Course Evaluations

Overview

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About Course Evaluations

Course Evaluations at Berkeley offers departments the opportunity to coordinate course evaluations through a customizable online system with easy management and reporting. This campus-provided common-good service is managed by RTL and is available to departments who have opted into the service.

Course Evaluations allows for the automation and simplification of final semester reviews for instructors and allows students to access their evaluations forms at their convenience.

The reporting of results is automated and helps departments save resources by freeing up staff time from evaluation creation and reporting tasks. Appropriate administrative and supervisory staff are notified of evaluation results in addition to instructors. Departments are able to access student responses through a variety of different reports.

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Course Evaluations FAQs

Course Evaluations Accessibility

RTL Commons strives to provide accessible services and web-based tools. We partner with campus accessibility teams to review both internally developed and purchased solutions.

Course Evaluations utilize a third-party resource maintained by eXplorance. As of June 2020, several areas of the course evaluations platform, Blue, have been certified WCAG 2.1 (Level AA) compliant including Question Personalization, Form Fillout, Subject Management, and Reports. Please note that PDF versions of reports are not WCAG 2.1 compliant, but wherever a PDF report is available an HTML WCAG 2.1 compliant report is also available.

January 24th, 2017: In preparation for a software upgrade, the OEC team reviewed the service with the Web Access team who made recommendations which will be addressed internally and shared with the vendor in an effort to improve the the service for all users.

August 22, 2022: The Web Access team reviewed the service again and tested the latest version of the course evaluations platform (Blue 8). The vendor is in the process of updating areas of the tool as recommended by the web access report.

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Service at a Glance

CategoryDetail
System AvailabilityVaries by academic program
Initial Support Response TimeNo longer than 1 business day
Services and Offerings
  • Automated delivery, analysis, and reporting of end-of-term course evaluations.
  • Department customizable evaluation templates and instructor personalized questions.
EligibilityInstructors and Students
Data Protection LevelP3 - This platform stores or processes ​​FERPA-Protected Student Records and has passed a rigorous Vendor Security Assessment led by Berkeley’s Information Security Office.
Service LevelEnhanced - We help you adapt the system or service to your needs. We are available for one-on-one consultations and workshops, or to coordinate the appropriate resources to help you accomplish your goals.
Service OwnerRebecca Long (course-evaluations@berkeley.edu)

 
RatesOngoing operations support is free of charge.