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Guidelines for digital student evaluation of courses at UiA (in Norwegian)
General information
- Is carried out in Canvas with use of the evaluation tool (Watermark).
- To ensure the anonymity of the students, a report is prepared for courses with minimum 5 answers.
- The person responsible for the system will prepare for evaluation of all courses in the evaluation tool each semester. All courses will thereby be enrolled in the system.
- The person responsible for the course must activate the evaluation by defining the correct evaluation period in Canvas. Go to Account – Settings – Course Evaluation. Here you may also delete the course if you do not want a digital evaluation. Video
- No deadline for defining the period for digital evaluation.
- Digital evaluation is normally carried out within one week (Monday 12:00 AM till Sunday 11:59 PM), but may be conducted for a longer or shorter period.
- Standard week for carrying out the survey in the autumn semester is week 41 (October 11 till 16).
- Before the evaluation starts, you will receive a reminder telling you that you now have access to add custom-made questions. From the same time you will have access via the button: "Instructor Course Evaluation".
- The evaluation is anonymous.
- The students will get a message via Canvas with information about the evaluation 3 days before the evaluation starts.
Survey and additional questions
- The questionnaire consists of 24 questions included open-ended questions. Questionnaire for continuing and further education (EVU) consists of 3 additional questions. The students can choose their language (Norwegian or English).
- The person responsible for the course may add 3 custom-made subject-specific questions (either questions / statements with Likert scale, or free text questions). The custom-made questions may be submitted from 100 days before the evaluation starts (changed from 7), till the start of the evaluation. Please note that it is not possible to modify the questions. How to add custom-made questions Video: how to add custom-made questions
- Canvas access to the evaluation via the button: "Instructor Course Evaluation".
Evaluation period
- Digital evaluation is normally carried out within one week (Monday till Saturday).
- Standard week for carrying out the survey in the autumn semester is week 41 (October 11 - 16).
- The person responsible for the course will find the response rate during the evaluation period via "Instructor Course Evaluation" in Canvas.
- When the students click the course on the dashboard in the evaluation period, they will get a pop-up with link to the questionnaire.
- Students can also find a link to the questionnaire directly in Canvas via the "Student Course Evaluations" button. See how
- Time should be reserved in a lecture so that students can complete the evaluation there and then.
Reports to the person responsible for the course, students and study programme coordinator
A report is prepared for courses with minimum 5 answers.
The person responsible for the course:
- You will find the response rate and the report via "Instructor Course Evaluation" in Canvas.
- The "Response Rate Tracker" displays the answers in number and percent during the evaluation week and after deadline.
- On the same page, you can also find the "Project Results" which takes you to the course-report. You will find the report by clicking on the downwards arrow after the course.
- You will find the report without open-ended questions under "Results" (in the blue panel), "Project results", Evalueringsrapport (look up the course). This report does not include answers to open-ended questions and possible custom-made questions.
Student representatives: The person responsible for the course must forward the report without open-ended questions to the student representative(s).
Students are not given access to the reports.
Follow-up: The report forms the basis of the Dialogue meeting with the student representative(s).
The study programme manager: A study programme manager, who in addition is responsible for one or more courses, will have access to all the evaluation reports in the programme via Canvas (Account – Settings – Course Evaluation). Study programme managers who are not responsible for courses, must contact Siren Vegusdal for access to the reports.
User support
Support for how to add custom-made subject-specific questions in Canvas (CES): Siren Vegusdal or the person responsible for Canvas at your Faculty.
- siren.vegusdal@uia.no
- Phone
- +47 38 14 13 88