[DG: Teaching & Learning] Online Course Evaluations

[Sabine Grabner]

Hi John,

I am actively working on an open source online survey tool, named  
QSYS. We are using it for course evaluations as well as degree program  
evaluations. To meet our needs we added LDAP and Shibboleth  
authentication for both authors and interviewees, as well as support  
for templates. Templates are created by the quality management  
department and then used by instructors (optional) and degree program  
heads (mandatory). Using questionnaires based on templates allows  
comparison of survey results across degree programs/terms/years.

Each questionnaire has a whitelist stating who can participate at an  
individual survey. The questionnaires are generated by a separate QSYS  
client, that gathers information about degree programs and students  
thereof from our SIS. The logic of this client is probably the part  
that needs to be added to Sakai. Additionally some sort of persistence  
may be needed between the course and the questionnaire ID (or URL). We  
do not use any persistence her as the questionnaire ID follows a  
pattern.

To access the course evaluation students follow a link from our e- 
Learning platform (in-house production) to the respective evaluation.  
The link goes to the QSYS web interface where the student has to  
login. After successful authorization the student is added to the  
blacklist to guarantee single participation. Before the actual  
interview starts private data get cleared. If Shibboleth SSO is set  
up, the login screen is omitted.

Cross comparison as mentioned above is not supported by the QSYS UI  
yet. This feature was added to our QM web application as we also  
wanted a filter function for pre-selecting degree program/term/year  
that is not understood by the logic of QSYS.

QSYS is a Java Web Application tested on Tomcat 5.5.x. The official  
website is http://survey4all.org/ but last changes pretty much predate  
our development efforts.

If you are further interested you can request an account to check out  
the sources. Alternatively I can send you a .war for easy deployment.  
The user manual is only available in German but the Admin and dev  
documentations are being worked on in English.

Cheers,

Sabine



On 08.06.2009, at 21:32, Gosney, John wrote:

> Hello everyone --
>
> Pardon the duplication as this is being sent to a few lists.
>
> Other than EvalSys, is anyone aware of/using another open source  
> solution?
>
> Thanks very much!
>
>
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