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Course evaluations for the spring 2025 full session and session B will begin to be available from 12:01 a.m. Monday, April 14, until just before final exams begin, 7:59 a.m. Wednesday, April 30. After that time, course evaluations will no longer be available.

Students can access course evaluations through MyCourses (Brightspace by D2L) and through links sent to their Claw Mail.

To accommodate the email traffic, evaluations of classes taught by a single instructor will be released on a rolling schedule over five days.

• April 14: all ANTH, COMM, ENGL, HUSE, INTS, POLS, PSYC, and SOCI classes 
• April 15: all BCHM, CHEM, CJCR, CMAP, FILM, FREN, HIST, ISCI, PHYS, PSCI, and SPAN classes, and all classes taught in the School of Health Sciences
• April 16: all DATA, ITEC, MATH, AND STEC classes, and all classes taught in the School of Education
• April 17: all classes taught in the Schools of Business
• April 18: all AFAM, ARTS, BIOL, ENVS, EXSC, GEOG, GGC 1000, GNDR, MUSC, PHED, PHIL, RELN, and THEA classes

Evaluations for classes taught by multiple instructors will also be released on April 18th.

Evaluations for HNRS and GLOB classes are released on the day of the discipline of the instructor of the class.

Every 4 days from the initial release of a course evaluation, students who have not completed it will receive an automated reminder to do so. Those email reminders include a link to the course evaluation they have not yet completed.

In addition to encouraging students to complete course evaluations, you can further boost access through MyCourses. Go to your Classlist, select all students, and create an email message in MyCourses’s email system. In the body of that message, insert a Quicklink, select External Learning Tools, then select Class Climate Surveys. This will embed a link that will take your students directly to the MyCourses widget where user-specific links to their course evaluations are stored.

If you ask your students to provide proof of completing a course evaluation, advise students to print out or screen capture the “finished survey” page generated after submitting a course evaluation. Also, advise them to look for automated email messages certifying the completion of their course evaluations. These automated messages are easily misplaced.

Tell students to take care in completing the course evaluation for the courses they believe they are evaluating. All course evaluation surveys look alike except for each survey’s header information, which identifies instructor, course, and section. If they mistakenly submit a course evaluation for the wrong course, they cannot redo the survey for that course. All survey responses are anonymous, so there is no way of knowing whose response is whose.

If you have any questions, please email Dr. Tom Lilly, assistant provost of Academic Assessment and Accreditation, or call 678.778.4654.