For a standardized student experience and high response rate, please follow these practices and procedures when administering evaluations.
Learn more about evaluation practices and proceduresYou will use your Lafayette SSO to login to the Anthology Course Evaluations system. The login link can be found at multiple access points:
Please view the Instructor Experience video or the Department Administrator Experience video, whichever is appropriate, to gain an understanding of your view of the course evaluation dashboard when you login. (Note: These videos refer to the system under its prior moniker, My CoursEval.)
Students are able to complete course evaluations at any point during the open evaluation periods that are held at the end of a term. Check the Important Dates page for information about upcoming open periods for course evaluations. Faculty are expected to devote 15 minutes of class time to administer evaluations during this open period.
It may be helpful to inform students of the day you plan to allow time for evaluations to be completed in class before the evaluation periods open.
Students will be sent an automated email (sender name: Laf Course Evals) on the first day of the evaluation open period from Anthology Course Evaluations with their list of courses to be evaluated this semester as well as the link to log-in to the Anthology Course Evaluations system.
Students can also go to courseevals.lafayette.edu and access course evaluations by clicking “Anthology Course Evaluations Login” on the right side menu or find the Anthology Course Evaluations link in the “Taking Classes” block on their MyLafayette portal.
Students will also be sent automated reminder emails from Anthology every 3 days once the evaluation period opens, plus one on the final day of the evaluation period, informing them of which courses they have not yet evaluated until all of their course evaluations are completed or the evaluation period closes, whichever comes first.
Ask students to login to see their evaluations through (1) the Lafayette Course Evaluations website, (2) one of the emails that was generated and sent to them by the Anthology Course Evaluations system (sender name: Laf Course Evals), or (3) the course evaluations link under the “Taking Classes” block on their MyLafayette portal.
Once logged in, students will see a list of all of their courses that are being evaluated. They will select your specific course and begin the evaluation.
You may also send your students a direct link for your courses. After you have logged in to Anthology, copy the Share Link listed under your course and send it to your students. Note: The link will appear to not work for you, however, it will work for your students once they sign in and the system recognizes that they are enrolled in the course.
As a recommended practice, the open period is designed to give flexibility to students in completing their course evaluations, and faculty members in administering the evaluations during class. However, there may be reasons why faculty members wish to have their students complete the course evaluations after a specific time during the open period. Faculty members can indicate on the syllabus, during class, and on any course sites, that students hold off on completing their evaluations of the course until the designated day during the open period when they will be administered during class, and the reasons as to why. Faculty members can also remind the students of this expectation just prior to the open period. This does not completely restrict students from filling out the evaluations outside of the designated time, but can prevent students from completing them before the desired date.
Yes, students are able to edit their course evaluations anytime during the open evaluation period by logging in to the course evaluation system and going to their completed surveys. Once the evaluation period closes, course evaluations cannot be edited or updated.
Students will be sent automated reminder emails from Anthology (sender name: Laf Course Evals) every 3 days once the evaluation period opens, plus one on the final day of the evaluation period, informing them of which courses they have not yet evaluated until all of their course evaluations are completed or the evaluation period closes, whichever comes first.
In addition, faculty members will also be sent automated emails (sender name: Laf Course Evals) from Anthology every 5 days once the evaluation period opens, plus one on the final day of the evaluation period, informing them of how many students have completed evaluations in their courses. If response rates are low after in-class administration (e.g. less than 75%), faculty are encouraged to reach out to their students and invite them to complete the course evaluation as soon as possible.
As per the Faculty Handbook 4.2.1.1.2.1, faculty members should email the Provost at provostoffice@lafayette.edu with their reason for not using the standard evaluation.
Upon approval, faculty members will be asked to complete a Qualtrics survey so that the Course Evaluations team is able to turn the appropriate courses off in the Anthology Course Evaluations system.
No courses can be turned off once the evaluation period opens.
Independent studies and honors courses, internships, and classes with enrollment under five are not evaluated as per the faculty handbook (4.2.1.1.2.1).
If your course does not fall within any of those categories and is missing, email courseevals@lafayette.edu and notify them of your situation.
The student may not have officially submitted their request to withdraw from the course or the processing of their request is still on-going. It will be important for students to check that they have been officially withdrawn from the course if they are still enrolled according to Banner.
Check the College’s academic calendars for term specific withdrawal deadlines. Enrollment information will be updated regularly after the withdrawal deadline but before the start of the evaluation period.
Faculty are encouraged to check their rosters after logging in to Anthology Course Evaluations in the days preceding the evaluation period.
Contact help@lafayette.edu or call 610-330-5501 for assistance.
Under “My Reports” in Anthology, courses will show a large red button that says “Report Unavailable” until course evaluations are completed and results are released to faculty members. Evaluation Reports will be released after the deadline for faculty members to submit semester grades has passed.
Faculty can monitor the response rate and how many students have submitted evaluations by looking at the circular percentage “thermometer” on the right side of the screen for each course. Underneath the big red “Report Unavailable” button, the systems will say how many days are left in the evaluation period, if it is still open.
Generally, evaluation reports will be available to faculty members and department heads/program chairs several days after course grades are due. Exact timing may vary depending on office closures and when the course evaluation team receives confirmation that all course grades have been submitted. Faculty members will receive an automated notification from the system the day after reports have been made available.
Only individual faculty members will have access to their full evaluation reports that include student comments. Faculty members can download copies of their reports as .pdf files for their own usage and records. Individual faculty members will be able to readily access 3 variations of their reports: numerical results only, comments only, and a combined report.
Department heads and program chairs have access to numerical or quantitative data from evaluation reports for courses and faculty members within their department or program.
As per faculty vote, the practice of publishing quantitative evaluation report summaries from the prior 7 years for the Lafayette community has ended as of 7/1/23.
A faculty member’s prior individual evaluation reports can be found in the system under “Evaluation Reports” in the Reports menu.
As per faculty vote, the practice of publishing quantitative evaluation report summaries from the prior 7 years for the Lafayette community has ended as of 7/1/23.
Below are a few definitions of terms to be aware of when reviewing evaluation reports (Source: CoursEval).
Faculty members are welcome to analyze their course evaluation results in a myriad of ways for their own personal usage. After logging in to the system and going to Evaluation Reports under the Reports menu, faculty members can access and change the reporting parameters as desired under the “Report Options” link above their evaluation reports table. Click on the image below to expand and view all report options.
If you would like to conduct a thematic analysis of comments within your digital evaluation results, there are some strategies that may help in that process. Please visit the page on Performing Thematic Analyses on Comments.
Within your complete evaluation report, student responses may be randomized or may not be in the exact same response placement from question to question, such as in cases when students do not answer all qualitative questions.
When viewing the comments on your course evaluation reports in your internet browser, you may view the other responses of a student by clicking on the blue magnifying glass to the right of the response in question. Another window or tab will open showing that student’s complete evaluation response. This may be a helpful tool for thematic analysis of comments.