Features of UBCE

UB Course Evaluations is an online assessment tool powered by SmartEvals technology.

Centralized Online Evaluations

Students can easily and quickly complete evaluations for all of their courses.
Instructors and administrators can efficiently monitor the course evaluation process and view assessment results.

Course evaluations can be completed on any computer, reader, tablet or smartphone which is capable of running a modern web browser.

Students will receive an email on the day that evaluations open, and those who have not completed evaluations will receive reminder emails until evaluations close.
Instructors will:
- Be prompted with an email prior to evaluations opening to check that their course(s) appears on service, is properly enrolled, and scheduled appropriately.
- Receive reminders during evaluations to monitor response rates and encourage students to complete evaluations.
- Receive an email with a summary report that contains evaluation results.

Units, departments and programs can add up to 10 custom questions.
Instructors can add up to three custom questions for each course section taught.

Instructors and administrators can monitor class response rates in real time by logging into UB Course Evaluations.

Charts that are easy to read and interpret.
Graphs and reports that give specific, targeted feedback.
One-click exportation of survey data into Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PDF, XML, HTML or CSV.
Provides institutional research directors the ability to generate custom documents.

An innovative and unique tool, provided by SmartEvals, for helping instructors act on their course evaluation results.
Analysis of evaluation results helps instructors pinpoint where improvement potential is the greatest.
Opportunities for instructors to create action plans for areas of improvement.
Collection of tips and techniques that strong instructors have used to positively impact teaching and learning outcomes.