Reminder: Fall 2020 Student Course and Faculty Evaluations

December 1, 2020

From:  Gary Hotko, Office of Testing and Evaluation

This is a reminder that the Student Course and Faculty Evaluation period for your Fall 2020 course(s) can be found online at: https://enrollmentmanagement.baruch.cuny.edu/evaluations/schedule-of-evaluations/fall-2020-student-course-and-faculty-evaluation-schedule/.

Please review the schedule of your course(s) and if the evaluation period listed occurs after the last day of instruction for your class, please email faculty.evaluation@baruch.cuny.edu so that we can make modifications.

Over the last few semesters, the College has averaged around 50% student participation in the Student Course and Faculty Evaluation process. While this is higher than the reported national average for on-line evaluations; the College would like to do better.

To generate the best participation rate possible, it would be helpful if you could set aside five minutes during a class to speak with your students about the online course evaluation process.

Here are a few talking points recommended by members of the faculty you may wish to use when you are speaking with your students:

• Student Course and Faculty Evaluations are anonymous and confidential. Baruch College Faculty and Staff are not able to see an individual student’s response. All results are returned only in aggregate.
• Students should be honest: their feedback cannot influence the grade in your class. Instructors will not have access to this semester’s evaluations until after final grades have been released.
• The evaluation process takes less than five minutes, an email will be sent out to their Baruch College email address when the evaluation period is opened, or they can go to https://baruch.cuny.edu/EVALS to access the system.
• You (and other instructors) actually use the student’s feedback from past course evaluations. You may want to give some examples. (For example: “Last semester the evaluations commented on the timing of the project, and that is why this term I have adjusted the due dates.”)
• Students are able to access evaluation results via the Your Input Matters! Student Course and Faculty Evaluaiton website (https://baruch.cuny.edu/EVALS) which are posted 6 — 8 weeks after the semester ends.

When the evaluation period opens, you will receive an email alerting you that the evaluation is ready for your students to complete. While the evaluation period is open, you will receive participation rate updates on a periodic basis. You are also able to see a near real-time participation rate by logging into your myEvalCenter at https://baruch.cuny.edu/EVALS.