Subject: Spring online course evaluation information
From: "Erin Guild" <[email-masked]>
To: "undisclosed-recipients:"
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:30:16 -0400

Dear MSFS faculty,

Unless you opted out of the online electronic survey for the spring (and 
instead requested paper evals), you likely received the email below from 
the Registrar's office to your Georgetown University email account. I am 
resending it for two reasons, 1) in case the email did not reach you, 
and 2) to ask for your help in raising the response rate.

While the online surveys have the potential to be more efficient in 
evaluating courses than the paper forms, one of the difficulties 
experienced last semester was low student participation. In talking with 
students, part of the problem they shared related to the timing of the 
evaluations. We have shared this concern with those above, but in the 
meantime, we suggest the following:

1) encourage your students to participate, let them know the value of 
the evaluations to you, your course, and to MSFS.
2) consider offering in-class time during your final class meeting for 
students to fill out the evals via laptops.

Here is the email from the registrar (my apologies to those receiving 
this more than once):

    We are sending this email to advise you that we intend to inform
    students in your class that the electronic evaluation survey will be
    available beginning 8am on Tuesday, April 24th through Thursday, May
    3rd at 11pm. It would be helpful to all if you could also mention to
    the students in class or by email the evaluations will be given
    online, and encourage them to fill it out as soon as possible.
    Students with incomplete surveys will be sent reminders periodically
    to complete the survey before the deactivation time.

    Those instructors who selected to use synchronous administration are
    reminded to inform their students of the date selected for
    administering the survey and they must complete the survey during
    that period because they will not have access once the period is
    over. No reminders will be sent to the students in courses opting
    for synchronous administration.

    Students and instructors can go to:

    https://eval.georgetown.edu
    In the "Main Campus" box, click on "CoursEval"
    Log in with their NetID and password

    Instructors can preview the survey and add up to five optional
    questions by clicking on "My Course Questions" under "Survey".
    Instructors can also monitor the progress of their response rate on
    the main landing page.

    If you have any questions, please email me at [email-masked]

    We appreciate your help with this important part of our academic
    process.

    Joseph M. Davies
    Manager of Faculty Evaluations
    Office of the University Registrar

Erin
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Mr. Erin E. Guild
Director of Academic Affairs
Master of Science in Foreign Service
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University
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