Student Course Evaluations
Student Course Evaluation is an important component of the overall faculty evaluation process. Student course evaluations can provide important information about how a class went from the students’ perspectives. Student course evaluations are administered every semester; all of these for the year should be included in faculty evaluations for that year. Reviewers will consider not only the student course evaluation rating for each course, but also the student comments as well as any faculty response to those comments (in the Faculty Reflection Form). Reviewers will consider all three of these in determining the Student Feedback and Faculty Response rating.
For any questions about the student course evaluation process, please email facultyevaluation@austincc.edu.
Faculty Process to Monitor Response Rates and View Reports
Each semester, based on the Course Evaluation Calendar, faculty receive an email notification when the course evaluation starts; all student course evaluations will take place online. Students do not have access to the student course evaluations until the start of the evaluation period, late in the semester. During the evaluation window, faculty can monitor the response rates using the “Course Evaluation” panel in any of their Blackboard courses and encourage students to participate.
Twenty days after the course evaluation ends, faculty receive a system email with their course evaluation reports. They can also view/download the course evaluation reports using the “Course Evaluation” panel in any of their Blackboard courses. These reports will be available in the Blackboard panel for three semesters.
See the ACC Course Evaluation web pages for more information.
Student Process to Participate
Based on the Course Evaluation Calendar, students receive a notification and a direct link to the online course evaluation when the course evaluation starts. After the beginning of the evaluation process, students can also participate using the “Course Evaluation” panel in any of their Blackboard courses; the survey is not accessible to students until the beginning of the course evaluation window above.
See the ACC Course Evaluation web pages for more information.
Department Chair and Deans’ Process to View the Reports
The Office of Faculty Evaluation provides the following reports to Deans and Department Chairs in the ACC BOX portal 2-4 weeks into the new semester:
-
- Individual Course Reports (PDF) (Sample)
- Compilation Reports per course type and instructor (PDF). For example, this sample compilation report contains the summary of the same instructor from his/her two lecture courses (Sample)
- A report of each course average (See sample Excel file, last column)
- Grade Distribution Report
- No Response Report
To view the reports, Deans and Department Chairs log in to the ACC BOX portal and navigate to their departmental folders. Visit this ACC BOX training resource site or view these Box video tutorials to learn more about BOX.
See the ACC Course Evaluation web pages for more information.