Adding Your Own Questions
The system offers the possibility to each faculty to add up to 5 questions to the evaluation of each of their classes. You can add likert-scale questions or open ended questions. Likert scale questions must utilize pre-populated scales. If you do not find an appropriate scale in the system for your questions please contact
ote@depaul.edu. Precise instructions on how to add questions are found on
this document
You will receive an email from the system at the beginning of week 7 in the quarter (beginning of week 13 for the College of Law) announcing that the system is open for your customization. You will have two weeks to add your questions to the evaluation during the regular academic year, one week during Summer sessions. Please note that after 40 minutes of inactivity you'll be logged out of the OTE system. You are encouraged to think about your questions carefully before entering the system and prepare them in a separate text document. Cutting and pasting from a text document instead of typing questions from scratch will be easier and faster.
If you need inspiration on what kinds of questions you might want to ask, download and view a guide on
questions to consider asking your students.
How are evaluations administered
Course evaluations at DePaul are conducted entirely online and are available to students via mobile devices. To help raise rates of return, faculty are strongly encouraged to allow students in face-to-face courses to fill out evaluations during class time, using a mobile device. Here are some recommendations on how to handle the process, according to a policy developed by Faculty Council in collaboration with Academic Affairs:
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Alert students in advance of the scheduled day of evaluation, so that they can plan to bring a mobile device to class. Faculty members may want to include this information in their syllabi.
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Allow at least 15 minutes for the evaluations.
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Leave the room while students are completing the evaluations.
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Encourage students without a mobile device to find a publicly available DePaul computer to complete the evaluations.
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To share instructions with students, use the computer in your classroom to display the instructions below.
Access to OTE-Blue
The system is accessible at
http://ote.depaul.edu/blue , though dedicated links that you will receive in email messages from the system, or, in the near future, through the “My Evaluations” tab in D2L.
How do students perform the evaluations
Online teaching evaluations at DePaul are available to students via mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Evaluations can be accessed in the following ways:
1. Email