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Completing a Course Evaluation

Completing a Course Evaluation

This article provides an overview of the different ways students can access course evaluations along with instructions for accessing and submitting course evaluations on a computer or mobile device.

Overview

Course evaluations tasks (called Fillout tasks or FO tasks in Blue) open and close based on the academic sessions, which are outlined on the Course Evaluation website.

You may access open fillout tasks by:

  • Accessing your Canvas account profile (all “open” tasks will be listed)

  • Going to your Blue homepage (open tasks will appear in your My Active Tasks widget)

  • Opening the Course Evaluation menu item within a specific Canvas Course (the corresponding evaluation will be listed)

  • Clicking an evaluation link from a current system notification email (the specific course evaluation will open; any other open tasks will display after completing the first evaluation).

  • Going to your Blue Tasks page (you can use the filters to locate any open or completed evaluations)

  • Clicking a QR Code or Share Link posted or sent to you from your instructor (the specific course evaluation will open).

If you are accessing an evaluation with a QR Code / Share Link or from an email on a device that is not actively logged into or integrated with Blue, you may be prompted to log in and authenticate before you can access the evaluation.

QR Codes posted or sent directly from your instructor are verified by Boise State and safe to scan. Always remember to only scan codes from sources you trust.

Sample Overview Workflows

Skip to:

Canvas Account Profile

Click/tap your account profile in Canvas, select Course Evaluations then select the evaluation you want to complete.

Only open, active fillout tasks appear in your Canvas account.

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Sample Canvas Account profile where Course Evaluations has been selected and one open task is displayed

Example Blue Homepage (Desktop View)

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Desktop view of the Blue homepage for a student who is also an instructor.
Access Points Blue Homepage (Desktop View)

  1. Going to the Tasks page.

  2. Clicking/tapping Open from the Task Progress widget.

  3. Selecting the course name from the My Active Tasks widget.

  4. Clicking/tapping Start Now from the My Active Tasks widget.

  5. Selecting View all tasks at the bottom of the My Active Tasks widget.

Example Blue Homepage (Mobile View)

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Mobile view of the Blue homepage and Tasks page
for a student who is also an instructor.
Access Points Blue Homepage (Mobile View)

  1. Going to the Tasks page from the main navigation menu.

  2. Clicking/tapping Open from the Task Progress widget.

  3. Clicking/tapping the My tasks widget.

  4. Selecting the course name your tasks list.

  5. Clicking/tapping Start Now.

System Notification Email

Click/tap the ink in your email to launch the corresponding course evaluation. Log in using your Boise State account credentials if prompted.

Notification links are functional only on active tasks. Past course evaluation links may result in an error page. If you experience an error, log in to Blue directly.

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Sample notification email with hyperlinked course evaluation
that when clicked launches the evaluation.

QR Code / Share Link

Use a mobile device to scan the QR code or click/tap a share link to open the corresponding course evaluation. Log in using your Boise State account credentials if prompted.

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Sample QR Code with share link (obscured for security).

Instructions for Completing Course Evaluations

The instructions are written from the perspective of accessing evaluations tasks from your Blue homepage, but you can access tasks from any method outlined in the overview section of this article then follow the same basic steps for completing the evaluation.

  1. Log in to https://my-boisestate.bluera.com/.

  2. (Desktop) Scroll to My Active Tasks and select Start Now. (Figure 1)

  3. (Mobile) Select My tasks at the bottom of your homepage then click/tap Start Now.

  4. From the course evaluation page, click/tap Start Now once again.

    1. If prompted, select your Instructor(s) and/or Teaching Assistant(s) then click Next.

    2. You must complete the required University questions to activate the Next button at the bottom of the first page of the evaluation. (Figure 2)

    3. You may Save your responses if you need to leave and return to the evaluation at a later time. Saved evaluations that are not submitted will show as “in progress” in your task list. On mobile devices, check the navigation menu for Save and Submit options. (Figure 3)

    4. On the summary page, click/tap Modify to return to a question or scroll to the bottom of the page and select Submit to trigger your completion email. (Figure 4)

Pro tip: If instructors request evidence of completion and you choose to share, forward your completion email to your instructor’s preferred email address.

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Figure 1. Desktop view of the My Active Tasks widget with Start Now selected, which launches the course evaluation with another Start Now button.
Figure 2. Desktop examples of the required question error messaging and
how the Next button only activates once all required questions are completed.
Figure 3. Mobile examples of accessing the Summary and Save features from the evaluation navigation menu and locating the Modify and Submit buttons
from the mobile view of the summary page.
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Figure 4. Desktop example of the summary page with the Save and Modify buttons highlighted. The Submit button has been clicked, which triggered
the completion email shown with highlighted text.

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