The CoursEval portal is a secure web-based system for conducting end-of-course student opinion surveys to evaluate the effectiveness of courses and faculty. The purpose of CoursEval is to produce valid scores for measuring teaching effectiveness in a standard way across all course sections at the university.
The scores can be applied to a continuous improvement model that shows individual instructor growth over time. CoursEval is one part of a comprehensive evaluation of faculty.
Dates are communicated to colleges.
By default, student names are confidential. A student may elect to “Send Proof” to the instructor, if the instructor requests, by going to nau.edu/course_evals > Surveys > Completed Surveys > Send Proof in the Date/Time Completed column.
An initial email is sent to students on the day the evaluation opens. A follow-up email is sent as a reminder every five days to any student who hasn’t completed their surveys. Additionally, there is a MyCoursEval module on course dashboards of Canvas.
Students can contact the Student Technology Center at 928-523-9294, 888-520-7215, or Ask-STC@nau.edu. Faculty/staff may contact e-Learning at 928-523-5554, 866-802-5256, or elc-help@nau.edu.
Survey dates are relative to the length of the course and the course end date. If the class ends during finals week, the survey closes the Sunday before finals at 11:59 p.m. Otherwise, the survey closes two day prior to the class end date. The length of the survey is approximately 3/16th the length of the course. Thus, the survey for a standard 16-week course starts the Monday three weeks prior to finals week. The survey dates of standard class sessions for the current semester are shown above. Best practice is that the surveys are closed before the final exam, and, similarly, the report results are only available after grades are posted.
Results release according to the grade posting dates of the current semester (see registrar’s important dates). When a class end date is beyond finals week, results are available a week after the class ends.
The Office of the Provost does not offer student incentives for completion of their course evaluations.
Classes that have an instructor marked for evaluation in the Schedule of Classes Meeting Pattern are evaluated in CoursEval, with some course exclusions (below). By default, Primary Instructors are marked for evaluation, and SIs or TAs are not.
These courses do not get evaluated in CoursEval whether or not the evaluation checkbox is checked (except when a unit has requested an exception):
