Glossary of Terms
Academic Terms : Academic Terms can also be referred to as semesters. Typically identified as Spring, Summer, Fall, or Winter with the year identifier, Academic Terms are used in the Course or Section import to identify when the course is to be assessed.
Administrations : An administration may also be referred to as a session or survey. Administrations can be set up for 5-week, 8-week, 16-week courses, etc. The system allows for multiple administrations to run concurrently to accommodate rolling administrations.
Course Section Attribute : Course Section Attributes identify information about the course section such as the type (Lab, Lecture, Online), the time in which the course section is assessed, or the location of the course. Attributes can be used for question assignment and administration creation.
Cross Listed Course : All students who are enrolled in a cross-listed section, regardless of the subject listing through which he or she may have enrolled, experience the same course. Cross-listed course sections are combined together for reporting purposes.
Evaluation : An evaluation is also referred to as a questionnaire or instrument. Evaluations are groupings of questions that can be asked collectively, or by college, department, program, or course section attribute. A core set of questions is not required but is recommended.
Faculty Role : This role has two different applications within the Evaluate system:
Accessible through instructor enrollments import: Utilized for question assignment. Used to identify the faculty as Primary, Secondary, or Teaching Assistant. Questions are then assigned by type so that a different set of questions may be asked about a Primary faculty than the Teaching Assistant. Faculty Types are identified in the Instructor import.
Accessible when establishing permissions on the front-end: Identifies what the role(s) of a user are on campus. Typically used to identify full-time faculty, part-time faculty, and/or tenure-track faculty.
Organizational Unit : Organizational Units are used to identify areas within the institution for question assignment and reporting access. An example of an organizational unit might be College of Arts and Sciences --> Foreign Languages --> French .
Part of Term : A Part of Term is also referred to as an intersession. It is typically used to identify groups of accelerated course sections that might need to be evaluated on a different schedule than the majority of full-term course sections.
Report Administrator Role : Report Administrator Roles are used to identify anyone who has access to instructors reports in a given organizational unit. Roles can include, but are not limited to, Department Chair, Dean, Provost, or Administrative Assistant.