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FAQs about Evaluation of MS1 and MS2 Courses
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Are course evaluations required?
The first and second year course directors have voted to require the completion of electronic course evaluations within 2 days of each final examination. Grades will be released for all students who have completed their course evaluations by 5pm on the second university working day following the final examination for the course.
When are first and second year course evaluations conducted?
Courses are evaluated at their completion. Student evaluations of first and second year courses are distributed according to a schedule that takes breaks, vacations, community weeks, and even weekends into consideration. These adjustments to the schedule are made to maximize students' opportunity to respond to the course evaluation. Thus, the timing of evaluation distribution, reminders and reporting are adjusted to only consider days that students are actually on campus with e-mail access. The general schedule is as follows:
| Activity | When? (adjusted for when students are on campus) |
| Send out course evaluation | 1 working day before subtest, final exam or last day of class |
| Send 1st reminder (to students who have not yet responded) | 3 working days after subtest, final exam or last day of class |
| Send out notification of non-respondents to registrar | 3 working days after subtest, final exam or last day of class |
| Send out 2nd reminder | 7 working days after subtest, final exam or last day of class |
| Send out 3rd reminder | 10 working days after subtest, final exam or last day of class |
| Send report of non-respondents | 14 working days after subtest, final exam or last day of class date |
| Report to course director | Send evaluation report with a 95% response rate to the course director 3-4 weeks after subtest, final exam or last day of class date |
Slight modifications to the schedule may also be made at the end of the academic year to permit students to respond to course evaluations while they are still on campus.
What questions are asked on the course evaluation form?
The form covers many aspects of the course as related to its stated learning objectives. It attempts to address instructional methods rather than individual instructors. Here's what the form looks like.
Why are reminders sent?
The product used for course evaluation has a reminder feature. Although we would prefer not to remind, we have found that response rates are significantly improved when this feature is used. Once a student submits a response, the student is no longer sent reminders. The electronic survey program determines who should receive reminders based on its database of respondents.
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