Faculty Success & Course Evaluations

You should complete as many sections relevant to your academic and professional activities as possible. Please refer to your chair or dean for more guidance.

Please review this step-by-step guide to inputting information into each section for Activities.

To support the University’s ability to consistently and concisely report to accreditors and the public on critical aspects of faculty activity, all faculty regardless of rank and/or tenure should complete the Activities section. Adjuncts should also utilize the Activities section as directed by their chair or dean. Some information is auto-populated into given fields in order to limit the amount of time and effort spent in the area for all instructors.

Faculty are provided with workflow milestones from their dean and/or chair for evaluations in Faculty Success in the upcoming academic year by the early Fall semester of a given academic year. In general, faculty complete a self-evaluation by the early Spring semester. That evaluation is automatically forwarded to the chair and dean for comment, and then to the Provost. Once that feedback is compiled, the faculty member meets with their dean and/or chair to review the feedback from those parties. Recommendations for hire, promotion, tenure, and/or continuation of contract are typically communicated to the Board of Governors by March of every academic year.

Yes! You are very welcome and encouraged to do so. Please refer to your dean and/or chair for more information.

Yes! Once you have inputted information you wish to have on your CV into Faculty Success, click Rapid Reports, and then Vita to produce your CV as a Word document on which you can make additional edits.

Please reach out to Amanda Metcalf. 

Please contact the Information Technology Help Desk at help@fairmontstate.edu or 304-367-4810.

Your feedback is anonymous. Answers to multiple-choice questions on your course evaluations are compiled and reported to your course instructor in aggregate only. Written comments are also provided separately if you elect to provide them. Your name and other identifiable details are automatically disassociated from your responses after submission.

Faculty can view evaluations only after the end of the course grading period. Evaluations are made available to faculty in the form of a report.

Two to three weeks prior to the end of your course, you will receive an email notification at your Fairmont State University student email address with links to access and complete your evaluations. Notifications in Blackboard will also allow you to access your evaluations.

At this time, the University is not yet able to offer prior course evaluation reports to students during course registration periods. You should consult with your academic advisor prior to registering for courses to ensure you have the best course schedule to meet your academic goals.

No. Because your name, account information, email, etc. are disassociated from your responses automatically after you submit a course evaluation, it is not possible to edit your responses after submission.

No. Your responses to the course evaluation are anonymous, and course evaluations reports that include your feedback are made available to course instructors only after the end of the course final grading period.

You should submit your evaluations prior to the end of the course evaluation response period. Your email notifications will let you know the deadline for completing evaluations.

Please contact the Information Technology Help Desk at help@fairmontstate.edu or 304-367-4810.

You will receive an email notification at your Fairmont State University email address with links to access your reports for a given semester. In addition, you may access prior evaluations anytime in your Faculty Success profile. You can access it through my.fairmontstate.edu.

Yes! As long as the respondents are only students within your course or across a set of designated courses, Course Evaluation & Surveys can be utilized to administer the survey. Please submit a data/analytic request to Institutional Research. Institutional Research will then determine the most appropriate survey administration software to utilize for your survey.

Yes. Dual enrollment students have the option to access and complete course evaluations through their Fairmont State student emails and Blackboard.

In general, evaluation reports for courses with less than 5 enrollees are not provided to faculty to provide an extra layer of protection for students’ anonymity. However, if you teach multiple sections of the same course, OIE can combine responses across courses and make those available to you.

Yes! You are welcome and highly encouraged to include student feedback as part of your applications for promotion and/or tenure. For more information see the Tenure Application Procedure.

Yes! You can download a report within Course Evaluations & Surveys.

University-level Course Evaluations & Surveys administrators have access to course evaluations in addition to faculty for individual courses they have taught.

Please contact the Information Technology Help Desk at help@fairmontstate.edu or 304-367-4810.