Roughly 70% to 80% of the question sets are based on the Collegecollege, Departmentdepartment, or Subject subject of a course. Likewise, those units make the decisions on the bulk of the questions to ask. Departments or Subject subject groups may decide to include or not include additional question sets, or not. Some have used other characteristics, such as Type type (lab, lec, sem, etc.), Course Numbercourse number, or Level level (ege.g., all 400-level numbers, courses or all GRAD vs /UGRD) to define question sets.

All instructors are able to can create extra questions of their own to ask of additional questions for a single class or many of their classesor multiple courses they teach. Many instructors use this to ask pedagogical or outcome-specific questions. Instructors are notified that they can add their own questions approximately 1-2 weeks 21 days before the evaluation begins.

Any question set may be identified as an “Instructor” instructor question set. ThusFor example, if there are three co-instructors, for example, there will be three “instructor” instructor question sets in the evaluation filled out by the student, with the appropriate instructor name added to those questions. Each instructor then only sees Instructors can only view responses to their instructor set (plus all the non-instructor set questions)question set.