Please note that there will be no open-ended questions unless you (or your department) add them each semester to Course Evaluation System (CES). If you would like to see qualitative feedback from your students, please add your own questions to your surveys before November 25th. Email ecafe-kcc@lists.hawaii.edu if you need assistance.

Note these recent changes to CES:

• Non-traditional (aka part-of-term) surveys are by default open to students for 7 days, just like the traditional surveys. Instructors can still extend and re-open the surveys. Email notifications to the students regarding the non-traditional surveys are automatically sent on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Email notifications to instructors with upcoming non-traditional surveys are sent out on Monday of the week before the survey opens to the students, so the instructor can add questions to the upcoming survey if desired.

• Starting in Fall 2021, CES creates one survey for each instructor for every course in Banner. Previously, CES created one survey per course and co-instructors had to ‘share’ the survey. While each instructor now has his/her own survey where he/she can select questions, the students will only see one survey per course. If a course has more than one instructor, the student view of the survey will have multiple sections (one section per instructor) followed by the questions set by the campus/college/division/department and subject.

• ITS has also created a new set of how-to documents (requires logging into your hawaii.edu Google account). Please share this information widely, and submit your requests or questions on the CES Request Assistance page.

Add questions relevant to evaluating online courses. Browse the DE-Specific questions recommended for DE classes for recommendations.