In the summer and fall of 2006, the Office of the Provost and the Office of Student Services as well as the University Council on Teaching came together to pilot BC's first online course evaluation system. By the beginning of the spring 2007 semester, evaluating courses online, which had been optional in the fall, became the norm as administrators, faculty, and students saw the value of a system that is fast, easy, convenient, secure, anonymous, and confidential.
In response to requests from students for course evaluation information which they could access during the course registration process, quantitative results were made available in the fall of 2009 to BC users via the Course Information and Schedule link under My Services in their Agora Portal. For more information, please reference the Course Information and Schedule web page
For more information contact the Office of Student Services by calling 617-552-3300 or by sending an email to studentservices@bc.edu. Feel free to send any comments or suggestions about the course evaluation system or website to evals@bc.edu.
Online Course Evaluation Information for Faculty
All course evaluations are completed online. You may access your evaluation surveys from the Course Evaluation menu item in your Agora Portal.
Conducting course evaluations online has proven to be easy, generate better quality responses, preserve class time, and provide immediate reporting at the end of the semester. “How to View Your Online Course Evaluation Results” explains the steps necessary for accessing your survey results on Agora Portal.
You may view the course evaluation survey instrument from the link on this webpage. The survey consists of six standard-response questions and three open-ended questions chosen by faculty on the University Council on Teaching from the current paper instrument. You may also add up to five customized questions.
Please note that there are many advantages to using the online course evaluation:
- The system supports the evaluation of cross-listed and team-taught courses by providing an evaluation for each instructor.
- Faculty can download the results for analysis.
- The process is disaster resistant.
- The survey is administered and stored electronically at a secure site.