How do students access their TCEs?
A: No, this is not possible. Instructors and TA's are not able to see their evaluation reports until they have turned in grades. The evaluation reports they are provided contain aggregated information and no specific responses or ratings can be traced back to individual students.
2) Email failed to send: If there was an issue with your email address or the mail server, you can always log into Explorance Blue directly at http://blueprod.forest.usf.edu/blue and find all of your available evaluations by clicking on the dashboard link at the menu on left.
Are evaluations confidential? Yes, faculty are provided summary reports only after final grades have been submitted. Summary reports DO NOT include any identifying student information ever. Any comments provided are included as submitted.
The process is entirely confidential. Instructors see no course evaluation results or comments until AFTER they submit final grades and they NEVER see who said what.
After final grades are submitted at the end of the term, evaluation results are shared with the instructor and administrators. Therefore, keep in mind that you are communicating directly (though anonymously) with the instructor – they see the evaluation results (without your identity).
All colleges are required to provide evaluation results for the base questions (1–16) for all courses except those specifically exempted as outlined in section 1.2 above.
Yes, student responses are anonymous. Instructors do not know which students responded or what responses individual students provided. However, instructors can track overall response rates for their courses.
Course evaluations usually open two weeks before the end of a course and remain open through the last week of classes and reading days. Your responses are confidential and your professors will not be able to see your name or user ID in relation to your answers.
Yes, both the early course and the final course evaluations are completely confidential and anonymous.
For five years until Fall 2014, the Office of Institutional Research has administered online course evaluations for academic units who request them. Just over 1,900 sections were evaluated using online forms in fall 2012. The online mode constitutes 43% of all course evaluations handled by the Institutional Research (IR) staff.
In January 2013, a committee was formed with the charge of recommending a consistent university‐wide technical solution for students’ evaluation of courses and teaching based on best practices in the field related to instrument design, administration, data collection, report format and use of results.
Three vendors (eXplorance, CoursEval, and Scantron) and their respective software solutions were identified for further study by the group based upon the
The committee’s unanimous choice of software was eXplorance - Blue. Overwhelmingly, eXplorance - Blue was the winner on every evaluation point with
A faculty member in the program (one who holds a terminal degree in the discipline or a closely related discipline) must observe at least one class session of each TA (except Type 4) in the program once a semester.
The Graduate School has developed a simple form for this purpose, the TA Class Observation Form, which should be used to document the observation of the class, discussed with, and signed by the TA. After reading and discussing the observation, the TA is encouraged to respond to the observation in the space allotted on the form ...
The third item in the TA's folio is the Teacher/Course Evaluation, if the TA's assignment is TCE eligible. Please make sure that each TA (Types 1 and 2 are required; Type 3 is optional) receives a TCE and that it is kept in the departmental file.
Attendance should be required and recorded. For in-service training, some current practices will work, for example: