Designing, deploying, demystifying electronic class/instructor evaluations

Here at Information Services and Resources, we are working on a new process to get course evaluations done electronically to reduce the amount of work on our staff and especially for the campus academic assistants. This new process is with Class Climate, a software product that is web-based. This will replace the current, inadequate, manual process. It will streamline the time it takes to develop evaluations, take evaluations, and create reports from the results and then saved/archived in order to be reused and/or compared across semesters/professors. The evaluations can be taken on-line securely and confidentially and/or hand written and the results will be tallied electronically and reported back to the academic assistants much faster than in the past. Even students' comments will be seen in the electronic reports and the academic assistants will not have to type them by hand any more! Quite a time-saver in itself, let alone all the tallying the assistants had to do by hand! Each academic assistant will be able to design questionnaires according to the faculty members' particular questions in various formats along with any number of open-ended questions. We have ten departments trying it as a pilot this semester with a full push to all of campus this coming fall with training to be offered this summer to all of the academic assistants. We are very excited to offer this new process to the campus to help them streamline their work in this very hectic and time critical aspect of their job.