Student Assessment of Instruction Procedures for Spring 2010
Updated: 2/23/2010
Effective Fall 2009, Student Assessment of Instruction will be delivered to all East Campus students, all Winter Park Campus students, and online students on other campuses in an online format each semester. West Campus and Osceola Campus will use paper assessment forms for all onsite and hybrid courses. Below we’ve listed a few of the answers to frequently asked questions that you may be interested in reading as we embark in this new process of student assessment of instruction. How will your students receive the online Assessment? If your class is receiving an online survey, your students will receive an e-mail message in their Atlas account from an address called “Student Feedback Admin studentfeedback@valenciacc.edu,” which will alert students that the Student Assessment of Instruction is available to them, and invites them to participate by completing the survey. Please take a look at the image (shown on the right hand side), which is a sample of the email that students will receive. As you will note in this sample, every student will receive a link to the survey itself, along with a security password for authentication purposes. According to policy and to ensure the students’ anonymity these passwords are untraceable and the students’ responses are anonymous. NOTE: Only one survey can be completed per password. If students have trouble with the given passwords, they should contact the Administrative Assistant in the Department office. Are there any reminders in place that will prompt students to take the survey? Yes. If a student has not used their password and taken a survey, the system will send out a reminder email to that student at specific intervals while the survey is open. The email text is very similar to the invitation email. The main difference is located in the subject line, which states that the email is a “reminder” email for a particular course’s online survey. See the image below for details. Once the student has taken the survey they will receive no further reminders, meanwhile those students who have not completed the survey will continue to receive reminder emails until the survey closes. All 1