Submitting Course Evaluations

End-of-Semester Student Evaluations of Teaching

Course evaluations are part of Georgetown University’s commitment of excellence to teaching and learning. The evaluations provide essential feedback which faculty and schools use to improve the quality of instruction. Results from evaluations are submitted in dossiers for the merit review of instructors and department administration uses evaluation data to plan curriculum changes for future students.

Each instructor receives an aggregated report of the anonymous responses and comments to use in evaluating their own teaching and planning future courses. Department administration receives quantitative averages of results only (no comments). Faculty do not have access to course evaluation data until all grades are submitted university wide and they do not know the identities of specific respondents. You may choose not to answer particular questions and may edit responses until submission.

The Evaluation Process

Email announcements are sent once the course evaluation period has begun to invite and remind students to complete their course evaluations. This communication will include a direct link or alternatively, you may access open course evaluations directly by logging into Blue with your NetID. Students will receive reminder emails until all course evaluations are completed or the evaluation period ends. Those who are auditing a course, including Senior Auditors, will not be included in the course evaluation process.

For the Fall and Spring semesters, default settings for course evaluations are set to open for ten-day windows and end prior to the start of final exams. Individual instructors may adjust these time frames, so please confirm dates for this task directly with your professor. Summer evaluations are set with a six day window to allow students to complete their course evaluation.