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University of Michigan: Teaching Evaluations

Students

Calendar

 
SP/SP-SU/SU 2016
FALL 2016
WINTER 2017
SP/SP-SU/SU 2017
Midterm feedback
    
Students fill out evaluations

Oct 10 – Oct 18
Feb 6 – Feb 15

     
Final evaluations
    
First-half seven-week courses
    
Students fill out evaluations

Oct 21 – Oct 28
Feb 17 – Feb 24
June 8 – June 21
     
Full-term & second-half seven-week courses
    
Students fill out evaluations
Aug 2 – Aug 17
Dec 1 – Dec 14
Apr 5 – Apr 19
Aug 1 – Aug 16
     
Law School courses
    
Students fill out evaluations
Aug 1 – Aug 15
Nov 22 – Dec 6
Apr 10 – Apr 24
July 31 – Aug 14
The above dates are guidelines that most evaluations follow.

Frequently Asked Questions

Instructors/Faculty/Staff

Calendar

 SP/SP-SU/SU 2016FALL  2016WINTER  2017SP/SP-SU/SU 2017
Midterm feedback
    
Departments submit orders
 Sep 6 – Oct 7Jan 4 – Feb 3 
Students fill out evaluations
 Oct 10 – Oct 18Feb 6 – Feb 15 
Instructors view reports
 Oct 21 (Tentative)Feb 17 (Tentative) 
Final evaluations
    
First-half seven-week courses
    
Departments submit orders
 Sep 6 – Oct 5Jan 4 – Feb 1May 2 – May 23
Instructors review and modify orders
 Oct 6 – Oct 19Feb 2 – Feb 15May 24 – June 6
Students fill out evaluations
 Oct 21 – Oct 28Feb 17 – Feb 24June 8 – June 21
Instructors and departments view reports
 Jan 4, 2017 (Tentative)Apr 24 (Tentative)June 28 (Tentative)
Full-term & second-half seven-week courses
    
Departments submit orders
May 3 – July 6Sep 6 – Oct 20Jan 4 – Feb 17May 2 – July 5
Instructors review and modify orders
July 7 – July 31Oct 21 – Nov 21Feb 20 – Mar 29July 6 – July 31
Students fill out evaluations
Aug 2 – Aug 17Dec 1 – Dec 14Apr 5 – Apr 19 Aug 1 – Aug 16
Instructors and departments view reports
Aug 24 (Tentative) Jan 4, 2017 (Tentative)Apr 24 (Tentative)Aug 23 (Tentative) 
Law School courses
    
Departments submit orders
May 3 – July 29Sep 6 – Nov 20Jan 4 – Apr 8May 2 – July 29
Students fill out evaluations
Aug 1 – Aug 15Nov 22 – Dec 6Apr 10 – Apr 24July 31 – Aug 14
Instructors and departments view reports
VariesVariesVariesVaries
The above dates are guidelines that most evaluations follow.

Teaching Evaluation Process Overview

Students, faculty and staff all have a part in making the evaluation period a success every term.

Update Templates/Add Questions

When core templates need creating or modifications, instructors working with their evaluation coordinators can design their core evaluation templates by selecting the questions from our Question Catalog A maximum of 30 rating questions and 5 open-ended comment questions is the limit.
Contact ro.evaluations@umich.edu with new template and question requests, or changes. The Registrar’s Office – Evaluations staff will modify existing templates or create a new evaluation templates for you. Information to include in the email:
  • Subject or Academic Org code
  • Template number (if it's just a change) or type 'New Template'
  • Description of the change including a description of the text before the change and after the change would be helpful
  • Your contact information (email and/or phone) in case there are any questions with the request
After the new templates are setup, department evaluation coordinators will be able or order evaluations using the new templates.

Check/Manage Orders

Department staff can check their orders by using the Mpathways > Curriculum Management > Teaching Evaluation Summary page. Use the page’s download feature to create a spreadsheet with all the evaluations for the previous term or year. It is a good practice to refer to last year’s or last term’s evaluation orders when creating orders for a new term. Another good practice is to wait until after the 3rd week of the term before ordering evaluations to minimize evaluation problems due to instructor changes in curriculum set up.
Instructors can check to see if an evaluation has been ordered from either Wolverine Access > Faculty Business > Faculty Center or from their Teaching Questionnaire page under their workspace in CTools. If an evaluation was not ordered for your class, then contact your department’s evaluation coordinator.
In most cases, if the department allows it, primary instructors can customize their evaluations by adding questions from the Wolverine Access > Faculty Center page. Not all questions are a good fit for our question catalog. The CTools 'Forums' or 'Polls' tools may be better suited handle certain questions. The information for using these tools is online under CTools > Help.

Teaching Evaluation Reports

Reporting Timeline

Typically, students complete evaluations during the last full week of classes. The evaluations then close before the start of examinations. After the majority of final evaluations for the term close, CTools interfaces that data back to Mpathways. Report access is turned on after a brief processing period. Instructors can access the reports after the grades for the class has been submitted in Wolverine Access > Faculty Business > Faculty Center.
The Individual Response Report is deleted from the system at the end of the following term. See the report availability datasheet for details.

Report Types

There are three standard Teaching Evaluation reports:

Medians and Quartiles

The Instructor Report and Instructor with Comments Report provide university wide and school/college wide medians along with the medians for the class. The reported medians are calculated by finding the median from a frequency distribution.
These two summary reports also provide quartiles that allow instructors to compare their rankings with other similar courses university wide and within their schools/colleges for questions 1 through 4.

Improving Teaching — Strategies and Resources

Resources to assist you with interpreting or making use of your results:

Requesting Evaluation Reports and Data

To obtain Teaching Evaluations prior to Fall 2008 or to request department or school/college wide Teaching Evaluation data in different formats (for example, Business Objects reports, Excel spreadsheets, comma separated values (*.csv) files) contact ro.evaluations@umich.edu.

Response Rates Reports

Response Rate Reports are available at a summary level by school or college and at a detail level by department.

Increasing Response Rates

Individual instructors are often best situated to increase the response rates for their evaluations.
  • Tell students directly how much you value their feedback. Let them know how you have incorporated past feedback into your courses. Assure them that all evaluations are anonymous and that instructors do not see results until after final grades are submitted.
  • Use the real time response rate feature on the CTools Evaluations Dashboard to keep track of your class specific response rates on a day-to-day basis during the evaluation period. Let your students know what percentage of the class has responded and that you would like to get feedback from everyone.
  • Add the 'Evaluate This Class' tool to your course site. This tool allows you to add a direct link to the Evaluations Dashboard, where students fill out their evaluations, from your course site.  It also gives you the option to provide a personalized message to students.  For more information, see the CTools Teaching Questionnaire Online Help.
  • Include evaluation period dates, if appropriate, in your course syllabus or class schedule for future terms.  See the Teaching Evaluation Calendar for important dates.

Frequently Asked Questions

Contact Information

Office of the Registrar – Evaluations
1210 LSA Building
500 South State Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1382
734-647-3626


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