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Dear Lecturers,<br><br>
I have heard from a few instructors who have opted into iEVAL for Spring
2008 quarter. If you would like to sign up for iEVAL, please follow
the instructions and go to the site located below. Please let me
know if you have decided to "opt in".<br><br>
Thank You.<br><br>
Teri Carter<br><br>
At 10:59 AM 5/2/2008, Gladis Herrera-Berkowitz wrote:<br>
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Dear All:<br>
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This is a reminder that faculty wishing to use iEVAL for their Spring
2008 courses can sign up now through Friday, May 16. <br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times"> iEVAL will be made
available to students from <b>Monday May 28 – Midnight on Sunday, June
8</b>.<br>
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Benefits to using iEVAL are: <br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4><i>1) Students
can respond at any time thus freeing class time for instruction<br>
2) Faculty do not have to worry about getting evaluation forms from
the department, finding a volunteer to administer the evaluations, and
hoping that all the evaluations make it to the Office of Instructional
Development for processing<br>
3) Faculty will receive feedback on the response rate and can also
access this information at any time at
<a href="http://www.ieval.ucr.edu/">www.ieval.ucr.edu</a><br>
4) OID will send e-mail reminders to students enrolled in the
course and will also advertise iEVAL throughout the campus<br>
5) Final Course Evaluation Reports for Spring 2008 will be
available to faculty on iEVAL on the first day of instruction of the
following quarter
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4 color="#0000FF">(<b>
June 23, 2008</b>)</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=4>,
paper evaluations will not be available until the <b>END OF AUGUST/Early
SEPTEMBER 2008</b><br>
6) Students provide more in depth comments and behave more maturely
than in the paper format (online comments require minimal to no editing
for profanity and inappropriate comments). Based on a recent survey
students indicate that they like iEVAL because it allows them time to
reflect on the instruction, gives them a better sense of privacy and
confidentiality to provide better feedback.<br>
7) In reviewing past course evaluations for faculty participants
the ratings remained consistent with their historical results. The
response rates are lower than the paper evaluation but we are working on
improving this by developing creative ways of encouraging and advertising
iEVAL to the students<br>
8) iEVAL is environmentally friendly. Each quarter we process
over 30,000 paper evaluations and print over 1,500 final reports that are
distributed to faculty and department chairs. iEVAL can be
processed and viewed online. The system also archives evaluations
dating back to Winter 2005, providing quick and easy access to these
important records.</i></font> <br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">Faculty who participated in
iEVAL as of Fall 2007 will automatically default to this option. If
faculty wish to continue using this system they do not need to do
anything. If they would like to opt out of iEVAL then please ask
them to go to<b>
<a href="http://www.ieval.ucr.edu/">www.ieval.ucr.edu</a> <br>
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</b>Faculty who have not used iEVAL can sign up through their department
representative who will provide OID with the attached spreadsheet.
We ask that departments please compile the list of signups on this
spreadsheet and submit the final list by <b>Friday, May 16.</b>
Approximately a week later we will provide the departments with a final
list of all courses that will be evaluated online. Faculty will
also receive a detailed e-mail advising them on how the process works and
the timeline that the evaluation will be made available to their
students. It is essential that we have the following
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:<br>
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1)</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=1>
</font>faculty's name<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">2)</font>
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</font>Employee ID number<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">3) net ID (this can be
found at
<a href="http://enterprisedirectory.ucr.edu/phone/tel_search.show">
http://enterprisedirectory.ucr.edu/phone/tel_search.show</a> ) <br>
4) </font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" color="#0000FF">
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">ALL the courses they wish to
have evaluated. <br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times">Please contact me if you have any
questions.<br>
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GHB<br>
<br>
</font><font size=2>Gladis Herrera-Berkowitz, M.A.<br>
Director of Instructional Development<br>
Office of Undergraduate Education<br>
321 Surge<br>
University of California<br>
Riverside, CA 92521<br>
Office - 951-827-4751<br>
951-827-7750<br>
951-827-6170<br>
Fax - 951-827-7745<br>
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