Pesky, maybe; but fill out evaluations
Starsha McCrary
Issue date: 4/15/09 Section: Opinion
The time has come again to fill out those pesky course evaluations.
Even though the point of these is to improve courses, most students see them as a headache.
Students now have a week to two weeks depending on their colleges to get them completed.
As a senior, I have the pleasure of remembering a couple years back when students had no choice but to take the mini-surveys because they were given in-class.
Professors would hand out the blank evaluation forms and leave the classroom. Students would then fill them out, and one student volunteer would collect them and deliver them to the college office.
After the switch to evaluations via Internet, many students either forgot to do them or just didn't get to them quickly enough.
Because of this, course evaluation numbers fell. The drop prompted rumors that students who didn't fill out the forms would not receive grades on time. But that tactic really didn't work.
Now, more students are filling them out than when the switch first occurred. Maybe we just needed time to get used to the system.
A lot of students don't do the forms simply because they don't get the memos through student email.
If students don't check their email, they will not only miss out on course evaluations but pretty much everything else school related.
For those who missed the email, course evaluations can be completed this week. Liberal arts students have until 11:59 p.m. Sunday, April 26, to complete them; law students have until 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23; and all other students have until 11:59 p.m. Sunday, April 19. Just go to this website: https://
jackson.udmercy.edu//surveys/.
For the first time in a long time, I filled out the class evaluations early. I'm don
Even though the point of these is to improve courses, most students see them as a headache.
Students now have a week to two weeks depending on their colleges to get them completed.
As a senior, I have the pleasure of remembering a couple years back when students had no choice but to take the mini-surveys because they were given in-class.
Professors would hand out the blank evaluation forms and leave the classroom. Students would then fill them out, and one student volunteer would collect them and deliver them to the college office.
After the switch to evaluations via Internet, many students either forgot to do them or just didn't get to them quickly enough.
Because of this, course evaluation numbers fell. The drop prompted rumors that students who didn't fill out the forms would not receive grades on time. But that tactic really didn't work.
Now, more students are filling them out than when the switch first occurred. Maybe we just needed time to get used to the system.
A lot of students don't do the forms simply because they don't get the memos through student email.
If students don't check their email, they will not only miss out on course evaluations but pretty much everything else school related.
For those who missed the email, course evaluations can be completed this week. Liberal arts students have until 11:59 p.m. Sunday, April 26, to complete them; law students have until 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 23; and all other students have until 11:59 p.m. Sunday, April 19. Just go to this website: https://
jackson.udmercy.edu//surveys/.
For the first time in a long time, I filled out the class evaluations early. I'm don
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