Teknoids

I don't know anything about the technology involved, but this sounds like a good idea. Why not just give the students the same 10 or 15 minutes in class to complete the evaluation, but have them use their laptops to log on and complete them on line. You may not get 100% but you never really get 100% completion of the paper evaluations either. I don't know that you need a more draconian penalty to enforce completion, at least for standard larger classes.

You could give students the choice of completing the eval on line or on paper, but then you would have to have someone enter the paper data into the same database--this would be important if there are a significant number of students in the class who don't have laptops to bring to class.

Bob Seibel
California Western School of Law
rfs@cwsl.edu
619 525 1445

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From: teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu on behalf of Sandra Lamar
Sent: Tue 5/20/2008 10:45 AM
To: teknoids@ruckus.law.cornell.edu
Subject: [teknoids] Question re online course evaluations

I asked recently about experiences people have had with doing online
course evaluations, and didn't receive any answers.

Is anyone at all having students evaluate profs this way, or did my
question just get upstaged by the funny cat video?

We have a program that ought to replace the paper evaluations done during
the last class, but are wondering how to get students to sign on. We are
thinking the only practical way would be to hold their grades until they
evaluate the course. Any opinions even if you haven't actually tried
this?

Thanks,

Sandy Lamar
Computer Services Reference Librarian
New England School of Law
154 Stuart St.
Boston, MA 02116
slamar@nesl.edu
617-422-7331