WSU Course Evaluation Procedure

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This procedure is intended as a general outline for a unit doing course evaluations at WSU. Elements of the process are WSU-centric and will not work on other campuses

Contents 1 Step 1 Create the survey 1.1 Procedure to Copy existing survey 2 Step 2 Select the courses to be surveyed 3 Step 3 Notify Students to take the survey

Step 1 Create the survey

Most likely you will create the survey as a copy of a survey made a previous semester. If you need to write the survey from scratch, see these topics related to authoring.

Procedure to Copy existing survey

1. Locate the survey to be copied in its folder
2. Select the survey, click Copy (as of 3/18/08, select is one click on the survey title )
3. You can paste into the same folder or a different one. Navigate to the destination folder
4. Click Paste
5. Edit the survey properties, updating titles, message to respondents, start/stop dates, etc
6. To delete the old respondent pools that came across in the copy:

1. Navigate to Respondents
2. Use the checkbox on the top-left to select all respondent pools
3. Click "Delete" and confirm deletion action

Now you have a set of survey questions, with start and stop dates, etc, but no students or courses to respond to it.

Review description. Please review this description against the application.

Step 2 Select the courses to be surveyed

The easiest way to choose the courses and get the data into Skylight is with Section Picker

1. Choose courses into a cart in Section Picker
2. Copy the Cart Key from Section Picker
3. In the Respondent Pool Manager section of your survey (where you previously deleted pools)

1. Click "Section Picker" button
2. Paste in the Cart Key copied from Section Picker
3. The delivery mode should default to "Single URL + AD Auth + AD group" (you want this mode)
4. Set any start/stop dates that should override the dates set for the survey (unlikely)
5. Set any metadata that should be added to these pools (unlikely)
6. Upload. Skylight will respond with the number of pools uploaded

1. Navigate back to the Respondent Pool Manager to see all the pools that were uploaded

Step 3 Notify Students to take the survey

The easiest way is to send a Notice through myWSU.

1. Click the "Message" button at the top of the Respondent Pool Manager