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NAME: EvaluationKit PROVIDER:EvaluationKIT

FEATURES identified on website:

  • Create and customize surveys
  • Use visual editor to format questions without knowing any HTML
  • Instructors and administrators can be granted access to add their own specific questions
  • Delivery of survey to one or many courses at once
  • User access via e-mail, custom login page, and integration with your current web interface
  • Schedule and send reminder emails to non-respondents
  • Establish reporting access hierarchy for multiple campuses, schools, departments, and programs
  • Can produce PDF summary reports or export raw data to Excel, SPSS or other statistics reporting software
  • Administrator and instructor dashboards provide easy access to project results and real-time response rates, for just the areas or courses they oversee
  • Interactive reporting allows real-time comparisons of departments, courses, and instructors
  • Setup performance flags in reporting to visually highlight performance levels
  • Fully-hosted system, no hardware needed to buy or support
  • Live technical support, available through phone or e-mail
  • Implementation and Best Practices consulting
  • Professional customization specialists to tailor EvaluationKIT to your needs

NAME: Class Climate PROVIDER: Scantron

FEATURES identified on website:

  • Streamlined the entire evaluation process from months to weeks, allowing organizations to save time and money.
  • Includes standard question library along with ability to customize questionnaires using a web-based forms designer.
  • Automates the collection of the handwritten comments during the scanning process in order to eliminate the high volume of manual data entry from paper surveys, while maintaining the anonymity of the participant.
  • Communication with the server can be operated over a completely encrypted (SSL) connection, for users and online participants.
  • Data can be exported in SPSS or Excel formats for further data analysis, if needed.
  • Administrator defines the user roles in order to determine the level of access needed for your organization.
  • The users range from K-12 and Higher Education, Government, Commercial and Professional organizations to various organizational departments.
  • Customize the online survey portal to match your corporate identity, create custom database scripts, and connect to your course information systems.
  • Includes both online and paper survey options in the same license in order to help organizations maximum the response rates by reaching all of the respondents.
  • Automates the sending of the instructor or trainer PDF report by email. Standard or custom report options can be determined along with determining if the reports are sent automatically or batch sent or printed when needed.

NAME: CoursEval™ 3 PROVIDER: Academic Management Systems

FEATURES identified on website:

  • Automates the distributing, collecting, collating & reporting of longitudinal surveys
  • Immediate access to survey results
  • Supports Blackboard/WebCT, Moodle, Sakai and other campus portal systems
  • Customizable to meet needs of academic units and institution-wide initiatives
  • New surveys can be created by drawing upon the bank of existing questions/surveys
  • May be used to create collaborative-group student peer-review surveys
  • Import tools provide easy entry of course, student, faculty, and course enrollment
  • All surveys can be viewed online
  • Tables and graphs display comparative analysis between courses or departments
  • Any period can be evaluated, i.e. semester, module, rotation, internship, or placement
  • A randomization feature can sample student responses in larger group settings
  • Online access supports initiatives in curriculum planning and course revision
  • Support group email to students, faculty and administrators response
  • Security of data and anonymity of student responses is insured
  • User authentication provides a wide array of access levels to survey results
  • Individual faculty may compare their instructional performance at the course, department and university level
  • Academic administrators may compare performance of faculty members, courses, departments and schools/colleges

NAME: eCourseEvaluation PROVIDER: eCollege

FEATURES identified on web sites:

  • Data collection and reporting
  • Customized forms
  • Real-time results
  • Scalable
  • Ease of survey authoring and administration
  • Technologies to maximize response rate
  • Formative and summative evaluation
  • Reporting Pages have "preferences" option

NAME: FAST (FREE Assessment Summary Tool) PROVIDER: Dr. Bruce Ravelli, Zvjezdan Patz

FEATURES identified on web sites:

  • Data are reported in Microsoft Excel
  • Customized forms
  • Formative and summative evaluation
  • Option to allow students to see results
  • Used by individual instructors so far (2,700 +)

NAME: Flashlight Online PROVIDER: a benefit of the Teaching, Learning and Technology Group, Stephen C. Ehrmann, Director

FEATURES identified by Dr. Ehrmann:

  • unlimited authoring accounts, unlimited number of surveys, unlimited number of responses. An institution could, for example, give students authoring accounts.
  • an item bank of validated questions for doing surveys about education, technology use, technology support
  • a library of model surveys (CATs, student feedback, surveys useful for accreditation self-studies, etc.)
  • the ability to put your own surveys through a peer review and have them published for use by other Flashlight Online users
  • the ability to share surveys and data, if you wish, with Flashlight Online users at other institutions who are working on similar topics (Flashlight Online was developed by, and runs on servers at, Washington State University); it's supported and offered by the non-profit TLT Group.

NAME: IDEA (Individual Development and Educational Assessment) Online PROVIDER: IDEA Center, Kansas State University

FEATURES identified on web site:

  • Two delivery options for student surveys:
  • Email delivery system with unique URL for each student
  • Unique course URL posted on the course web page
  • Student surveys restricted to one submission.
  • Confidential submission of survey forms.
  • Only students enrolled in the course have access to the survey.
  • With email interface, automatic email reminders delivered to those who have not responded. The campus determines the frequency of the reminders.
  • Email delivery of Faculty Information Forms (FIF).
  • Allows faculty to access their FIF multiple times during the FIF administration period.
  • Additional questions can be added to the survey form.
  • Institutionally defined default survey administration period for a set of courses or unique administration period for a single course.
  • Provides a summary report of student open-ended comments for each course.

NAME: OnlineCourseEvaluations.com PROVIDER: GAP Technologies, Inc.

FEATURES identified by Michael Bernhard:

  • Interactive demo online for administrators and professors to see
  • Response Rate Tracking DURING evaulation period
  • Response Rate Guarantee
  • Follow up questions to let dissatisfied students say exactly what could be done differently
  • Data collection and reporting tools
  • Completely customizable evaluation forms including semantic differential style items
  • Sortable compliation of open-ended comments for each course
  • Results posted 24 hours after end of evaluation period
  • Easy administration of evaluations for staff
  • Technologies & Methodologies to maximize response rate
  • Students restricted to one submission per course.
  • Confidential submission of survey forms.
  • Only students enrolled in the course have access to the form
  • Automatic email reminders delivered to those who have not responded, as determined by school (subject line and content can be varied for repeated delivery)
  • Data can be exported to Microsoft Excel
  • Option to let students see results
  • Evaluations hosted on company servers

NAME: Web eVal PROVIDER: one45 Software, Inc.

FEATURES identified on website:

  • Automate the sending, receiving, collating & reporting of evaluations
  • Generate & e-mail evaluation forms to faculty, & students
  • Save clerical support time
  • Achieve greater than 90% response rates on evaluations
  • Easily generate custom reports
  • Receive statistical analysis of collected data
  • Forms generated automatically from rotation schedule
  • Evaluations e-mailed in minutes
  • Easily track incomplete forms
  • Attach Student Pictures on Evaluation forms
  • Collect other information with 'one-off' surveys
  • WEB Eval uses your evaluation forms (e.g. Rotation, Faculty, Student Evaluations)
  • Track and view evaluations of clerks
  • View combined or individual reports in HTML or PDF formats
  • Report generation reduced to minutes
  • WEB Eval uses your report formats
  • Reports e-mailed to faculty & program directors
  • Statistical tools help access data for additional research
  • Choose reference groups for comparison across services, sites, programs and years

NAME: WebFOCUS using iWay software PROVIDER: Information Builders

FEATURES identified on web site:

  • Data collection and reporting
  • Real-time results
  • Customized, Color Coded, archived reports
  • Embedded graphics
  • Daily curriculum comments (formative)
  • Satisfaction index
  • Photo gallery of instructors
  • Built for University of North Texas Health Science Center

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