At the halfway point of a course, a midterm evaluation is a very useful too. University College utilizes midterm evaluations primarily as a tool for faculty to receive feedback from your students. Students can access both midterm and end-of-term evaluations from the "Course Evals" link in their Canvas course. After the evaluation period is complete, anonymous student responses are emailed to you, the course instructor.

The midterm evaluation can help you adjust the second half of the course if there are any major issues identified and will provide timely feedback for adjusting the first half of the course in the future. You may also want to give yourself midterm feedback. Are there assignments or larger projects that have gone particularly well or not well at all? Did students require additional work time or context that you had not planned for?

Midterm evaluations provide your students an opportunity to express any dissatisfaction with the course early on so that you can make adjustments. I recommend then acknowledging the feedback to your students- thank them for their candid answers and tell them how you are going to use the feedback going forward. This will almost certainly improve your end-of-term evaluations

Of course, the staff at The Teaching Center is always happy to work with you to develop your evaluation questions and to help you incorporate the feedback you receive into your teaching.

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