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Course Evaluations

The Lindner College of Business uses the University of Cincinnati's online course evaluation system, CoursEval. Faculty are asked to encourage student participation in the evaluation process. Course Evaluations are important because they are:

  • Conducted every term for every course offered in the Lindner College of Business. Course evaluations provide instructors with timely feedback about how their course is received by students. The comment boxes allow students to indicate suggestions for improving the course, which may be helpful to the instructor;
  • Used in the annual performance review conducted for each faculty member and instructor every year;
  • Used in Reappointment, Promotion and Tenure (RPT) decisions by the department committee, the department chair, the college committee and the dean;
  • A critical component of merit recommendations.

Given the importance of collecting the best possible data, the Teaching Committee has established the following guidelines:

Instructors may view participation rates while the survey is active but they cannot see any results, comments or participant names. This allows the Instructor to monitor participation rates while continuing to encourage students to complete the survey.

Instructors can increase participation rates by:

  • Reminding students in class;
  • Emailing students;
  • Posting reminders on Blackboard;
  • Assigning class time for students to complete surveys using their laptops.

Students who drop the course and have an assigned grade of "W" will not receive a course survey.

The evaluation periods for first and second half and full term classes are shown below. The Lindner Teaching Committee provides guidance on the timing of evaluation periods.

The evaluation period has been established to make sure that students will not see their final grades before they complete the evaluations. Note: It is university policy that no final exams may be given during the final week of classes, regardless of whether the exam is cumulative or not.

The date the evaluation may be viewed by the instructor is shown below and is typically the day after grades are due for the semester. This schedule ensures that Instructors cannot see evaluation results until after final grades are submitted. The timely delivery of this data allows Instructors to review their evaluations prior to the beginning of the next term.

A CoursEval guide is available here.

2185 - Summer

Summer first half-term evaluation dates: Wednesday, June 6 - Tuesday, June 19.
Date evaluations available to instructor: Thursday, August 9.

Summer second half and full-term evaluation dates: Sunday, July 22 - Saturday, August 4.
Date evaluations available to instructor: Thursday, August 9.

2188 - Fall

Fall first half-term evaluation dates: Wednesday, October 3 - Tuesday, October 16.
Date evaluations available to instructor: Thursday, December 20.

Summer second half and full-term evaluation dates: Sunday, December 2 - Saturday, December 15.
Date evaluations available to instructor: Thursday, December 20.