[Teaching-Faculty] COS administration is New!

[Office of the Provost/SVPAA]

Hello Everyone,
I'm excited to share our new process for collecting valuable feedback from
students. In a collaborative effort by a group of faculty, personnel from
our technical team, and Academic Affairs, we are ready to roll out our
newly minted COS, administered through Watermark. A group of early adopters
helped us work out some bugs by testing this system in the spring, and now
we are ready to use this in all summer courses.
The COS will be available to students 14 days prior to the end of the
course - the survey 'start date'. Instructors may adjust the start date if
they prefer to have students complete it in class for example. Instructors
will receive an email 7 days prior to the course's survey start date with
an invitation to manage their COS, which includes modifying which courses
will get the COS, selecting items that will be asked in addition to the
standard COS, and revising the start date.
We apologize to faculty teaching this summer who already received a message
inviting them to manage their COS. We had a date setting wrong, and have
since fixed it. You will not be able to manage your settings yet if you are
teaching in session B or C.
Students will receive an email invitation 7 days prior to the course end
date with a link to the COS and will see a pop-up in Brightspace 14 days
prior to the end of the course.
Results will be available to faculty the day after grades are due for the
semester (at this time, this will be the end of the semester for everyone,
even if the course ended early).
More information is available in the Managing Course Opinion Surveys in
Watermark User Guide
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VOhXupbT3ByNYk-YXmEISCX-Lsp191W2zEjKd3eO2hg/edit?usp=sharing>.
For those of you who want to include the items from the COS prior to 2025,
you will find information about how to add it to your survey in the section
on adding items from the Item Bank (slide 10).

Here's some bullet points about the dates:

   - Instructor Access to Manage their COS - 7 days prior to the Survey
   Start Date (notification with link by email)
   - Survey Start Date - 14 days prior to the last day of the course
   - Student Brightspace notification - begins on Survey Start Date
   - Student email invitation - 7 days prior to the last day of the course
   - Instructor Access to Results - 1 day after final grades are due for
   the semester

Hope this message helps to clarify some of your questions, but if not,
please contact our office.
JoAnn

*JoAnn Gleeson-Kreig, PhD*

Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs

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518-564-2195


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