What is Course Evaluation at UNM?
- Promotion and Tenure
- Course Improvement
- Constructive criticism
- TAs use it to job hunt / CV
- Led by Academic Affairs / Departments
- Facilitated by IT
EvaluationKit Software
- Used for survey delivery to all enrolled students
- Used to deliver reports to faculty
- Through faculty permission, delivery to departments
Types of Questions
- Determined by faculty and Academic Affairs. (Typically developed by faculty committees.)
- Mandatory UNM questions
- College questions(not mandatory)
- Departmental questions are determined by each department(not mandatory)
- Faculty questions(not mandatory)
Setup Process for Course Evaluation Team
- Project is created in EvaluationKit. Semester, year. Spring 2020 Courses
- Division of labor and assignment of responsibility for team
- Each team member assigned responsibility for 25 departments
Populating Enrollments
- Normal Enrollments (10>)
- Low Enrollments (1-5)
- Cross listed classes
- Aggregation across semesters
- Data Source - MyReports Download from MyReports classlist - all information except crosslisting, secondary instructor, cancelled courses.
- Enrollment stabilizes after first 6 weeks of classes
- Manual weekly downloads of data, because data is not always up-to-date.
- Updated ad hoc / by request with the help of the Department Admins and faculty, who update us on crosslisting, secondary instructors and cancelled courses.
Verifications and Corrections by Department admins
- Approximately four weeks into the semester, course data is sent to department admins
- Reminders are sent to all data admins to verify data and send corrections to team representatives
- Every two weeks, data is sent to department admins until corrections have been received
- Team receives corrections and applies them to course evaluations
Team uploads all data into EvaluationKit
- Team runs all CRNs through R program
- UNM IT supports close to 6,000 courses every semester
- Team member loads all approved data from data admins
- If we do not hear from data admins after 6 weeks, we load data as is into EvaluationKit
- Team members cross check each other's work
Project Deployed
- Faculty receives email listing each course they are teaching, evaluation dates, and the number of enrollments in each course
- Team members work with faculty to make sure everything is correct.
- Enrollments
- Dates
- Missing co-instructors or TAs. Please tell us if you have a TA or co-instructor! We can't add a TA or co-instructor if we do not know they exist!
- Custom Questions
Delivery Process
- Dates are posted on Website.
- http://coursefeedback.unm.edu/
- Set up - When do evaluations run? Based on course length and part of term
- Why do the dates run before finals?
- Faculty custom questions - two weeks before evaluations begin
- Duration depends on length of course
- Greater than 4 week courses --surveys run for two weeks
- Less than 4 week courses --surveys run for one week
- One or two day courses -- surveys run for one week
Report Access Date
- Reports are available to faculty two weeks after the survey or two weeks after the course ends, whichever is later.
Late Respondents
Reopen by faculty request or approval
Student Access
- LMS (Learn.unm.edu)
- Emails sent to students with Link
- Directly through the UNM Course Feedback website (Coursefeedback.unm.edu)
Faculty Access(for custom questions and reports)
- LMS (Learn.unm.edu)
- Emails regarding custom questions
- Directly through the UNM Course Feedback website (Coursefeedback.unm.edu)
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