Questions in Course Evaluations

A set of four widely applicable and well-formed questions developed by a cross-disciplinary group of faculty with facilitation from the Center for Teaching and Learning.

The two scale questions for course and instructor are required before students can progress in the survey. The two open comments questions are not required.

This question set is commonly referenced in the Faculty 180 process.

Approximately 70–80% of question sets are specific to the college, department, or subject of a course; the corresponding department, programs, or units make the decisions in concert with the Office of the Provost on such question sets.

These cut across colleges, departments, or subjects. Examples include online, honors, service learning, internship, living learning program, foundations, or summer. A course that meets any of these attributes will include all the relevant specialty question sets.

For example, a fully online program course automatically receives a set of questions from extended studies about the online nature of the course; if the course is also an honors section, a set of honors questions will be included on the evaluation as well alongside any university, college, department, or subject questions.

All instructors can create additional questions for the courses they teach. Many instructors ask pedagogical or outcome-specific questions or questions specific to any new assignments or experiences in the course.

Instructors are notified to add customized questions approximately 21 days before course evaluations open for students.

Go to the Course Evaluations website for information on when specific tasks open for instructors or students.

If there are multiple co-instructors or some combination of instructors and teaching assistants, Blue supports multiple instructor question sets on the evaluation with the appropriate instructor or teaching assistant name for the questions.

Instructors or teaching assistants can only view responses to their own customized question set.