Course Evaluations

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Student Evaluations of Courses

Queens College routinely conducts online course evaluations via CoursEval (an Anthology platform) using a questionnaire designed by the QC Course Evaluations Working Group in AY2024-2025.

All active students and faculty may access the QC CoursEval system at https://www.qc.cuny.edu/evaluate using their QC CAMS credentials.

 

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Purpose

Course evaluations give students the opportunity to reflect on their own learning, and provide a forum for students to share about their experiences. The data and feedback from these evaluations serve a number of important functions:

 

    • They can be used by instructors to improve course design and student learning.
    • They can be used by students to make informed decisions about what courses to take in an upcoming semester.
    • They can be part of the supporting materials put together by faculty for reappointment, tenure, and promotion.
    • When analyzed across a department/school, course evaluation data can help faculty to improve program-level curriculum.
Timeline

The course evaluation period begins three weeks before the start of finals and ends no later than the last day of term.

Week 11: Course Correction Period. Three weeks prior to the evaluation period, instructors are sent the list of courses that they are assigned to, along with a request to check for errors. The CoursEval notice contains a link to an error submission form, which ITS uses to implement corrections. The notice also prompts instructors to review the Optional Add-on Question Bank ahead of the Add-on Selection Period.

Week 13: Add-on Selection Period. One week before the evaluation period, instructors have the option to “personalize” their evaluations by adding up to three (3) additional questions from the QC CoursEval Add-on Question Bank to each individual course they teach. The CoursEval notice links to detailed instructions for how to add items.

Week 14: Course Evaluation Period. Course evaluations open three weeks before the start of finals. During the evaluation period, students receive emails inviting them to submit their course evaluations, and instructors receive emails inviting them to encourage their students to submit. Instructors may track the count of students that have submitted evaluations by logging into the CoursEval system.

The course evaluation period ends no later than the last day of term.

Course evaluation reports are released approximately one week after course grades are due (typically early January for fall terms and early June for spring terms).The CoursEval notice provides detailed instructions on how to access the CoursEval report.

Student Guide

 Students can orient themselves to the new Course Evaluations questionnaire here:

 

Student Guide to Course Evaluations

Faculty Resources

For tips on how to increase response rates, how to add items from the Question Bank, how to download CoursEval reports, or how to interpret student feedback, see our instructor resources here:

 

Faculty Resources for Course Evaluations

Questions and Support

 

 

How to Access CoursEval Data

Faculty Access to CoursEval Data

To access your CoursEval Reports as an instructor:

  1. Log in to https://www.qc.cuny.edu/evaluate with your faculty account
  2. On your home page, select View Reports 
  3. To view past reports, select Reports at the top and select Evaluation Reports
  4. Set the filters for the year and period and set all others to Show All
  5. Check each report you would like to view (in the Includes column)
  6. Click View above the list of results to view your reports

 

To access CoursEval Reports as a department administrator (chair or dean):

  1. Log in to https://www.qc.cuny.edu/evaluate with your faculty account
  2. On your home page, select Reports in the top-left menu
  3. Select Survey Intelligence Reports
  4. From here you can edit a previous report or create a new one
  5. Select relevant filers and/or aggregations
  6. Run the report as a PDF or CSV file

 

You can learn more about Anthology CoursEval reports here. 

NOTE: Course evaluations close by the end of the term and results are not released until after all grades are posted (typically early June for spring terms, and early January for fall terms). Upon release, instructors receive an email notification that their reports are ready. These reports allow instructors to see response rates for each course and individual course results, including quantitative summary data (counts and average ratings for each survey item) and students’ comments. Likewise, department chairs and deans will be able to access reports for their faculty. Note that department chairs and deans have access to quantitative data only (but not to comments) for all courses in their departments.

 

Student Access to CoursEval Data

Summary data and institutional averages from 2010 on are available via interactive Tableau dashboards.

Summary data from 2001 to 2010 are available to view at https://apps.qc.cuny.edu/courses/.

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