Overview
Role: Teaching Assistants
As a Teaching Assistant, you can access features on Course Evaluations & Surveys to assist the instructor in deploying evaluations such as access to the Help Center for certain issues, creating a general survey project (as allowed), viewing course reports in a project, and building and generating other types of reports.
How can I access Course Evaluations & Surveys?
There are 3 ways to access your CES dashboard.
Canvas
- Log in to Canvas
- Enter (one of) your current term course(s)
- On the left navigation menu, click TA Course Evaluations
- Your CES dashboard should automatically appear on the Canvas page
Canvas Mobile App
- Download the "Canvas Teacher" App from the Play Store (Android) or the App Store (iPhone).
- Log in to Canvas
- Enter (one of) your current term course(s)
- On the left navigation menu, click TA Course Evaluations
- Your CES dashboard should automatically appear on the Canvas page
Direct Access via E-mail Link
- Ask for a link by submitting a request in the CES Support Request Form.
- Note: If you have a Canvas presence, Canvas is the preferred access method. Use this e-mail link only if Canvas is down, running slow or the instructor doesn't use Canvas.
Before Deployment
Building General Survey Projects
The Teaching Assistant role has the ability to build and launch general survey projects. An instructor could want the students in her/his class to take a pre-course survey, post-course survey, a midterm survey, or a survey on any given topic in the course.
First, meet with your professor to establish various aspects of the project, such as what questions should be on the survey, and the start and end dares for students to have access.
Here are the other aspects of project set up:
- Set properties
- Select users (students who will take the survey)
- Create, test (preview), then attach, the survey
- Set up reminder e-mail communications
- Set up report settings
- Deploy the project
Recommended CES Video Tutorials & Help Articles
Help Article:
During Deployment
Increased response rates can be encouraged by giving students a heads up prior to the survey start date and periodic reminders during the deployment period. Paired with concise reasons why the evaluation is being deployed, how it will benefit the instructors, and how it will benefit the students, the face to face reminder can be a strong influence on getting participation for an online evaluation. Even though CES has automated tech "prompts" in the form of emails and Canvas notifications, having an instructor (or TA) remind students to do them can be much more persuasive.
After Deployment
The results from the survey will be made available 15 days after the end of the term (fall and spring semesters), and 11 days after the end of the term (summer sessions). After the results are made available, you can view, generate and download reports from the results page of the project.
Recommended CES Video Tutorials & Help Articles
Help Articles:
FAQs
Where can I access CES Help Articles?
The location of these aids are found in the Help Center page of the website and are account specific, so the page will automatically show you which videos and tutorials are relevant to your account. To access CES’s Help Center, access your CES dashboard using Canvas. From your dashboard in the upper right hand corner, click on the small purple question mark icon (?) to access the Help Center. Once you are in the Help Center, you can search for the name of the recommended help article to find it quickly.