CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY
ONLINE COURSE EVALUATION TEAM
Date and Location: Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Time:
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Attendees:
Darling Collaboration Suite (Library)
Julius Bianchi, Halyna Kornuta, Sean Kreycik, Karissa Oien, Patrick Schmidt,
Melinda Wright
Regrets:
MINUTES
Success is simple. Do
what's right, the right
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A. Reviewed CoursEval Updates
1. TLC Decisions
i. Removal of “highly” in “Used highly effective teaching
methods”
1. Melinda passed around mean charts of Fall 2008 with “highly” and Spring
2009 without “highly”
2. What is the next step? Do we need to define the already existing
questions?
ii. Required versus non-required questions
1. TLC agreed that the open ended questions should not be required.
2. Students from the Focus Groups reiterated this request.
iii. Future item to discuss: consistency with scaled questions
1. 1 to 5 scale; excellent to poor scale
2. Reviewed situations with the Spring 09 Administration
i. IP Address and communication with CoursEval staff
1. Julius has been in contact with Peter Gould
a. CoursEval has accepted that the problems were on their end
b. Staff will now be available for West coast users
c. Peter is communicating to his staff regarding timing of emails
2. Due to the IP addresses change, one other campus was affected. As a
result, CoursEval is going to modify their staff training.
3. Sean was able to unblock the entire range of IPs that CoursEval gave to
CLU.
4. There is a lack of communication that CoursEval needs to address.
5. Do we stay with CoursEval?
a. Costs more to host the server and would be more work for IT
b. Should we ask for compensation?
i. Extra 6 months on contract?
c. Switching costs are too high
B. Summer 2009 CoursEval administration
1. Reviewed dates of implementation and administration
C. Team cross-check before CoursEval goes live
1. Written comments not required
2. Co-taught courses
3. Remove: INTD, COMM492 (Internship), EXCH, Student Teaching, Econ Lab
4. Check with CoursEval to make sure there are no changes happening during the time we
will be opening and closing surveys
5. Run scripts to check LDAP
D. Other
1. Jean Sandlin: Meet with her to discuss having her Marketing class create a campaign for us
2. CoursEval link now required in syllabi
1. Will be discussed at the Syllabus Workshop on May 28
3. Work on more marketing
i. Posters/banners
ii. Facebook