End of Course Evaluations
Instructors are able to self-retrieve their own end of course evaluations directly from the course feedback platform, Watermark, which is accessed via Canvas. After course grades are submitted and approved by the Registrar, you will receive an email once your evaluations are ready to be reviewed. That email and this video show how to retrieve your student feedback reports.
The Course BIE and Instructor BIE values represented prominently in the report are the values which are historically shared as the Course and Instructor ratings. "BIE" stands for the Bounded Influence Estimator, which is the algorithm through which all of course data is processed, designed to reduce the influence of outlier responses. This is different from the "mean" value which is sprinkled through the report elsewhere.
There are a number of report styles you can extract from the feedback platform, including a "Raw Data" report which allows you to view all feedback within an Excel output, in which each line represents the full response of a student, so you can see clearly how student quantitative and qualitative responses are related, or you may sort by a particular question.
In Summer 2021 the Dean’s office launched an initiative with the goal of driving the response rate of student feedback. If a student fails to complete a feedback form for a course, their final grade will be suppressed. Grades will only be suppressed in a course for which a student does not provide feedback. A grade will be held until the term’s grading period concludes, typically three weeks after the final class session for a given term (A/B/Full). To help encourage student feedback, and to limit as much as possible the number of students for whom the delivery of grades will be delayed, please ensure you are giving students 15 minutes during the last class session to complete this feedback. We recommend allowing students to complete this feedback preceding the class wrap-up and final takeaways.