I had a meeting with a representative of ASUH today. The gist of the conversation covered privacy concerns and participation rates, with the focus on the latter.
Ideas and new features:
1.) Allow instructors to know who did surveys so they can offer extra credit or other incentives. As long as we make it clear that the responses can never be tied back to the individual, privacy shouldn't be a concern.
2.) Allow instructors to add their own comments in response to what students write on a survey when publishing. This may encourage instructors to publish knowing that they can state why they decline to show a certain response. It may also have the effect of helping students understand where their instructor is coming from and why they do some things the way they do.
3.) During the time period that eCAFE is open to students, add a link to eCAFE on the main UH site and in the portal.
Action items:
1.) Talk to Accounting dept. head regarding their current practice of giving multiple surveys in a class: one for the instructor, one for the department, and one for the college. Discuss if it's better to put all in one survey, or break the questions for each organization out into a survey answered only once by the students under them. ASUH will establish initial contact.
2.) Talk to Marketing or Statistics departments regarding setting up a focus group with students to gather feedback on ideas to increase participation. ASUH will talk to an instructor in the Marketing department to assess interest.
2 comments:
1.) Allow instructors to know who did surveys so they can offer extra credit or other incentives. As long as we make it clear that the responses can never be tied back to the individual, privacy shouldn't be a concern.
This is a winner and will be welcome by many people.
This leads me to a question (sorry if it has been already answered): Are students reminded via email WITHIN MyUH Portal ONLY? or via uhunix email ONLY? or BOTH?
I think both should be used. Some students specifically use MyUH system, some rarely do during the semester and primarly use @hawaii.edu
Just a thought,
Aloha,
rv,
Students put a preferred email address into the UH system when they register (and other times). Whatever that address is, UH or not, that's where we send the reminder notices. Since we still aren't campus wide, we don't remind students in the portal, but that is something we plan to do once the entire campus is using it.
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