We Care What Students Think

CDE is committed to making our student’s educational experience the best it can be. So, we are continually looking for ways in which we can enhance our services and improve our courses to better meet student needs. In order to do this effectively, CDE evaluates our courses each semester. The most important form of evaluation that we can get is feedback from students on how we are doing. This semester, we implemented a new approach to our course evaluations. We put the course evaluation form online for students to access at anytime and from any Internet connected computer. We hope that this method of evaluation will increase the number of students offering feedback by making it easier for them to submit results, especially for web based courses. Please feel free to let your students know about the online course evaluations. You can send them email or even paste the address below into a Blackboard message. If you would like to take a look for yourself, just point your web browser to http://distance.uaf.edu/cc/endofcoursesurvey/survey.htm. CDE will process the evaluations and provide a summary to instructors for each course. No names or identifying information will be available to instructors, but comments and overall results will assist you in understanding how your students felt about the course and where changes might need to be made. All students who received a grade in Fall 2006 were sent a letter containing this information as well as a print version of the evaluation. This will serve to facilitate the evaluations for those who do not have Internet access as well as notification of the new online process.