Kim's+Approach+to+Attracting+More+Course+Eval+Responses

Here's what I do in my online courses to attract more course eval responses, and I believe it has upped my numbers.

I create an extra credit assignment dropbox in which I post the message pasted below. The dropbox is released in my final course modules (during the last 2-3 weeks of the course). I give a small amount of extra credit (small relative to the overall points given in the course). Yuu are welcome to reuse/remix any of the verbiage below if you wish to try this. :) --Kim

I just wanted to let you know that in your //MyUWG// email you will begin receiving an invitation to complete course evaluations for this course. There are two of them. One of them measures your satisfaction with this course and my teaching of it. The other measures your perceptions of online courses in general. Last fall, about 30% of my students responded to these end-of-year surveys. This is too low a rate. I need feedback from as many of you as possible on how the course went for you and how I'm doing. This helps me make it better. In particular, because this course is newly online, I need your feedback to know what it was like for you. Please know that these are anonymous surveys, and I have no way of knowing who takes them or who says what. These are your chance to speak freely and give me constructive feedback on your experiences and perceptions. In your UWG mail, you will see a message from Kevin Mobbs, and it will resemble the image I have inserted below. I show you this so that you do not automatically delete it, thinking it's spam or something malicious. It is legitimate, and you will have the opportunity to complete the surveys till around the end of finals, probably. Kevin sends out about 3 or 4 emails that invite you, so expect to see them repeatedly. So, if you're not ready to complete the surveys, then hold off on doing them. There's no hurry. :) If you are not aware of the surveys, if you do not understand their purposes, and if you do not know how to take the surveys, contact me in //CourseDen// or Matias Marabotto at 678-839-5295 and mmarabot@westga.edu. If you want to go straight to the survey login page, you should be able to visit [] and use either your MyUWG login or your CourseDen login. Finally, I created a video a few years back that kind of stumbles through the process. You can watch it here: [|http://sun.westga.edu/~khuett/endofcoursesurvey/endofcoursesurvey.html] Thank you! Ms. Huett
 * You** really know the end is in sight when you're invited to complete Course Evaluations!
 * To** receive credit for the surveys, tell me that you understand the purpose of the surveys and how to take them. You can type this info straight into the dropbox field below.