The online surveys for the spring term classes will be available to your students beginning tomorrow (4/23/2010). Students will have until 4/30/2010 to complete them. These surveys are only being distributed to classes taught by adjunct faculty, and to the Nursing classes. We are using the eSir, which is specifically designed for online courses. An email will be sent to your students (to their Edison portal email) from the survey administrators, ETS. This email will contain a link to the course survey, a user name and a password. The user name is the student’s Edison email address, and the password is generated by ETS. Students who have not completed the survey will receive a reminder email from ETS two days before the survey closes.
We had a very good response in the fall, and have a good tip to share from an online professor. An effective way to increase student participation is to put a notice in the banner of your online course, letting them know about the email coming to their portal account. Consider emailing students in CE6, asking them to complete the survey. We would like as much participation as possible. The only problem we’ve had was the fact that some students did not realize that a password was included in the email. They initially tried to use their Edison portal passwords. Once we addressed that issue, the process was very easy.
When the survey period is complete, the results will be emailed to you. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks for your help in this endeavor. We at Edison Online would like thank you for your hard work and effort this term, and wish you a wonderful summer
