FALL 2007 EVALUATIONS
Dear Journalism Students,
The evaluation system (https://courseworks.columbia.edu/) for students to provide feedback about their classes will be live for the Fall 2007 semester on Monday, December 3, 2007. RWI and MA Seminar in Discipline professors will be scheduling lab time for you to complete these. If you are not enrolled in either of these courses, please complete all your evaluations on your own. The deadline for completion is Tuesday, January 22, 2008.
Your role in providing feedback via course evaluations is of vital importance to the Journalism School. The information is used not only by future students to make informed balloting choices but also by faculty to evaluate their syllabi and to refine their practices and by the administration to make curriculum decisions and assess professor performance.
PLEASE NOTE: We have added instructor evaluation questions submitted by members of SJP that they feel will give us and future students a more complete picture.
Course evaluations are one element in tenure, promotion and contract decisions; they can affect professors’ careers at Columbia.
We ask that you take your time and seriously reflect on your learning experience as you provide an honest answer to each question.
Please note, we have no control over the system once the deadline has passed. Every semester students contact us after the deadline asking to fill in the form or to make edits to their evaluations, and there is nothing we can about those situations. Please be certain to complete all evaluations by the, Tuesday, January 22 deadline.
You do not have to complete all the forms in one sitting. However, once you begin working on the form for a given class you must complete and submit it before exiting the system. Partially completed forms are not stored.
Please be aware that professors won’t have access to your evaluations of them until after they have submitted their grades and evaluations of your performance.
Between Monday, December 3 and Tuesday, January 22, you will receive reminders every day for each evaluation that you have yet to complete. These automatic reminders are generated by the CourseWorks system.
Thank you for your assistance.
Questions to dos@jrn.columbia.edu
