Faculty - Course Evaluations
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Faculty - How Do I Access My Course Evaluation Reports?
Accessing Campus Labs Course Evaluations 1. To access your course evaluation results, please go to https://gfcmsu.campuslabs.com/faculty/ 2. Login to the site using your Net ID and password. Trends Analysis An Instructor resource for professional development. Within this report Instructors will be able to use at-a-glace reports to focus on quality of instruction View results across multiple academic terms without having to pull up side-by-side reports Make connections between longitudinal data sets for holistic insights To view this report Instructors can log into the faculty experience and click on Trends Analysis button in the grey bar. The main page of the report shows all of the questions that have been on an instrument that was used to evaluate a course section the instructor has taught. Instructors can get more detailed information by clicking on a question they would like to look into further. This detail page shows the Instructor their means for this question per course across all the semesters it has been asked. An Overall Mean is also shown which is a calculation of all responses from all course sections for this question. A filter option is available by clicking on the box next to a course. An Instructor my want to only compare the results of two courses. Additionally, when clicking on any one of the bars a course details box will appear. This box will provide more contextual information about the course including the mean, number of responses, number of enrollments and how many sections of this course there were. From here an Instructor can also link to their Summary Report for the semester in which that course was taught. Viewing a Summary Report for the Term Summary reports will be available under "Course Evaluations Summary Report". There will be one report for each evaluation that was used to evaluate a section within the term. Your administrator may also include a link in an email communication that will take you directly to this report. Each question asked on the evaluation is listed with the frequency, total number of responses, mean, standard deviation, and number of students that may have skipped the question. Courses are grouped together by question so that the instructor can get a holistic view of all data for that particular item. By clicking on the course section name an instructor will be directed to the detailed report for that section. The "Report Status" column will indicate if your administration has or has not released reports for a particular section. To print or save the report as a PDF use the print button in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. Viewing Individual Course Reports Upon logging in you will be brought to your dashboard which will default to the most current term in which you have a course section. 1. Click View Results for the course that you would like to review reports for. **If the View Results button is not shown, the evaluation for that section may still be collecting data or the data has not been released to you yet by your administrator. 2. Click on a report tab to view the specific data from that course. Types of Reports Quantitative Responses This is a summary of all responses with a frequency distribution, mean, standard deviation, and count of responses. Qualitative Responses This is a summary of all open-ended questions applicable for the course. Segment Comparison This report displays a graphical representation of the mean and frequency distribution. A bench marking option is available for the applicable Course, Program, Department, College, or institution-wide mean (these options vary by institution). To customize the comparison displayed select the segment to view in the Your Course Compared to dropdown menu. A count of responses and course sections is then displayed for that segment. Each question may be expanded to view frequency information. The mean difference displays if the comparison segment is similar, higher, much higher, lower or much lower. Please note that this report only displays questions that have a mean calculated. The report does not identify other faculty or specific courses, just the summary data.
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Faculty - As A Division Director, How Do I Access Course Evaluation Reports?
Accessing Campus Labs Course Evaluations 1. To access your course evaluation results, please go to https://gfcmsu.campuslabs.com/Ce/ 2. Login to the site using your campus username and password. Accessing Reports In the Reporting menu select Faculty Reports, Question Mean Analysis, or Response Rates. Faculty Reports A list of faculty that you have access to view reports for will populate on this page. **For report administrators with multiple administrator roles (noted under the 'Role' heading), you may need to toggle between institutional units to view results. Summary Report To view the Quantitative and Qualitative Responses, click on Summary Report. Course Report Deans and Chairs also have access to individual course reports. Click on the Course Reports option and then select the appropriate course to review. Question Mean Analysis The Question Mean Analysis (QMA) is a summary report for all course sections located in your assigned institutional area. The main page displays each question asked on the evaluation with the ability to focus the data by each level of the institutional unit chart. A count of courses is listed with a hyperlink to review the details for each section. The course details, instructor, and mean for that question are listed. Faculty names also have a hyperlink to directly take you to the full report for that section. Response Rate Report The Response Rate report lets you see the response rate for active and closed courses that you have access to. You have the ability to toggle between terms, evaluations, and at what unit level you want to include (in this example below, I am viewing the results at the Institutional level, but you can adjust to the college or program level, depending on your user access permissions). You can also adjust what courses you see by active and closed administrations and the # of days until the administration closes. You'll notice that the percentage displaying near the top left is the overall response rate for all displayed courses, while the response rate for each course appears along the far right column. You can further control which courses display by adjusting the Response Rate Threshold slider. If you want to see all courses with a response rate of 50% or less, move the slider to the middle. If you want to see all courses with less than a 100% response rate, move the slider to 99%.
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Faculty - Response Rates Best Practices
Strategies for Faculty: Faculty members can have the greatest impact on evaluation response rates due to their frequent interactions with students. The following strategies offer ways to capitalize on this potential for impact. Setting Aside Class Time: Coincidentally, the most effective strategy also happens to be the easiest to implement! Just as one would when administering paper evaluations, instructors should carve out time in class at the end of the semester to have students complete their evaluations using a cell phone, tablet or laptop. Including this on the class schedule of the syllabus and announcing it to students closer to the date will ensure students that this is a strategic effort to collect their feedback. Remind students ahead of time to come prepared to class with either their cell phone, tablet, or laptop in order to complete the evaluation in class. Be sure to explain to students ahead of time/on that day that you will administer the course evaluations as you have in the past and leave the room while they complete them. Direct Access Link: Instructors can provide a unique evaluation link to enrolled students for direct access to a course section's evaluation. Only students enrolled in the course section will be authenticated into the evaluation, bypassing the landing page. When the evaluation is completed, the student can simply click the "return to course list button," where any other available evaluations will be listed. During class, instructors can post the "Direct Access Link" on the board/projector for students to access from their mobile device. Please refer to the support article for instructions. Monitor Response Rates: Our Course Evaluations tool allows faculty to monitor their response rates in an active administration. For example, if you notice that your response rates are rather low for a large class and the administration is halfway over, you can use the remainder of the time to encourage students in class to complete them and follow-up with reminder emails. Please refer to the following support article instructing faculty on how to view response rates: How to View your Response Rates. Feedback: Feedback is a tool that was created to allow instructors to receive formative feedback from students throughout the semester. Instructors have the ability to start a Feedback session in which their students will answer six questions related to high impact teaching practices and a single question that asks students if they understood the material that was covered. Feedback session results allow instructors to identify trends in student perceptions of their instruction and make improvements as soon as the next class. Please refer to the following support article for more information: Feedback Tool. Student Incentives for Participation: Instructors can also use incentives in their classes to encourage students to complete their evaluations. Below are some specific strategies. Extra Credit: Individual instructors can also offer extra credit if all, or even a certain percentage of students enrolled in a course section complete their evaluations. Additionally, instructors can offer students the option of submitting an extra credit assignment if all or a certain specified percentage of students complete their evaluations. Personalized Email: One of our member campuses, Jacksonville University, shared a particularly effective strategy an instructor implemented. The administration was set to close on a Sunday, so the Friday before, the instructor emailed the class a thoughtful and personal plea asking for their participation in end of semester evaluations. By detailing the impact of student feedback on both a personal and professional level and espousing the value of their feedback not only for their class but for the entire university, the response rate increased by 25%! Source: https://courseevaluationsupport.campuslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009847633-Response-Rates-Guide#faculty