Academic Affairs Office of the Provost
1201 S. State Street
Timme Center, CSS 310
Big Rapids, MI 49307
(231) 591-2300
[email protected]
Course Evaluations are designed to provide formative feedback to faculty members. Faculty also use the student evaluations of course in some promotion, tenure, merit, and professional development processes. The Student Assessment of Instruction (SAI) is the home grown evaluation that is currently available university wide. Each college decides to use either the SAI or another evaluation that is curriculum specific. A sample of the SAI survey is available on the Course Evaluation Form link.
The course evaluations are delivered to students through the university's content management system, currently Canvas. Faculty may also access results in the course shell.
In 2013, at the recommendation of the Academic Senate, course evaluation objectives included these: