To find out if your course is participating in Student Feedback, please check with your school administrator or department chair.
About 2 weeks before your course opens up for feedback from students, you will receive an email from the system to check that you are the correct instructor, the timing is appropriate, and for you add optional questions to the question bank. If you would like to add questions, it is a 2-step process and is time sensitive.
The first day of the student feedback period for your course, you will receive an email with the begin and end dates of the feedback period. Although there are default dates for the feedback periods, your school/department may have selected an alternate date, so this email is the most accurate source of your start/end dates. Also, in this email is a link to view what questions are posed to students. Click on the word "Preview" next to the course you're interested in viewing the questions.
Email reminders: Students will receive an email the first day and reminder emails until they have no courses left open for feedback. It is best if instructors remind students with an announcement in class or via email. Instructors can always refer students to this URL: https://gwu.smartevals.com. Upon login, students will see a list of courses for which they can provide feedback.
Extra credit: Some instructors like to provide the option of extra credit when students respond. We have seen at GW that awarding extra credit increases response rates by about 20%. Awarding extra credit is always at the discretion of the instructor. If extra credit is offered to individual students, students' names will be available for instructors to view in SmartEvals. This will only be available for courses that have at least 5 respondents. This is done to maintain the anonymous nature of the process. The names will only appear after the feedback period has closed and before the report is available to instructors. Log into the SmartEvals system as an instructor and click on "View Responders for a Bonus Point." Because of this feature, there is no need for instructors to email us about getting lists of students for extra credit.
Results are released approximately 3 weeks after the close date of the feedback period. A PDF report is emailed to each instructor. For co-taught courses, all instructors will see results to course-related questions, and only their own instructor-related questions. Results are only released for courses with at least 3 respondents. Instructors may also log into the system to view their results (https://gwu.smartevals.com). Use your GW email address (@gwu.edu) and password. If you forgot password, please visit https://identity.gwu.edu/.
