Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys

Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys (Formerly EvaluationKit) is a secure and easy online tool that uses Canvas integration to allow students to complete course evaluations. Instructors, administrators, and students can access course evaluation results through MyDU. CES also provides access to evaluation reports, add custom questions (if available), monitor response rates for course evaluations, and review the evaluation dates for their courses.

Evaluation responses are completely anonymous. No personally identifiable information, such as name or student ID, is connected to the feedback students submit.

For questions about course evaluations, please contact:

• Alexandra.J.Burke@du.edu
• InstitutionalResearch@du.edu

 

Information for Students

• COMPLETING EVALUATIONS

  There are 3 options to complete your evaluations:

  1. Link

     a. Click the direct link sent out over email from the Office of Institutional Research. These links are unique for each student.

  2. Canvas

     a. Log into Canvas
     b. A notification will pop up if course evaluations are open and you can select “Go to Survey”
     c. There will also be a tab on the left side within the course tab that says “Student Course Evaluations.” This will bring you to a home page that will allow you to see all the course evaluations you have to complete.

  3. MyDU

     a. Log in to My4D.
     b. Search for “Watermark Course Evaluations (EvaluationKIT)

• NOTIFICATIONS

  You will receive an email with instructions once the evaluation period opens and periodic reminder emails until they complete all their evaluations or the evaluation period closes. You will also receive reminder notifications about your course evaluations within Canvas.

• USING THE RESPONSE SCALE

  Please pay close attention to the order of options in the response scale when completing evaluations. Levels of agreement are ordered from low to high starting on the left. 

  1	2	3	4	5	6
  Strongly disagree	Disagree	Disagree more than agree	Agree more than disagree	Agree	Strongly Agree

Information for Instructors

• ACCESSING THE SYSTEM

  Ten days before the start of course evaluations, you will receive an email indicating which of your courses will be evaluated. This email will also provide you with instructions for how to add additional questions to your course evaluations if you would like to do so. This email will provide you a link into the Course Evaluation & Surveys system. You can also access the evaluations directly by logging in to Canvas, selecting one of your courses, and then selecting Student Course Evaluations on the left side (see the red box in the picture below). This will bring you in to the CES system.

• ADDING EVALUATION QUESTIONS

  You can add up to two questions to your course evaluations. You can add questions starting 10 days before the course evaluations open up until the night before the course evaluations open. For detailed instructions on adding additional questions, please click here.

  For a video walk through of adding additional questions, please click here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eNdR-1QkXo

  If you have questions or need help adding additional questions, please don't hesitate to contact institutionalresearch@du.edu. We know this process can be a bit confusing, especially the first time you do it.

• TRACKING RESPONSE RATES

  You can track response rates to your evaluations throughout the evaluation period. To maintain confidentiality, instructors may not see the identities of individual respondents.

  You will receive emails with your current response rate while the course evaluations are open. You may also log in to Course Evaluations & Surveys directly to track your response rate once the evaluation is open. The response rate tracker is in the top right corner.

  

   

• VIEWING EVALUATION RESULTS

  You will receive an email that will provide you with instructions for accessing your evaluation results once they are ready for review. This email will be sent approximately three weeks after grades are due.

  You may also access the results of past terms (beginning with Fall 2018) through Course Evaluations & Surveys. Select the appropriate term under Project Results:

  

  This will bring you to a screen to select the evaluation results you would like to download. You can select these results under Reports on the right side. Generally, you will want to select the “Short Report with Comments.”

  

  For Evaluation results from earlier terms:

  Summer 2016 – Summer 2018:

  Contact institutionalresearch@du.edu to obtain these results.

  Fall 2004 – Summer 2016:

  1. Log in to My4D.
  2. Select the Faculty tab.
  3. Under Course and Teacher Evaluations, click Course and Teacher Summaries.