Products:
There are many products that claim to do online student evaluations of teaching (SETs). Here are but a few:
- Blackboard Enterprise surveys
- Blue Online Course Evaluation LEM
- Evaluation Kit
used by Kenyon and Occidental - SmartEvals – more info via Youtube.com
Implementing on-line evaluation system
Information on the implementation of on-line evals at Oregon State University. This article addresses many of the standard questions about moving from in-class paper evaluations to on-line out of class evaluations.
Some interesting pieces discussing the (mis)use of SETs (paper or on-line):
- Steven Volk Student Evaluations of Teaching: Once More into Debate
- More on Student Evaluations of Teaching
Functional Requirements
- Administrator
- Allows for multiple administrators who are administering a specific subset of surveys that go out to specific courses.
- Allows for overarching administrators who can see all survey results
- Collates information using different criterion relevant to Individual reflection, PTT, Dept Reviews and Accreditation
- Allow for managing release of information to faculty
- Has tools for increasing response rate
- Student side
- Integrates with LMS – timed release of notices to students
- Keeps track of surveys that are complete for the student
- Faculty
- Differentiates between discuss based, lecture and labs
- Collate information from the same course across years
