Student Course Evaluations
Student Course Evaluations (IDEA by Anthology)
The IDEA by Anthology Campuslabs website holds all of the information you need in one place. Below is Mark’s breakdown of what you need to know.
The course evaluation system includes three sections (The Instructor, Learning Objectives, and The Course), each with a set of questions. See the link here, scroll to the bottom, and you’ll find a PDF of the full set of questions that students answer. The site also includes additional background on the IDEA system.
The second section, Learning Objectives, includes a set of 13 LO’s that you will select as “essential,” “important,” or “minor.” When the course evaluations open (two weeks before the end of the semester), you will want to select only 3-5 as “important” or “minor.” Your selections will weight the results of the data provided by students. If you do not complete this section by the date that the evaluations close (see below), then the results will be weighted evenly across all 13 objectives, many of which will not have anything to do with your course.
The short videos below give more detail on this process. The first walks you through the user experience for faculty. The second explains the user experience for students. The third includes how to access the portal, best practices for identifying learning objectives, and how to complete your selections.
How to Select Student Learning Objectives
The Process for Faculty and Students
Two weeks before the end of a course, the instructor and their students will receive an email from Mark Pleiss (via Campuslabus). The email to the instructor will include a link to a portal where they can select learning objectives, and it will also include resources for increasing student response rates. The email to the students will include a link to complete the evaluation and a brief note about why the process is important. Access for students and faculty will also be available through Moodle.
How to Interpret Student Response Data
Before getting started, you should first familiarize yourself with the survey form that students complete, the Sample Diagnostic Feedback Survey.pdf. Note the different sections: The Instructor, Progress On, The Course, Qualitative Feedback Box. You’ll notice that the “Progress On” section is the part that aligns with your selection of student learning outcomes.
Once you are familiar with the survey, you will want to access your faculty portal and pull up the feedback data from each class that was surveyed. The link is here. The link is also sent to you via email when the course evaluations open and close, and it is available on your Moodle dashboard. Shortly after grades post, you will receive an email from Mark that your reports are ready to view. Once you login and select the course evaluations from one of your courses, you will open the IDEA Interpretation Guide (see below).
The Guide below walks you through each section of the IDEA Diagnostic Report.
For additional information, select the link here and scroll to the bottom. There, you’ll find information about Comparison Reports, Progress on Relevant Objectives, and more.
Interpretation Guide for Department Chairs and Administrators
If you are a department chair or administrator with reviewing access, click this link to review the student course evaluation scores of faculty members within your department. After clicking the link, select “faculty reports” (under “reporting”), select the term you want in the drop down, and then scroll down to find the instructor and their reports.
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