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Instructor: Report Builder 2.0

  • This feature allows Instructors to create custom reports across multiple projects based on course enrollment and/or question criteria.
  • This feature also allows Instructors and Teaching Assistants to create custom reports across multiple projects based on course enrollment and/or question criteria.
  • Reports created in Report Builder 2.0 are saved within the user's Report Builder 2.0 dashboard and can be copied, edited, and/or exported.
  • All of the reporting functionality in Report Builder 2.0 can be used for both Course Evaluation Projects and General Survey Projects.

NOTE

Both Report Builder and Report Builder 2.0 are available in customer accounts created prior to November 4, 2018, while only Report Builder 2.0 is available in customer accounts created on/after November 4, 2018. Please consult with your institution’s CES Administrator for availability.

Report Builder 2.0

  1. Click on the Results tab.
  2. Select Report Builder 2.0. After clicking on Report Builder 2.0, you will be dropped off on the My Reports dashboard, your central location for all reports created from Report Builder 2.0.

    1. Here you can view your most recent reports, saved reports and shared reports from other users. Each category will list the most recent five reports, or click View All to view the full list for each category.

To Create a New Report

  1. Select the tab for your desired report type. These report types help the user navigate the data from one of five available perspectives:

    1. Projects report
    2. Courses report

    The Report Builder 2.0 section showing tabs My Reports, Projects, and Courses, with My Reports selected. The area below showing a notice about reporting data updating nightly, and two boxes labeled Recent and Saved Reports, each showing no reports.

  2. Search for and/or select your desired criteria > Apply.

    1. Select multiple criteria for each, or you can apply your selections, then click the plus icon to select and apply additional. To remove criteria, expand the applied selection(s) and deselect.
  3. Click Run after your selections have been applied to generate your report.
  4. Depending on the size of the data in the report you're generating, you may get a message the report is being generated and you'll be notified when it is complete.  When complete, an email will be sent to the email address associated with your login.  You can also refresh the Report Builder 2 screen until the report is showing as completed.  Or you can view the Notifications by clicking on the Bell in the upper right corner of Course Evaluations & Surveys to see that the report has generated.

    The Report Builder 2.0 section showing tabs My Reports, Projects, and Courses, with Projects selected. The Course Evaluation Project area showing a Run link and fields for Course Evaluation Projects, Questions, Grouping, Question Filters, Benchmarks, and Metadata Filters for course, respondent, and instructor, each displayed with selection controls.

Reporting Types

  1. Projects: With this report type users can compare data from one project or between multiple projects. Data can be aggregated to summarize the project overall or dis-aggregated to show course or instructor-level detail within the project.

    The table showing results for the question Course objectives were made clear by Instructor, with columns for Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Agree, and Strongly Agree, and rows for 2018 Fall Course Evaluations and 2018 Summer Course Evaluations displaying percentage and count values with response totals and mean and standard deviation on the right.

  2. Courses: With this report type users can compare data from one course or from multiple courses. Course data can be compared longitudinally over time, across projects, or from within the same project. Data can be aggregated to summarize the project overall or dis-aggregated to show course section or instructor-level detail within the project.

    The table showing results for the question Course objectives were made clear by Instructor, with columns for Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Agree, and Strongly Agree, and rows for four courses displaying percentage and count values with response totals and mean and standard deviation on the right.

Edit, Save, Export Report

After the report has been generated select:

  1. Filters: To edit the report criteria.
  2. Save: To save the report to your Report Builder 2.0 dashboard.
  3. Delete: To delete the report.
  4. Copy: To make a copy of the report.
  5. Excel: To export a raw data report to Excel that correlates with the filters applied.
  6. PDF: To export results to PDF format that correlates with the filters and view applied.

The Report Builder 2.0 section showing the Course Evaluation Project Report with controls Filters, Save, Delete, Copy, Excel, and PDF highlighted. The chart view below showing results for the question Course objectives were made clear by Instructor for 2018 Fall Course Evaluations.

Report Views

For each of the report types you can choose to view the data interactively using one of five different report views. Below are examples of the same data for the same question in the five different views.

Note: The selected Project (s) are displayed on the left of each question, and a legend for each view is displayed to the right of each question:

  1. Chart

    The Report Builder 2.0 section showing controls Filters, Save, Delete, Copy, Excel, and PDF at the top. The chart view below showing results for the question Course objectives were made clear by Instructor for 2018 Fall Course Evaluations with bars for each response category.

  2. Mean

    The Report Builder 2.0 section showing controls Filters, Save, Delete, Copy, Excel, and PDF. The view showing the question Course objectives were made clear by Instructor with EvaluationKIT University and 2018 Fall Course Evaluations displayed, along with response count and mean and standard deviation on the right.

  3. Percent

    The Report Builder 2.0 section showing controls Filters, Save, Delete, Copy, Excel, and PDF. The table view showing results for the question Course objectives were made clear by Instructor for 2018 Fall Course Evaluations with percentage and count values across four response categories and summary values on the right.

  4. Box Plot

    The Report Builder 2.0 section showing controls Filters, Save, Delete, Copy, Excel, and PDF. The box plot view showing results for the question Course objectives were made clear by Instructor for 2018 Fall Course Evaluations with minimum, maximum, lower, upper, mean, and standard deviation values on the right.

  5. All

    The Report Builder 2.0 section showing controls Filters, Save, Delete, Copy, Excel, and PDF. The combined view showing a bar chart and a box plot for the question Course objectives were made clear by Instructor for 2018 Fall Course Evaluations with percentage and count values below the bars and summary statistics on the right.

Report Groupings

  1. This feature allows the user to aggregate and dis-aggregate data based on logical groupings within the five different report types.

Filter Results by Responses to Survey Questions

  1. Using this feature the user can slice and dice the data based on specific responses to one survey question or multiple survey questions. This allows the user to easily view the responses for just a desired segment. 

    The Question Filters section showing response options for the question Course objectives were made clear by Instructor with checkboxes for Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, and Strongly Disagree, with Disagree and Strongly Disagree selected, and a Surveys area below.

Question Results & Aggregated Results

  1. In addition to individual question-level metrics, in Report Builder 2.0 you can easily view data aggregated across multiple questions. Aggregated Results allows you to see a mean score across multiple survey questions, as well as overall percent and frequencies.

    Note: This feature requires questions to have a common scale.

Add Benchmarks to Reports

  1. This feature offers the ability to quickly add up to three selected levels of aggregated data in order to benchmark against. For instance, a user can view course-level data and easily compare that to aggregated data from the department, school, and institutional levels.

Filter Results by Student or Respondent, Course, and Instructor Metadata

  1. Uploading metadata to courses, students/respondents, or instructors allows you to view survey results based on your segmented metadata. CES Administrators and Administrators can import external data related to these areas into Course Evaluations & Surveys, which allows Instructors to easily view the survey results for just the criteria selected related to students/respondents, courses, and/or instructors. External metadata can be brought into Course Evaluations & Surveys via API, FTP to Project, and direct upload options. For more on course and user metadata, please consult with your institution’s CES Administrator.

Report Sharing

  1. Reports generated by CES Administrators and Administrators can be shared with or emailed to instructors. Shared reports with you can be viewed on your Report Builder 2.0 dashboard.
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