Couple more things to add... there's been talk of having a template but being able to adjust that template in each course. I'd also see the benefit to having multiple templates... for example, our distance education evaluation template would be very different from our on-campus evaluation template.
Also, some easy to use reporting features would be fantastic... bar graphs or pie charts like the ones that are already built into the student dashboard. A super quick way to read the data is just as important as gathering the data.
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Brendan O'Donnell Hey, y'all... just thought you'd like to know something...
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Christal Fehr I'm not sure if you are fully aware of how much excitement you guys have caused all over North America :). I can hardly wait!!! Checked it out yesterday already and I'm quite impressed!
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Brendan O'Donnell course evals released/hundreds of user comments/this request is Done
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Elizabeth Reed I was aware that the evaluations blocked the grades until they are completed, but I didn't know it blocked course materials; that's not good!
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