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As student leaders, you are well-placed to help encourage your members to complete their course evaluations.听

What can I do?

• Make in-class announcements about the importance of course evaluations. This can be particularly effective in large, 100- and 200-level classes.

• Send emails from your student association listserv about the importance of course evaluations.

• Post reminders on your association's Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts using the available graphics.

• Encourage instructors, through sending emails or setting up meetings, to:

  • allow students time during class, conferences, tutorials, or labs to complete their evaluations;

  • give an incentive to the class (e.g., an additional review session) if the class response rate exceeds an agreed-upon target;

  • promote course evaluations through their myCourses page - instructions are available here;

  • grant permission to disseminate their numerical course evaluation results to the 91社区 community.

• Hold a raffle for members of your association who completed their course evaluations by the deadline - each person's entry could be a screenshot from Minerva that shows they have completed their evaluations for the semester.

• Change computer lab banners to听Mercury graphics听and set the browser default homepage to the听Mercury website homepage.

Let your members know...

• The system is available 24/7 at ; the evaluation period dates can be found听here.

• Course evaluation results from previous terms are听available听if the instructor has not objected to access and an adequate response rate has been received.

• Students may opt out of evaluations for one or more courses by clicking "Decline Course Evaluation"; then they will no longer receive email reminders for that course.

• Students may choose to answer only those questions they wish鈥攊t only takes a few minutes to provide this important feedback.

• At 91社区, course evaluations results are used in hiring, performance evaluations, contract renewal, merit, and the tenure process.