Account Management

Within Results Settings, under the Account tab, the CES Administrator can configure account-level settings for results and reporting features. Access Results Settings To access Results Settings: Navigate to Account > Reporting (section) > Results Settings. Project Results Tab Report Theme Click on Report Theme to create a theme for all reporting within...

The following contains Course Evaluations & Surveys and Browser Cookie Settings information.   ATTACHMENTS The below information can be downloaded in PDF format here.   Course Evaluations & Surveys requires the acceptance of a session cookie by your browser software. The session cookie is used to ensure that you and only you are able to access information within the...

The following contains Course Evaluations & Surveys email safelist information.   Emails sent from the Course Evaluations & Surveys system are sent from the Course Evaluations & Surveys email server. You can customize the From field in emails (e.g., myname@mycollege.edu); however, they still originate from the Course Evaluations & Surveys email server and, in some in...

This feature allows CES Administrators and Node Administrators the ability to monitor the use of the Custom Question feature within Course Evaluations & Surveys. Use of this feature provides access to view what percent of courses have custom questions added to surveys (or not added), and then allow the Administrator to view the specific Custom Questions that have been...

Within Customize Login Page, Student View, & Messages, the CES Administrator can: Customize the look of the Course Evaluations & Surveys account Add text to the login page Customize Denied Access Page text Create a login page redirect URL Display student username in top navigation Display sign-out option to users Create a logout URL Customize a "No Active Survey"...

The Hierarchy Builder is a feature that is designed to help CES Administrators establish and manage a hierarchical structure within their Course Evaluations & Surveys (CES) instance that is reflective of the structure of their institution. This hierarchical structure is essential for:  Administrative access control: As a CES Administrator, you can assign Node Ad...

The Hierarchy Mapper is a feature designed to automate the alignment of courses to specific levels in your hierarchy, such as aligning courses to their appropriate department or college that were configured through the Hierarchy Builder. This alignment is achieved by setting up mapping logic based on course codes, titles, unique identifiers, and, if necessary, instruc...

The Course Evaluations & Surveys user interface text, date and time formats can be localized to nearly any language you want using this functionality. In the background, the Google Cloud Translation API has been utilized to translate text within the application to desired languages. The Google Cloud Translation API supports over one hundred languages, which are suppo...

Use this feature to create and manage administrators within your Course Evaluations & Surveys account. Types of Administrator accounts CES Administrators: Super-users with access to ALL areas of Course Evaluations & Surveys. "Node" Administrators: Have limited access to Course Evaluations & Surveys based on the role(s) and the assigned levels of your institutio...

CES Administrators that enable the Manage Courses Monitoring feature within a course evaluation project can also monitor changes made by your Administrators and / or Instructors. This feature also provides an EK Admin with the following: A high-level overview on the changes an administrator and / or instructor performed. Access to a detailed log with the changes ...

    The Dashboard within Course Evaluations & Surveys allows the CES Administrator to customize what CES Administrators, Administrators, Instructors and Teaching Assistants see when they login to the system. The Dashboard is comprised of different Widgets that you can add, move, and customize. Dashboards for CES Administrators, Administrators, and Instructors all...

The Merge Users tool allows the CES Administrator to merge two user accounts into a single user account. The source user account will be merged into the destination user account. Only the source and destination usernames need to be provided.  This tool will not create user accounts so both usernames must already exist in Course Evaluations & Surveys before you can use t...

The following settings allow you to set a default email address for any emails being sent from Course Evaluations & Surveys on your organization's behalf, including notifications and project email communications.  In addition, you can use the direction found on this page to validate your email domain so that Course Evaluations & Surveys can send email on your beh...

When creating a user manually in the user interface, the below rules will be enforced to ensure a secure password: Minimum Length: at least 12 characters. Mixed Case: a mix of upper and lowercase letters, to increase complexity. Numbers: at least one number. Special Characters: at least one special character, such as `!`, `,`, `@`, `#`, `$, `, or `%`. Password Topology...

CES Administrators can grant permission for Node Administrators, Instructors, and/or Teaching Assistants to create Private or Public General Survey Projects. Please see the "How to Create a General Survey Project" for more information on General Survey Projects.   This Permissions page can also be used to give Project Administrators the ability to share Projects ...

This administrator role allows you to create an administrator who can create, manage and deploy projects within their academic area or level(s) of access, as well as create Surveys. This role will provide an administrator control over projects in their academic unit or level(s) of access only, while other administrators with this role will have control over proje...

CES Administrators can create, edit, and delete project folders to better control how projects are organized. Project folders are not permission driven and cannot be used to filter projects available to users, nor are Project Folders used as a filtering option in reporting. Project folders can only be utilized by CES Administrators. Manage Project Folders To acc...

The following article provides information on how to promote/demote CES Administrators.  CES Administrators are the superusers in the system, allowing the CES Admin to access and/or edit all projects, settings, and results. Promote Course Evaluations & Surveys Administrator Navigate to Account Site Settings (section) > Manage Administrators. Under the Admin...

Report Mapper is an additional module that can be enabled at the customer's request, which allows a secondary course alignment for reporting purposes. Report Mapper should not be confused with Hierarchy Mapper, which provides the primary course alignment.    Report Mapper is not enabled by default.  Please complete a HELP REQUEST to have this enabled in your account if ...

Within Response Rate Tracker Settings, the CES Administrator can configure account-level settings for the Response Rate Tracker feature. ACCESS To access the Response Rate Tracker Settings, navigate to:Account > Reporting (section) > Response Rate Tracker Settings. Display Response Rate Tracker Choose whether Administrators and/or Instructors can view ...

This feature allows CES Administrators and Node Administrators the ability to monitor access to reporting within Course Evaluations & Surveys. This monitoring functionality can help summarize as a whole within your projects the percent of instructors and administrators who have viewed their results, in real-time and by a particular date. Also included in this feature ...

The following browsers are supported by Course Evaluations & Surveys. Browser Supported Version(s) Microsoft Edge Latest two (2) versions Google Chrome Latest two (2) versions Mozilla Firefox Latest two (2) versions Apple Safari Latest two (2) versions  

This administrator role allows you to create an administrator who can only author surveys. This may be helpful if you have work-study students or administrators who are tasked with creating a survey, but should not have access to deploying projects or access to results. The CES Administrator can access surveys authored by these users and add them to projects. ...

The Survey Sort Order feature allows you to change the default order that the surveys are presented to respondents when taking the survey. NOTE Changing the survey order only changes the order in which the surveys appear to the student/respondent when they are taking the survey. The Survey Sort Order does not change the order the surveys appear in reporting. ...

The toggle feature in the Course Evaluations & Surveys (CES) system enables users with multiple roles to switch seamlessly between roles, such as Administrator and Instructor, without the need to log out and log back in under a different role.   Important Note: To utilize this toggle feature, a user MUST have the same username across all their roles. If a user with mult...