Evaluation FAQs

• Check your McLennan student email for an email invitation.
• Log into Brightspace, and you will be prompted to complete any course evaluations that are currently available.
• If you close out the prompt in Brightspace or it does not appear, click the link in the bottom of the Brightspace homepage in the "My Surveys" module to evaluate your courses.

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Your opinions matter. The College needs your perspective on what you are learning and how you are learning and our faculty use your responses to help them as they prepare for future classes.

If your course has an enrollment of 4 students or less your course will not be evaluated.

Yes, all results are kept anonymous and confidential from the faculty. Faculty have a report that will allow them to see who completed the evaluations after 5 students have completed the evaluation, to allow faculty the opportunity to offer extra credit for completion. Faculty only receive the names and do  not receive any comments along with their reports.

The faculty and instructional administration work together using a variety of information, including the student evaluation, to improve academics at MCC.

1. All regular 16 week courses and courses running 11 weeks during the summer: Evaluation open for 4 weeks prior to finals.
2. All other courses, 8 week, and summer sessions: 3 week prior to finals.
3. All minimester courses: 7 days prior to finals.
4. Field Courses: 7 days prior to last class day.

No, results will be made available to faculty until after all final grades have been posted to WebAdvisor. Results are typically available the week following finals.

To view a copy of the course evaluation please click here.

The questions are determined through a collaborative effort involving faculty, instructional administration, and our institutional research department.

The questions are determined through a collaborative effort involving faculty, instructional administration, and our institutional research department.

Evaluations are now offered fully online to students! We encourage you to read the Best Practices page that is full of tips and tricks on how to complete evaluations and receive higher response rates. In face-to-face courses we strongly encourage you to allow class time to complete evaluations, just as you would have allowed for the paper packets to be completed. During that time students have several options to complete their course evaluation(s):

1. Check your McLennan student email for an email invitation.
2. Log into Brightspace, and you will be prompted to complete any course evaluations that are currently available.
3. If you close out the prompt in Brightspace or it does not appear, click the link in the bottom of the Brightspace homepage in the "My Surveys" module to evaluate your courses.

For online courses there will not be a link for you to provide to your students, rather, they will be reminded every time they log into Brightspace that they evaluations to complete. This message will appear upon every login until all evaluations available to them are completed.

If your course has an enrollment of 4 students or less your course will not be evaluated.

You can see who has and/or who has not responded to your course evaluations once 5 or more evaluations are completed for your section by downloading a list of respondents. Note that it is 5 responses per section that is being evaluated; if you have 4 responses or less in a particulate section you will not be able to see who has completed the evaluations in that section. To reassure you and the students, their anonymity of individual responses will be protected during this process, you will only see that they have completed the evaluation, not their individual response(s). Additionally, you will only have access to all responses AFTER the term has ended and all grades have been submitted. Click here to view a pdf guide outlining the steps to downloading the list of respondents and non-respondents.

Per policy B-XII all faculty and all courses are evaluated every semester they assigned to teaching a course. As the instructor, there will be no need to request to be evaluated, the only thing we ask is that you communicate the importance of course evaluations to your class. Please inform your students how you use course evaluations as suggestions for improvement of the course and yourself.

If your course has an enrollment of 4 students or less your course will not be evaluated.

To view a copy of the course evaluation please click here.

The questions are determined through a collaborative effort involving faculty, instructional administration, and our institutional research department.

1. All regular 16 week courses and courses running 11 weeks during the summer: Evaluation open for 4 weeks prior to finals.
2. All other courses, 8 week, and summer sessions: 3 week prior to finals.
3. All minimester courses: 7 days prior to finals.
4. Field Courses: 7 days prior to last class day.

The overall goal of evaluations is to improve performance. With a variety of information, including student evaluations, faculty should have a better understanding of their students and how they learn. Please refer to our Best Practices page for more recommendations.