Administrator Role

The following articles are applicable to users with the Administrator role in CES. These are Administrators with limited access within CES and are typically Deans, departments heads, or Administrators of a department at the institution.
  • Administrator: Survey Builder - Types of Survey Questions

    Surveys in Course Evaluations & Surveys: Can contain any combination of available survey question types. Be organized using survey labels. Can be configured with branching logic. When creating or editing a survey you will see numeric weightings for each response option, as well as additional properties selected for each question.   Single Selection Questio...

  • Administrator: Survey Builder - Additional Properties

    When creating a survey, within each survey question type, you will be offered Additional Properties from which to select. See below for a description of these properties and their functionality. Additional Properties (Options vary, depending on question type) Non-Numeric Option: Examples of the non-numeric options include Not Applicable or N/A, however you ...

  • Administrator: Branching Question Types

    Branching question types allow the Administrator to manage the questions presented to a respondent, based on the user’s response options. This functionality allows you to target questions based on a user’s selection and streamline survey-taking for the student/respondent. You can also easily pull results via Course Evaluations & Surveys standard reporting.   ...

  • Student Survey View

  • Administrator: How to Create a Course Evaluation Project

    NOTE Course Evaluation Projects for Administrators is not available by default. Please consult with your institution’s CES Administrator for availability. The following article provides step-by-step instructions for creating and deploying a course evaluation project.A course evaluation project contains courses, students enrolled in the courses who take the surveys, a...

  • Administrator: How to Create a General Survey Project

    NOTE General Survey Projects for Administrators is not available by default. Please consult with your institution’s CES Administrator for availability. A General Survey Project is not tied to courses and does not have the concepts of students, courses and instructors. General survey projects can be used for any type of online survey that you would like to administer ...

  • Project Admin: Project Review Checklist

    The attached checklist is intended as a guide to help you perform your own Project Review of Course Evaluation Projects. As a best practice, Projects should be reviewed and adjusted as necessary, prior to Project deployment. If you are currently in implementation, please direct additional questions to your assigned Product Consultant. If you have completed your imp...

  • Administrator: Standard Reports Overview

    This article provides a brief overview on Course Evaluations & Surveys reporting features available to "node" Administrators. NOTE Also available is a PDF file containing the same Standard Reports information as below. Please find the link to download at the bottom of this article. Project Results Within Project Results, you can search for and download the foll...

  • Administrator: Response Rate Tracker

    The Response Rate Tracker reporting feature allows you to track real-time response rates and view historical response rates for areas and courses in which you are the administrator. You can also download Respondent and Non-Respondent files that will display which respondents have and have not submitted surveys for the courses within the project. Response rate is t...

  • Administrator: Project Results - Aggregated Results

    The CES Administrator and Administrator roles can access Aggregated Results By Hierarchy Level or Course Results within Project Results. NOTE By Hierarchy Level and Course Results are aggregated reports. Course Results are not enabled by default. Please go to Account > Results Settings > Course Results tab for more information. Course, Course Section, By ...

  • Manage Courses - Administrators & Instructors

  • Custom Questions for Administrators & Instructors

    Creating New Custom Questions Surveys From the top banner dropdown button of Custom Questions > Custom Questions Surveys, the user can click on the Create New Survey button, the user will land on this new page where they can add a title and description.   Once the user clicks Save, there will be an option to edit survey details along with an option to add a Question. T...

  • Administrator: Project Results - Course Sections

    The Project Results feature allows CES Administrator, Administrator, Instructor and Teaching Assistant roles to navigate results and access and generate reports for specific projects. CES Administrators, Administrators, Instructors and Teaching Assistant roles can access project results by course section within Project Results. Click on the Results tab. Select...

  • Custom Questions for Administrators & Instructors

    NOTE: We have made some user interface changes since this video was created.  See below the video for the new interface when creating Custom Question surveys.  The video will then explain how to add the Custom Question survey to the project starting at 4 minutes into the video:       Clicking on Create New Custom Question Survey button, the user will land on this new p...

  • Administrator: Project Results - Instructors

    The Project Results feature allows the CES Administrator, Administrator, and Instructor roles to navigate results and access and generate reports for specific projects. Access project results Click on the Results tab. Select Project Results. Select the project from the project results list. Click on the By Instructor tab. To view an individual course sectio...

  • Administrator: Project Results - Teaching Assistants

    The Project Results feature allows the CES Administrator, Administrator, Instructor, and Teaching Assistant roles to navigate results, and access and generate reports for specific projects. Access project results Click on the Results tab. Select Project Results. Select the project from the project results list. Click on the By TA tab. To view an individual ...

  • Administrator: Instructor Results

    Instructor Results allows CES Administrators and Administrators (with Report Admin role permissions) to retrieve instructor results for their respective course(s) across any number of projects in a variety of report types. Access and Download Instructor Results On the top navigation, click on Results; then, select Instructor Results. Under the Search sectio...

  • Administrator: Report Builder

    This feature allows CES Administrators, Administrators and Instructors to create custom reports across multiple projects based on hierarchy level (area), instructor, course and/or question criteria. Reports created in Report Builder are saved within the user's account and can be copied, edited and/or shared.   NOTE Both Report Builder and Report Builder 2.0 are avail...

  • Administrator: Report Builder - Report Sharing

    This feature allows CES Administrators, Administrators and Instructors to share reports created in Report Builder. 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. For more on Report Builder 2.0, ...

  • Administrator: Report Builder 2.0

    This feature allows Administrators to create custom reports across multiple projects based on hierarchy level (area), project criteria, course criteria, instructor, teaching assistant, 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 crit...

  • Administrator: Report Builder 2.0 - Report Sharing

    In Report Builder 2.0 you are able to simply share your reports within Course Evaluations & Surveys with other users, you can email a secure link to the report for people who don't have an Course Evaluations & Surveys account, and you can even generate a link and paste it on a web page if you want to share a report publicly. This feature allows CES Administrators, Ad...

  • Administrator: Instructor Means Reporting

    This feature allows CES Administrators and Administrators to view the aggregated mean score for a specific course and/or instructor for select questions. This reporting can be run within one project or across multiple projects. Operational Steps Click on the Results tab. Select Instructor Means Reporting. Select the project(s) from the project drop down menu.  Pr...

  • Administrator: Results Feedback

    This feature supports a dialogue about results between instructors and administrators. Here, after review of results, instructors can send comments to their department chair or administrator. Also, administrators can review the results for those instructors they oversee, and then provide feedback to each of their instructors. You can access results feedback on a cours...

  • Administrator: Manage Courses Batch Enroll

    Although not enabled by default, Node Administrators who are given access to batch upload Instructors and/or Students for a course evaluation project, can follow the steps below to get started. Step #1: Prepare User Upload File The user upload file is Microsoft Excel formatted containing the below fields. One row per course and one row per course enrollment. Note: t...

  • Administrator: Project Results Access Monitoring

    This feature gives 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 or Administrators who have viewed their results under the Node Administrators level(s) of access, in real-time and by a particular date. Also in...

  • Administrator: User Metadata Functionality

    The following article provides an overview of Metadata in Course Evaluations & Surveys and how to use it to unlock new ways of exploring evaluation data. Introduction to Metadata Metadata is data that helps describe other data. In Course Evaluations & Surveys, metadata can be thought of as tags, or useful descriptors related to courses, students or respondents, o...